The artist, curator, philosopher, media theorist and long-time director of the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe died on 1 March a few days before his 79th birthday. He was featured at documenta 6 in 1977 with a selection of early video and television works. Twenty years later, as part of documenta X (1997), he was one of the speakers at the legendary "100 Days 100 Guests" event series in the documenta Halle.

The filmmaker and film scholar Birgit Hein died in Berlin on 23 February 2023. She was represented at documenta by Harald Szeemann in 1972 as well as by Manfred Schneckenburger in 1977. Under the motto "Film about Film", she also took over the curatorial direction of the "Experimental Film" section at documenta 6.

Goethe-Institut, documenta archiv |documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, and Kunsthochschule Kassel art school will be awarding two fellowships to international scholars, artists, and curators taking place from June 2023 to November 2023.

On 9 December, our exhibition "nolde/kritik/documenta" opened at the Fridericianum. In the trailer, Birgitta Coers, Astrid Michaelis and Mischa Kuball give an insight into the development and conception of the exhibition project.