Berlin Biennial

This edition of the berlin biennial will take place in both public and private spaces, all located on one street, Auguststraße, in Berlin’s Mitte district.

Literally stretching from a church to a cemetery, the show occupies private apartments, offices and other common places where people go about their daily lives, eating, working, playing and praying, “Of Mice and Men” is a journey across time and space, in which viewers are invited to experience art and the contexts in which works are presented, as if opening a series of time capsules. Each venue also projects a distinct image with which the artworks are then layered upon, building up a three-dimensional collage.

This approach to curating a biennial is loosely inspired by the tendency in Berlin to turn apartments into galleries and use temporary spaces for impromptu exhibitions and events. In combination with the artworks, the venues also reflect the atmospheres and tensions recurring throughout the exhibition. “Of Mice and Men,” in fact, tries to capture a sense of darkness and malaise, gravitating around questions of birth and loss, death and surrender, grief and nostalgia. Many of the places also evoke intimacy and reclusive states of mind, where collective history overlaps with personal traumas.

http://www.berlinbiennale.de/eng/index.php?sid=bb_11_02

Posted by delpesco at April 16, 2006 10:03 AM