The Berlin Biennial 2010

Save the date! On June 11, the sixth Berlin contemporary art Biennial will open, and run until the 8th of August. The event and its exhibitions will be held at various locations and galleries in Berlin, and the headquarters will be the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The previous Biennial was a great success and attracted 100,000 visitors. Over fifty artists will participate in this edition, and more than half of the exhibits have been created specifically for the event.

One of the current trends of contemporary art is the concept of the Curator as artist. If an exhibit is, say, more than just an art collection, and represents its own artistic happening, of course that happening has its author. Kathrin Rhomberg will curate the biennial, and is well known in the world of contemporary art for her innovative exhibitions, and especially for her work with Manifesta, the itinerant biennial of Pan-European art.
For the Berlin Biennial, instead of establishing a theoretical base that unifies the event outright, she suggested some questions: Do you believe in reality? Why is reality always positioned as the “other”? How does contemporary art deal with reality? She has established the Biennial as an opportune time to explore the cracks in reality, and the moments when self-deception can be painful. Through art, the fictitious weapons promoted by popular culture will be questioned. There will be group exhibits, solo shows and a historical exhibition, as well as projects and workshops

Featured exhibitors include photographer Michael Schmidt, and a retrospective on Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) has been organized to contextualize the Biennial. There will be more, but of course the best way to find out is to be there. Rent apartments in Berlin to be at the centre of artistic action and see the future of art.