The 28th BIO Biennial of Design Ljubljana  (BIO28), which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, will take place between 21 November 2024 and 6 April 2025. It is organised by the Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, and the curatorial concept was developed by Alexandra Midal together with her assistant Emma Pflieger. The Jubilee Biennale marks an important milestone in six decades of design development.

Political, bold, vibrant, and provocative, Double Agent: Do You Speak Flower? examines the figure of floriography, a code hidden within flowers to transmit secret information. The exhibition draws on critical theory to define self-identification as an aesthetic and political act that resonates with vanquished, marginalized, forgotten, or invisible minorities. Given that flowers represent both the commodification of women into an idealized beauty paradigm and serve as a feminist, anti-colonial, gender, and queer cryptology, the title Double Agent reflects this dual perspective. The Biennial displays an ongoing investigation that questions the role of the exhibition to provide answers, and instead wishes to open a series of conversations with designers, artists, and the public.

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