Between 2013 and 2023, the KfW Stiftung collaborated with Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin for an international artist-in-residence programme that promoted artistic production and intercultural dialogue with a global outlook. These past ten years have seen the same two residential studios repeatedly moved into, inhabited, occupied, personalised and made hospitable by a total of twenty fellows. Renovated and furnished with essentials, their transformation began with each new arrival: Since the inception of the programme, the studios have served as a workshops, laboratories and offices, as archives and art depots, as meeting places and exhibition venues. Against this background, the studio itself marks the conceptual starting point of the exhibition.
How have the individual working practices of the artists developed since their participation in the programme? How did it shape their artistic production? Scattered around the world once more, the artists have opened their studios for personal visits and virtual conversations. The resulting dialogues about the implication of studio space against the backdrop of a globally anchored art practice reverberate in the exhibition – offering a glance into the studio. With this in mind: See you at the Studio?

With Salwa Aleryani, Orawan Arunrak, Vartan Avakian, Gaelle Choisne, Regina José Galindo, Ahmed El Ghoneimy, Gladys Kalichini, Khvay Samnang, Hamlet Lavastida, Daniel Lie, Talya Lubinsky, Stary Mwaba, Elia Nurvista, Andrés Pereira Paz, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Prajakta Potnis, Thabiso Sekgala, Mai Nguyen Thi Than und Carla Zaccagnini.

An exhibition by KfW Stiftung in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Curated by von Daniela Leykam

Events

02.11.2023 – 7pm: Opening & Performance World Score (Carla Zaccagnini)
03.11.2023 – from 5pm: Silent Pandemic, Intervention (Regina José Galindo)
04. + 05.11.2023 – 3pm: Palm Reading, Reading Group (Elia Nurvista)
07.11.2023 – 6pm: Guided Tour with the Curator
17.12.2023 – Closing the Studio & Book Flea Market

Guided tours take place every Thursday at 6pm, alternating between German and English.
English guided tours: 16.11., 30.11., 14.12.2023

Registration for the reading group with Elia Nurvista and the guided tours is required via presse@bethanien.de.

OPENING HOURS DURING THE PUBLIC HOLIDAYS:
We are closed from 24.12.2023 up to and including 01.01.2024.