Huda Lutfi participates in ‘passing the fugitive on,’ the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art curated by Zasha Colah with Valentina Viviani as Curatorial Assistant, on view from 14 June until 14 September 2025 at four venues across Berlin, including KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Sophiensæle, Hamburger Bahnhof, and a former courthouse on Lehrter Straße.
Taking the large presence of foxes within the inner city of Berlin as a starting point, the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art investigates fugitivity – the cultural ability of a work of art to set its own laws in the face of lawful violence. This illegality, this foxing, this traversing of unjust laws, sometimes happens within the imaginary a joke opens, or are glimpsed in the flicker of artworks.
As a curatorial grounding, this works at two levels within the biennale in the making. First, by slowly coming to the idea of doing away with the notion of minority altogether, instead seeking an encounter rooted in the restoration of lines and channels of dignity. The second is resisting any a priori decision of what an artwork is, where it may take place, and under what conditions, but relying on its opacities and illegibility.
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