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11th Berlin Biennale: Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado and Agustín Pérez Rubio

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5 September - 1 November 2020
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11th Berlin Biennale, Curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado and Agustín Pérez Rubio

Seven of Pacita Abad's large 'Masks and Spirits' trapunto paintings are included in the 11th Berlin Biennale's Gropius Bau, opening on September 4, 2020.

 

Watch HERE - Video walkthrough with Agustín Pérez Rubio.

 

The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio. The members of this intergenerational, female identified team of South American curators envision the forthcoming edition of the Berlin Biennale as a series of lived experiences that evolve as a process. The program includes exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, lectures, presentations, and workshops. In Fall 2020, the upcoming edition of the Berlin Biennale will bring forth all experiences at four venues.

 

Statement by the Curators:

“We began by asking how to celebrate the complicated beauty of life as the world burns around us. Baring ourselves through the stories that carry us, asking what can be, what is being mobilized today. For the epilogue, these lived experiences merge, cumulate, and fall out with one another; sometimes even leaving each other behind like abandoned buildings. This nearing moment is not only about old skeletons dear to us, but more importantly about listening to the songs of the living bodies that make up our cities. It is about grasping how these moving bodies inhabit and transform the places people call home—not the precarious shelters and walls built to defend the inadmissible present, but those exchanges and support structures of shared fragility that sustain people. How do we care for those worlds that separate us and at the same time bring us together, preparing us for new collisions, for turbulences yet to come? Up against the dismantling anxieties and crises brought on by fear and hate, the violence that surrounds us, that we are part of. Solidarities of vulnerabilities in struggle push forward multiple unrehearsed uprisings of beautiful rage.”

(María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio)

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Installation Views
  • Installation photos: Mathias Völzke/11th Berlin Biennale

    Installation photos: Mathias Völzke/11th Berlin Biennale

  • Collection Singapore Art Museum

                                Collection Singapore Art Museum

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  • Bb11 08
Works
  • MASKS AND SPIRITS AFRICAN MEPHISTO, 1981 Acrylic, rick rack ribbons, tie dyed cloth, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas 106 x 71 in 269 x 180

    MASKS AND SPIRITS

    AFRICAN MEPHISTO, 1981
    Acrylic, rick rack ribbons, tie dyed cloth, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas
    106 x 71 in
    269 x 180 
  • MASKS AND SPIRITS BACONGO VIII, 1990 Acrylic, cowrie shells, plastic buttons, mirrors stitched on silk screened, padded canvas 102 x 59 in 259 x 150 cm
    MASKS AND SPIRITS
    BACONGO VIII, 1990
    Acrylic, cowrie shells, plastic buttons, mirrors stitched on silk screened, padded canvas
    102 x 59 in
    259 x 150 cm
  • African mask (Kongo), 1990 Acrylic, colored beads, shells, handwoven yarn, padded cloth, painted canvas stitched on cloth 104 x 69 in 264 x 175 cm
    African mask (Kongo), 1990
    Acrylic, colored beads, shells, handwoven yarn, padded cloth, painted canvas stitched on cloth
    104 x 69 in
    264 x 175 cm
  • Oceania mask (Dancing demon), 1983 Acrylic, cowrie shells stitched on padded canvas 106 x 70 in 269 x 179 cm
    Oceania mask (Dancing demon), 1983
    Acrylic, cowrie shells stitched on padded canvas
    106 x 70 in
    269 x 179 cm
  • Kaunga, 1983 Acrylic, oil, cowrie shells, buttons stitched on padded canvas 86 x 67 in 218 x 170 cm
    Kaunga, 1983
    Acrylic, oil, cowrie shells, buttons stitched on padded canvas
    86 x 67 in
    218 x 170 cm
  • Hopi Mask, 1990 Acrylic, yarn, sequins stitched on padded canvas 100 x 68 in 254 x 173 cm
    Hopi Mask, 1990
    Acrylic, yarn, sequins stitched on padded canvas
    100 x 68 in
    254 x 173 cm
  • Marcos and his cronies, 1985 Acrylic, oil, textile collage, mirrors, shells, buttons, glass beads, gold thread and padded cloth on stitched and padded cloth 197 x 115 in 500 x 293 cm
    Marcos and his cronies, 1985
    Acrylic, oil, textile collage, mirrors, shells, buttons, glass beads, gold thread and padded cloth on stitched and padded cloth
    197 x 115 in
    500 x 293 cm
Press
  • Berlin Biennale 2020 | The Crack Begins Within | Contemporary Art

    Munchies Art Club, October 6, 2020
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  • Stories Worth (Re)Telling: Philippine Artists at 2020 Berlin Biennale

    Cartellino Team, Cartellino, October 2, 2020
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  • The struggles of the marginalized (neue-deutschland.de)

    drybyos, NewsyList, September 8, 2020
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  • Berlin Biennale Started

    the Editor, Kunstmarkt, September 7, 2020
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  • 11. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

    Berlin Art Week, September 5, 2020
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  • Berlin Biennale Reveals Artist List for Postponed 2020 Edition

    Claire Selvin, ARTnews, July 7, 2020
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