We Don’t Need Another Hero: 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kunst-Werke Berlin
English, German
Curated by Gabi Ngcobo.
Softcover
293 pages
105 x 155 mm
2018
ISBN Not Applicable
This is programme and catalogue of the 10th Berlin Biennale which took place from the 9th of June to the 9th of September 2018 in Berlin. It was curated by Gabi Ngcobo.
We Don’t Need Another Hero confronted the incessant anxieties perpetuated by a willful disregard for complex subjectivities. Thinking and acting beyond art, the contributors did not provide a coherent reading of histories or the present of any kind in the biennial. Like the Tina Turner song which the title references, the 10th Berlin Biennale rejected the seduction of saviour narratives. Instead, it explored the political potential of the act of self-preservation, refusing to be seduced by unyielding knowledge systems and historical narratives that contribute to the creation of toxic subjectivities.
(source: https://www.berlinbiennale.de/en/biennalen/1339/we-don-t-need-another-hero)
About the Curator
Gabi Ngcobo is a South African curator, artist and educator. Currently she is the Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabi_Ngcobo)
About the Organisation
Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, also known as Kunst-Werke Berlin, was founded by Klaus Biesenbach, Alexandra Binswanger, Clemens Homburger, Philipp von Doering and Alfonso Rutigliano in a derelict former margarine factory in Berlin-Mitte in the early 1990s. Since then, KW has contributed significantly to the development of Berlin as an international centre for contemporary art.
(source: https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/about/)
