Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts under the sponsorship of the Koç Group, the 11th International Ä°stanbul Biennial will turn the city of Istanbul into a platform for art between September 12-November 8, capturing the attention of art circles all around the world.

The Koç Group began its ten-year term of 'Biennial Sponsorship' in 2007 and will continue throughout four Biennials until 2016.

The 11th International İstanbul Biennial will be curated by the curator collective WHW / What, How & For Whom, which has been operating from the city of Zagreb, Croatia, since 1999. WHW consists of four female curators: Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović.

The 11th Ä°stanbul Biennial takes its thematic title 'What Keeps Mankind Alive?' from the closing song of the 2nd act of the 1928 play Threepenny Opera, written by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill