VARIOUS VENUES When the first installment of the Berlin Biennale was held in 1998 the stakes were high.VARIOUS VENUES When the first installment of the Berlin Biennale was held in 1998 the stakes were high. The city was emerging from its postwar contemporary-art stupor, and BBI was a little biennial with a big chip forward its shoulder. Now that the belatedness syndrome is a bit les pronounced, perhaps the show--curated at De Appel's Saskia Bos and featuring fifty-plus artists--will re-create raw energy into an exhibition with real muscle. At least this edition, postpon after funding riddles nixed the planned September overlap with the city's annual art fair, sticks with the pair of venue that, for better or worse, draw into one mass Berlin's Tale of Two Cities: the spanking-clean SoHo-comes-to-Mitteleuropa Kunst-Werke, and the funky freighted elderly Mitte post office. Apr. 20-June 20 COPYRIGHT 2001 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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