Berlin. Taking place from June 9 to September 9,
2018, the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
presents contemporary art under this year’s title “We don’t need
another hero”, bringing togehter the most influential current
positions of artists, theorists, and practitioners in Berlin – once
more with BMW as corporate partner.
Curated by Gabi Ngcobo and a curational team
composed of Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula
Souza, and Yvette Mutumba, the 10th Berlin Biennale is understood as a
conversation between artists and contributors. In the upcoming months,
the international artists are invited to participate in the discourse,
exhibiting at various exhibition venues: Besides KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, this year’s art works will also be displayed at
Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Volksbühne Pavilion and ZK/U –
Center for Art and Urbanistics. In cooperation with HAU Hebbel am
Ufer, two performances will take place at HAU2.
Starting from the position of Europe, Germany, and Berlin as a
city in dialogue with the world, the 10th Berlin Biennale confronts
the current widespread states of collective psychosis. By referencing
Tina Turner’s song from 1985, “We Don’t Need Another Hero”,
Gabi Ngcobo and the curatorial team draw from a moment directly
preceding major geopolitical shifts that brought about regime changes
and new historical figures.
Together with the Allianz Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut
e. V., and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), BMW supports the
Curators Workshop – this year under the title
BBX Crit Sessions – for the seventh time. After
a number of successful workshops, all thematically held in relation to
the 4th to 9th edition of the Berlin Biennale, this year’s workshop
will take place from August 31 to September 9, putting the 10th
Biennale itself in the centre: As proposed by the workshop directors
Antonia Majaca and Sohrab Mohebbi, it takes as its primary subject
matter the parameters, resources, and tools offered by the Berlin
Biennale itself. The ten-day workshop aims to exchange ideas, discuss
curatorial issues and practices as well as to strengthen the
initiative of young curators worldwide.
Since its inception in 1998, the Berlin Biennale has become one
of the most important events of contemporary art. It is shaped by the
different concepts of curators appointed to enter into a dialogue with
the city of Berlin, its public, with the people interested in arts as
well as with the artists.
Besides the Berlin Biennale, the list of long-term commitments
to the arts in Germany’s capital city includes the art berlin, the
Gallery Weekend Berlin, the Preis der Nationalgalerie, the associated
Förderpreis für Filmkunst and the Deutscher Filmpreis. Beyond the
extensive commitment to the arts, BMW cooperates with Staatsoper Unter
den Linden and invites this year again to the long-standing open-air
format “State Opera for All”.
For further information about the 10th Berlin Biennale, please
refer to: http://www.berlinbiennale.de
Press preview
The press preview will
take place on June 7 and June 8, 2018 from 10:00 AM –06:00 PM at the
various exhibition venues (HAU2: June 7, 2018, 02:00 PM –06:00 PM and
June 8, 2018, 02:00 PM –07:00 PM). For the preview, a press
accreditation is required.
EXHIBITION VENUES
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Hallesches Ufer 32,
10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße
69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Volksbühne Pavillon
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und
Urbanistik
Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin-Moabit
EXHIBITION HOURS
Wed–Mon 11:00 AM – 07:00 PM, Thu 11:00 AM – 09:00 PM
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2):
Exhibition from June 9. –10. and
June 13. –16. 2018, 05:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Performances on June 15.
and 16., 08:00 PM (additional ticket necessary)
All venues are closed on Tuesdays.
Additional closure days
Volksbühne Pavilion: 20.6, 4.7., 18.7., 8.8., 22.8., and 5.9.2018
For further questions please contact:
Prof Dr
Thomas Girst
BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental
Affairs
Head of Cultural Engagement
Telephone: +49 89 382
247 53
Henriette Sölter
Head of Press and
Communication
Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Telephone
+49-30-2434-5942
E-Mail: press@kw-berlin.de
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