02/10/2023
Video stills from the exhibition Voicing Bethanien - an exhibition space in context. A video installation by /
• Photo 1: Janina Benduski, born 1978 in West-Berlin
"It’s a structure that doesn’t say how it has to be, instead we look at what projects need, what can they do themselves, and what can we do to support them. And so many people need that.”
• Photo 2: Jürgen Zeidler, born 1942 in Nuremberg
"About 140,000 or 150,000 students. And a substantial percentage of the population were pensioners. The largest percentage of pensioners in all of Germany. 21 % pensioners, most of whom were women. So, it was a very lifeless city.”
• Photo 3: Karin Baumert, born 1955 in Schwerin
"The city is the social space that manifests through subjects shaping society in relation to social space. And the three subject levels are citizens and their initiatives, local politics and, in the West, capital that appears as subject.“
©Voicing Bethanien/Sonya Schönberger/Berliner Zimmer, 2023
Interview partners:
Adrian Nabi, Akbar Behkalam, Andrea Binke, annette hollywood, Ante Pavić, Brezel Göring, Çağla Ilk, Christiane Zieseke, Christoph Tannert, Cornelia Reinauer, Dani Hasrouni, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Ewa Stróżczyńska-Wille, Frida Neander Rømo, Gabriele Behnke, Gangolf Ulbricht, Hanna Hegenscheidt, Hannah Kruse, Janina Benduski, Jürgen Zeidler, Karin Baumert, Leonie Baumann, Maarten Janssen, Magda Korsinsky, Marisa Maza, Michael Schönke, Naomi Hennig, Oliver Baurhenn, Rebecca Marquardt, Rosemarie Richter, Renate Drews, Ringo, Safter Çınar, Sophia Tabatadze, Stefanie Endlich, Stéphane Bauer, Susanne Weiß, Thomas Engel, Werner Brunner, Wolfgang Müller
A project from Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in cooperation with , curated by & with curatorial supervision by Dr. Nele Güntheroth.
With support from room in a box
Voicing Bethanien: 2.9.-5.11.2023
Opening Hours:
Sun - Wed, 10 am - 8 pm
Thu - Sat, 10 am - 10 pm
Free entry