Reflections on the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2025

Meghan Clare Considine's talk presents a series of reflections and questions occasioned by the 13th Berlin Biennale, which ran from 14 June to 14 September 2025 in multiple venues across Berlin. Taking the project's framework of fugitivity as a guide, Considine will discuss key artworks, curatorial claims, and critical reception to consider the value, challenges, and responsibilities of the biennial as a form of exhibition-making for today.
The participants of the Curators Workshop 2025, entitled Fugitive Acts: Art and Politics, which Considine was part of, explored the role of politics in contemporary exhibition design and its various formats from September 1 to 7.
 

BIO

Meghan Clare Considine is curatorial assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, where she is contributing to exhibitions and publications with Portia Zvavahera, Boston's African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program, Lucy Raven, and Cynthia Daignault, among others. Previously, she held positions at MASS MoCA and the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is interested in questions around performance and embodiment, legibility, and relationships between artistic practices and solidarity movements. She earned an MA from the Williams College and Clark Art Institute Graduate Program in the History of Art in 2023. In September 2025 she participated in the 13th Berlin Biennale's Curators Workshop Fugitive Acts: Art and Politics.