7th Berlin Biennale: Open Call for Artists

határidődeadline: 2011. January 15.
Open Call Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a research investigation, following the conditions below. We accept artistic material in hard copy formats not bigger than A3 (297 x 420 mm or 11.69 x 16.54 in.), printed images, digital data, as well as DVDs. PDFs in A4 (297 mm x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 in.) or fax will also be accepted. Please do not send any original artworks. We welcome all possible languages of your artistic comments and explanations. However there should equally be an English version. As the research also focuses on the question whether artists consider themselves to be political, please inform us about your political inclination (e.g. rightist, leftist, liberal, nationalist, anarchist, feminist, masculinist, or whatever you identify yourself with) or whether you are not interested in politics at all. Please send your artistic statement or presentation as a hardcopy via regular mail, via e-mail or fax to the following address or number before January 15, 2011: Berlin Biennale – Open Call – KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin/Germany e-mail: fax: +49. 30. 24 34 59 88 This open call is not guarantying that you will be invited to take part in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Please be aware that your submission might be used and published within its framework. Please also consider that the 7th Berlin Biennale is not able to send back any received material, but that everything will be integrated into the public research archive of the Berlin Biennale. A short explanation by Artur Żmijewski can be found on the website www.berlinbiennale.de. The open call is available for download in various languages (Arab, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) on the website www.berlinbiennale.de. The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).