SESSION 18:
berlin + documenta micro-residency
*Please note that some sessions might change according to event schedules. Please check back for updates*
(Dates will not change, only order and of sessions)
Berlin Biennale Venues
Documenta 15 Venues
Tickets
Everyone is responsible for their own entrance tickets.
12th Berlin Biennale
Tickets for Berlin Biennale can be purchased here
If you have a student ID you can purchase reduced rate (9 euro). (NB: For those without a student ID TT will prepare a letter to show as proof)
Documenta 15
Tickets can be purchased here
You can purchase the “School Class Ticket” (7 euro p/day)
Transport
Deutsche Bahn for train to Kassel. Currently the best option is the 09:33 train. Purchase tickets here.
Deutsche Bahn also has a special 9 euro all month ticket for local and regional transport. Review here. NB: above train services to Kassel are not included. If you choose to take local trains, it will be included in the 9 euro ticket, but the Berlin-Kassel journey will take 6-7 hours instead of 3hrs.
thursDAY, 7 july 2022
10:00-11:00
Welcome breakfast
Strandbad Mitte
Kleine Hamburger Str. 16, 10117
11:00 - 13:00
Guided tour 12th Berlin Biennale
KW Institute for contemporary art
15:00-16:30
12th Berlin Biennale
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
guided tour
16:30-18:00
12th Berlin Biennale
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
self-guided (museum is open until 20:00)
friDAY, 8 july 2022
10:00-13:00
studio visits
berlin künstler programm - daaD Galerie
15:00-16:30
Berlin Biennale
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
guided tour
17:30-19:00
Berlin Biennale
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
20:30-23:00
Death by Landscape
Readings, performances, boat trip
optional
tickets here
saturDAY, 9 july 2022
10:00-12:30
Naturalization
A Walking Workshop
with Stephan Takkides
14:30-16:30
Berlin Biennale
Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy
17:30-18:30
studio visit
melanie jame wolf - kunstlerhaus bethanien
18:30-19:30
Research Connections
Group Discussion
sunDAY, 10 july 2022
09:30
Train to Kassel
Leave from Berlin Hbf
tickets here
13:30
Arrive Kassel Hbf
16:20
Meet at MADEYOULOOK Work at Hotel Hessenland
View work followed by talk with Molemo Moiloa of Madeyoulook artist collective
17:30 - 20:00
Afternoon self guided tour Documenta 15
monDAY, 11 july 2022
10:00 - 18:00
Self-guided tour Documenta 15
tuesDAY, 12 july 2022
10:00-16:00
Self-guided tour Documenta 15
16:00-18:00
Group discussion - research connections
Meeting Point TBC
Descriptions
12th berlin biennale
“I am often asked: What comes after decolonial thinking?
Frankly, I’m less concerned with what comes after than with the fact that it is an ongoing conversation in the here and now, a series of acts of repair taking place in different spheres of society.”
Kader Attia
Colonialism continues to impact the present, long after the achievement of political independence by people in the Global South. Over 500 years of colonial thought and action have shaped all aspects of life—in the societies of the South and also the North. Colonial violence, fascism, and capitalist exploitation continue, persisting in ever-new forms. Liberating knowledge, thinking, and action from colonial patterns is what drives decolonial processes, which seek to unlearn what has been learned and continuously question existing points of view.
Kader Attia looks back on more than two decades of decolonial engagement. As an artist, thinker, and activist, he has been particularly engaged with the notion of repair—first of objects and physical injuries, and then of individual and societal traumas. Throughout his practice, repair has emerged as a mode of cultural resistance, a form of agency that finds expression in diverse practices and fields of knowledge. In his role as curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, Attia makes this form of agency the starting point of a program that involves contributors and audiences in a critical conversation, in order to find ways together to care for the now.
Recognizing art as a special form of repair, the 12th Berlin Biennale unfolds around a set of questions. How can the decolonization of art be conceived—from the restitution of plundered goods to an anticolonial culture of memory? What role can non-Western feminist movements play in the reappropriation of history and identity? How are climate crisis and colonialism related? How can resource extraction be resisted and native knowledges acknowledged to preserve ecosystems?
With exhibitions, interventions, and events, the 12th Berlin Biennale will span diverse venues in the city, offering a discursive space that bridges different fields of knowledge production. From June 11 to September 18, 2022 a polyphonic debate unfolds, convening artists, scholars, and activists to map the world with its ruptures and contradictions, create counter-trajectories to the colonial narrative, and collaboratively shape new forms of agency for the future.
(from 12th Berlin Biennale website)
Site
ruangrupa, curators of Documenta15, photo: ruangrupa
documenta 15
ruangrupa has based documenta fifteen upon the values and ideas of lumbung. lumbung, which directly translates as “rice barn”, refers to a communal building in rural Indonesia where a community’s harvest is gathered, stored and distributed according to jointly determined criteria as a pooled resource for the future. As a concrete practice, lumbung is the starting point of documenta fifteen: principles of collectivity, resource building and equitable distribution are pivotal to the curatorial work and impact the entire process — the structure, self-image and appearance of documenta fifteen.
The collective’s way of working is based on an alternative, community-oriented model of sustainability in ecological, social and economic terms, in which resources, ideas or knowledge are shared, as well as social participation. The idea of sustainability is also comprehensively considered in the exhibition planning in all its manifestations.
ruangrupa is a collective founded in 2000 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a non-profit organization, ruangrupa promotes artistic ideas within urban and cultural contexts through the involvement of artists and other disciplines such as the social sciences, politics, technology or the media so as to open up critical reflections and perspectives on contemporary urban problems in Indonesia.
(from Documenta 15 website)
Site
Still from video installation Naturalization by Stephan Takkides
Naturalization - A Walking Workshop
With Stephan Takkides
The workshop will be built around the themes of Naturalization (integration, camouflage, passing, invisibility) and encourage students to use their own interpretation of the subject to investigate their surroundings and their own place within it. The session will be split into three sections: an introduction; fieldwork (individual or collaborative); and a discussion.