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The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will take place from 14 June to 14 June 2025.
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Zasha Colah & Valentina Viviani
The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is curated by Zasha Colah. In her work as a curator and writer, Zasha Colah explores artistic imagination as well as artistic acts of civil disobedience under conditions of sustained oppression.
Colah on premises of the next Berlin Biennale:
“The large presence of foxes within the inner city of Berlin is a starting point for thinking through the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as an investigation of fugitivity. The encounter with urban foxes has been described by poets as presencing, a spinning in place, delaying in the fox’s presence for a time. The mind encounters otherness, but does not move on to associative thought chains—or prejudice. This encounter has less to do with the human identifying with the fox, but of entering a new sphere of equality with it.”
About Zasha Colah
In her exhibitions and texts, curator and author Zasha Colah explores artistic creation under conditions of constant repression. Her prism is life-affirmation under simultaneous tyranny, so in regions of permanent repression she explores the most diverse cultural expressions of civil disobedience, including laughter and humour as moments of liberation.
Zasha Colah's work explores the cultural diversity of unruly practices, the construction of subtle infrastructures for action and expressive resistance to militarisation and extractivism. She is particularly interested in the moment when these practices become collectivised.
About the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Since its foundation in 1996, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has developed into one of the most important forums for contemporary art worldwide.
It brings together the currently influential positions of artists, theoreticians and actors from different fields in one of Europe's most progressive cultural metropolises.
