2nd berlin biennale
dal 19/4/2001 al 20/6/2001
Segnalato da
19/4/2001
2nd berlin biennale
Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin
The 2nd berlin biennale for contemporary art will open in four weeks and present works by more than 40 artists from 31 countries. Curator Saskia Bos, director of the De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, focuses on artists and works of art that connect to the other, to the viewer, or engage in issues that have a social or participatory character. Concern, contribution, connectedness with the world outside will be explored in the show, as well as an awareness and critique of the art system with all its layers, its codes and self-referentiality.
The 2nd berlin biennale for contemporary art will open in four weeks and present works by more than 40 artists from 31 countries.
Curator Saskia Bos, director of the De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, focuses on artists and works of art that connect to the other, to the viewer, or engage in issues that have a social or participatory character.
Concern, contribution, connectedness with the world outside will be explored in the show, as well as an awareness and critique of the art system with all its layers, its codes and self-referentiality.
There will be paintings explicitly explaining the process of their own genesis, couches to lie on where one becomes the sculptor's model, witty dialogues on video about who's who in the art world, alternated with film projections where those who are portrayed exotically, are looking back in anger.
Who is the object? Who is looking at whom? As visitors are invited to actively engage in works, sensibilities sharpen and layers of meaning are added to the manifold individual installations.
A fringe program with screenings and discussions will take place on the weekends.
The exhibition will be hosted at two major venues in Berlin-Mitte: the ''Kunst-Werke Berlin'', Institute for Contemporary Art, and, at five minutes walking distance, the former ''Postfuhramt''. A few artworks will be exhibited in the S-Bahnbögen Jannowitzbrücke and the Allianz Treptowers.
A two-volume bilingual English-German catalogue will be published for the 2nd berlin biennale.
Volume 1 will be launched to coincide with the opening of the exhibition. It will include an introduction by the curator of the 2nd berlin biennale, Saskia Bos, entitled 'Beyond the Self'' as well as essays by the renowned critics and curators Nicolas Bourriaud and Charles Esche. Furthermore, each of the contributing artists will be presented with full colour images and individual texts.
Volume 2 will be available a few weeks after the opening of the 2nd berlin biennale. It will focus specifically on the realised exhibition with full colour reproductions of the works in Berlin.
Opening: Friday, April 20, 2001, special program at all venues as of 4pm (by invitation only)
Duration of exhibition: April 20 - June 20, 2001
Venues:
Kunst-Werke Berlin, Auguststraße
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße/Tucholskystraße
S-Bahnbögen Jannowitzbrücke, Holzmarktstraße
Allianz Treptowers, An den Treptowers 3
Opening hours: Tue - Thurs 12 am - 8 pm, Fri + Sat 12 am - 10 pm, Sun 12 am - 6 pm
Admission: Two venues DM 16 / red. DM 10, One venue DM 10 / red. DM 7, Free entrance: S-Bahnbögen Jannowitzbrücke and Allianz Treptowers
Fringe program
Parallel to the exhibition screenings, panel discussions and other events will take place on the weekends in collaboration with different partners (see website for updated information).
Infoline
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