We are dismayed by the decision of the director, Yasmin Meinicke, and the board of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, taken in consultation with German state authorities to unilaterally cancel the 2024 edition. For 18 months, we worked with 44 artists, six partner organizations, three advisors and various colleagues to bring the Biennale to fruition. As the curators, we only found out about this cancellation through a press release in the public domain, published without our consent, on November 23, 2023.
We find the conduct of the director and the board of the Biennale to be a breach of trust and antithetical to the very premise of the
