Press
Press material for the exhibition "nolde/kritik/documenta" online
The virtual Platform6 in honor of Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), the artistic director of Documenta11 (2002), is updated for the second time after its launch last April. As of now, more features and content are ready.
documenta has decided, in consultation with various participants, to suspend the series of events planned for May 8, 15, and 22, 2022, We need to talk! Art – Freedom – Solidarity.
Online conversation series We need to talk! on May 8, 15, and 22, 2022
In the year of Beuys' anniversary, the documenta archive presents a comprehensive selection of images from the photographic estate of Dieter Schwerdtle (1952-2009) in the rooms of the Neue Galerie in Kassel. The Kassel-based photographer began his longstanding collaboration with Joseph Beuys and his examination of his work in 1977 during documenta 6 and continued for nine more years.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, representatives of Kassel institutions and Beuys actors invite you to a multifaceted cultural program in the documenta city. Under the name BEUYSLABORKASSEL2021, exhibitions, actions, performances and conferences will take place until the end of the year in honor of one of the most influential contemporary artists and seven-time documenta participant. The official press release of the city of Kassel can be found here.
On April 29, 2021, documenta archiv will launch Platform6, a virtual platform created in honor of Okwui Enwezor.
This dynamic and evolving online project is intended as a place for animated discussion about Documenta11 and the current relevance of its discourses.
Sponsored by documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH (hereinafter "documenta gGmbH"), the documenta archiv has been accepted as a member of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. - AsKI (Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes) at the end of 2020.
Preparation of the documenta archiv Holdings for International and Interdisciplinary Research
On October 1, 2020, the documenta archiv will embark upon the comprehensive
cataloguing and preparation of its holdings.
Dr. Birgitta Coers takes over as director of the documenta archiv on October 1, 2020.
Dr. Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck will assume the post of Director of the documenta archiv as of August 1, 2020.
The documenta archiv has received as a gift the important legacy of thinker, art mediator, art critic, artist and professor Bazon Brock.
Die Direktorin des documenta archivs, Dr. Birgit Jooss, scheidet zu Februar 2020 aus, um sich aus familiären Gründen nach über dreieinhalb Jahren in dieser Position wieder in Richtung ihrer Heimatstadt München zu orientieren.
The Goethe-Institut and the documenta archiv in Kassel have launched a new fellowship program for international curators and researchers.
The first Virtual Exhibition created by the documenta archiv explores the question in which way Bauhaus concepts have inscribed themselves in the documenta idea. It will be available from August 15, 2019 at www.documenta-bauhaus.de.
The exhibition "Bauhaus | documenta. Vision and Brand" reflects for the first time the Bauhaus and documenta in comparison. This year’s 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus provides an opportunity to look at the development of both institutions, which have become cultural brands, and to question them critically at the same time
The documenta archiv is organising an international conference in the documenta-Halle from 22 - 24 November 2018 in preparation for the future documenta Institut (will be held in English)
The series of events “From the documenta archiv” will be continued. On Sunday, November 5th, 2017 at 5 pm will take place an extraordinary “comic concert” at the Gloria Cinema. The papers of Hans Hillmann are now part of the archive’s collection.
The documenta archiv gets a new image with a web presence, logo, and -custom typography developed by the Stuttgart Design Agency L2M3.