Documenta (13)

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dOCUMENTA (13)
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Documenta 13 (stylised as dOCUMENTA (13)) was the thirteenth edition of the German contemporary art exhibition Documenta. It took place between 9 June until 16 September 2012 in Kassel, Germany. The exhibition was held under the theme "collapse and recovery".[1] Exhibits could be seen in several venues in the city, among others in the Fridericianum museum, in the Orangerie and in the Karlsaue, a large urban park.[2][3][4]

Its artistic director was the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev[5] who was chief curator of the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin and, in 2008, also head of the Biennale of Sydney.

The exhibition's welcoming of Occupy Wall Street protesters has been framed as a "watershed" moment in the decline of that movement.[6]

  1. ^ Birnbaum, Daniel (1 October 2012). "Documenta 13". Artforum. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  2. ^ Smith, Roberta (14 June 2012). "Art Show as Unruly Organism". New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Documenta". Experience-germany.com. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  4. ^ fridericianum-kassel.de Archived 18 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to direct Documenta 13". FlashArt. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  6. ^ Loewe, Sebastian. "When Protest Becomes Art: The Contradictory Transformations of the Occupy Movement at Documenta 13 and Berlin Biennale 7" (PDF). Field: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism: 186.