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26/5/2014

8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Curator Juan A. Gaitán
Director Gabriele Horn

Curatorial Assistants
Edwige Baron and Christian Sander

The 8th Berlin Biennale brings together a range of international artistic positions that explore the intersection between larger historical narratives and individuals’ lives. The majority of the participating artists have produced new works for the exhibition, which proposes new perspectives on the facets of and relations in history. It spans four distinct venues in western Berlin and Berlin-Mitte—Haus am Waldsee, Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Crash Pad c/o KW. The exhibition is on view from May 29 until August 3, 2014.

Juan A. Gaitán, curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale, has invited Tarek Atoui, Catalina Lozano, Natasha Ginwala, Mariana Munguía, Olaf Nicolai, and Danh Vo to collaborate with him as core members and advisors in his artistic team. The graphic design and art direction of the 8th Berlin Biennale will be developed together with the design office Zak Group.

Curatorial Statement
About the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

The research for the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is structured along three speculative approaches toward the city of Berlin: in narratives exposed thro ugh its built environment, in its relationship to the formation of citizenship and as figured against current forces of tourism, and finally in its relations between historical and contemporary configurations of labor. The upcoming edition will travel beyond Berlin -Mitte to areas that have become relatively “minor” within the divided as well as reunified realities of the city.
Through this expanded cartography the Berlin Biennale will also engage with how the Berlin of the 18th and 19th centuries is contemplated within our current cultural landscape. The artistic team of the Berlin Biennale will be developing its research with a focus on historical forms of movement and fixity, as the two main categories of modern subjectivity. Over different exhibition venues, this Berlin Biennale will bring together a range of local and international artistic positions that explore the intersection between these larger historical narratives and individuals’ lives, counterpoising the empirical and the authoritative approaches to history and historical becoming.
Juan A. Gaitán

9 Plus 1
For the 9 Plus 1 series of posters, a number of artists have been invited to propose poster designs. The series title 9 Plus 1 corresponds to the number of weeks that the exhibition is on view. The poster edition can be purchased at all venues.
Limited edition posters by:
Andreas Angelidakis
Zachary Cahill
Mariana Castillo Deball
Shilpa Gupta
Glenn Ligon
Goshka Macuga
Shahryar Nashat
Olaf Nicolai
Otobong Nkanga
Wolfgang Tillmans
Danh Vo

Excursus
On the occasion of the 8th Berlin Biennale, Mexico City-based Artistic Team member Mariana Munguía and graphic designer Maricris Herrera collaborate on the publication Excursus. In contrast to a classical exhibition catalogue, the aim of this exclusively image-based publication is to function as a surplus venue of the 8th Berlin Biennale. Excursus is a book of visual propositions, with each participating artist invited to submit an original proposal covering up to four pages with various format options. Excursus creates a space that can travel and thus reaches beyond the immediate domain of the 8th Berlin Biennale as it is staged in the city of Berlin. Lasting beyond the duration of the exhibition as such, this compilation suggests a walk through the ideas traversing and intersecting the 8th Berlin Biennale while questioning the political and aesthetic force and autonomy of images.
Concept: Juan A. Gaitán, Maricris Herrera, and Mariana Munguía
Editor: Mariana Munguía
Graphic Design: Maricris Herrera
Image Editor: Jonas Raam

Public events during the opening week of the 8th Berlin Biennale

Thursday, May 29
11am
Carla Zaccagnini in collaboration with Theodor Köhler, Ayara Hernández Holz & Felix Marchand
Le Quintuor des Nègres, encore
Ballet and concert
Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin
Access with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket

1pm
Shahryar Nashat
Parade, 2014
Premiere screening
Delphi Filmpalast am Zoo, Kantstraße 12a, 10623 Berlin
Free entrance, limited capacity

3pm
Goshka Macuga in collaboration with Dieter Roelstraete
Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy
Play
Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin, 1st floor
Access with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket

Friday, May 30
Noon
Goshka Macuga in collaboration with Dieter Roelstraete
Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy
Play
Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin, 1st floor
Free entrance with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket

2–2:25pm, 2:30–2:55pm, 3–3:25pm, 3:30–3:55pm, 4–4:25pm, 4:30–4:55pm
Tarek Atoui in collaboration with Uriel Barthélémi, Jim Black, Tony Elieh, Charbel Haber, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Morten J. Olsen, Sharif Sehnaoui, André Vida, and others
Dahlem Sessions
Concerts with Burkhard Beins, Rudi Fischerlehner, Charbel Haber, Katt Hernandez, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Andrea Neumann, Stéphane Rives, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Michael Vorfeld
Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin, Musikethnologie, 2nd floor
Access with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket; limited capacity, advance reservations recommended

Saturday, May 31
Noon
Carla Zaccagnini in collaboration with Theodor Köhler, Ayara Hernández Holz & Felix Marchand
Le Quintuor des Nègres, encore
Ballet and concert
Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin
Access with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket

2–2:25pm, 2:30–2:55pm, 3–3:25pm, 3:30–3:55pm, 4–4:25pm, 4:30–4:55pm
Tarek Atoui in collaboration with Uriel Barthélémi, Jim Black, Tony Elieh, Charbel Haber, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Morten J. Olsen, Sharif Sehnaoui, André Vida, and others
Dahlem Sessions
Concerts with Burkhard Beins, Rudi Fischerlehner, Charbel Haber, Katt Hernandez, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Andrea Neumann, Stéphane Rives, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Michael Vorfeld
Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin, Musikethnologie, 2nd floor
Access with 8th Berlin Biennale ticket; limited capacity, advance reservations recommended

Sunday, June 1
3pm
Julieta Aranda in collaboration with Tisha Mukarji
The perspective of perspective: A world mediated by a faulty image of the world
Composition for timpani, synthesized voices, string, and wind ensemble
Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin, Großer Vortragssaal
Free entrance, limited capacity

6pm
Tarek Atoui in collaboration with Uriel Barthélémi, Jim Black, Tony Elieh, Charbel Haber, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Morten J. Olsen, Sharif Sehnaoui, André Vida, and others
Dahlem Sessions
Discursive event
Crash Pad, c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin, front house 1st floor
Free entrance, limited capacity

The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

Communication and Press
Henriette Sölter - assistant: Friederike Krentz T +49 (0)30 24345942 F +49 (0)30 24345999 press@berlinbiennale.de

Professional preview and opening, on 27-28-29 May 2014, from 10 am to 6 pm at all venues.

Adresses and Opening hours:

Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30 14163 Berlin
Tue–Fri, 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun 11 am–6 pm

Museen Dahlem - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
(Dahlem Museums - National Museums in Berlin)
Lansstraße 8 14195 Berlin
Tue–Fri, 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun 11 am–6 pm

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin
Tue–Sun, 12–10 pm

Crash Pad
c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin, front house, 1st floor

Opening hours:
January 26–May 26: Saturday–Sunday 2–6 pm
May 29–August 3: Tuesday–Sunday 12–10 pm
All venues are closed on Mondays
Admission:
All venues 16 Euro
Reduced 10 Euro
Groups of 10 or more all venues 14 Euro
Reduced 8 Euro

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