Biennale für Freiburg is a new platform for contemporary art in Freiburg. The event formats and artworks developed for the Biennale, created through close collaboration between local actors and invited artists, explicitly reference the city and activate it as a field of experimentation. Freiburg’s hidden stories are revealed, the unexpected is provoked, and moments of interchange and contact are made available. The Biennale’s multi-layered program presents contemporary art beyond institutional spaces, contextualizes local conditions in tension with global issues, and offers new perspectives on the city.

The Biennale für Freiburg was founded in 2019 by the association “Perspektiven für Kunst in Freiburg e.V.” in response to the shutdown of the Freiburg branch of the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, and the ensuing questions about the role of contemporary art (education) in Freiburg. The Biennale expands Freiburg’s cultural and artistic life, encouraging the ongoing exchange between national and international artists, artistic contexts, and urban society.

The artistic director of the Biennale für Freiburg 3 was Lorena Juan.

Past editions were curated by Paula Kommoss [2023] and Leon Hösl [2021].

HAPPY PLACE

Biennale für Freiburg 3

June 5 – July 27, 2025

Ida Kammerloch, Ultra All Inclusive, 2024, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Christina Sperling, the presence of venus, 2025, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Helena Uambembe, To test the depth of water with both feet, 2025, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Noha Mokhtar, Mother of the World, 2025, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Guided Tour, Sozialdienst muslimischer Frauen Freiburg e.V., 04.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Lena Marie Emrich, Weak Spot, 2024, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Exhibition view Schopf2, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Inka & Niclas, Sunset Photography XXI, 2023, Installation view Schopf2, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Jonas Brinker, Stray, 2020, Installation view Schopf2, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Exhibition view DELPHI_space, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Eve Tagny, Underlying Spirits, 2025, Installation view DELPHI_space, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Eve Tagny, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Jasmin Werner, Send Money Fast (IV), 2023, Installation view, DELPHI_space, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Cosima zu Knyphausen, Pastorale, 2025, Installation view Pförtnerhaus, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Elyla, The Milky Way is a Wound, 2025, Installation view Kaiserwache, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Left Hand Rotation, Cañones (Turismo armado), 2011, Installation view kulturaggregat, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Karla Zipfel, Schnapp! (Gesuche), 2025, Installation view kulturaggregat, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Irene Fernández Arcas, Southness is an Attitude, 2025, Installation view Skulpturenpark im Faulerbad, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Esvin Alarcón Lam, Postales para desaparecer, 2019, Installation view Freiburg main station platform 8, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Daniela Zambrano Almidón, ACHKAY. A beautiful potato field will remind you of my existence, 2025, Installation view, Johanneskirchplatz, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Opening event, 05.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Marie Popall und Louisa Raspé, entre chien et loup, Performance, 05.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Opening event, 05.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Noha Mokhtar with Prof. Dr. Birgit Hopfener, Artist Talk, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Irene Fernández Arcas, Santa Romería de la Diosa Aceituna, Performance, 06.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Sinthujan Varatharajah, Reading, 14.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Celine Baumann, Queer Botany - An introduction, Presentation, 27.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Daniela Zambrano Almidón, Achkay, the potato witch, and other witches, Performance, 27.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Sascia Bailer, Choreographies of Encounter, Workshop, 28.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

etaïnn zwer, CHEAP FLIGHT (I Left My Wallet in El BMF), Writing Workshop, 28.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Cem A., Crit Club: What is more important, network or artwork?, Panel-Performance, 28.06.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Guided Tour, Sozialdienst muslimischer Frauen Freiburg e.V., 04.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Symposium Utopien einer Stadt: Zusammenleben im Wandel, 10.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić und Gordan Savičić, 1 ⭐ Review Tour, 10.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Jeanne-Ange Wagne, How do we encounter, read and percieve art?, Workshop, 26.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Agnes Essonti Luque, Joy is a Shared Table, Food-Performance, 26.07.2025, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 3

Artistic Direction

Lorena Juan
Artistic Director

Isabel Francos Hohmann
Assistant Curator

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Das Lied der Strasse

Biennale für Freiburg 2

Prologue
February – May 2023
Exhibition
June 16 – July 30, 2023

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Eva Eisenlohr, Various works, between 1913 and 1952, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly, © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Maximiliane Baumgartner, Re-Painting the Threads of the Past, 2023, Wall Newspaper and Action Vehicle, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Eva Eisenlohr, Friends, n.d., Photo: Axel Killian

Klein, roc, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Klein, roc, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Amal Kenawy, The Silence of the Sheep, 2009, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Hito Steyerl, Die leere Mitte, 1998, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2023 / Biennale für Freiburg 2

Nikifor Krynicki, Sun Over the City, n.d., Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Vera Palme, DIY, 2023, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

R.E.P., Lirnyk, 2006, Installationsansicht Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

James Gregory Atkinson, Friedrichstr. 24, 2023, Installation view Pförtnerhaus, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Danielle Arbid, Âllo Chérie, 2016, Installation view Kaiserwache, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Shaun Motsi, Frei, 2023, Installation view Kaiserwache, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Maria Toumazou, Future Exposure, 2023, Installation view DELPHI_space/außenstelle, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Hemansingh Lutchmun, Bird of Prey, 2023, Installation view DELPHI_space/außenstelle, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Matt Welch, Installation view Kommunales Kino, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Lotty Rosenfeld / CADA, Installation view Kommunales Kino, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Yong Xiang Li & François Pisapia, UNTITLED (ESCORT), 2023, Installation view Seepark Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Phung-Tien Phan, MODEL 2 (MAYBE FAKE IS WHAT I LIKE), 2023, Installation view Seepark Freiburg, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Finnegan Shannon, UNICORN, 2023, Installation view Bushaltestelle Ferdinand-Weiß-Str., Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Anas Kahal, AUF DER SCHWABENTORBRÜCKE, 2023, Installation view Schwabentorbrücke, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

somebody*ies (Anna Byskov, Hannah Kindler), THIS IS WHAT WE CAME FOR, 2023, Installation view Klarastraße, Photo: Gina Folly © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Birgit Heidtke (Feministische Geschichtswerkstatt) × Hannah Kindler (somebody*ies), Pflaster: Feminist History in the Stühlinger, Pflaster: Street Talks in and About Freiburg, 16.03.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Workshop with James Gregory Atkinson, 13.04.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Opening event, 16.06.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

lo.me., ULTRA, Performance, 16.06.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Listening Session with Gudrun Leser and Guests, Listening Session: Schneller Wohnen / Live Faster – The Music of the Squatters in Freiburg, 17.06.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Symposium Nervous Infrastructures, Acts of Resistance, 08.07.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Listening Session with Sévérine Kpoti, Onetwothree: feministischer Punk, 20.07.2023, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Maximiliane Baumgartner, Listening Session: Flugblattwerkstatt, Workshop, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Maximiliane Baumgartner, Flugblattwerkstatt, Workshop, Photo: Sévérine Kpoti © Biennale für Freiburg 2

Artists

Ayo Akingbade, Samar Al Summary, Halil Altındere, Danielle Arbid, James Gregory Atkinson, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Dara Birnbaum, Cudelice Brazelton IV, Eva Eisenlohr, Alia Farid, Maryam Ghasemi, Rebecca Grundmann, Deborah Joyce Holman, Kirti Ingerfurth, Anas Kahal, Amal Kenawy, Klein, Nikifor Krynicki, lo.me (Loren Tschannen and Mélissa Biondo), Hemansingh Lutchmun, Medienwerkstatt Freiburg, Shaun Motsi, Henrike Naumann, Vera Palme, Phung-Tien Phan, R.E.P. (Ksenia Hnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Lesia Khomenko, Volodymyr Kuznetsov und Lada Nakonechna), Lotty Rosenfeld, Finnegan Shannon, somebody*ies (Anna Byskov, Christina Krys Huber, Hannah Kindler, Stella Meris und Nika Timashkova), Hito Steyerl, Maria Toumazou, Matt Welch, Yong Xiang Li & François Pisapia

Artistic Direction

Paula Kommoss
Artistic Director

Valentina Ehnimb
Assistant Curator

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Biennale für Freiburg 1

Studio Program
May – August 2021
Exhibition Parcours
September 10 – October 3, 2021

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Jackie Grassmann, SHE* SHE* SHE* ECHOES, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Sarah Lehnerer, A DAY'S WORK (QR CODE), Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Inka Meißner, That I as you (that haunts me), 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Luiza Margan, Restaging Monument, 2014, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Thomas Geiger, BUST TALK – ILLUMINA, Diane Hillebrand, Szenografie, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Diane Hillebrand, Szenografie, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Vika Kirchenbauer, The Capacity for Adequate Anger, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Exhibition view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Vika Kirchenbauer, The Capacity for Adequate Anger, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Niklas Goldbach, Aufstellung: Freiburg, 2021, Installation view Kunstverein Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Exhibition view Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Hanakam & Schuller, The Moist Cabinet, 2021, Installation View Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Foto: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

DELPHI_space/außenstelle, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Exhibition view DELPHI_space/außenstelle, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Kriz Olbricht, Throw up, 2021, Foto: Kriz Olbricht

Liesl Raff, Two Souls in My Chest, 2021, Lasso of Truth 1, 2, 3, 2021, Backdrop, 2021, Installation view Pförtnerhaus, Foto: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Exterior view Kaiserwache, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Niklas Goldbach, ALBUM (CUT TOGETHER – CUTTING THROUGH) #3, 2021 (ongoing), Installation view Kaiserwache, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Opening of all exhibition venues, 10.09.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Young Boy Dancing Group, o. T., Performance,18.09.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Tomiko Archiv, Workshop, 12.09.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Thomas Geiger, BUST TALK – ILLUMINA, Performance, 23.–24.07.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Fritz Laszlo Weber, Un/Stimmigkeiten knacken, Workshop, 18.07.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Symposion A Commonplace is not a Cliché, 10.07.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Lou von der Heyde und Daniel Vollmer, Tunnel of Time. Von Erinnerungsräumen und Zeitkapseln, Workshop, 09.07.2021, Photo: Karolina Sobel © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Johanna Hedva, Reading with video screening and Q&A, 02.07.2021, Photo: Jennifer Rohrbacher © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Andreas von Ow, Between the Pavement, the Beach! A Slow Walk for a Green (Freiburg), City walk, 26.06.2021, Foto: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Jackie Grassmann and Sarah Lehnerer, A Day's Work: Echoes as Response, Workshop 02.07.2021, Photo: Jennifer Rohrbacher © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Keren Cytter, Business Class, performative reading, performed by Sarah Lehnerer in collaboration with Jackie Grassmann and Inka Meißner, 19.06.2021, Photo: Marc Doradzillo © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Inka Meißner and Sarah Lehnerer, A Day's Work: Rooms Without Walls, Workshop, 18.06.2021, Photo: Jennifer Rohrbacher © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Open Studio with Diane Hillebrand and Hanakam & Schuller, 27.05.2021, Screenshot © Biennale für Freiburg 1

Artists

Michel Auder with Michael Stickrod, Patrizia Bach, Patricia Esquivias, Rahima Gambo, Thomas Geiger, Niklas Goldbach, Philipp Gufler, Hanakam & Schuller, Diane Hillebrand, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Vika Kirchenbauer, Sarah Lehnerer with Jackie Grassmann and Inka Meissner, Luiza Margan, Kriz Olbricht, Andreas von Ow, Liesl Raff, John Smith, Milica Tomić, Young Boy Dancing Group

Artistic Direction

Leon Hösel
Artistic Director

Catherin Schöberl
Assistent Curator