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The Crack Begins Within is a nod to the solidarity in
vulnerability of the healers and carers, the fighters,
their fractures, and their power

Since September 2019 and as a process over one year,
the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has
been unfolding in three different experiences – exp. 1,
exp. 2 and exp. 3. With presentations, performances,
workshops, and artist residencies they articulated
diverse modes of solidarity, fragility and resistance.
During the fourth and last part conceived as an
epilogue, the curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto,
Lisette Lagnado and Agustín Pérez Rubio will bring
these experiences and the issues they raise together
in four locations. Due to Covid-19, the opening of the
epilogue of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary
Art has been postponed from June to September 2020.

“The slow opening of the 11th Berlin Biennale began
a year ago, and since then it has been exploring the
many cracks we carry, the fissures that keep us apart
and those that bring us together. Many of the invited
artists and participants in the Biennale have been
exploring and practicing this, each in their own artistic
terms, in their own contexts and temporalities,” say
the curators in their curatorial statement about the
11th Berlin Biennale.

“With the support of the 11th Berlin Biennale, we are
continuing our successful partnership. This time, we
are looking forward to the opportunity of exploring,
debating and illustrating the diversity and dynamics
of our time. The BMW Group operates in over 140
countries. For this reason, it is paramount to offer
different perspectives on our multi-faceted society,”
stressed Ilka Horstmeier, member of the Board of
Management of BMW AG responsible for Human
Resources.

Epilogue exhibition venues
The epilogue of the 11th Berlin Biennale will take place
at four exhibition venues: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o
ExRotaprint, daadgalerie, Gropius Bau, and KW Institute
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Zone de troc [Barter Zone], 2020. 98 drawings from a new for Contemporary Art.
series, colored pencils, dry pastel and wool on paper; embroidery on tarpaulin
from Congo and flour sack from Morocco (Residency Ifitry, Morocco / artist’s
studio, Belgium); taxidermied hyena Crocuta crocuta; taxidermied Barbary
sheep Ammotragus lervia; shipping wooden crates “Mandeville. Poste de pêche
Kingabwa” and “Musée Ethnographie”, Taxidermied animals and shipping crates
Installation view (detail), 11th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau, 5.9.–1.11.20.
Courtesy Pélagie Gbaguidi. Photo: Mathias Völzke

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