Bethan Hughes

Artist and researcher / installation, animation, sculpture, print, text / working on and with transformation; from biological, bodily, ritual, material, to technological, commercial, industrial, immaterial.


Studio:
Gebäude 60,
Wilhelminenhofstr. 83-85,
12459 Berlin


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08.-10.03.23
EMAP meeting Athens 
Onassis Foundation

19.11.22
The Harvest
A group exhibition at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen

01.08.-25.09.22
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Residency and fellowship

03.-19.06.22
A Fluid Defence
Group exhibition at Künstlerhaus Sootbörn

29.05.22
An Artist Interview #21
Kunzten platform

09. - 30.04.22, Berlin
Hevea Act 4: Unnatural Ecologies
An exhibtion of new work presented at feldfünf

03.02.22/18:30, Bucharest
Zoom Talk
To accompany the group exhibition, Staycation

08. - 12.21, Berlin
Draußenstadt Funding
Film project about the High Deck Siedlung with Alina Schmuch

09. - 12.21, Berlin
Research Scholarship
To support research phase of Hevea Act 4/5 at the Topography of Terror Documentation Centre, Berlin, The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and the Institute for Biology and Biotechnology of Plants, University of Münster

16. - 23.07.21, Bucharest
Staycation Residency
Hosted by Catinca Tabacaru Gallery and Sandwich Gallery alongside the artists Barbara Lüdde, Lera Kelemen, Catinca Malaimare, Yen Chun Lin, Isabella Fürnkäs, Lexia Hachtmann, Ioana Stanca, Ana Pascu and Ana-Maria Stefan

01. - 12.21, Berlin
Goldrausch 2021 Scholarship
Programme for women artists with Mouna Abo Assali, Irma Blumstock, Veruschka Bohn, Ahu Dural, Dora Durkesac, Irene Fernández Arcas, Lexia Hachtmann, Heyon Han, Barbara Lüdde, Rachel Monosov, Ingrid Ogenstedt, Nnenna Onuoha, Anna Slobodnik, Hana Yoo

02. - 04.21, Berlin
Workplace Scholarship
Space to work on the project Hevea at feldfünf e.V.

2019 - 20, Braunschweig
BS Projects Fellowship
With Sajan Mani, Ho Sanggeun, Alina Schmuch, FRAUD

Bethan Hughes

Artist and researcher / installation, animation, sculpture, print, text / working on and with transformation; from biological, bodily, ritual, material, to technological, commercial, industrial, immaterial.

Studio:
Gebäude 60,
Wilhelminenhofstraße 83-85,
12459 Berlin.

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Outfit for a Woman in a Field, 2022
Latex, stainless steel, dandelions

An Elastic Continuum I - IV, 2022
Stainless steel, silver gelatin prints

Black and white photographs of flowers.
Black and white photographs of women holding flowers.
Black and white photographs of women holding Russian Kazakh dandelions.
Black and white photographs of women farming Taraxacu Kok-Saghyz, aka Russian or Kazakh dandelions, plants cultivated for the high natural rubber content in their roots that are native to the Tien Shen mountain region of Kazakstan.
Black and white photograph of a woman holding a dandelion in a field in Minnesota, United States, 1943.
Black and white photograph of a woman handling a dandelion in a field near Auschwitz, Poland, 1944.
Black and white photograph of a woman holding a dandelion in a field in the Zhytomer region of the Ukraine, 1950.*
Black and white photograph of women holding a dandelion grown at the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Germany, 2022.**
Outfit for a woman in a field.

* Photograph missing; The Central State Cinema-Photo-Phono Archive of Ukraine which holds this photograph has been closed due to martial law since mid-2022.
** Photograph by Federico Clavarino, 2022.

Hevea Act 4: Unnatural Ecologies, 2022

Latex, steel, air valves, hardware, PDF, speakers, sound piece, 9 mins, looped.

“Latex and rubber are indeed extraordinary substances that allow us to reflect on the techniques and technologies that produce and relate bodies with materials in unnatural ecologies.”

Delfina Cabrera in The Disorder of Things, a commissioned essay that forms part of the Hevea Act 4 digital publication.

Installation views: Linus Muellerschön
Hevea Act 4: Unnatural Ecologies, 2022

Digital publication, optimised for mobile, designed by Jamie Hudson

Featuring three commisioned texts:

A collaboration between the sun and the skin of the rubber: A conversation with Sajan Mani and Antony George Koothanady,
transcribed by Bethan Hughes, 2022

Topologies of an Extraordinary Substance
Delfina Cabrera, 2022

The Disorder of Things,
Delfina Cabrera, 2022
Collars and Cuffs, 2022

Latex, stainless steel, steel, hardware

&

Stattsgummi, Stattsblume, 2020

One colour screenprint on Kozo paper, each 60 x 42 cm, framed

Presented as part of the group exhibition A Fluid Defence, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, 04. - 19.06.22.
Hevea, 2021

Catalogue published as part of Goldrausch 2021. Design by Alina Schmuch. Essay by Kassandra Nakas:

“Hevea ist spekulativ, weil Bethan Hughes neben den Objekten auch die Bilder unserer Gegenwart in den Blick nimmt: computergenerierte Bildwelten, die in ihrer permanenren Verformbarkeit ein unerwartetes visuelles Echo der geschmeidigen Plastizität des allgegenärtigen Gummis sind.” 
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"Hevea is speculative because Bethan Hughes focuses not only on objects but also on the images of our present: computer-generated visual worlds whose permanent malleability is an unexpected visual echo of the supple plasticity of the ubiquitous material rubber."