Berlin Biennale
The Berlin Biennale for contemporary art is an exhibition of international contemporary art that has been sponsored by the Federal Cultural Foundation since 2004 as a top cultural institution. It was launched on March 26, 1996 by Klaus Biesenbach , who is now director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles , and a group of collectors and art lovers. The Berlin Biennale takes place every two years at different locations in Berlin . Since this exhibition was established, the Board of Trustees has chosen an annual leitmotif, such as “When Things Cast No Shadow” for the 5th Berlin Biennale.
Chronology of the exhibitions
- Times and places
The first exhibition was curated by Klaus Biesenbach , Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Nancy Spector . It took place at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art on Auguststrasse in Berlin-Mitte .
The 2nd Berlin Biennale lasted from April 20 to June 20, 2001 and showed works by 49 artists from 31 countries. The curator was Saskia Bos , the venues were the rooms of the KW Institute for Modern Art and the Postfuhramt in Oranienburger Strasse.
The 3rd Berlin Biennale took place from February 14th to April 18th, 2004; Ute Meta Bauer was the artistic director . The premises of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Arsenal cinema were again used for the 35 films .
The 4th Berlin Biennale from March 25 to June 5, 2006, curated by Maurizio Cattelan , Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, showed works of art by Mircea Cantor , Bruce Nauman , Ján Mančuška , Cathy Wilkes and Thomas Schütte , among others . The organizers had opened their own gallery ( Gagosian Gallery ) in Auguststrasse , in which the first works were presented six months before the start of the Biennale. Eleven different locations have already been used for the actual exhibition, including the Old Garrison Cemetery and the Hall of Mirrors in Ballhaus Mitte .
The 5th Berlin Biennale was curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic and was held from April 5 to June 15, 2008 at four different locations, including the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin-Mitte.
The 6th Berlin Biennale took place from June 11th to August 8th, 2010 and was curated by Kathrin Rhomberg . As a foretaste of this biennial, the Artists Beyond project, funded by the European Commission , started in January 2010 , which aims to present artistic work as a process of creation in public events. Seven artists were involved in Artists Beyond in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Pristina, Copenhagen, Vienna, Paris and Berlin .
The 7th Berlin Biennale was held from April 27th to July 1st in 2012 and was curated by Artur Zmijewski . Associate curators were Voina and Joanna Warsza. During the preparation period, the organizers created their own newspaper, the P / Act for Art: Berlin Biennale Zeitung .
The 8th Berlin Biennale took place from May 29 to August 3, 2014 and was curated by the Colombian-Canadian artist and art historian Juan A. Gaitán . He previously worked as a curator at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (January 2009 to December 2011) and as associate professor of the program for curatorial practice at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco (September 2011 to June 2012) . Gaitán has invited Tarek Atoui , Natasha Ginwala, Catalina Lozano, Mariana Munguía, Olaf Nicolai and Danh Vo as central members and advisors to collaborate in his artistic team.
The 9th Berlin Biennale took place from June 4 to September 18, 2016. Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro from the New York collective DIS were appointed to the curatorial team.
The 10th Berlin Biennale took place from June 9th to September 9th 2018 and was curated by Gabi Ngcobo and her team Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza and Yvette Muttumba. With the title We Don't Need Another Hero , the 10th Berlin Biennale saw itself as a dialogue with artists and other contributors. The participants grapple with the ongoing fears and worries of today - fears that are multiplied by disregarding complex subjectivities - and think and act in their confrontation beyond the art context.
Web links
- Official website with a list of the exhibiting artists
- Falk Schreiber: The shy and the beautiful In: U mag , April 9, 2008
- Thomas Wulffen: Biennale in Contradiction - Art Blog from April 4, 2006
- Berlin Biennale Board of Trustees 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Cultural Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2017 ; Retrieved July 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History - Berlin Biennale. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2017 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 5th Berlin Biennale - Berlin Biennale. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 20, 2017 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Berlin Biennale on kunstaspekte.de, accessed on October 28, 2011
- ↑ Information on the 2nd Berlin Biennale ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the 3rd Berlin Biennale ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hanno Rauterberg : In the mud puddle of being - nobody expected that: At the Berlin Biennale, contemporary art gains a new depth and drama . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/2006
- ↑ Details on the 4th Berlin Biennale ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Videos for the 5th Berlin Biennale 2008: I , II
- ↑ Details on the 5th Berlin Biennale ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Contemporary art in Berlin is drawn to places with history. ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Goethe-Institut (China), October 2008
- ↑ Video for the 6th Berlin Biennale 2010 on art-in-berlin.de
- ↑ Information about the free Biennale newspaper ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. KW Institute for Contemporary Art Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V., accessed on January 7, 2016.
- ↑ monopol-magazin.de ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Berlin Biennale. ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin Biennale, Kunst-Werke Berlin, accessed on January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Berlin Biennale: Interview with DIS Monopol , November 24, 2014, accessed on January 7, 2016.
- ↑ About. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 10, 2018 ; accessed on April 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
