 
| Egill Saebjörnsson’s
work focuses on experimentation with sound and music, whereby
he also makes frequent use of illustrations, photography and performance.
He often combines a number of artistic media in order to arrive
at his calculated effect in the wide sphere between the art world
and the music business.
This is also true of Egill Saebjörnsson’s new installation
at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which combines such diverse elements
as a cardboard dummy piano, a singing bush and concrete rock music.
Saebjörnsson - whose videos have already appeared on MTV
and VIVA - brought out the much-acclaimed album “Tonk of
the Lawn” four years ago and landed his first Icelandic
hit with the song “I love you so”. His work repeatedly
extends into the music industry with its production forms and,
vice versa, it infiltrates products of the pop industry into art.
At our open studios event on 21st January 2005, Egill Saebjörnsson
will be giving a live concert together with Helgi Svavar Helgason
(drums), David Jonsson (keyboard) and the Berlin artist and musician
Frank Frede (bass).
Opening 2.12., 7 pm / exhibition 3rd - 19th
December 2004
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| When traumas and
alienation emerge from behind the perfect veneer of TV soaps and
cinematic romances, their peaceful, smooth-running idyll turns
into catastrophe. The film and video artist Reynold Reynolds uses
his experience as a film theorist in order to visualise this collision
between the idealised cliché and its opposite in his videos
and installations. The language and methods of the cinema are
analytical instruments in his work; in a narrative collage, for
example, the inhabitants scarcely seem to notice that their house
is burning, as they are so caught up in their own emotional states.
In “Burn”, the people resemble prisoners facing a
life sentence with no hope of reprieve, monotonously going about
their everyday business quite unaware of the approaching disaster.
In Studio 2, Reynold Reynolds will present his most recent project;
an installation entitled “Town Map”. A double projection
with surprising sound effects, it was produced during his stay
at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
Opening 2.12., 7 pm / exhibition 3rd - 19th
December 2004
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In his Berlin exhibition,
the Leipzig photo artist Erasmus Schröter - who made his name
with eccentric light scenarios that integrated bunkers along the
Atlantic coast - is showing relics from the former GDR as well as
his own works. Besides a collection of coloured, abstract glass
trays, these include numerous postcards made from real photos. They
show a second, futuristic side of the GDR – full of prefabricated,
residential architecture. In addition, the exhibition shows large-format
portraits of minor actors: extras that Schröter makes into
the focal point of his visual scenarios.
Opening 2.12. / exhibition 3rd - 26th December
2004
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| "Men in Black"
is an art-theoretical analysis in the form of a handbook published
by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In over 100 statements, more than
30 essays and with illustrations by Peter Friedl, this book gives
a survey of curatorial discussion during the last ten years. 592
pages, 25 EUR. [view] |
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