Open Call & ArtWiki: Digital venue of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art In November 2010 curator Artur Żmijewski announced a call to artists from all over the world, asking them to send in artistic material as part of the research of the 7th Berlin Biennale. In addition to the standard information usually requested in such a call (documentation of art works and projects, CVs, etc.), it included the following addition, which generated attention in and of itself: As the research also focuses on the question of whether artists consider themselves to be political, please inform us about your political inclination (e.g. rightist, leftist, liberal, nationalist, anarchist, feminist, masculinist, or whatever you may identify yourself with) or whether you are interested in politics at all. The call was published in various languages. The Berlin Biennale ultimately received over 5,000 submissions in reaction to the Open Call. In response, we invited...
