On Sunday, October 12, 2025, the Fridericianum hosts the final distribution of a limited number of palm tree pennant chains and, in cooperation with the documenta archiv, organizes a conversation with Ruth Noack —curator of documenta 12 (2007).

The Nuremberg painter and sculptor Werner Knaupp passed away on September 9, 2025, at the age of 89.

The US artist and two-time documenta participant Robert Grosvenor has died. Just recently, on August 30, his retrospective covering works from 1965 to the present opened at the Fridericianum.

This year, we are once again welcoming two Goethe Fellows to the documenta archive. Júlia Cavazzini and Dea Tcholokava will be joining the team for the coming months.

The first documenta opened exactly 70 years ago: A glance at the final preparations and the first days of the exhibition