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26/3/2006

What the world needs now is more biennials

Goethe-Institut, Berlin

On the occasion of the 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Forum Goethe-Institut have picked up an initiative of the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the BMW Group to organize a workshop for young curators from various parts of the world.

"What the world needs now is more biennials"

Is the irony that the worldwide proliferation of big art events and exhibitions - despite of the existence of an elite of travelling artliteratis - results not in an 'unification' or amalgamation, but fragmentation (i.e. myriad of separate international or local scenes that exist next to one another, taking little or no notice of one another, yet all struggling for attention)? What could be strategies of curators - and biennials for that matter - to deal with this problem? Or maybe it's not a problem?

These questions will be discussed in the concluding public panel discussion at Goethe-Institut Berlin, Neue Schonhauser Str. 20, 10178 Berlin, which will host four of the most visible curators of recent and upcoming biennials: Zdenka Badovinac (Director of Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana), Isabel Carlos (independent curator and critic, Lisbon), Vasif Kortun (Director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul) and Okwui Enwezor (Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute), Frieze coeditor and art critic Jorg Heiser will moderate.

The panel discussion will be held in English.
Please note, there is a limited amount of space.

For further information please contact:
Markus Muller I Maike Cruse
T +49 30 24 34 59 41/42
presse@kw-berlin.de
http://www.kw-berlin.de
http://www.berlinbiennale.de

Location: Goethe-Institut Berlin
Neue Schonhauser Str. 20, 10178 Berlin
Lobby, 1st floor
on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 7 pm

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