Night part of the 5th berlin biennial, taking place every night except Mondays at various places all over the city …
Curators Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic
Director Gabriele Horn
The presence of the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art at its various venues is made possible by a co-operation between Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V. and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (for the Neue Nationalgalerie), KUNSTrePUBLIK e. V. (for the Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum), and the organizers of the Schinkel Pavillon (for the Schinkel Pavillon).
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monologue
Mar 28, starts at 16:11 h
This film program including American experimental works curated by filmmaker Babette Mangolte highlights the importance of the ...
Crazy Horse
Apr 05, starts at 20:00 h
Cyprien Gaillard’s film Crazy Horse is a tribute to the sculpture-in-the-making of Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dako...
Another Perfect Day
Apr 06, starts at 20:30 h
As Ahmet Öğüt describes it: “One fine day, I was walking on a narrow street in Istanbul. Then the electricity suddenly went off...
Modernism and its discontents
Apr 08, starts at 20:00 h
The Croatian avant-garde of the 1950s “To those who will unreservedly enthuse over all our creations— we respond that we doubt...
Bag Lady
Apr 09, starts at 17:00 h
Bag Lady is a performance that will take place in the large, new Alexa shopping mall at Alexanderplatz. It was realized for the...
Alles ganz grosse Scheisse!!
Apr 11, starts at 19:00 h
...one night only Dieter Hacker reconstructs the exhibition Alles ganz grosse Scheisse!! Dokumente einer Blockade (die Zeitung...
9 Easy Steps to Organise a Complaints Choir
Apr 12, starts at 20:00 h
People like to complain. People like to sing. When done simultaneously—that’s a complaints choir. The initiators of the worldwi...
p is a picture
Apr 13, starts at 20:00 h
Taking the alphabet he designed for the 5th berlin biennial as a starting point, graphic designer and typeface inventor Ludovic...
Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra
Apr 16, starts at 20:00 h
I will try to bring my students from the Danish Royal Academy of Music along. – But anyway – – I will present a book – – It’s a...
Dustination
Apr 17, starts at 21:00 h
Dustination: The Dust that Floats between the Visible and the Invisible is Explained Physically, Technically and Scientifically...
The Automobile
Apr 18, starts at 20:00 h
This lecture, by two brothers who have been obsessed with cars since childhood, is an exercise in the psychoanalysis of automob...
Out-of-body, Out-of-time
Apr 19, starts at 20:00 h
Brain mechanisms of embodiment Olaf Blanke is specialized in being in two places at once: materializing and personifying a sh...
Films from the archive of the Balázs Béla Studio
Apr 22, starts at 19:00 h
The Balázs Béla Studio (BBS) was founded in Budapest 1961 by the Hungarian Film Academy’s graduating class of 1961, the so-call...
What robots can tell us about humans
Apr 23, starts at 20:00 h
Robots are often designed and built to be useful. But some roboticists have no practical purpose in mind. They use robots like ...
Before and After
Apr 24, starts at 19:00 h
Sergei Eisenstein and Kira Muratova Two Russian films made by very different authors with very different methods. They form a ...
Jacques Lacan: Télévision
Apr 25, starts at 20:00 h
In 1972, Jacques-Alain Miller proposed to bring Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) into the living rooms of all of France. The interview...
Specimen 0843 (SportsTrax)
Apr 26, starts at 20:00 h
In 1997, the Motorola and Stats Corporations made a pager-type device called SportsTrax, which displayed score updates of US li...
Make Me Stop Smoking
Apr 27, starts at 20:00 h
A presentation of ideas under study What happens when a lost landscape is re-appropriated through its archived representation?...
Hypnagogia
Apr 28, starts at 20:00 h
Hypnagogia is defined as the state between wakefulness and sleep or, put differently: dreaming while awake. One theory on this ...
On the Silver Globe
Apr 30, starts at 20:00 h
Andrzej Żuławski is one of the most prominent Polish film directors today. His films depicts the condition of being human in it...
The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future
May 04, starts at 20:00 h
A Brief History of Levitation from St. Joseph to Yuri Gagarin The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future is a cultural-historical expl...
The Night of Things
May 06, starts at 20:00 h
- theoretical and practical approaches Q: Why are artworks things rather than mere products, objects, items, fetishes, and/or ...
loud and soft
May 08, starts at 21:00 h
Ursula Block opens the archive of gelbe MUSIK And finds things known and less known, from a as in Anderson or Ashley, b as in B...
Trembling Bodies
May 11, starts at 20:00 h
"You can declare: a work that shows the correct political tendency need show no other quality. You can also declare: a work tha...
Artist’s Reserved Rights
May 13, starts at 20:00 h
The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement was a contract drafted in 1971 by Seth Siegelaub (known as the organiz...
Gesture in soviet films
May 14, starts at 20:00 h
In the past, the language of gestures was imparted from adults to children, from teachers to pupils, adhered to in books about ...
A Night of Psicomagia
May 15, starts at 20:00 h
A Master, an Apprentice, an Initiation and some shiny, metallic invisible helpers. I once read about a female artist who was to...
Concert by Nikakoi
May 16, starts at 22:00 h
Nikakoi, born 1972 in Tbilisi (GE), studied stage direction and is a member of Goslab, a group of young Georgian musicians from...
On the displays of light, inside and outside
May 17, starts at 20:00 h
there might be no victory over the sun. Unité d’Habitation (Type Berlin) ”Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnifi...
Object and Disintegration
May 20, starts at 20:00 h
A Performance in Trialogue Form, 2007–2008 Using language as a means to rethink the potential of abstraction, sculpture, and ar...
IDEA arts + society
May 21, starts at 20:00 h
IDEA arts + society is an independent magazine published by IDEA Design & Print and IDEA Foundation in Cluj, Romania. The m...
Schinkel Pavillon opening: Masist Gül
May 22 - May 22, starts at 19:00 h
This exhibition presents a selection if works by Masist Gül, a Turkish actor and self-taught artist who produced works in vario...
Now we are persons!
May 23, starts at 20:00 h
Cinenova, women’s film and video distribution A curated selection of rarely screened short films by women sets the stage for Li...
One Night Stand
May 24, starts at 20:00 h
One Night Stand will take the form of a small “book fair” held in the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art with diver...
Field of Genius
May 25, starts at 20:00 h
Dear Paul, I am Kristina Norman, the artist you are supposed to meet at the biennial in Berlin…. Actually, I dreamt of writing ...
X-Event 1
May 27, starts at 20:00 h
The choreographers Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet will present the matrix X-Event 1, which premiered at the Faits d’Hiver fest...
Counter-relief
May 27, starts at 20:00 h
A film projection and live performance involving movement and text that investigates the discrepancies between materiality and ...
Night Screening »La Commune«
May 28, starts at 20:00 h
by Peter Watkins In 1871, the Paris population rose against the reactionary French regime and elected a workers’ Commune that p...
Music from the Ether
May 29, starts at 21:00 h
At Roter Salon: “Imagine if Marianne Faithfull and Nikola Tesla had a love child, with Jane Birkin as the nanny and Björk as th...
Toward evening, ...
May 30, starts at 20:00 h
...Brecht found me in the garden reading “Capital” For the past several years, geographer David Harvey has offered a seminar o...
Jazz in the Garden
May 31, starts at 20:00 h
At: Sculpture Garden Goshka Macuga, born in 1967 in Warsaw (PL), living and working in London (GB), hosts a historic reenactmen...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jun 01, starts at 20:00 h
The violence of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper’s 1974 cult classic, has political resonance for both sides of the bou...
Below the Surface
Jun 04, starts at 20:30 h
The blindfolded performer washes white T-shirts in water, which colors them red. He hangs them to dry on clotheshorses. The dri...
Five staged readings
Jun 05, starts at 21:00 h
In relation to Grey luminous light from the sea (A Structure for Readings), 2008. An ongoing recognition, collection, and disse...
Marguerite Duras and a Trilogy
Jun 06, starts at 21:00 h
Manon de Boer screens Marguerite Duras’s strange cinematic masterpiece, Le Camion. In Duras’s film, Gérard Depardieu sits at th...
Gold
Jun 07, starts at 20:00 h
In her solo performance Gold, performance-artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis explores the proverbial gold standard o...
Noize Machine Tour Truckers Roadshow
Jun 08, starts at 20:00 h
Noize Machine tour truckers roadshow is a mobile exhibition/concert space built up around a tent, two trucks, and loads of soun...
Landreform
Jun 10, starts at 20:00 h
As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Tres-passing”. But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, Th...
Theater and sensitive thinking
Jun 11, starts at 19:30 h
A theater director, writer, and politician, Augusto Boal was recently nominated to be a candidate for the 2008 Nobel Peace Priz...
JO by Cameron Jamie
Jun 13, starts at 20:00 h
An evening of new solo work by the Japanese multiinstrumentalist/composer Keiji Haino, known since the 1970s for his intensely ...
No Haus like Bau at HAU
Jun 14, starts at 19:30 h
Russian Constructivist theater of the 1920s portrayed “industrial man” as part of a bio-mechanical symbiosis with the factory. ...
Collect to win
Jun 15, starts at 20:00 h
A delightful surprise show on the final day of the 5th berlin biennial. You can expect a wide range of challenging and entertai...
