17.05.2012 | 7 pm | KW Institute for Contemporary Art
An Evening with Indignadxs | Occupy Biennale (in German)
The 7th Berlin Biennale takes place from April 27 to July 1, 2012.
The exhibition is open on Whit Monday.
For all 7th Berlin Biennale exhibition venues please click here.
7th Berlin Biennale Statements
“7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Politics” by Artur Żmijewski
“Doing things with art” by Joanna Warsza
Foreword from “Act for Art” by Gabriele Horn
Upcoming events
17.05.2012 | 7 pm | KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Krytyka Polityczna in Berlin #7: Politics of History. Re-invention of the Past.
18.05.2012 | 1 - 6 pm | St. Elisabeth-Church
“Draftsmen’s Congress” – Workshop with Anita Staud
19.05.2012 | 11 am – 8 pm | KW Institute for Contemporary Art
“No Revolution without Innovation” – a workshop
19.05.2012 | 12 am – 2 pm | City tour
“Communists, Jews, Criminals” – a city tour with Bernd Langer
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Indignadxs: a film about Occupy Biennale
PRESS CONFERENCE WITH INDIGNADXS | OCCUPY
Interview with Łukasz Surowiec
Krytyka Polityczna in Berlin – a photo essay
Interview with Khaled Jarrar
Deutschlandhaus as Venue
The building today known as Deutschlandhaus was built in 1926 as the eastern wing of the adjacent Europahaus. Later taken over by the Third Reich government in 1933, the buildings housed amongst others the Ministry of Labor. [...]More >
“There were no Arabs and Jews…” – Interview with Salim Tamari
Salim Tamari is the director of the Institute of Palestine Studies and an adjunct professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.More >
“No Revolution without Innovation” – a workshop
The methods of nonviolent struggle and the role of art within those-a workshop takes place on May 19, 2012, from 11 am till 8 pm at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.More >
“Reclaiming the city” – a film by Stefan Rusu
Through a complex interweaving of field trips and interviews, archival and found footage, personal narratives, interventions in public spaces, images, and other sources, the film reveals a number of sites of the New Berlin [...]More >
“Forget Fear” – a foreword by Artur Żmijewski
This publication is a report on the process of arriving at real action within culture, at an artistic pragmatism. What interested us were concrete activities leading to visible effects. We were interested in finding answers, not asking questions. [...]More >
Filtered by Eisenhüttenstadt
It’s easy to offer culture to people in Berlin, where there are always some visitors who will come to see the show—even if it is extremely difficult, or extremely strange. But what about “forgotten” cities like Eisenhüttenstadt? [...]More >
“I refuse to be a symbol” – Interview with Konstanty Gebert
Konstanty Gebert runs the Warsaw Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.More >
“Art in defense of democracy” by Jonas Staal
The struggle of art in the twentieth century is characterized by an aspiration for freedom. It has battled the church, the state and the wealthy bourgeoisie in order to no longer have to serve a religious, political or economic agenda. [...]More >
Navigating social capital in support of the occupations: some advice for institutions
As spring turns to summer turns to fall turns to winter, the evolution of the occupations of the squares worldwide continues apace. A growing resistance to power has, once again, captured the imaginations of people worldwide. [...]More >
OCCUPY A MUSEUM NEAR YOU!
Noah Fischer in conversation with Joanna Warsza and Florian Malzacher. [...]More >
Daniel Miller in conversation with Martin Zet
Daniel Miller: Martin, was it ever your plan to burn these books? [...]More >
On the condition of the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg
A comment by Jan Tomasz Gross and Zofia Waślicka. [...]More >
Quotes from an interview with Lonia Jebnięty (engl.: Leo the Fucknut)
This text is an abridged version of the interview “Yes, the Truth is With Us”, which will be published in the first publication of the 7th Berlin Biennale. [...]More >
The Outraged Are Among Us
By Marcin Śliwa. “I’m ill and have a fever. I’m at home, following the Outraged, and scheming; for a moment I’m away from the procedures of the everyday. I’m outraged, too. My head, burning with fever, produces a stream of sneezing and revolutionary thought. [...]“More >
Flames in their Heads
On January 12 as part of the 7th Berlin Biennale, Czech artist Martin Zet launched the project “Deutschland schafft es ab” (Germany gets rid of it) in Berlin. The work is directed against the message presented in a widely discussed book by Thilo Sarrazin [...]More >
Universalizing the Exception
Joanna Warsza: “You’re the kind of artist who monitors other artists and the art scene in general. You publish interviews with culture producers, you’re the artistic director of the periodical Krytyka Polityczna, and you have been appointed the curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale. [...]“More >
Info-Service
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A video from the St. Elisabeth-Church