The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art opens to the public from June 14 to September 14, 2025 and is curated by Zasha Colah. As Assistant Curator, the team of the 13th Berlin Biennale warmly welcomes Valentina Viviani. Exhibitions and programs of the Berlin Biennale take place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, its founding organization, and other locations in the city.
In her work as a curator and writer, Zasha Colah explores artistic imagination as well as artistic acts of civil disobedience under conditions of sustained oppression.
Colah on premises of the next Berlin Biennale: “The large presence of foxes within the inner city of Berlin is a starting point for thinking through the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art as an investigation of fugitivity. The encounter with urban foxes has been described by poets as presencing, a spinning in place, delaying in the fox’s presence for a time. The mind encounters otherness, but does not move on to associative thought chains—or prejudice. This encounter has less to do with the human identifying with the fox, but of entering a new sphere of equality with it.”
The visual identity of the upcoming Berlin Biennale is developed by Enver Hadzijaj. Hadzijaj’s design practice draws on strongly conceptual approaches and artistic expression. For the 13th Berlin Biennale, Hadzijaj has set up a visual identity that is characterized by encounters between a strict typography reminiscent of bureaucratic correspondence, and fleeting, graphic symbols.