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As autumn surges past, Expatica’s art critic Jessica Saltz turns her eye to buildings, checking out the hospital-cum-art institution Kunsthaus Bethanien and Berlin’s new exhibition on the Bauhaus movement.Hasty action is required to catch the top recommendations for Berlin exhibitions this month; if you spend too long buttoning up your coat and hunting for your gloves, you’ll miss them. As September merges into October there is no better time to meander the conker-strewn streets of Kreuzberg and Mitte between shows. The rich afternoon light that floods the old hospital wards of the Kunsthaus Bethanien in late Autumn almost entirely dissolves its sterile nature – this is a place to visit whatever art is in residence, and even when it is empty. What was a nineteenth century Krankenhaus on Marianenplatz is now a Kunst Verein, an institution with the aim of soothing the maladies of the soul instead of the body. The brick building is imposing with its odd, cement stucco reception area and its conservative exterior gives way to a contemporary inner passage way decorated with floor to ceiling graffiti. Bare on the outside, this building has taken a huge bite out of Berlin street art and is slowly digesting it in its endless inner bowels. There is a music school on the upper level, so the old wards are now filled with experimental sculptures and the sounds of children practicing their scales. The artists shown are often young and local and the art is always aspirational – if not always good. The quality continues to improve, however, and the current exhibition of sculpture and video pieces that focus on the physical and social development of Istanbul is inspiring. Christoph Keller’s video of whirling dervishes is particularly transfixing.
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