Journey to Jerusalem
dal 28/6/2012 al 18/8/2012
Segnalato da
28/6/2012
Journey to Jerusalem
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
9 artistic positions between religion, tradition and taboo
The artists presented in the exhibition live and work in Berlin with many of them only having moved to Berlin a few years ago. The common point in their work is that they refer to the artists' own respective and diverse religious traditions and contexts, furthermore relating the inherent commandments and prohibitions. Their work expresses intersections of different traditions and personal environments and experiences, thereby dealing both with form and medium as well as with religious and art-historical traditions. Iwajla Klinke refers to baroque portraiture, Benyamin Reich to Dutch genre painting and history of photography, Zohar Freiman quotes and reflects upon the painters Balthus and Giotto, Trudy Dahan investigates artistic craft and oriental forms and objects, whilst Stevie Hanley approaches the topic of religion and taboo by dealing with the stylistic idiom of botanical and animal drawings. Artists: Trudy Dahan, Zohar Fraiman, Stevie Hanley, Iwajla Klinke, Benyamin Reich, amongst others. Opening: Friday, 29th June 2012, from 7 pm.