10th Berlin Biennale

Installation View: Akademie der Künste

Featured as a special section in our print issue Contemporary And (C&) #9, the 10th Berlin Biennale is finally here. The major art event spans five venues in the German capital and bears the title We Don’t Need Another Hero. See below our first impressions of Akademie der Künste.

Firelei Báez, A motor with medicinal function, 2018. Photo: C&.

Fri 8 Jun, 2018

Firelei Báez, Index, 2018. Photo: C&.

Herman Mbamba, The blue mandane series 1-5, 2017-2018; Wait for me in the lurking landscape, 2017-2018; Until the wind blows for another time, 2017-2018. Photo: C&.

Johanna Unzueta, November 2017, January 2018, 2018. Photo: C&.

Johanna Unzueta, April 2015 NY, November 2015 Cuernavaca, 2015. Photo: C&.

Mario Pfeiffer, Again/ Noch einmal, 2018. Photo: C&

Minia Biabiany, Toli Toli, 2018. Photo: C&.

Thierry Oussou, Impossible is Nothing, 2015-18. Photo: C&.

Moshekwa Langa, Miracle in the Rain, 2018. Photo: C&.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A File For A Martyr To A Cause, 2018. Photo: C&.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A File For A Martyr To A Cause, 2018. Photo: C&.

Sondra Perry, IT’S IN THE GAME ’17 or Mirror Gag for Vitrine and Projection, 2017. Photo: C&.

Belkis Ayón, (left) La consagración (Die Weihe, The Consecration) 1991, Triptych, part I; (middle) La consagración (Die Weihe, The Consecration) 1991, Triptych, part II; (right) La consagración (Die Weihe, The Consecration) 1991, Triptych, part III. Photo: C&.

Belkis Ayón, La consagración (Die Weihe, The Consecration) 1991, Triptych. Photo: C&.

Lydia Hamann & Kaj Osteroth, Admiring Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi, Enjoy Drama!, 2014. Photo: C&.

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