from submerged terracotta roofs to chanting oysters, the artworks create new meeting points across the city while speaking to ideas of global significance.

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the exhibition also hosts works from anish kapoor, sarah lucas, adrián villar rojas, pawel althamer, lynette yiadom-boakye, and many more.

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a broad artistic practice, shifting from sculptural representation to visual media, takes up three floors of SANAA's stacked structure, with an interactive art piece at the show's core.

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continuing his almech installation, the venetians features the cast plastic faces of actual local citizens depicted on eerie bodies of grey ribbon.

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the public social drawing project consists of a paper-covered church interior which will be entirely decorated by the visual and non-verbal dialogue occurring between artists and non artists during the time of berlin's biennale.

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a sculptural installation formed within the exhibition space by a collaborative effort between the artist and the gallery goers.

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'brodno people', which was made with the help of people from a working class neighborhood in warsaw, emphasizes the social and political circumstances of the work's production by foregrounding collective practice over individual authorship.

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‘it is a major achievement to realise that the body is only a vehicle for the soul.
I feel like a cosmonaut in the suit of my own body, I am a trapped soul.
the body plays a role of a dress, of an address.
my bodily address is pawel althamer...’
- pawel althamer

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