photo: Victoria Tomaschko
Inizia oggi l'undicesima Biennale di Berlino, che lentamente si è strutturata in che ora trova il suo atto conclusivo con le quattro mostre ufficiali.
Dal 5 settembre al 1 novembre 2020, l'undicesima Biennale di Berlino troverà spazio presso il KW Institute, presso il Daadgalerie a Kreuzberg, al Martin Gropius Bau e all'ExRotaprint.
The Crack Begins Within
“The slow opening of the 11th Berlin Biennale began a year ago, and since then it has been exploring the many cracks we carry, the fissures that keep us apart and those that bring us together. Many of the invited artists and participants in the Biennale have been exploring and practicing this, each in their own artistic terms, in their own contexts and temporalities. Making space to share these experiences demanded that we slow down the unsustainable pace of biennials and forgo the expectation of a singular concept, a novel idea to once again fix things into place.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the European fortress several months ago, it felt for a moment that the earth wanted to stand still. The virus exposed the cruelty of everyday life and the inequality endured by the vast majority of people imprisoned by patriarchal capitalism. As we write, many of those whose works are present in the exhibition are in the South and continue living under lockdown, in places where professional healthcare is a luxury, safeguarding only the privileged.
‘The crack begins within’ are words borrowed from poet Iman Mersal. She explores the many ghosts of motherhood, tearing apart its contemporary morals.
She begins with the refusal to become the sacrificed, the ‘egg that the newbornbreaks en route to life.’ She rummages in the crevices of this dissent, exploring the many ways that within all the brokenness the mother and child carry, there is pain and beauty, mourning and living. As the epilogue of the Biennale The Crack Begins Within calls out the fallacy of claiming for oneself the destruction of the old and the birthing of the new, refloated so many times by the white fathers as a new scaffolding to secure the continuity of their decaying structures. This is the violence that surrounds us, and that we are a part of.
The Crack Begins Within comprises the overlapping experiences of the artworks gathered here, breathing together, touching and moving one another. It is a
testament to the powerful collective stories they tell, the work they do, and the things they shatter. The epilogue is an exercise of mutual recognition, an
acknowledgement of the cracks in the system, of those broken by it and their struggles. As the carceral politics of compartmentalization are cracked open, art will not disappear into nothingness, but flow into everything. The Crack Begins Within is a nod to the solidarity in vulnerability of the healers and carers, the fighters, their fractures, and their power.”
María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
Opening hours Wed–Mon 11 am–7 pm, Thu 11 am–9 pm, Tue closed
daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161, 10969 Berlin
Opening hours Wed–Mon 11 am–7 pm, Tue closed
Gropius Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
Opening hours Wed–Mon 10 am–7 pm, Thu 10 am–9 pm, Tue closed
11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Bornemannstraße 9, 13357 Berlin
Opening hours Wed–Mon 11 am–7 pm, Tue closed
