16th Lyon Biennale “manifesto of fragility”

Conceived by curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath as a “manifesto of fragility”, the Biennale positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present, and primed for the future.

The 16th Lyon Biennale elevates its perspective to a meta-historicalvpanorama through significant loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and from many of Lyon’s leading cultural institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, the Lugdunum Museum and Roman theatres, and the Musées Gadagne.

With the conviction that dialogue is crucial for a more equitable and sustainable future, the Biennale will begin to unfold several months before the September 2022 opening in Lyon through collaborations with several partnering institutions in cities internationally that will continue until the end of 2023.

Born 1988 in Filderstadt, Germany. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.

Located in the Musée Gadagne courtyard, the sound installations of Hannah Weinberger are interactive works that engage the public in the role of collaborator and co-producer. listen back/ preservation of difference proposes an immersive experience: in real time, prompted by visitors’ appearance (and disappearance)/ movements, audio devices play live radio stations from all the places that have been or still are colonised by France. The spectators can stop, observe or simply be carried along by the radio channels that they activate while walking about. As a constantly evolving artwork, specific to its site and time, Weinberger’s piece conceptually and artistically reflects the democratic processes of collectively negotiating information. Made with the help of technology specialists using complex techniques, the artist’s intervention transforms the exhibition space into a never silent situation – a meeting point for visitors and nevertheless a space for pausing, triggering polyphonic memories transmitted in real time from other places.