Berlin Biennale: New Dates 2020

The eleventh edition of the Berlin Biennale  has announced that the event will now take place from September 5 to November 1, 2020. Its program of performances, residencies, lectures, workshops, and presentations would have opened this week, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since September 2019, the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has been unfolding as a process through a series of lived experiences with “exp. 1”, “exp. 2”, and “exp. 3”. In a fourth step, conceived as an epilogue, the 11th Berlin Biennale will bring these experiences together with artistic participation from around the world, including projects by researcher Sinthujan Varatharajah and multidisciplinary artist Osías Yanov.

For “exp. 3”, Sinthujan Varatharajah and Osías Yanov explore different tracings of the body and the imprints of its collective geographies. How can we understand bodies as reservoirs of historical and sensual memories, bodies as borders in and of themselves? Varatharajah is a researcher building an archive of living memory; Yanov is an artist who excavates the body, queering it into a source of archaic meaning.