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Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 16 Ruhr, upcoming
– , Germany
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
– , Spain
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
– , Kosovo
Manifesta 13 Marseille
– , France
Manifesta 12 Palermo
– , Italy
Manifesta 11 Zurich
– , Switzerland
Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg
– , Russian Federation
Manifesta 9 Genk
– , Belgium
Manifesta 8 Murcia – Cartagena
– , Spain
Manifesta 7 South Tyrol – Trentino
– , Italy
Manifesta 6 Nicosia, Cancelled
Cyprus
Manifesta 5 Donostia-San Sebastian
– , Spain
Manifesta 4 Frankfurt/Main
– , Germany
Manifesta 3 Ljubljana
– , Slovenia
Manifesta 2 Luxembourg
– , Luxembourg
Manifesta 1 Rotterdam
– , Netherlands
Participant

Gianni Motti, IT

Gianni Motti, Liberate Öcalan, 2002 © Manifesta 4/Bernd Bodtländer.

Urban installation at River Main Banks

On an island in the Main River, Italian artist Gianni Motti re-created the prison cell of Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurd leader who had been in prison on the Turkish island of Imrali since 1999. The project not only recalled the Kurd leader and his imprisonment, but also posed general questions concerning human rights and human dignity.