Berlin Art Show Explores Tradition And Taboo In Judaism, Christianity, And Islam
EURASIA REVIEW
By Ruby Russell
GERMANY---An exhibition showing this summer in Berlin entitled “Journey to Jerusalem: Artistic Positions Between Religion, Tradition and Taboo” brings together the work of ten artists who deal with the place of religion in contemporary life. Spanning photography, painting, video, and installation, the works on show at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien are often challenging. The exhibition’s curator, Stephane Bauer, says it aims to explore common themes in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as create a visual dialogue between them. Originating from as far afield as Turkey, Russia, the U.S., and Israel, all the artists in the show now live and work in Berlin. [link]
By Ruby Russell
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Opening: Friday, 29th June 2012, from 7 pm
Journey to Jerusalem: 9 artistic positions between religion, tradition and taboo.
A project by Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
The artists presented in the exhibition "Journey to Jerusalem" 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