SIMON LE RUEZ works across a variety of media that includes sculpture, installation, video and drawing.
For the exhibition "As Poison Leaks Away" he will also be showing "Mariannenplatz", 2010, a new photo-
graphic projection work.
Le Ruez's practice celebrates the notion of both an idea and a chosen medium transgressing itself. "L’Entrée des Groites", 2010, is a work that encap-
sulates this aspiration. A monochrome postcard of three men outside the entrance of a cave has been overlaid in part by a deep red acrylic paint. For the artist this work, as a consequence of its appropriation, has the power to be simultaneously sculptural, filmic and painterly. Other works in the exhibition appear to take their lead from this. Large-scale floor based paper works operate like spacial drawings with fine lines of thread, glass spheres and foam balls accentuating gestures that allude to both landscape and human forms. These works play with an aesthetic that again challenges the viewer to consider inherent material qualities and their subversion. In Le Ruez's works, an opposition is at play and complicit conflicts are always present. As a means to fully implicate the viewer in these unfolding tensions Le Ruez explores these ideas in a way where the potential for movement, progression and change is a pertinent one.
Simon Le Ruez holds a grant from the Arts Council England, Lottery funded, and is a guest at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in the context of our International Studio Programme.

Simon Le Ruez - "As Poison Leaks Away"
20th August - 5th September 2010
Tuesday - Sunday, 2 - 7 pm
Opening: Thursday, 19th August 2010, from 7 pm
Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Straße 10

YOBA VALOMBOLA's art focuses on the society that he comes from. Elements of his work include images, symbols and signs that he takes from a wide range of contexts: personal experience, memories and imagination as well as poetry and music or everyday occurrences.
In African art, it is common practice to work with symbols, signs, letters and numbers, as the artworks themselves generally thematise everyday stories, ideas or social concepts. Valombola's work takes up these themes using such diverse media as screen printing, painting and drawing; it is also oriented on historical works of art from the last two centuries, which provide him with guidance in his personal striving for freedom of action and expression. “Since the beginning of time, creativity – widely known as art in the western world – has been there to serve and to give manifestation to the spiritual world. Creativity (art) was the only way the human race could express themselves or get into contact with the spiritual world. My creations are influenced by the way I see the world, my experience in life and what I have been through in life to this day. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each art work, my methodology is consistent.” (Y. Valombola, 2010). All the installations, mixed-media works, prints and ritual sculptures shown in "Exhitain" have been produced during Yoba Valombola's stay in Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Yoba Valombola holds a fellowship from p.art.ners Berlin-Windhoek gGmbH in the context of our International Studio Programme.

Yoba Valombola - "Exhitain"
20th August - 5th September 2010
Tuesday - Sunday, 2 - 7 pm
Opening: Thursday, 19th August 2010, from 7 pm
With a musical performance by Carl Beleites

As we begin using our new exhibition rooms, Christoph Tannert, CEO and artistic director, has developed a new format that suggests itself for a series of exhibitions, intending to make a direct visual connection between exhibition contributions by guests of the International Studio Programme at the Künstlerhaus and current positions which are not part of the artist-community here. Artists from Berlin and Germany, in the main, are not fellowship-holders at the Künstlerhaus. In a series entitled "ZUSPIEL" ("pass"), exchange relations will be visualised with artists, curators and nominators, who take up and carry on ideas and themes initiated by guest artists of the Künstlerhaus.
The current ZUSPIEL artist is JASPER SEBASTIAN STÜRUP.
His works - primarily drawings, but also photos, videos and objects - adopt material from the gigantic, omnipresent store of pop culture, film, music and fashion magazines. His fine-lined drawings offer viewers figures and remnants of figures shimmering between presence and absence, between motif and abstraction. His inevitably faceless beings often appear to be surrounded and captured by the ornamental patterns of lines that Stürup weaves around them like a spider creating its web.
Jasper Sebastian Stürup, was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark, in 1969. He lives and works in New York.

Jasper Sebastian Stürup / selected by Jan-Philipp Frühsorge
20th August - 5th September 2010
Tuesday - Sunday, 2 - 7 pm
Opening: Thursday, 19th August 2010, from 7 pm

CHUA CHYE TECK is a passionate collector of images, memories and spaces. He takes photographs of the visible and with them he indicates things invisible. His work is inspired by the conflicting field of spatial and social relations within specific, generally urban surroundings; it is a matter of people, their actions with respect to the space they occupy, inhabit or merely cross briefly. In his Berlin pictures, Teck portrays the vitality of the city and shows that life surrounds us everywhere – even in places where there are no people or other living creatures. The artist believes that the spirit of history can be sensed in many places here and that small, everyday 'legacies' of human activity combine to create an impression of the city's dynamic "being-inhabited". Teck is especially intrigued by the simple things: people's everyday actions, the way in which things are done, rituals and routines, streetscapes and landscape, all the traces of human existence, however tiny. As all this varies from one culture and continent to the next, Chua Chye Teck has made it his task to develop parallels and differences in his photographs and to highlight unique qualities.
The Berlin series "City Landscape" being presented in the Künstlerhaus comprises more than 30 photographs. Chua Chye Teck uses them to teach the viewer that everyday things may be full of surprise and humour and enables him to take a brief look behind the city’s only apparently rigid facade.

Chua Chye Teck currently holds a fellowship from the National Arts Council, Singapore in the context of our International Studio Programme.

Chua Chye Teck - "City Landscape"
23rd July - 8th August 2010
Tuesday - Sunday, 2 - 7 pm
Opening: Thursday, 22nd July 2010, from 7 pm
Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Straße 10