12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Curator and Artistic Team of the 12th Berlin Biennale (f.l.t.r. Ana Teixeira Pinto, Noam Segal, Kader Attia, Đỗ Tường Linh, Rasha Salti, Marie Helene Pereira)

Photo: Silke Briel

Curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale: Kader Attia

Photo: Jennifer Soike

Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

Berlin, 2022

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Ammar Bouras, Mai Nguyễn-Long, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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From left to right:

Mai Nguyễn-Long, Specimen (Permate), 2022

Used glass household jars, found objects, organic matter

Ammar Bouras, Traces, 2022

Video, color, sound, 15′

Mai Nguyễn-Long, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Mai Nguyễn-Long, Specimen (Permate), 2022

Used glass household jars, found objects, organic matter

Sammy Baloji, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Sammy Baloji, …and to those North Sea Waves Whispering Sunken Stories (II), 2021

Metal and glass terrarium containing various tropical plants, potting soil, clay pebbles, sound

230 × 273 × 307 cm

DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Ente di Decolonizzazione (Entity of Decolonization) – Borgo Rizza, 2022

Wood, plaster, plexiglass

DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Tammy Nguyen, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Front :

DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, visualization of Ente di Decolonizzazione (Entity of Decolonization) – Borgo Rizza, 2022

Wood, plaster, plexiglass

Back :

Tammy Nguyen, series of paintings, 2022

Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, metal leaf on paper stretched on foam board mounted on wooden frame

Florian Sông Nguyễn, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Florian Sông Nguyễn, les chiens errants [The Stray Dogs], 2022

Ink wall drawing, ink on paper

Florian Sông Nguyễn, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Florian Sông Nguyễn, les chiens errants [The Stray Dogs], 2022

Ink wall drawing, ink on paper

Forensic Architecture, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Forensic Architecture, Cloud Studies, 2022

2-channel video installation, color, sound, 26′08′′

Imani Jacqueline Brown, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Imani Jacqueline Brown, What remains at the ends of the earth?, 2022

Video installation, print

Imani Jacqueline Brown, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Imani Jacqueline Brown, What remains at the ends of the earth?, 2022

Video installation, print

Lamia Joreige, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Lamia Joreige, After the River, 2016

3-channel video installation, shown as single projection, color, sound, 20′

Đào Châu Hải, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Đào Châu Hải, Ballad of the East Sea, 2022

CNC cut steel plates

Đào Châu Hải, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.-18.9.2022

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Đào Châu Hải, Ballad of the East Sea (detail), 2022

CNC cut steel plates

Tammy Nguyen, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Tammy Nguyen, series of paintings, 2022

Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, metal leaf on paper stretched on foam board mounted on wooden frame

Sven Johne, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Sven Johne, Heilpflanzen im Todesstreifen / Medicinal Plants in the Death Strip, Germany, 2021

25 archival pigment ink prints on fine art paper
© Sven Johne / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Sven Johne, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Sven Johne, Heilpflanzen im Todesstreifen / Medicinal Plants in the Death Strip, Germany (detail), 2021

25 archival pigment ink prints on fine art paper
© Sven Johne / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Yuyan Wang, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Yuyan Wang, The Moon Also Rises, 2022

Full HD-Video, color, sound, approx. 20′; lighting equipment

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

Berlin, 2022

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Elske Rosenfeld, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Elske Rosenfeld, Interrupting (A bit of a Complex Situation), 2014, from the series An Archive of Gestures, 2012–22

2-channel video installation, color, sound, 14′, metal frame

© Elske Rosenfeld / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Elske Rosenfeld, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Elske Rosenfeld, Speaking (Statements for the Future), 2019/22, from the series An Archive of Gestures, 2012–22

Video installation, color, sound, 15′; metal frame

© Elske Rosenfeld / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Moses März, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Moses März, various works on paper, 2021-22

Crayon, pencil and collages on paper

Prabhakar Kamble, Taloi Havini, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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From left to right:

Prabhakar Kamble, objects from the series Utarand [Stacked vessels], 2022

Earthen pot, metal foot, fiber brains, satin cloth, indigo powder, acrylic, iron rod, wooden base

Taloi Havini, Beroana (Shell money) IV, 2016

Stoneware, earthenware, clear glaze, steel wire

Taloi Havini, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Taloi Havini, Beroana (Shell money) IV, 2016

Stoneware, earthenware, clear glaze, steel wire

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Crucifixes, Emil Nolde, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Schiefblatt und Maske [Begonia and Mask], 1950

Oil on canvas

© Karl Schmidt-Rottluff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Grüne Frau [Green Woman], 1956

Oil on canvas

© Karl Schmidt-Rottluff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Crucifixes, various collections

Emil Nolde, Exotische Figuren [Exotic Figures], 1912

Oil on canvas

Emil Nolde, Holzfigur [Wooden Figure], 1912

Oil on canvas

Crucifixes, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Crucifixes, various collections

Dubréus Lhérisson, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Dubréus Lhérisson, Untitled, ca. 2015

Mixed media; skulls, sequins

Dubréus Lhérisson, Prabhakar Kamble, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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From left to right:

Dubréus Lhérisson, Untitled, ca. 2015

Mixed media; skulls, sequins

Prabhakar Kamble, Chandelier, 2022

Earthen pot, iron hook, cotton ropes, belts, bells, pieces of textiles, hides, and tools used to harness and decorate bulls, slaughter hook

Prabhakar Kamble, Installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Prabhakar Kamble, Broken Foot, 2020

Wood

Khandakar Ohida, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Khandakar Ohida, Dream Your Museum, 2022

Short film, color, sound,16′; metal trunks, various objects, sitting mats

Prabhakar Kamble, Installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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Prabhakar Kamble, objects from the series Utarand [Stacked vessels], 2022

Earthen pot, metal foot, fiber brains, satin cloth, indigo powder, acrylic, iron rod, wooden base

The School of Mutants, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022

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The School of Mutants, All Fragments of the Word Will Come Back Here to Mend Each Other, 2022

Mixed media

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Postering Workshop as part of Nil Yalter’s artwork Exile Is a Hard Job, 1983/2022, with Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgâr Buşki

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

Berlin, 2022

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Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

Berlin, 2022

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Alex Prager, David Chavalarias, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

David Chavalarias, works from the series Shifting Collectives, 2022

Alex Prager, Crowd #4 (New Haven), 2013/22

Wallpaper

Alex Prager, Birender Yadav, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Alex Prager, Crowd #4 (New Haven), 2013/22

Wallpaper

Selection of works by Birender Yadav

Birender Yadav, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Birender Yadav, Donkey Worker, 2015

Thumbprints of workers on Canson paper

Birender Yadav, Walking on the Roof of Hell, 2016

Khadau sandals, 10 archival prints

Birender Yadav, Erased Faces, 2015

Thumbprints of workers on archival prints

Calida Garcia Rawles, Noel W Anderson, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Calida Garcia Rawles, Dark Matter, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

Noel W Anderson, Hood Dreams I, 2019–21

Distressed, stretched cotton tapestry

Calida Garcia Rawles, Noel W Anderson, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Noel W Anderson, Hood Dreams I, 2019–21

Distressed, stretched cotton tapestry

Calida Garcia Rawles, High Tide, Heavy Armor, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

Calida Garcia Rawles, Noel W Anderson, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Calida Garcia Rawles, High Tide, Heavy Armor, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

Noel W Anderson, Hood Dreams I, 2019-21

Distressed, stretched cotton tapestry

Calida Garcia Rawles, A Promise, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

Calida Garcia Rawles, Guardian, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

Calida Garcia Rawles, Dark Matter, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Oh Shining Star Testify, 2019/22

3-chanel video installation, 2-channel sound, subwoofer, 10’05’’; wooden boards

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Oh Shining Star Testify, 2019/22

3-chanel video installation, 2-channel sound, subwoofer, 10’05’’; wooden boards

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Oh Shining Star Testify, 2019/22

3-chanel video installation, 2-channel sound, subwoofer, 10’05’’; wooden boards

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Oh Shining Star Testify, 2019/22

3-chanel video installation, 2-channel sound, subwoofer, 10’05’’; wooden boards

Tammy Nguyen, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Tammy Nguyen, series of paintings, 2022

Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, metal leaf on paper stretched on foam board mounted on wooden frame

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Driss Ouadahi, Installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Conditioning, 2022

Full-color inkjet print on archival paper mounted on aluminum; vinyl labels; instructional video, HD, color, 2′

Driss Ouadahi, Néon [Neon], 2016

Oil on canvas, diptych

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Air Conditioning, 2022

Full-color inkjet print on archival paper mounted on aluminium ; vinyl labels ; instructional video, HD, color, 2’

Noel W Anderson, Praneet Soi, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right :

Noel W Anderson, Downw0rd Dog, 2021-22

Distressed, draped cotton tapestry

Praneet Soi, Paraphernalia, 2022

Coir sculpture, drawings, and paintings on dioramic wall

Noel W Anderson, Praneet Soi, Installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Noel W Anderson, Die Leitung [Line Up], 2016-21

Distressed, stretched cotton tapestry

Noel W Anderson, Downw0rd Dog, 2021-22

Distressed, draped cotton tapestry

Praneet Soi, Paraphernalia, 2022

Coir sculpture, drawings, and paintings on dioramic wall

Praneet Soi, Tammy Nguyen, Installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Praneet Soi, Paraphernalia, 2022

Coir sculpture, drawings, and paintings on dioramic wall

Tammy Nguyen, series of paintings, 2022

Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, metal leaf on paper stretched on foam board mounted on wooden frame

Noel W Anderson, Praneet Soi, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Praneet Soi, Paraphernalia, 2022

Coir sculpture, drawings, and paintings on dioramic wall

Noel W Anderson, Martir [Martyr], 2020-21

Laser-cut basketball material on distressed and picked stretched cotton tapestry

Zach Blas, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Zach Blas, Profundior (Lachryphagic Transmutation Deus-Motus-Data Network), 2022

Mixed media

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Berlin, 2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Alex Prager, Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, Grand Tableau Antifasciste Collectif, Jeneen Frei Njootli, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

From left to right:

Alex Prager, Women Now, 2018/22

Wallpaper

Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, works from the series 136 years ago & now, 2019

Photographs

Antonio Recalcati, Enrico Baj, Erró, Gianni Giancarlo Dova, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Roberto Crippa, Grand tableau antifasciste collectif [Large collective antifascist painting], 1960

Painting and collage on canvas

© Antonio Recalcati, Erró, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Roberto Crippa / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022; Heirs Enrico Baj, Gianni Dova

Amal Kenawy, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Laura Fiorio

Amal Kenawy, Silence of Sheep, 2010

Video, color, sound, 8’50’’

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, The Natural History of Rape, 2017/22

Vintage photographs, prints, untaken b/w photographs, books, essays, magazines, drawings

Myriam El Haïk, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Myriam El Haïk, Please Patterns, 2022

Installation and performance for drawings, rugs, and piano

Myriam El Haïk, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Myriam El Haïk, Please Patterns, 2022

Installation and performance for drawings, rugs, and piano

Myriam El Haïk, performance as part of the artwork Please Patterns, 2022, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Myriam El Haïk, Please Patterns, 2022

Installation and performance for drawings, rugs, and piano

Myriam El Haïk, performance as part of the artwork Please Patterns, 2022, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Myriam El Haïk, Please Patterns, 2022

Installation and performance for drawings, rugs, and piano

Myriam El Haïk, Zuzanna Hertzberg, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

From left to right:

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019-22

5 textile banners with photo prints; performative activation

Myriam El Haïk, Please Patterns, 2022

Installation and performance for drawings, rugs, and piano

Zuzanna Hertzberg, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019-22

5 textile banners with photo prints; performative activation

Zuzanna Hertzberg, performance as part of the artwork Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019-22, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019–22

5 textile banners with photo prints; performative activation

Zuzanna Hertzberg, performance as part of the artwork Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019-22, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019–22

5 textile banners with photo prints; performative activation

Zuzanna Hertzberg, performance as part of the artwork Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019-22, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Organized Resistance of Women During the Holocaust, 2019–22

5 textile banners with photo prints; performative activation

Nil Yalter, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

From left to right:

Nil Yalter, Estranged Doors, 1983

8 b/w photographs, paint, text, mounted on aluminium

Nil Yalter, Exile Is A Hard Job, 1983/2022

Montage of paper works & bw video stills

Mathieu Pernot, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mathieu Pernot, Les Gorgans [The Gorgans], 1995-2015

Photographs

© Mathieu Pernot / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Mathieu Pernot, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mathieu Pernot, photographs from the series Les Gorgans [The Gorgans], 1995–2015

© Mathieu Pernot / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Simone Fattal, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Simone Fattal, In Our Lands of Drought the Rain Forever Is Made of Bullets, 2006

24 lava stones

Mayuri Chari, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mayuri Chari, I Was Not Created for Pleasure, 2017/22

Cow dung, sawdust, fenugreek powder, wood guard, linseed oil

Mayuri Chari, Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.06.-18.09.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mayuri Chari, I Was Not Created for Pleasure 13 (Monologue of a Vagina), 2017

Thread, Stitching on cloth

Deneth Piumakshi Veda Aarachchige, Self-Portrait as Restitution – from a Feminist Point of View, 2020

3D SLA-print of the artist’s body

Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, works from the series 136 years ago & now, 2019

Photographs

Mayuri Chari, I Was Not Created for Pleasure (Don′t Open I Am Nude Inside), 2018

Thread, Stitching on cloth

Mayuri Chari, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mayuri Chari, works from the series I Was Not Created For Pleasure, 2017–22

Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige, Self-Portrait as Restitution – From a Feminist Point of View, 2020

3D SLA-print of the artist’s body

Mai Nguyễn-Long, Etinosa Yvonne, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Front:

Mai Nguyễn-Long, Vomit Girl (Berlin Cluster), 2022

Unglazed and glazed clay

Back:

Etinosa Yvonne, It’s All In My Head, 2019–20

Photographs

Mai Nguyễn-Long, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mai Nguyễn-Long, works from the series Vomit Girl (Berlin Cluster), 2022

Unglazed and glazed clay

Binta Diaw, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Binta Diaw, Dïà s p o r a, 2021

Artificial hair, iron, plants, soil

Binta Diaw, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Binta Diaw, Dïà s p o r a, 2021/22

Artificial hair, iron, plants, soil

Etinosa Yvonne, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Etinosa Yvonne, photographs from the series It’s All In My Head, 2019-20

Maithu Bùi, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Maithu Bùi, MMRBX, 2022

2-channel video installation, color, sound, ca. 30′; salt

Taysir Batniji, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Taysir Batniji, Suspended Time, 2006

Glass, sand

© Taysir Batniji / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Marta Popivoda/Ana Vujanović, Tejswini Narayan Sonawane, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

From left to right:

Marta Popivoda/Ana Vujanović, Moss Does it Better (an eco-feminist meditation), 2022

2-channel video installation, color, sound, approx. 18′

Tejswini Narayan Sonawane, Femininity I, 2015

Woodcut block

Tejswini Narayan Sonawane, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Tejswini Narayan Sonawane, works from the series Femininity, 2015

Woodcut on cloth and wood

Mónica de Miranda, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 11.6.–18.9.2022

Photo: Silke Briel

Mónica de Miranda, Path to the Stars, 2022

Video, color, sound, 34’41”

Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy
Berlin, 2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Ngô Thành Bắc, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Ngô Thành Bắc, Trồng Cây Chuối – Headstand, 2007/22
Photographs of performance

Ngô Thành Bắc, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Ngô Thành Bắc, Trồng Cây Chuối – Headstand, 2007/22
Photographs of performance

Omer Fast, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Omer Fast, A Place Which Is Ripe, 2020
3 synchronized videos on mobile phones lying in an open drawer, color, sound, loop, 16′39′′; office furniture

Omer Fast, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Omer Fast, A Place Which Is Ripe, 2020
3 synchronized videos on mobile phones lying in an open drawer, color, sound, loop, 16′39′′; office furniture

Omer Fast, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Omer Fast, A Place Which Is Ripe, 2020
3 synchronized videos on mobile phones lying in an open drawer, color, sound, loop, 16′39′′; office furniture

The School of Mutants, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

The School of Mutants (Valérie Osouf), Xiheng Jie, 2022
HD video, sound, 7’40’’

Susan Schuppli, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

Susan Schuppli, Freezing Deaths & Abandonment across Canada, from the series Cold Cases, 2021-22
Video, color, sound, 31’55”

Zach Blas, installation view, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy, 11.6.-18.9.2022
Photo: Laura Fiorio

From left to right:

Zach Blas, masks from the series Facial Weaponization Suite, 2012-14
Painted, vacuum-formed recycled polyethylene terephthalate

Zach Blas, Facial Weaponization Communiqué: Fag Face, from the series Facial Weaponization Suite, 2012
HD single-channel video, color, sound, 8’10’’, loop