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Monika Sosnowska works with large-format installa-
tions, sometimes filling an entire room, or with mural paintings
employing the techniques of trompe l’oeil. The resulting
architectonic constructions can be walked into and around, and
they form their own, self-contained worlds, simultaneously irritating
and enchanting the viewer by means of their peculiar proportions
and labyrinthine passages. In the exhibition room of the Künstlerhaus,
the artist has installed an architectonic intervention, an accessible
work that develops around the two dominant, central pillars. The
apparently cool, rational design of the walls is in stark contrast
to the labyrinthine structural elements of the construction. As
is so often the case with her works, Monika Sosnowska’s
new installation also succeeds in challenging the viewer’s
perception and conjuring up “hallucinatory ideas of the
labyrinthine, dysfunctional order of space in the real modern
world” (Jan Verwoert).
Monika Sosnowska: Studio 3, from 5th to 21st
November 2004 (opening: Thursday, 4th November 2004, 7 p.m. onwards)
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Since Synne Bull and Dra-
gan Miletic founded BULL. MILETIC in the year 2000, they have
been investi-
gating the relationship between presentation and media representation,
object and medium, with all its nuances. They combine their analysis
with an examination of the urban characteristics of the city in
which they are staying. As a conse-
quence, their Berlin work “Transition” is both a film
documentation of the city as it is revealed from above - from
underground and city-railway viaducts while travelling past -,
but also a general experiment concerning the transitory in a filmic
representation of a metropolis in art. Casual impressions of the
architecture and historical references blend into an aesthetic
self-analysis, similar to the one emerging in BULL. MILETIC’s
second work: a series of remote-controlled film recordings along
the former site of the Berlin Wall. “Lullaby” thus
becomes a frantic search for the last remains of a piece of unpopular
history, which our fear of a confrontation with the past has allowed
to deteriorate into no more than a tourist attraction.
BULL.MILETIC: Studio 2, from 5th to 21st
November 2004 (opening: Thursday, 4th November 2004, 7 p.m. onwards)
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At the beginning of November,
a publication on contemporary graphic design will be appearing at
the Künstlerhaus. It is concerned with graphic designers’
strategies to create an autonomous space for them-
selves in which they can comment on reality - in a critical, subversive,
structurally analy-
tical or sometimes even comic way. The publication reveals an autonomous
practice outside of art, but one which demonstrates an influence
and effectiveness that art is often only able to dream about...
[view]
From 1.11.2004 – Illustration Experimental Jetset
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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. [view]
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