The Berlin Biennale Is Gratingly Evasive

I also liked: 1) Mila Panić’s comedy-club installation, Big Mouth (2025), in which blunt phrases like world war cup! and remember when art was humble? are carved into tabletops and the backs of chairs; 2) Sarnath Banerjee’s Critical Imagination Deficit (2025), a set of bright, almost graphic novelesque works on paper and sound that illustrate an uneasy daily life in India; 3) Han Bing and the Kashmiri Cabbage Walker, of which it was nice to be reminded; 4) Htein Lin’s Fly (2005), which the artist first conceived and performed in prison, shot in a single take on low-resolution footage here; and 5) videos by the Canadian artist Stacy Douglas, one of which involved a news anchor explaining the word Kafka-esque.