documenta XII

What's this year's documenta going to be about?
It's unquestionable that the documenta in Kassel (also province!), Germany is one of the most important events for contemporary art worldwide! Nevertheless the curator Roger M. Buergel doesn't see the necessity to tell us art hungry people what this years's documenta will show exactly. It's a bit like fashion week. Not until the very last second, when the first model appears in runway you'll know what it's all about.
Although some details are already known: Not more than 100 artist will be invited (see a short video about the firt press conference here (German!), among others the cook Ferran Adria (!?), the polish soundartist Artur Zmijewski, Britisch artist Imogen Stidworthy and brasilian artist Ricardo Basbaum. Via documenta12blog.de some more artit's names were announced: Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ines Doujak, Florian Pumhösl, Peter Friedel, James Coleman, Dmitri Gutov, Andrei Monastirsky, Anatoli Osmolowski, Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Christian von Borries...

The french architects Lacaton & Vassal are going to build a huge glasshous at the Karlsaue to center the exhibition (different from documenta XI where Okwui Enwezor spread the exhibition allover Kassel). Besides that the Fridericianum (as usual!) aswell as the documenta hall willbe used as exhibition spaces. The construction works at the Karlsaue can be viewed here. Niklas Maak wrote about it in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ - German!).

On monday the first issue of the documenta magazine Modernity? was released during a press conference at the Wiener Secession. Peter Richter wrote about it in the FAZ (German!). I've already placed my order here.

While searching the internet for information on documenta XII I found the documenta12blog which I highly recommend! There you'll find information directly from the source, pictures, podcasts, interviews, videos...

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