With curator Kader Attia, the 12th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art is all about decolonization. In the event's program, Attia looks back on two decades of decolonization that have begun, following more than 500 years of colonial thinking, and foregrounds the aspect of repair. He does not understand this as a purely material concern: physical injuries and traumas are also part of the spectrum of repair for him. In this way, at the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, both the audience and participants are to enter into a discourse and »provide for the now.«
The Biennale thus shimmies along various questions that involve the arts in the process of decolonization: how could an anti-colonial culture of memory be established, what role do (non-Western) feminist movements play, how is the climate crisis related to colonialism, and what form could resistance to resource extraction take? The multifaceted program of the art event forms an exciting structure from the coming together of artists, scientists and activists.
