CURATORS:
WHW
Antrepo No.3
Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi
Liman İşletmeleri Sahası
Tophane
Feriköy Greek School
Abide-i Hürriyet Caddesi No.7
Şişli
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi
Koltukçular Çıkmazı No.1
Tophane
12/09 – 08/11/2009
Jumana Emil Abboud • Vyacheslav Akhunov • Mounira Al Solh • Nevin Aladağ • Doa Aly • Karen Andreassian • Yüksel Arslan • Zanny Begg • Lida Blinova • Anna Boghiguian • KP Brehmer • Bureau d’études • Cengiz Çekil • Danica Dakić • Lado Darakhvelidze • decolonizing.ps (Sandi Hilal • Alessandro Petti • Eyal Weizman) • Natalya Dyu • Rena Effendi • Işıl Eğrikavuk • Etcétera… • Hans-Peter Feldmann • Shahab Fotouhi • İnci Furni • Igor Grubić • Nilbar Güreş • Margaret Harrison • Sharon Hayes • Vlatka Horvat • Wafa Hourani • Hamlet Hovsepian • Sanja Iveković • Donghwan Jo & Haejun Jo • Jesse Jones • Alimjan Jorobaev • Michel Journiac • KwieKulik (koji predstavlja Zofia Kulik) • Siniša Labrović • Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon’s Civil War (projekt Zeine Maasri) • David Maljković • Marwan • Avi Mograbi • Rabih Mroué • Aydan Murtezaoğlu & Bülent Şangar • Museum of American Art-Belgrade • Marina Naprushkina • Deimantas Narkevicius • Ioana Nemes • Wendelien van Oldenborgh • Mohammad Oussama • Erkan Özgen • Trevor Paglen • Nam June Paik • Marko Peljhan • Darinka Pop-Mitić • Lisi Raskin • María Ruido • Larissa Sansour • Hrair Sarkissian • Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir • Canan Şenol • Société Réaliste • Mladen Stilinović • Tamás St.Auby • Jinoos Taghizadeh • Oraib Toukan • Vangelis Vlahos • Simon Wachsmuth • Artur Zmijewski • What is to be done / Chto delat?
Curated by the WHW collective, the 11th International Istanbul Biennial was hosted at Antrepo No.3, Tobacco Warehouse, and The Feriköy Greek School with the contribution of 141 projects of 70 artists and artist collectives from 40 countries under the title What Keeps Mankind Alive?. It takes its title from the song Denn wovon lebt der Mensch?, translated into English as What Keeps Mankind Alive?. The song closes the second act of the play The Threepenny Opera, written by Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill.