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The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the appointment of collaborating curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio for its upcoming 11th edition. The members of this intergenerational, female identified team of South-American curators come together in a four-voice constellation to work towards the 11th Berlin Biennale, taking place in the summer of 2020.
The international selection committee for the curatorship of the upcoming Berlin Biennale consisted of Doryun Chong (deputy director and chief curator at M+, Hong Kong), Adrienne Edwards (Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Reem Fadda (independent curator, Ramallah), Solange O. Farkas (director and curator at Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo), Omer Fast (artist, Berlin), Krist Gruijthuijsen (director at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin), and Miguel A. López (codirector and chief curator at TEOR/éTica, San José).
The Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), which has supported the Berlin Biennale since its fourth edition as one of Germany’s “cultural institutions of excellence,” continues its longterm partnership with the Berlin Biennale as main funder, providing support in the amount of three million euro for the 11th edition.
Curators biographies
María Berríos (born 1978 in Santiago de Chile) is a sociologist, writer, independent curator, and cofounder of the Chilean editorial collective vaticanochico. Her work traverses art, culture, and politics with a special interest in collaborative experiments of the Third World movement and their exhibition formats in the 1960s and 70s. She is an ongoing collaborator of the Hospital Prison University Archive by artist Jakob Jakobsen in the building where he and Berríos live together with their three-year-old son Teo, who believes he is a ninja… (Read more)
Renata Cervetto (born 1985 in Buenos Aires) has an ongoing curiosity for artistic practices in dialogue with language, public space, and body memories. She has researched the pedagogical programs of the Mercosul and São Paulo biennials, looking into how performance can result in critical mediation and the possibilities for negotiation and debate that this offers within different contexts. In recent years, she has been exploring how consciousness (or self-awareness) can be developed through pedagogical-poetic exercises… (Read more)
Lisette Lagnado (born 1961 in Kinshasa) is a researcher, art critic, and independent curator interested in strategies for collaborating with sociologists and architects in public space. As a young child she never understood why people lived on the streets and spent her time speaking with them. She was chief curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo How to Live Together (2006) and curated Drifts and Derivations: Experiences, journeys and morphologies together with María Berríos (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010)… (Read more)
Agustín Pérez Rubio (born 1972 in Valencia) has a curatorial and institutional practice relating to collaborative projects, gender and feminist issues, linguistics, architecture, politics, and postcolonial perspectives. In his early childhood he was fascinated by his mother’s makeup, wigs, and dresses… (Read more)
Past Berlin Biennale curators
1st Berlin Biennale (1998): Klaus Biesenbach with Nancy Spector and Hans Ulrich Obrist
2nd Berlin Biennale (2001): Saskia Bos
3rd Berlin Biennale (2004): Ute Meta Bauer
4th Berlin Biennale (2006): Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick
5th Berlin Biennale (2008): Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic
6th Berlin Biennale (2010): Kathrin Rhomberg
7th Berlin Biennale (2012): Artur Zmijewski together with associate curators Voina and Joanna Warsza
8th Berlin Biennale (2014): Juan A. Gaitán
9th Berlin Biennale (2016): DIS (Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro)
10th Berlin Biennale (2018): Gabi Ngcobo with a curatorial team composed of Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba
The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and organized by KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V.
BMW Group is Corporate Partner of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
Further information:
Henriette Sölter
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