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As the opening event of the “Revisitations” series, we are delighted to welcome Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13), and the artist Mario García Torres to the Fridericianum for a joint discussion.
The Belgian conceptual artist Guillaume Bijl died on June 14, 2025 at the age of 79. Typical of the self-taught artist's work is his humorous play with everyday situations, kitsch and museum presentation forms.
The painter and object artist Günther Uecker has died at the age of 95. As a key member of the ZERO movement, the three-time documenta participant achieved international fame in the early 1960s and became a formative figure in German art after 1945.
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Koyo Kouoh, who died unexpectedly on the night of May 9-10. Only last December, she had been appointed curator of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, which she would have been the first black woman to head next year.
The US video and installation artist Dara Birnbaum (1946-2025) has died at the age of 78. With her media and socially critical work, the three-time documenta participant was one of the most important pioneers of video art from the mid-1970s onwards.
Karl Oskar Blase, the “face of documenta”, would have turned one hundred years old on March 24, 2025. The Kassel-based graphic designer and professor of art and visual communication had been working for documenta since 1964 and had a unique influence on its appearance. To celebrate his milestone birthday, the documenta archiv is dedicating a multimedia studio exhibition to him in its Reading Room.
