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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”

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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/