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agosto 27, 2020 - BMW

Postponed epilogue of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art takes place from September 5 to November 1, 2020. BMW is Corporate Partner and supports exhibition and Curatorial Workshop.

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Under this year’s title “The Crack Begins Within” the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents its final chapter from September 5 to November 1, 2020: an epilogue conceived to merge the activities from the past months. The BMW Group is long-term corporate partner of the Berlin Biennale.

Munich/Berlin. Under this year’s title “The Crack Begins Within” the 11th   Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents its final chapter from September 5 to November 1, 2020: an epilogue conceived to merge the activities from the past months. Since its inception in 1998, the Biennale has become one of the most important events of contemporary art worldwide and shows the latest relevant and challenging positions independent of the art market’s and collection’s interests. The BMW Group is long-term corporate partner of the Berlin Biennale.

Since September 2019 and as a process over one year, the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has been unfolding in three different experiences – exp. 1, exp. 2 and exp. 3. With presentations, performances, workshops, and artist residencies they articulated diverse modes of solidarity, fragility and resistance. During the fourth and last part conceived as an epilogue, the curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado and Agustín Pérez Rubio will bring these experiences and the issues they raise together in four locations. Due to Covid-19, the opening of the epilogue of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has been postponed from June to September 2020.

“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,” say the curators in their curatorial statement about the 11th Berlin Biennale.

Furthermore, together with the Allianz Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut e. V. and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), BMW supports the Curatorial Workshop of the 11th Berlin Biennale for up-and-coming curators, educators and other practitioners (regardless of age), who are living in Berlin in the first or second generation. Under the topic “How now to gather” new protocols for gathering, for practicing solidarity and for enacting systemic change will be focused.

“With the support of the 11th Berlin Biennale, we are continuing our successful partnership. This time, we are looking forward to the opportunity of exploring, debating and illustrating the diversity and dynamics of our time. The BMW Group operates in over 140 countries. For this reason, it is paramount to offer different perspectives on our multi-faceted society,” stressed Ilka Horstmeier, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Human Resources.

Since its inception in 1998, the Berlin Biennale is shaped by the different concepts of curators appointed to enter into a dialogue with the city of Berlin, its public, with the people interested in arts as well as with the artists. The Berlin Biennale has become a magnet for art lovers from all over the world and is continually praised by an enthusiastic audience as an experimental context-specific exhibition.

Besides the Berlin Biennale, the list of long-term commitments to the arts in Germany’s capital city includes the Gallery Weekend Berlin, the Preis der Nationalgalerie and the associated Förderpreis für Filmkunst. Beyond the extensive commitment to the arts and in the course of the digital partnership BMW OPERA NEXT, BMW cooperates with Staatsoper Unter den Linden and invites this year again to the long-standing open-air format “State Opera for All” on September 6, 2020.

For further information about the 11th Berlin Biennale, please refer to: http://www.berlinbiennale.de 

EXHIBITION VENUES AND OPENING HOURS

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Wed – Mon 11.00 AM – 7.00 PM, Thu 11.00 AM – 9.00 PM 

daadgalerie
Oranienstrasse 161, 10969 Berlin
Wed – Mon 11.00 AM – 7.00 PM 

Gropius Bau
Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin
Wed – Mon 10.00 AM – 7.00 PM, Thu 10.00 AM – 9.00 PM 

11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Bornemannstrasse 9, 13357 Berlin
Wed – Mon 11.00 AM – 7.00 PM 

All venues are closed on Tuesdays. Separate registration for the single exhibition venues and for specific time slots is mandatory. Tickets can be purchased online under: https://bb-shop.visitate.net/en/
Tickets will not be available for purchase on site.