panel discussion: And who are you? National representation in art today

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A panel discussion held by the German pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2013 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa).
With Susanne Gaensheimer, Gilles Kepel, Simon Njami, Dayanita Singh, and Mark Terkessidis. Moderation: Koyo Kouoh

Date: Friday, May 31, 4 p.m.

Location: French pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice

The German pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia pursues a transnational approach. Due to the French-German cooperation at this yearʼs Biennale, the contribution curated by Susanne Gaensheimer with works by …

And who are you?Dayanita SinghGilles KepelKoyo KouohMark TerkessidisPanel discussionSimon NjamiSusanne Gaensheimer

Santu Mofokeng – the german contribution in the french pavilion Venice 2013

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Santu Mofokeng, installation view the German contribution in the French pavilion Venice 2013, courtesy of the artist and Marker/Lunetta Bartz, Johannesburg. © Roman Mensing in cooperation with Thorsten Arendt, artdoc.de. We see (from left to right): …

InstallationviewSantu MofokengVenice Biennale 2013

Ai Weiwei – the german contibution in the french pavilion Venice 2013

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Ai Weiwei, Bang, installation view the German contribution in the French pavilion Venice 2013, courtesy of the artist and Gallery neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Roman Mensing in cooperation with Thorsten Arendt, artdoc.de.

“After returning to Beijing from the U.S., where he had lived from 1981 until 1993, Ai Weiwei began to explore the artistic and cultural traditions of his native country – a pursuit that had previously been banned since the Cultural Revolution. He studied and collected antiques and eventually started integrating them into his own work, which had by then taken on a strongly conceptual aspect. Ai Weiwei not only examined the mechanisms of the international art and antiques markets and the associated export of cultural values and historical knowledge; …

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Romuald Karmakar – the german contribution in the french pavilion Venice 2013

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Romuald Kamakar, Anticipation (working title: Waiting for Sandy), installation view the German contribution in the French pavilion Venice 2013, courtesy Pantera Film GmbH. © Roman Mensing in cooperation with Thorsten Arendt, artdoc.de.

“In his documentary, feature, and conceptual films, the artist and Filmmaker Romuald Karmakar has devoted himself for three decades to the investigation in mechanisms of violence and mass phenomena, often exploring the perpetrators’ perspective and uncompromisingly focusing particularly on German history. As part of the German contribution at the French Pavilion, he shows the documentary 8. Mai (2005/2013), a documentary film shot during the large demonstration the Neo- Nationalist Party of Germany held on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz on May 8, 2005, on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. He also presents the film Hamburger Lektionen (Hamburg Lectures), 2006, in which …

InstallationviewRomuald KarmakarVenice Biennale 2013

Dayanita Singh – the german contribution in the french pavilion Venice 2013

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Dayanita Singh, Mona and Myself  and Sea of Files, installation view the German contribution in the French pavilion Venice 2013, courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London. © Roman Mensing in cooperation with Thorsten Arendt, artdoc.de

“As a young woman, Dayanita Singh started to portray a famous Indian musician and tabla player as he traveled around the world. He subsequently became her spiritual mentor, …

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Impressions of the Opening in Venice

Santu Mofokeng, Christine Marcel, Susanne Gaensheimer, Dayanita Singh, Anri Sala, Romuald Karmakar.
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Joint opening of the German and the French Pavilion on May 29th.

 

Pressconference of the German contribution to the 55th. Biennale di Venezia 2013.

Some of the first visitors…
Gao Ying (mother of Ai Weiwei)
Santu Mofokeng, Christine Marcel, Susanne Gaensheimer, Dayanita Singh, Anri Sala, Romuald Karmakar

Mark Terkessidis – National Turbulences. Unromantic Reflections on Post-Migrant Urbanity and Art Production

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The official publication accompanying the exhibition of the German Pavilion at the 2013 Biennale di Venezia was released on May 28 by Gestalten. Here you can read Mark Terkessidis’ thoughts out of the foreword on the informational value of the construct of identity: How can questions of individual identity and the demands for creating diversity be reconciled in the 21st century?

 

Mark Terkessidis

National Turbulences. Unromantic Reflections on Post-Migrant Urbanity and Art Production

My son will soon go to school and when he watches or listens to stories, he occasionally informs his surroundings loudly about which of the figures he is in that moment. This can change within a story and if it is too difficult to choose between a number of interesting people, he chooses to perform several roles at the same time: …

Mark TerkessidisNational Turbulences

the official catalog of Germany’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale festival of art 2013

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 We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the official publication of the German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2013!

Edited by curator Susanne Gaensheimer, the 240-page, cloth-bound catalogue will be available as of May 28, 2013 and is published by Gestalten, Berlin.

Eleven international authors—curators, artists, collectors, and critics as well as scholars from the fields of art history, politics, migration research, philosophy, and cultural studies—were invited to take part in this interdisciplinary discussion on cultural and sociopolitical aspects of the German contribution to this year’s Biennale di Venezia. …

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