50-year anniversary

Künstlerhaus Bethanien is celebrating 50 years of creativity, artistic innovation, and international exchange. It has fostered countless talents—from its launch in 1974 as a haven for emerging artists, to its current status as a global center of culture.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a place where artists from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds meet and share ideas, both with each other and with an engaged audience. In the spirit of sharing and exchange, Künstlerhaus Bethanien has a variety of exhibition formats and opportunities to interface with the public, including monthly exhibition openings, performances, concerts, artist talks, video screenings, panel discussions, and specially curated studio visits; each year there are also several open studios. One focus of these wide-ranging activities is the International Studio Programme, which each year invites artists from all over the world to develop and present projects with the support of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien team. 

Künstlerhaus Bethanien is constantly striving to expand its international network and gain new partners for the Programme, endeavoring to critically reflect on developments in contemporary art and culture. Publishing artists’ books, exhibition catalogues, and the annual art and criticism journal Be Magazin are just some of the ways in which Künstlerhaus Bethanien achieves this goal. 

Participants in the International Studio Programme are given the opportunity to develop and realize projects within a set timeframe, as well as being encouraged to reflect on and further their own artistic position within the Berlin art context. What sets Künstlerhaus Bethanien apart is its emphasis on providing participating artists with individual support as well as networking opportunities with the Berlin art scene. 

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Künstlerhaus Bethanien reaffirms its commitment to supporting inventiveness, diversity, and experimentation in the constantly evolving landscape of contemporary art.

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