Manifesta is a travelling European Biennial of Contemporary Art which sets out to explore and reflect new developments in contemporary art in Europe in order to present new aspects and forms of artistic expression to a new local, national and international audience.
Manifesta 11 will be held in the city of Zurich, under the title What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures in three venues: the Miros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, LUMA Westbau / POOL and the Kunsthalle Zurich. This city has a long history of artistic and intellectual liberalism: it was an incubator of revolutionary political and artistic movements and during the periods of turmoil in Europe it offered asylum to intellectuals from all over the world. Nowadays Zurich is one of the economically and technologically most advanced cities in the world. This rich and rapidly evolving city offers Manifesta 11 the chance to explore critical global issues on urban space and society, while reassessing the role that art can play in these relations.
The curator, German Christian Jankowski, has proposed five Spanish artists: Santiago Sierra, Carles Congost, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Karmelo Bermejo. His project consists in working with professionals of a particular sector in Zurich. Santiago Sierra has chosen to work with military, Carles Congost with a rock star, and Fermín Jiménez Landa with a meteorologist.
