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Milica Tomić
The Berlin Statement. Who Makes Profit on Art and Who Gains From It Honestly?, 2025
Admission
Free admission with valid exhibition ticket
Venue
Former Courthouse Lehrter Straße,
Staircase, 1st floor
Lehrter Straße 60, 10557 Berlin
Language
English
Milica Tomić, Belgrade extension of the Edinburgh Statement: Who Makes Profit on Art and Who Gains From It Honestly?, 2023. Courtesy Milica Tomić; Image: Vladimir Opsenica
Admission
Free admission with valid exhibition ticket
Venue
Former Courthouse Lehrter Straße,
Staircase, 1st floor
Lehrter Straße 60, 10557 Berlin
Language
English
Milica Tomić’s performance The Berlin Statement. Who Makes Profit on Art and Who Gains From It Honestly? extends the Edinburgh Statement by Yugoslav conceptual artist Raša Todosijević (1945–2024). He wrote and performed this work in 1975 as a sharp critique and analysis of the power relations within the global art system. Todosijević exposes the structural positions these relations occupy—the roles, functions, and economic interests, defining art as a permanent site of conflict, embedded in the politics of its context. In her performance, Tomić builds on this foundation by using space and language to expose the evolving roles, struggles, and dynamics within today’s art system, adding new positions in response to contemporary realities. Her work reflects the shifts in the art world under the pressure of global neoliberal capitalism and the rise of oligarchic technocracy, revealing how class struggle continues to manifest within art.
The Edinburgh Statement was first reinterpreted by Tomić in 2012 as part of the Pančevo Biennial and the October XXX symposium. She further updated the work in 2016, providing a feminist reworking of the original text in a new version entitled The Nottingham Statement, and in 2022 she performed a new iteration, The Belgrade Statement, in the 59th October Salon, reframed within a new cultural and political context.
Milica Tomić, *1960 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Places of belonging: Belgrade, Zenica, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Graz, Vienna. Affinity: Grupa Spomenik, Four Faces of Omarska, Annenstrasse 53. Book: Geography of Looking. Matter of Appearance, 2023.
Information on Accessibility
Venue:
The event will take place at the staircase on the 1st floor of the former Courthouse Lehrter Straße.
The 1st floor is not barrier-free and can only be reached via a staircase with two landings, each with 11 and 12 steps and railings on both sides.
Documentation:
The event will be photographed.
Time:
The event might start with a delay.
The duration of the event is approximately 20 minutes.
The event is held without breaks.
Seating:
The event takes place without seating.
Sensory stimuli:
The event will have a medium volume.
Language:
The event will be held in English.
There is no translation.
Assistance:
There is free admission for assisting persons.
Service dogs can be brought along to the event.
Accessible toilet:
There is no accessible toilet in the former Courthouse.
A barrier-free toilet is available for your use at Hotel Rossi at Lehrter Straße 66.
The distance to Hotel Rossi from the venue is approximately 350 meters in the direction of the central station.
If you would like to use the accessible bathroom, please check in at the reception desk as a visitor of the Berlin Biennale.
The toilet is located on the 1st floor and can be accessed by an elevator.
The elevator is located right next to the reception.
Gender-neutral toilets:
The toilets in the former Courthouse are for all genders and marked as sitting and/or standing toilets. There are two seated toilets in the bathroom on the ground floor. There are sitting and open standing toilets in the bathroom on the 1st floor.
Contact persons:
If you have questions on-site or need support, please approach a member of the event team with the turquoise badges.
If you have any further questions regarding accessibility, please send an e-mail three days before the event to encounters@berlinbiennale.de.