Biennale für Freiburg 3

In the organizer's words:

The Biennale für Freiburg is a new platform for contemporary art in Freiburg. In close collaboration with the invited artists and local actors, new formats and artworks are being developed especially for the Biennale that make explicit references to the city and activate it as a field for experimentation: They reveal the hidden, provoke unexpected experiences and create moments of exchange and contact. The multi-layered program of the Biennale makes contemporary art tangible beyond institutional spaces, sets local conditions in tension with global contexts and issues and conveys new perspectives on the city.

Under the title HAPPY PLACE, this year's edition of the Biennale für Freiburg is dedicated to the dynamics of tourism and its social, political and historical interdependencies. In a multi-layered program, it takes up the closely interwoven themes of ecology, migration, history, cityscape, vacations and tourism and examines them from different perspectives.

Many of the works in HAPPY PLACE take a critical look at the ideologies of leisure tourism and at the same time create counter-models to dominant patterns of thought and action. In this context, tourism not only becomes an object of criticism, but also a speculative space of possibility. The artistic positions react to this with independent forms of expression - they use humor, exaggeration and satire to irritate perspectives, rewrite dominant narratives and imagine new futures. In these constructed landscapes, moments of interruption and border-crossing emerge - alternative ways of narrating, traveling and inhabiting space.

The Biennale für Freiburg 3 is accompanied by a multi-layered program that deepens the content of the exhibition and at the same time opens up new perspectives on the interdependence of tourism, urban development and global power structures.

Through performances, workshops and discussion formats, questions of commercialization, exoticization and belonging will be raised and historical and contemporary narratives critically questioned. The supporting program not only creates access to the exhibition, but also expands the thematic debate to include additional facets.

With participatory formats, the Biennale für Freiburg 3 pursues a process-oriented approach and invites the public to take an active part in the discussions. In this way, the city not only becomes an exhibition venue, but also an object of investigation itself - a lively space for artistic reflection and social debate.

Price information:

Admission to the exhibition venues and participation in the supporting and educational program are free of charge. Please note that advance registration is required for individual program items.