Spektrum / Raum

In Spektrum / Raum, a creation by choreographer Máté Mészáros with the dance company Unusual Symptoms and video art collective Urbanscreen, the Kunsthalle Bremen becomes a stage for an interplay between bodies, space and light. Filmmaker Máté Bartha develops a new artistic work based on his observations of the dancers and their movements in dialogue with the museum's architecture. In his film, the camera often remains close, showing fragmented bodies, excerpts of rooms, shadows and light. The boundaries between inside and outside become blurred, and Urbanscreen's projections, which are barely recognisable as such, seem to detach the dancers from the space and lend the images an almost weightless, spherical-abstract quality – like snapshots from another universe. In this poetic state of limbo, the dancers rarely seem to truly encounter each other, their gazes hardly ever meeting. The music by Áron Porteleki – driving and fragile at the same time – follows their movements. Or does it precede them? Spektrum / Raum reflects on how spaces remember bodies and gestures echo in silence.

Máté Bartha (1987) is a Budapest-based visual artist working at the intersection of documentary and fiction. His practice blends symbolic storytelling, impersonation, and world-building to construct personal and collective mythologies, often set within the urban environment. With degrees in photography and documentary filmmaking and a DLA in progress at MOME, Bartha creates hybrid works that merge archival and staged elements with speculative narratives. His films and photographic projects have been widely exhibited, receiving international recognition—including awards at Rencontres d’Arles and Les Boutographies.