The Midget Gallery at 4th Berlin Biennial, 2006

After having squatted spa baths for men, popular celebrations, night clubs, and renown fairy tales, Katarzyna Kozyra is now squatting a Biennial. In Auguststrasse, the Berliner street in which the fourth edition of the Berlin Biennial takes place — among the Kunstwerke, the fake Gagosian, no longer used apartments, churches and cemeteries on the opening days, from March 23 and 25, there was also another gallery. It was extremely tiny, without a seat, a nomadic gallery all contained in the equipment worn by five little dwarves with plenty of signs and videos on their backs. It is The Midget Gallery, the ironical action by Katarzyna Kozyra, latest stage of the performative course In Art Dreams Come True. That is why, after having learned how to sing like a lyric diva, after having staged strip teases in a night club, after having acted like an actress in a cinema fairy tale, also this latest dream — of being featured at the Berlin Biennial — has taken shape, even if under a circus form as a street performance, mocking the mechanism of business supporting this kind of international exhibitions.