Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts the 11th International İstanbul Biennial will turn the city of Istanbul into a platform for art between September 12 - November 8, capturing the attention of art circles all around the world.
The 11th International İstanbul Biennial will be curated by the curator collective WHW / What, How & For Whom, which has been operating from the city of Zagreb, Croatia, since 1999. WHW consists of four female curators: Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović.
The 11th İstanbul Biennial takes its thematic title “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” from the closing song of the 2nd act of the 1928 play Threepenny Opera, written by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill.
The conceptual framework that WHW uses for the 11th International İstanbul Biennial is articulated around the idea of “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” However, this framework does not aim to re-discover Brecht, or to present him as a classic for new generations. Rather, the conceptual framework of the İstanbul Biennial proposes to begin re-thinking the past in terms of what has been lost in history. Moreover, it invites us to consider how art today harbours new potential in articulating the age-old relationship between art for social change and aesthetic gestures.
The İstanbul Biennial of IKSV is the activity that has brought the foundation widest international acclaim from art circles all around the world. This year’s Biennial hosts 70 already renowned or recently discovered artists from 40 different countries, exhibiting a total of more than 120 projects.
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