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Three Artists Withdraw From Berlin Biennale Over “Commodification” of Iraqi Suffering

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu August 17, 2022August 18, 2022

“Our bodies are not that cheap,” said one Iraqi artist who signed an open letter to the biennale’s curators.

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Zehra Doğan’s Graphic Novel Details Her Harrowing Experience in Prison

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka October 28, 2020November 2, 2021

Accused of propaganda for depicting destruction by Turkish military forces, Doğan’s graphic novel about her experience is now on display for the first time.

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Two Berlin Filmmakers Reflect on Germany’s Racial Dynamics

by Adela Yawitz August 3, 2018August 4, 2018

In their films at the Berlin Biennial, Natasha E. Kelly and Mario Pfeifer address the growing divide in Germany between the politics of liberal inclusion and on-the-ground ignorance, racism, and suppression.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Biennalized

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka August 1, 2018July 31, 2018

The 10th Berlin Biennale proves that Germany has yet to confront its contradictions as a place that is open and welcoming to refugees versus a place of growing anti-immigrant, right-wing populism.

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The 9th Berlin Biennale: A Vast Obsolescent Pageant of Irrelevance

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka June 24, 2016June 26, 2016

BERLIN — BB9 is so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it’s a wonder it hasn’t been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.

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Has Biennial Culture Gentrified the Art World?

Avatar photo by Kimberly Bradley June 3, 2014June 6, 2014

BERLIN — The eighth Berlin Biennale opened last week and runs until August 3. Reactions so far have been mixed, but one thing is certain: We Berliners have never before hosted such a “global” biennial.

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8th Berlin Biennale Curator on Berlin, Contemporary Art, and Gentrification

by Stephen Truax May 28, 2014May 31, 2014

BERLIN — Juan A. Gaitán is a typical hyphenated global art professional. The Canadian-Colombian independent writer and curator is based in Mexico City and Berlin, and he was chosen to curate the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which opens today.

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