Sinthujan Varatharajah | Lesung und Gespräch | Biennale für Freiburg 3

Sinthujan Varatharajah - Reading and talk with curator Lorena Juan

சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) is a guest at the Biennale für Freiburg 3 and reads from her*his new book "wo zeit stehen bleibt", which will be published by Hanser Verlag next year. The reading will be accompanied by a discussion with Lorena Juan, curator of the Biennale für Freiburg 3.

சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா is a political geographer and essayist based in Berlin. Her*his work deals with the question of statelessness, mobility and displacement with a focus on infrastructure, logistics and architecture. In 2017 - 2018, சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா was a board member of the Asylum Advisory Council of the European Commission. In 2020, she*er was part of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art with the research and art installation "how to move an ark". Varatharajah's first book, "an alle Orte, die hinter uns liegen", was published by Hanser Verlag in 2022. Together with Moshtaril Hilal, வரதராஜா published the discourse book "Hierarchies of Solidarity" in 2024 by Wirklichkeit Books Verlag. Their joint installation "Papierlast" is part of the 15th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art this year.

Biennale for Freiburg 3 - HAPPY PLACE

This year's Biennale für Freiburg explores the question of how tourism shapes places into projection surfaces for longings and fantasies of escapism, thereby obscuring existing power relations and post-colonial dependencies. The Biennale für Freiburg 3 brings together artists who deal with the colonial continuities and political dimensions of travel. They question romanticized notions of "the South" and create alternative narratives.