HELSEN & BAHC

EXHIBITION VENUES: HAUPTMARKT (5), PAULUSKIRCHE (9)

Gin Bahc – (Master student, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) is a conceptual artist with a focus on performance and installation. Selected awards: 2023: Artist Residency, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral – 2018: Artist Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Exhibitions: 2025: by bye, ILG factory hall in Avondale, Chicago, US – 2024: COEXIST, Mittelrheinmuseum, Koblenz – 2022: Loss, JASON PLATFORM, Copenhagen, DK.

Anna-Lina Helsen – (Magistra, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe) engages with experiences that she reinterprets through diverse media techniques. Selected awards: 2023: UNESCO Media Arts Karlsruhe, Project Funding. Exhibitions: 2024: Media Art is Here, Studio Hö KA – 2024: next_generation festival X, ZKM Karlsruhe – 2021: Liquid Cosmos, La Biennale Architettura di Venezia, IT.

©Portrait: Gin Bahc
©Werkfoto: Sebastian Heck

Connection to Rhineland-Palatinate

Both artists have long-standing ties to RLP. Anna-Lina Helsen lives in Hainfeld. In 2016, she founded an art space there, hosting numerous exhibitions, including joint projects with Gin Bahc. In 2023, Gin Bahc received a working scholarship at Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and gathered formative impressions of the landscape, atmosphere, and encounters there.