11th International İstanbul Biennial Announces List of Artists

Organized by the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, the 11th International İstanbul Biennial (September 12-November 8, 2009) is curated by What, How and for Whom/WHW. The exhibition is entitled "What Keeps Mankind Alive?," the English translation of the song "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch?" from The Threepenny Opera, written in 1928 by Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill. The Threepenny Opera thematizes the process of redistribution of ownership within bourgeois society and sheds an unforgiving light on various elements of capitalist ideology.
Brecht's assertion from this play that "a criminal is ...


PLOT09: This World and Nearer Ones
VOLTA, Basel's acclaimed venue for contemporary and emerging art, will once again be bringing together a unique selection of international galleries for Basel's Art Week. The fair, which is celebrating its 5th edition, will be taking up residence in an impressive new location at the historic Markthalle, located just a few steps away from the SBB, Basel's main railway station.



















