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16/06/2025

Katerina Valdivia Bruch's article on the current Berlin Biennale:

The 13th Berlin Biennale: “I don’t care what you think, I will exhibit it anyway”

For whom are the biennales? For the curator and her or his artists’ friends, or for a broader audience? Why is the lack of communication and illegibility confounded with something ‘profound’ in the art world? These and other thoughts were running through my mind while I was visiting the opening of the 13th Berlin Biennale.

(follow the link for the full article)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin Biennale Sophiensaele

“I don’t care what you think, I will exhibit it anyway”

30/05/2025

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The programme of "Mapping Space and Time" has been published on the visitBerlin page!

The inaugural programme of the European Network on Latin American Art Studies "Mapping Space and Time" starts on Wednesday 4 June at 15:00 h with a workshop with the artist Daniela Lehmann Carrasco. Meeting point for the workshop: U5- Strausberger Platz. The workshop ends with a discussion with the participants at Bardo Projektraum.
Continuing the programme at Bardo Projektraum, we will have an artists' talk at 18:00 h with Marina Camargo and Daniela Lehmann Carrasco.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Migration, Landscape, and Extractivism in the Work of Latin American Women Artists

17/06/2022

Tomorrow starts documenta fifteen, directed by ruangrupa, an artist collective Katerina Valdivia Bruch had the pleasure to meet in 2009 for the first time.
This documenta follows the spirit of the 1960s-1970s, in which there was the aim to blur the differences between art with life, and stresses the values of friendship, solidarity and care (taking care of nature and of people). The majority of participating artists are collectives with processed-based approaches, engaging the participation of the audience.
From her experience in Indonesia, she can tell that it will be more like a party, a place to hang out with friends and to exchange ideas. This is how she remembers the events they organised in Jakarta, for instance the Jakarta Biennale or the OK. Video Festival that she was able to attend.
End of 2019 she interviewed Farid Rakun, one of the members of the collective (the interview was published some months later in 2020). It was before the pandemic started. A lot has happened since then and we are curious to visit the show in the coming days.

https://culture360.asef.org/magazine/interview-farid-rakun-ruangrupa-indonesia/

10/03/2022

A year ago we started with Rethinking Conceptualism's symposium sessions, organised in eight online meetings with 17 speakers. We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants in the symposium, as well as to our guests during the online reading sessions we began in May 2020. Our gratitude goes also to our moderators and our audience, who made the first part of the project possible.
This year, we have taken a longer break and will come back with our online activities in May. And, if there are no further changes due to the turbulent moments we are currently living, we will host an in presence event in the last quarter of this year.
Thanks for all these enriching moments and exchange of ideas. Let’s continue with our conversations.
We will meet again online in May. Stay tuned for more news!
Artatak Berlin

15/04/2021

Thanks to Amalgama's team for the nice interview and for including information on the project Rethinking Conceptualism on their website.
Artatak Berlin
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02/02/2021

REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN!
As some of you might know, the symposium Rethinking Conceptualism, a project by Katerina Valdivia Bruch, will take place entirely online. All the conferences will be recorded in advance and will be available on YouTube during the month of March 2021.
The live online meetings will be Q & A sessions, in which
the audience will have the chance to enter in a conversation with the speakers and discuss the topics of the conferences. We recommend you to watch the videos before the Zoom meetings with the speakers.
Registrations via Eventbrite. See you soon online!

Artatak Berlin

A project by Katerina Valdivia BruchIn collaboration with Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Instituto Cervantes BerlinFunded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Institut für AuslandsbeziehungenSupported by Embassy of Uruguay in Germany, Embassy of Chile in Germany

18/01/2021

We are happy to announce the programme of the symposium Rethinking Conceptualism, a project curated by Katerina Valdivia Bruch, that will take place in March, in eight online sessions via Zoom. The videos with each one of the presentations will be online the whole month of March (and from April onwards, available upon request).
The online programme will be a discussion with the speakers (Q & A sessions) and the audience. You can check our website and social media channels for more information. Registrations are free of charge and will start in February, via Eventbrite. See you soon online!

Artatak Berlin