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Athens: 8 April–16 July 2017
Kassel: 10 June–17 September 2017
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In 1955, ten years after the end of the Second World War, the first documenta was organized in Kassel—an exhibition of Western European modern art initiated by a group of art enth usiasts led by artist, art professor, and curator Arnold Bode (1900–77). Over the course of the previous thirteen iterations of documenta, the exhibition has been evolving constantly to become a place of major debates on contemporary culture as well as addressing its current sociopolitical contexts. Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk has proposed a two-fold structure, reflected in the working title Learning from Athens, as the guiding principle for documenta 14. In 2017, Kassel and the Greek capital host the exhibition on an equal footing: their diff erent locations and divergent historical, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds inspire and influence the individual works of art. documenta 14 seeks to encompass a multitude of voices in, between, and beyond the two cities in which it is situated, reaching outside the European context f rom the vantage point of the Mediterranean metropolis of Athens, where Africa, the Middle East, and Asia come face to face. The physical and metaphorical distance between Kassel and Athens fundamentally alters the way visitors experience documenta 14—bringing into play feelings of loss and longing whileredefining their understanding of what such an exhibition can be.
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We wish to wholeheartedly thank our visitors, who engaged with and for documenta 14 over 163 days in both Athens and Kassel.
Our farewell film of our #Keimena project on Monday 18 of September 2017, at 24:00, on #ERT2 *An Opera of the World*, 2017, Portugal/USA/Mali, 71 min. Director: Manthia Diawara Introduction: Monika Szewczyk In *An Opera of the World*, Malian filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and Africa. The film revolves around a performance of Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera in Bamako, around which Diawara builds a story about migration, interweaving interviews with documentary and archival footage.
*The Story of Yola’kwame* – In the spirit of Beau Dick with Alan Alfred Dallas Hunt and Cole Speck Performance, June 9, 2017 Photos: Mathias Voelzke
Listen to this interview with Akinbode Akinbiyi conducted prior to documenta 14 by our aneducation-team.
Banu Cennetoğlu (b. 1970, Ankara) *BEINGSAFEISSCARY* (2017) Ten aluminum letters borrowed from the Fridericianum and six letters cast in brass after the existing ones Based on graffiti existing on a wall at the National Technical University of Athens as of April 6, 2017 57.5 × 1085 × 1 cm overall Coproduced with Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen, Sitterwerk, Switzerland Photos: Roman Maerz
Born in Turkey in 1972, living in Germany, Aladağ treats form [drum] as constant translation—a body [drum] that is transitory [drum], always. http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13705/nevin-aladag Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972, Van, Turkey) *Jali* (2017) Glazed ceramics 450 cm × 270 cm × 20 cm Photos: Michael Nast
FINAL CUT Final Cut is a documenta 14 film program that takes place at Filmladen Kassel, a small arthouse cinema, during the final week of the exhibition. Daily from September 11–17, beginning at 8:30 pm, it presents a selection of riveting yet seldom-seen films compiled by Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk. Today 8.30pm: *Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (Muriel or the Time of Return)* by Alain Resnais
SOUTH AS A STATE OF MIND Now online: Issue #9 [documenta 14 #4] Antonin Artaud once wrote: “There aren’t enough magazines, or if you will, all existing magazines are useless. We are appearing because we believe we are responding to something. We are real. This excuses us from being necessary. There should be as many magazines as there are valid states of mind.”
Andreas Angelidakis talks about issues relevant to documenta 14, especially education.
Iver Jåks (1932–2007) Deliberately moving between the aesthetics and practices of duodji (traditional Sámi handicrafts) and European Modernism, Jåks’s sculptures often emphasize the cycles and processes of nature.
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