Solidarity, resistance, and madness

the inverted museum at the 11th Berlin Biennale

Abstract

The intention of this paper is to present a form of articulation between a large contemporary art show and collections from museological institutions, in a conflict between curatorial projects and different visibility programs. To this end, we use the 11th Berlin Biennale, in 2020, as a point for reflection; especially since we observe the presence of Latin-American museological institutions and identify the desire of the curatorial project to use the phenomenon of the collection to debate dissonant, non-hegemonic memories, beyond labels trying to contain the phenomenon of contemporary art. Thus, we will analyze how the collections from the Images of the Unconscious Museum, Osório César Art Museum, and the Chilean Museum of Solidarity Salvador Allende are articulated at the german biennial. We focus on each institution to understand which intentions motivated their presence in an openly decolonial and, in its own way, counter-institutional biennial.