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Anna Júlia Friðbjörnsdottir, an artist from Reykjavik, Iceland, started her residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien on 1 May 2022. She was welcomed here as the third artist, whose stay in Berlin was sponsored by the Icelandic Art Center.
"I have visited Berlin a few times. I thought it was a fantastic, exciting opportunity. I applied for it and I got it. The choice of the residency has been done by the Icelandic Art Center, because it's a good residency and a lot of artists want to have the opportunity to stay in Berlin. [...] I have been showing a lot of my art in Iceland. Iceland is very isolated so I thought it was about time for me to spend time somewhere else, especially to extend my network, and work in a different environment. I also have a gallery here and had been planning a show, which combines well with the residency here."
What fascinates or inspires you about Berlin?
"There's so many artists here, a lot of exhibitions. That's probably the main thing. I'm very interested in European history and the museums here are great for researching both historical and technological things. Berlin is good for that. It's feeding into my work."
"It's an extra benefit - compared to Iceland because it's so limited - that I had a better choice when it comes to manufacturing or production-wise. My sculptures that I made recently for an exhibition are 3D productions, which is an example of a type of production I can do in Berlin. There's more choice... anywhere would be more choice than in Iceland, I guess. *laughs*"
What are you currently working on?
"I have a show in April at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. And I'm working on a new project. I will be using different types of elements and technology from the city. I'm currently gathering materials. It will take into account the history of this building and a combination of a lot of different elements. I can say that my main material of the show is copper. It ties both into historical issues and current politics."
Interview and photos: Polina Avramov
Since 2021, the Serbian artists Bojana S. Knežević and Katarina Petrović have been compiling a sound archive of talks and performances by artists and cultural workers who engage in various models of independent production and self-organisation in the field of contemporary art and culture. The focus of the archive lies on protagonists from Serbia and other ex-Yugoslav countries in dialogue with institutions and individuals in the wider Euro- pean art world. The basis of the archive is the podcast Femkanje, which they founded together in 2013 and which as of October 2022 comprises 88 episodes portraying changing guests and their indi- vidual projects. At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, when many women*, trans and non-binary people were deprived of access to places of production, presentation and solidary exchange, the art- ists expanded their podcast—whose title alludes to the stereotype of women* who keep to themselves—into a digital collection of sound excerpts from theatrical performances, public readings, art performances and so forth. The resulting cacophony is testament to the persistence of independent art and cultural spaces in times of crisis, and a sign of a women*-led resistance movement in the ex-Yugoslav countries. Moments of artistic production and dia- logues that would otherwise be lost are preserved by Knežević and Petrović and made accessible on the Femkanje website.
Be sure to visit our exhibition “MANIFEST Yourself! (Q***r) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes”! On Display until January 22nd, 2023.
photo ©David Brandt
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Jayne Lawrence, an artist from San Antonio, TX in the US, was a professor at the UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) for 20 years. After retiring, she came to the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin through a partnership with Blue Star Contemporary on 19 October 2022.
"For several years, I was trying to convince my boss to let me come here. They were working on ways, figuring out how to let the teachers of the university participate [in the programme]. I watched all my friends go, my students go. And I'm like: I'd like to go!"
"In San Antonio there was a professor named Ron Binks. He used to come to Berlin with the students of UTSA all the time. For ten years I've been seeing photographs and hearing stories about people coming to Berlin, and all the art that was here, and things to see."
What fascinates you about Berlin?
"What fascinates me are your museums and collections. They are over the top! I've been to lots of institutions and seen lots of things, but you guys do it bigger and better than anybody I've seen. I was fascinated with the Naturkundemuseum. The educational process... it wasn't dumbed down for children. It was to inspire and to educate beyond just an elementary level. I thought that was really nice."
What inspires you here?
"Patterns and textures. In Berlin there are patterns and textures everywhere you look that I'm influenced by. The cobblestones, the streets, different people, the markets. All the parks, and the gardens that people are going in, and the free spaces. You have more green spaces than most cities do. I mean, you have them isolated, but you also have them within the neighbourhoods. There's lots of really amazing green spaces where people can hang out. So, those things are fun. I like those things!"
Interview and photos: Polina Avramov
Vielen Dank an alle, die letzten Donnerstag zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung "MANIFESTiert Euch! (Q***r-)Feministische Manifeste seit den Suffragetten" gekommen sind. Für alle, die es nicht geschafft haben: die Ausstellung ist noch bis zum 22. Januar 2023 zu sehen.
Wir freuen uns auf Euch! 🫶
Fotos: Galya Feierman
MANIFESTiert Euch! ist ein Appell und eine empowernde Hymne auf das (q***r-)feministische Manifest als Bestandteil einer andauernden Protestkultur und als Medium, insbesondere der zeitgenössischen Kunst und Kultur. Jüngste Ereignisse wie die Proteste im Iran nach dem gewaltsamen Tod von Mahsa Amini, die ihr Kopftuch laut Sittenpolizei nicht „anständig“ trug, die Einschränkung und Kriminalisierung von Abtreibungen in den USA durch den Supreme Court, der vom männlichen Autokraten Wladimir Putin geführte Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die nationalistisch-chauvinistischen Tendenzen in einer steigenden Anzahl an Staaten machen die Dringlichkeit der von Frauen*, trans und nicht-binären Personen geführten Kämpfe um alltägliche und grundlegende Rechte mehr als deutlich. In Russland weist die feministische Punk-Band P***y Riot bereits seit einem Jahrzehnt visionär auf Missstände und insbesondere die gefährliche Rolle Putins hin und hat dafür bereits mit Verfolgung und Inhaftierung bezahlt. In Chile löste das Kollektiv LASTESIS 2019 mit seinem Song und der partizipativen Performance Un violador en tu camino eine Protestwelle aus, die tausendfach verstärkt und geteilt weit über die Grenzen des Kontinents hinaus schwappte.
Im Angesicht diverser gesellschaftlicher Stigmatisierungen, beruflicher Benachteiligung, Gender-Pay- und Data-Gap, häuslicher Gewalt und Femiziden stellen sich auch 100 Jahre nach den ersten großen Frauenbewegungen, namentlich den Suffragetten in Großbritannien und den USA, Frauen*, trans und nicht-binäre Personen im Vergleich zum Mann* immer noch als politisch und sozial stark benachteiligte Gruppen dar. In Reaktion darauf entstehen permanent (q***r-)feministische Manifeste als emblematische Statements, in denen Wut und kritische Unangepasstheit, Forderungen nach strukturellen Transformationen und paritätischen Verhältnissen eine explizite Ausdrucksform finden. Sie ertönen auf den Straßen und erscheinen in Songtexten, begegnen uns als Plakate, werden in Bücher gefasst und gehen im Netz viral. Der sie vereinende Grundtenor ist jener des Empowerments und der Selbstbehauptung. Mit ihren charakteristischen Sprach- und Formmerkmalen in Verbindung mit einer faszinierenden Vielfalt an inhaltlichen Schwerpunkten und individuellen Perspektiven bilden Manifeste ein zentrales Element der feministischen Kunstgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts.
Die Ausstellung MANIFESTiert Euch! zeichnet ausschnitthaft die Entwicklung (q***r-)feministischer Manifeste nach und zeigt öffentliche, oft politisch motivierte Statements von Frauen*, trans und nicht-binären Personen in unterschiedlichen Kontexten. Die verschiedenen Feminismen erweitern sich dabei von weiß und akademisch geprägten Ausformungen der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre immer weiter hin zu einem intersektionalen Verständnis: Neben Kategorien wie dem biologischen Geschlecht und der Geschlechtsidentität, Alter oder (Dis-)Ability, Klassen- und Religionszugehörigkeit werden Diskriminierungserfahrungen qua Segregation, kolonialer Machtstrukturen oder (spät-)kapitalistischer Arbeitsverhältnisse zentral. Während in den vergangenen Jahren zum kollektiven Aufbegehren vieler prominenter Frauen* in der Öffentlichkeit führte, gewann parallel dazu und seit 2013 verstärkt durch die -Bewegung Black Feminism spürbar an gesamtgesellschaftlicher Präsenz. Auch die verheerende Vergegenständlichung der Umwelt wird in feministischen Manifesten zunehmend reflektiert. Dabei rücken ökologische Fragestellungen und die Kritik an einer meist männlich codierten Zerstörungsgewalt und Hybris in den Fokus. Parallel dazu entwickeln sich auch im Techno- und Cyberspace immer mehr einflussreiche Statements von Frauen*, trans und nicht-binären Personen, die vom Cyborg und technoiden Schleim bis hin zum Glitch Feminism reichen.
Die Ausstellung MANIFESTiert Euch! zeigt die ungebrochen pulsierende (q***r-)feministische Manifestkultur seit den Suffragetten und spiegelt deren schillernde, teils widersprüchliche Facetten wider. Dabei richtet sie ihren Fokus auf verschiedene Regionen, kulturelle Zusammenhänge und Medialitäten. Sie umfasst zum ersten Mal Manifeste in Form von Texten, skulpturalen Objekten, Installationen, Soundtracks, Videos und Performances sowie markante Dokumente zur Geschichte des feministischen Manifests. In einer Recherche- Lounge und der Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung werden den Besucher*innen zahlreiche Manifeste zugänglich gemacht. Die Kooperationspartner*innen alpha nova & galerie futura, re.act.feminism e.V., Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa e.V. sowie Elena Zanichelli (Mariann Steegmann Institut | Kunst & Gender) und Studierende der Universität Bremen planen im Dialog mit der Ausstellungsthematik die Präsentation ihrer eigenen Projekte. Am Eröffnungsabend werden FRZNTE und luïza luz eine für MANIFESTiert Euch! entwickelte Pole Sound Performance realisieren.
Teilnehmende Künstler*innen: Ouassila Arras, Rufina Bazlova, Lynda Benglis, Monica Bonvicini, Lizzie Borden, Andrea Bowers, Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Ulrike Flaig, Ceal Floyer, FRZNTE/Kolbeinn Hugi, Regina José Galindo, Guerrilla Girls, Holzinger/Sahihi, Bojana S. Knežević /Katarina Petrović (Femkanje), LASTESIS x P***y Riot, Signe Pierce/Alli Coates,
Tabita Rezaire, Marinella Senatore, Beth Stephens/Annie Sprinkle, VNS Matrix, Del LaGrace Volcano und Billie Zangewa
Kuratiert von Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa und der LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.
Surely you already know our BE-Magazine, the yearbook of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Recently the 29th issue was published. We are currently working on the anniversary issue, which will be published next year.
The issues # 9 to # 20 are particularly interesting in retrospect, as they not only depict the international residency program, but also open up discourses on various socially relevant topics that have lost none of their topicality, but are - in some cases - even more urgent today.
# 9 - art & real life
# 10 - agitation
# 11 - critique
# 12 - cosmetique
# 13 - kitsch
# 14 - slavery
# 15 - auteur
# 16 - nanny
# 17 - fe**sh
# 18 - mission statement
# 19 - politics & surrogates
# 20 - I Feel So (Un)Real
We would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention once again to these issues of Be Magazine.
You can buy any of the issues online on our website for 8 Euros or just write us an email, which issue you are interested in!
Many thanks to the editors of Be Magazine, Jens Asthoff and Gerrit Gohlke and Graphic Designer Bijan Dawallu!
Polys Peslikas
Reenactments (Bacchus)
28.10.–23.12.2022
Fondazione ICA Milano
curated by Alberto Salvadori
The exhibition offers a lunge into Peslikas' artistic practice, with a focus on the potential of abstract painting. Thirteen new works are on display at the ICA Milan Foundation, taking visitors through the creative process that leads the artist to examine works of art and objects, reproduce them, scan them, cut them up and reassemble them until they are unrecognizable.
Polys Peslikas revisits the idea of unsettling heteronormative conceptions of masculinity, yet through the poetic and erotic potency of details. He presents a series of new small paintings of repeated motifs, in which the act of returning to the same image functions as a kind of magnifying glass through which we are to scrutinize details that withhold the gaze and nurture desire: the imperceptible tilt of the pelvis, the creases in the fabric enveloping a slim waist to suggest a well-formed body. In effect, an archetype of heterosexual masculinity, the man in uniform, is sensualized and drawn to a space at once of ambiguity and familiarity. This state of suspension is Peslikas’ starting impulse in this series of works as is the encounter he stages in his studio between references from various sources as part of an open, self-generating creative process.
Polys Peslikas (b.1973, Limassol CY) is a painter currently living and working between London and Nicosia. Recent exhibitions include Mackintosh Lane (London), Vistamare (Milano), Villa Medici (Rome), Shanaynay (Paris), NiMAC (Nicosia), Halle 14 (Leipzig),and at the Prague Biennial II. In 2015/16 he was an artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 2017, he represented Cyprus at the 57th Venice Biennale.
Regina José Galindo
Tierra
November 5, 2022–February 26, 2023
Opening: November 4
Parco Arte Vivente (PAV)
Via Giordano Bruno 31
10134 Turin
Italy
Curated by Marco Scotini.
As part of Artissima, on Friday November 4, 2022, the PAV is pleased to announce the opening of Tierra, the solo exhibition of the artist Regina José Galindo, a Guatemalan artist who, for over twenty years, has been investigating the subject of social justice through the lens of performative practices whose expressive focal point is the relationship between the body and the environment. The exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini, follows on from those by the Indian artist, Navjot Altaf, and the Indonesian artist Arahmaiani in the investigation of the specific relationships that exist between environmental exploitation and oppressed peoples, decentralising the gaze as it goes beyond the geographical and cultural boundaries of the so-called West.
The exhibition covers Galindo’s twenty-year-long career (Leone d’Oro at the 51st Venice Biennale as best young artist), focussing on the ways in which every one of her contacts with natural elements should be read in an intersectional and militant key. Amongst all the natural elements, the earth has a particular status of its own: Galindo’s approach avoids any essentialist description of the relationship between the earth and the female body. The itinerary displays the results of an approach that has evolved over the years, from an initial focus on Guatemalan socio-political problems, to a (site-specific) attention to the contexts and communities with which the artist has found herself interacting.
Regina José Galindo uses the body as the preferred instrument of an intense artistic practice which began towards the end of the 1990s. Far from the formal type of research performed by the traditional art schools, Galindo immediately used art as a means of communication and political action. Born and brought up during the long Guatemalan military dictatorship, she was a witness from a very early age of the civil war characterised by repressive practices through to the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous populations.
The physical and conceptual heart of the exhibition, Tierra (2013) testifies to the trauma that innervates the people’s memories. A trauma in which the earth is the barycentre of crimes carried out by attacking bodies—the mechanical digger that digs a ditch around Galindo’s body alludes to the mass graves into which the military threw both political opponents and indigenous people—on both political and economic levels. Equally, in Mazorca (2014), the predatory and violent act represented by the mechanical digger turns into four men with machetes who cut down the plants around the artist’s body as she stands in the middle of a field of maize. The military’s repressive strategies include precisely the destruction of the fields that are fundamental for sustaining the indigenous population. Furthermore, as part of the opening, the exhibition connects to the current humanitarian and energy crisis through a new performance based on fossil matter. With Galindo’s exhibition, the PAV Parco Arte Vivente states that sensitivity to ecological issues can in no way be separated from a radical analysis of the economic and political powers of contemporary capitalism.
Regina José Galindo (1974) lives and works in Guatemala City. Winner of the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in the young artists category in 2005; she received the Prince Claus Award in Holland, the special award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennale and the Robert Rauschenberg Award. Her works are on display in numerous public collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MEIAC- the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; the Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento; the MMKA, Budapest; the Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Daros Foundation, Zurich; the Blanton Museum, Austin; the UBS Art Collection, Basel; the Miami Art Museum; the Cisneros Fountanal Art Foundation, Miami; and the Madco-Museum of Contemporary Art, Costa Rica.
The exhibition has been realised with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Fondazione CRT, the Regione Piemonte, and the City of Turin.
Unsere ehemalige Residentin Aneta Kajzer im Kallman Museum in Ismaning:
Die Berliner Künstlerin Aneta Kajzer (geb. 1989) erhält für ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema „Porträt“ den Kallmann-Preis 2022. Erstmals wird damit eine malerische Position mit dem Preis ausgezeichnet. Kajzers farbintensive Gemälde bewegen sich zwischen Figuration und Abstraktion. Sie sind zugleich freie, gestische Malerei von betörender Sinnlichkeit und lassen doch immer auch Gegenständliches wie Menschen oder Tiere erkennen. Ihre Arbeiten werden vom 5. November 2022 bis 29. Januar 2023 im Rahmen einer Einzelausstellung im Kallmann-Museum präsentiert.
https://kallmann-museum.de/2022_kallmann-preis-kajzer/
Kallmann-Preis 2022 Aneta Kajzer 5. November 2022 bis 29. Januar 2023 Aneta Kajzer: Horde, 2021 180 x 130 cm, Öl auf Leinwand (Ausschnitt) Courtesy die Künstlerin und Conrads Berlin Die Berliner Künstlerin Aneta Kajzer (geb. 1989) erhält für ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema „Porträt“ ...
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
MANIFEST Yourself! (Q***r) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes
Curated by Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Assistant Curator: Luise von Nobbe
18.11.2022–22.01.2023
Opening: 17.11.2022, 7pm
The exhibition “MANIFEST Yourself!” aims to demonstrate the unabated vitality of (q***r) feminist manifesto culture since the suffragettes and reflect its variegated, sometimes contradictory aspects. To do so, it surveys different regions, cultural contexts and media. For the first time, it includes manifestos in the form of texts, sculptural objects, installations, soundtracks, videos and performances, as well as documents on the history of feminist manifestos. Numerous manifestos will be made accessible in a research lounge and in the publication accompanying the exhibition. On the opening night (17.11.2022, 7 pm), FRNZTE and luïza luz will realize a Pole Sound Performance developed for “MANIFEST Yourself!”
Participating Artists: Ouassila Arras, Rufina Bazlova, Lynda Benglis, Monica Bonvicini, Lizzie Borden, Andrea Bowers, Janet Burchill / Jennifer McCamley, Ulrike Flaig, Ceal Floyer, FRZNTE / Kolbeinn Hugi, Regina José Galindo, Guerrilla Girls, Florentina Holzinger x Ashkan Sahihi, Bojana S. Knežević / Katarina Petrović (Femkanje), LASTESIS x P***y Riot, Signe Pierce / Alli Coates, Tabita Rezaire, Marinella Senatore, Beth Stephens / Annie Sprinkle, VNS Matrix, Del LaGrace Volcano, and Billie Zangewa.
Kindly supported by LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.
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Lisa-Marleen Mantel & Laura Juliane Wagner
Borrowed Limbs, 2022
2:57min
The short film “Borrowed Limbs” emphasises the mediating role of speculative design in the face of current disruptive advances in AI research. The protagonist is an AI that accesses a human body directly to gain an embodied understanding of its surroundings and complete its journey towards becoming a posthuman being. The visual language of the film is based on image synthesis on the foundation of so-called “prompts”, which oftentimes describe a complex image with just a few words and references that the AI subsequently generates on the basis of millions of learned examples. The unsteadiness of what is shown is reminiscent of early experiments on cellulose nitrate film and scarcely hints at the dramatic shifts in the (re)production of human creativity that still lie ahead…
Lisa-Marleen Mantel *1989, lives and works in Cologne
Laura Juliane Wagner *1991, lives and works in Frankfurt Main
Phantom Horizons
The on-going screening series “Phantom Horizons” presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.
Curated by Robert Seidel
Exhibition Space: Kottbusser Str. 10/Offices And Studios: Kohlfurter Str. 41-43
Berlin
10999
U1/U8 Kottbusser Tor / U8 Schönleinstr.
To protect the visitors and employees of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, comprehensive hygiene precautions have been taken and access to the exhibitions has been limited. We ask all visitors to keep a minimum distance of 1.5 meters, to wear their own mouth and nose protection and to pay attention to the signs on site. For further information on hygiene and conduct requirements, please visit https://www.berlin.de/corona/en/.
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Max Kreis Trees are still barkin' 2022, Germany 3:00 min 12.09.–22.09.2022 4 – 10 pm In his work "Trees are still barkin'", Max Kreis (b. 1990, lives and works in Berlin) explores the question of how closely the images of an artificial intelligence can resemble the documentation of a real landscape. In the process, he finds darkly interwoven atmospheres in specially trained AI models, which in their nostalgic blurriness seem to have sprung from a casually filming hand-held camera. The wandering gaze through “latent space” makes it palpable that the digital image will potentially be congruent with nature in a few hardware generations. And thus evokes the larger question that will be asked more frequently in the coming years of the AI revolution: Are we living in a simulation after all? The on-going screening series “Phantom Horizons” presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons. Curated by Robert Seidel #videoart #digitalart #landscape #contemporaryart #berlinartweek
EXHIBITIONS Fall/Winter 2022 DISSONANCE. Platform Germany – 11.09.2022 NICOLE RAFIKI 30.09. – 23.10.2022 Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX 30.09. – 23.10.2022 Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm LISA KOHL “BLINDSPOT” 30.09. – 23.10.2022 Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm THOMAS SCHMAHL “Backing Vocals” 30.09. – 23.10.2022 Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm YUN-PEI HSIUNG 30.09. – 23.10.2022 Opening 29.09.2022, 7pm MANIFEST Yourself! (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes 11.11. – 11.12.2022 Opening 10.11.2022, 7pm Künstlerhaus Bethanien SHOWROOM Kottbusser Straße 10 10999 Berlin Tue – Sun 2 – 7pm admission free! #kuenstlerhausbethanien #bethanien #exhibitionprogramme #artistinresidence #artistinresidenceprogramme #berlin #berlinart #internationalart #fallwinter #contemporaryart
OPEN WINDOW 13.06. – 21.07.2022 4–11pm Kathrin Hunze Singularis 2019/22 12:15 min Singularis is an interwoven network of synthetic body sculptures, enmeshed in a web of interactions and juxtapositions. The originating biological surfaces were scanned, translated into digital point clouds and distorted through an audiovisual granular system, carving out noise patterns and biological rhythms. Originally conceived by Kathrin Hunze (b. 1983, lives and works in Berlin) as a real-time performance in 2019, the work has evolved into video installations and film variations that reimagine the potential of hybrid bodies and their gender fluidity, as well as their spatial and temporal construction. Phantom Horizons The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons. Curated by Robert Seidel #kathrinhunze #robertseidel
BIRGIT DIEKER | One for Sorrow, Two for Joy We would like to introduce you to the works of Birgit Dieker. Unfortunately, the exhibition has been over since last Sunday. #BirgitDieker #KünstlerhausBethanien
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy Familienaufstellung, 2020 lead crystal glass, FIMO modeling clay, glass dome Height: 74 cm, diameter: 38 cm Base: steel 110 x 42 x 42 cm The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness. #KünstlerhausBethanien #BirgitDieker #Berlin #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
JUNKO MARUYAMA Alles Lebt, (Everything is alive) 2021, Installation, drawing, film "Manonamanamono", that's what Junko Maruyama calls her sculptures created from homemade soap, a large number of which occupy the interior of a tent, the fabric of which has also been thinly coated with soap. "Manonamanamono" is a term of art, a word invented by the artist. It aims at something spiritually atmospheric, ephemeral, at a state that is not yet, but evolving between "raw" and "ephemeral". You can write any Japanese word in different sign languages. The artist writes her artificial word Manonamanamono, clearly oriented towards sound and phonetic language, in Hirigana. Each Hiragana character stands for a mora, the basic unit of Japanese sound. Junko Maruyama's life and art are characterized by universal thinking. The world, man and every creature, the weather, the environment, all materials and her own intuition determine the time and place of each work of art. The overall installation of tent and soap objects is complemented by soap drawings on a wooden background and an animated film. The quiet murmur of the moving images, the fragility of the thin layer of soap on wooden panels and the arrangement of objects and nylon cloth to form a cave-like shelter give the impression of an interrelated spiritual cosmos. In accordance with the Japanese folk belief Tsukumogami, Maruyama invokes an animistic conception of object relations that assumes an ensoulment of things. With “Alles Lebt” (Everything is alive), an intimate space is created in which the exhibition visitor feels reminded of the value of things that seem so self-evident through the sensitivity and care Maruyama takes in handling the materials. Entering the tent construction evokes associations with the human body and the objects spread out on the floor there are reminiscent of embryos in form, materiality and colour. The uniqueness inherent in every creature and thing is just as palpable as the transience with
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy "Nimmersatt" 2019 by Birgit Dieker 110 x 40 x 40 cm, Aufhängung Drahtseil The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness. #KünstlerhausBethanien #BirgitDieker #Berlin #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
BIRGIT DIEKER, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy "hell and heil" 2015 by Birgit Dieker Bett-, Nacht- und Unterwäsche, Federrahmengestell, 223 x 120 x 113 cm The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker’s artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness. #KünstlerhausBethanien #BirgitDieker #Berlin #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
Tsuyoshi Anzai - GROUNDED | 2.10 - 24.10.21 Tsuyoshi Anzai uses everyday objects as his primary medium, above all cheap plastic products consumed everywhere around the world. He creates simple-structured machines by making impromptu combinations of everyday items and motors. These kinetic sculptures display unexpected behavior. They move clumsily as if going through conflicts in reconciling different purposes of their single components. They behave like creatures with their own will. Anzai defines these machines as “things that are beyond control”, i.e. the world itself. For him producing works is a way to communicate with phenomena in this world that we cannot control. Currently, he focuses on the relationship between plastics and humans. He captures contradictions of our world surrounding consumerism, the oil industry, and environmentalism by giving them a different perspective. More informations: https://www.bethanien.de/artists/tsuyoshi-anzai/ #TsuyoshiAnzai #formerartistinresidence #KünstlerhausBethanien #Berlin #POLAArtFoundation #contemporaryart #artberlin #contemporaryartberlin
ONE WEEK TO GO! Looking forward to welcoming you next week, when Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters is opening! 6th August 2021, 3-9pm https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/405728/swimming-pool-troubled-waters/
SAVE THE DATE!!! We are happy to announce that the exhibition "Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters" is happening from 6th August until 15th September 2021. Artists: Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell, C& Center of Unfinished Business, Mounir Gouri, Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Klara Hobza, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Santiago Mostyn, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė), Sandra Vaka, Ulrich Vogl, Ming Wong and ZEVS + Film programme by Olaf Stüber with works by Hanna Arvela, Alice Creischer, Rä di Martino, Monira Al Qadiri, Julika Rudelius and Corinna Schnitt Curator: Valeria Schulte-Fischedick Curatorial assistance: Gustav Elgin, Carola Uehlken The exhibition draws on the wide range of ideas and emotions we associate with the topos of the swimming pool, and seeks to expose those common clichés and prejudices that chart our diverse, lasting, and often murky experiences with water. The exhibition probes class barriers and systems of exclusion, amongst others those brought to the surface by the European migrant crisis. References from film history, contemporary art, and a participative reading room developed by C& Center of Unfinished Business, attempts to sound out the gradual infiltration of the issues of inclusion and exclusion into the awareness of affluent societies. In the exhibition, the waters of the swimming pool as a carefree sign of prosperity and the corresponding clichés are permanently clouded.
LAST WEEK TO SEE THE CURRENT EXHIBITIONS BY DANTE BUU, MARÌA DALBERG, DANIEL LIE, RHYS HIMSWORTH & SANTIAGO MOSTYN. We are open from Tuesday to Sunday between 2 and 7 pm!
LOOKING FORWARD to welcoming you again at KB to visit the next exhibitions by Dante Buu, Santiago Mostyn, Rhys Himsworth, Daniel Lie, and María Dalberg, opening from 11th June 2021! Please SAVE THE DATE! You can book your tickets shortly online.
In case you didn't have the chance to visit the last exhibitions at KB by Seulki Ki, Styrmir Örn Gudmundsson, Melanie Jame Wolf, Yuya Suzuki and Hamlet Lavastida, we are happy to share with you an extended version of the KB Tour, including introductions by the artists. Camera: Peter Rosemann Interview and translation: Camille Herding Direction and editing: Arthur Debert
LAST CHANCE TO SEE the exhibitions by Amélie Laurence Fortin, Ingrid Lønningdal, Eric Schumacher, Lauryn Youden and Johanna Terhechte! Please come by from today until Sunday between 2 and 7 pm.
✨ If you haven't been able to come to the opening weekend: This is a little teaser to visit KB and see the current exhibitions by Amélie Laurence Fortin, Ingrid Lønningdal, Eric Schumacher, Lauryn Youden and Johanna Terhechte! ✨ Video: Arthur Debert
PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE SOFT OPENING TOMORROW AT KB BETWEEN 2 AND 7 PM! Hope to see you tomorrow! And of course: Please be so kind and bring your masks! Our opening hours are Tuesday - Sunday 2 - 7 pm | The shows are one from 2nd October - 25th October 2020.
For those who couldn't make it to the current exhibitions at KB yet: Please come and visit until 13th September 2020 to see the shows by the artists-in-residence Yang Chi-Chuan, Shoufay Derz, Katsuhiko Matsubara, Rie Nagai & Yurika Sunada. Video: Arthur Debert
PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE SOFT OPENING TOMORROW AT KB BETWEEEN 2 AND 7 PM! The current artists-in-residence Yang Chi-Chuan, Shoufay Derz, Katsuhiko Matsubara, Rie Nagai and Yurika Sunada worked on their solo exhibitions at KB during this extraordinary Berlin summer heat wave and brought together an amazing presentation of their current work! Hope to see you tomorrow! Please be so kind, and bring your masks! 🎭
We congratulate former KB resident Marinella Senatore, who is going to present her work at the Biennale Gherdëina curated by Adam Budak from August 8th - October 20th, 2020 in very good company. 👏👏👏 The Biennale Gherdëina will happen again across public spaces of Ortisei, Val Gardena, in the picturesque landscape of the Dolomites, the celebrated UNESCO Heritage Site. With its focus on the public space as a stage for sculptural works and community-based, participatory projects, has always been perceived as a celebration of a unique place, its rich culture and a vivid local tradition. The circumstances of the forthcoming edition are particularly challenging. The pandemic crisis made us aware of a vulnerability of the humans and the nature. Resilience become a paramount urgency; the notions of shared responsibility and a humility as an ethical moderator of interpersonal relations gain a particular importance in an attempt to redefine the agencies of responsiveness and care. The Biennale Gherdeina 7 will reflect these concerns as challenges in the active processes of the world’s remaking. GIF: Marcello Maloberti, from Martellate. Scritti Fighi, 1990-2020. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan.
Last week we had the great pleasure to meet the Icelandic artist Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson at his studio at KB, having prepared a very special performance for us. Styrmir created his personal pandemic diary. Within drawings, comments and music he shares in a humorous but sensible way, how he experienced this world in confinement, and the every day news out there. Styrmir's work ranges between performance, drawing, music and sculpture with a love for the absurd. This doesn't mean any obsessive passion for the ridiculous, nonsensical or the odd, but moreso derives from a tender and caring attitude: he takes care of the absurd, he helps it to develop, he gives it a place alongside everything else, a space where, ones it is set free, it can become a most disturbing neighbor or even a best friend. Styrmir is kindly supported by the Icelandic Art Center. You can find more information to his work here: http://www.styrmir.eu/
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The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, one of the first residency programmes worldwide of this kind, can look back on a long and successful history of promoting emerging artists on an international level. It is an established player within the Berlin and international art scene since 1974.
The artistic orientation of our programme includes all kinds of artistic media and practises. The Künstlerhaus offers a worldwide unique combination of studio and exhibition spaces as well as state-of-the-art workshops for wood, metal, spray-paint, video-editing. Further support is offered in publishing catalogues and artist-books. Additionally – aside from technical, curatorial and PR support for solo exhibitions and public Open Studio events –, an individual programme of studio visits, in-house events and professional coaching is arranged.
The Künstlerhaus is located in a landmarked building complex, situated in the very heart of Berlin in the trendy neighbourhood of Kreuzberg.
Its work is subsidized by the Department for Culture and Europe of the Senate of Berlin as well as multiple renowned partners all over the world. The artists are selected in coordination with the partners, focusing on discourse oriented thinking and challenging original positions. Partners range from cultural institutions, foundations, companies and galleries to collectors as well as private persons. Direct applications are not possible.
Participants in the International Studio Programme are given the opportunity to develop and implement a project over a fixed period of time, and to reflect on- and consolidate their position in the Berlin art scene. The work of the Künstlerhaus is particularly characterized by the individual support and networking of the residency holders with the Berlin art scene.
Artists receive a monthly support from the sponsored grant during their stay. The grant also covers the studio and material costs, as well as a project presentation. As a rule, the artists' projects are presented to the public in the exhibition spaces of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
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Das Künstlerhaus Bethanien, eines der ersten Residenzprogramme weltweit, blickt auf eine lange und erfolgreiche Geschichte der Förderung junger Künstler auf internationaler Ebene zurück. Seit 1974 ist es in der Berliner und internationalen Kunstszene eine feste Größe.
Die Ausrichtung unseres Programms umfasst unterschiedlichste Arten von künstlerischen Medien und Praktiken. Das Künstlerhaus bietet eine weltweit einzigartige Kombination aus Atelier- und Ausstellungsräumen sowie modernsten Werkstätten für Holz, Metall, Sprühlackierung, Videobearbeitung. Weitere Unterstützung wird bei der Herausgabe von Katalogen und Künstlerbüchern angeboten. Zusätzlich wird – neben der technischen, kuratorischen und PR-Unterstützung von Einzelausstellungen und öffentlichen Open-Studio-Veranstaltungen – ein individuelles Programm aus Studiobesuchen, Inhouse-Events und professionellem Coaching zusammengestellt.
Das Künstlerhaus befindet sich in einem denkmalgeschützten Gebäudekomplex im Herzen Berlins im Trendviertel zwischen Kreuzberg und Neukölln.
Seine Arbeit wird von der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa des Berliner Senats sowie von mehreren renommierten Partnern in der ganzen Welt gefördert. Die Künstler werden in Abstimmung mit den Partnern ausgewählt, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf diskursorientiertem Denken und anspruchsvollen künstlerischen Positionen liegt. Die Partner reichen von kulturellen Institutionen, Stiftungen, Unternehmen und Galerien über Sammler bis hin zu Privatpersonen. Direkte Bewerbungen sind nicht möglich.
Die Teilnehmer des Internationalen Atelierprogramms erhalten die Möglichkeit, ein Projekt über einen bestimmten Zeitraum zu entwickeln und umzusetzen sowie ihre Position in der Berliner Kunstszene zu reflektieren und zu festigen. Die Arbeit des Künstlerhauses zeichnet sich insbesondere durch die individuelle Betreuung und Vernetzung der Stipendiaten mit der Berliner Kunstszene aus.
Künstler erhalten während ihres Aufenthalts eine monatliche Unterstützung über das gesponserte Stipendium. Der Zuschuss deckt weiterhin die Atelier- und Materialkosten sowie eine Projektpräsentation. In der Regel werden die Künstlerprojekte in den Ausstellungsräumen des Künstlerhauses Bethanien der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.
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