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From Fashion Department Store to an Office Complex
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Goethe-Fellowship 2026: Alexandra Zidariu
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Taking a break from the heat at Fridericianum — free admission for everyone on the last weekend in June
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Wulf Herzogenrath (1944–2026)
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Portia Zvavahera: From Kassel to Brussels
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VALIE EXPORT (1940–2026)
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Goethe Institut: Open call – "FILE NOT FOUND”
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Georg Baselitz (1938–2026)
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Timm Ulrichs (1940–2026)
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Ibrahim Mahama receives the Arnold Bode Prize 2026
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Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)
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David Harding (1937–2026)
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Henrike Naumann (1984–2026)
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Arnold Bode on the occasion of his 125th birthday
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Arnulf Rainer (1929–2025)
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The documenta archiv presents a new website
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Ceal Floyer (1968–2025)
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Federal Cultural Foundation supports mediation program for documenta 16
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2026 Annual Preview
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Robert Grosvenor (1937–2025)
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Save the Date! Ausstellung: Portia Zvavahera
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Júlia Cavazzini und Dea Tcholokava: Zwei neue Goethe-Fellows im documenta archiv
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Naomi Beckwith, Artistic Director of documenta 16, introduces her Artistic Team
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70 years ago: The opening of the first documenta in 1955
- Fridericianum

Save the Date! Exhibition: Robert Grosvenor
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Guillaume Bijl (1946–2025)
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All pennant chains handed out
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Günther Uecker (1930–2025)
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Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu will design the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026
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70th anniversary of documenta and the artistic intervention 7000 Palmen by Cosima von Bonin
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Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025)
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Founding of the International Friends of documenta e. V.
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Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025)
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Invitation: 70 years of documenta Festakt & Intervention 7000 Palmen by Cosima von Bonin
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documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH has a new visual identity
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Book presentation: Kunst im Streit. Anti-Semitism and postcolonial debate at documenta fifteen
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Naomi Beckwith presents insight into curatorial approach leading to documenta 16
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70 years of documenta
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Invitation to the Public Presentation of the curatorial concept by Naomi Beckwith, Artistic Direction of documenta 16
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Silke Müller takes over the communications department of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH publishes Code of Conduct
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Scientific Advisory Board of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH appointed
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Harry Kramer 100
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Gridthiya Gaweewong receives the 2025 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
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Naomi Beckwith appointed as Artistic Direction of documenta 16
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Save the Date LEE KIT: HIS GAZE HAS TURNED INTO DISDAIN FOR THOSE WHO ARE WELL-INTENTIONED YET INCAPABLE. (A QUIET DAY) January 25 – June 15, 2025
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi was honored with the Prince Claus 2024 Impact Award
- Fridericianum

Extended until February 9, 2025 Melvin Edwards: Some Bright Morning
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Workshop: Design your own "Glowesbeutel" Saturday, November 30, 2024, 1–5 pm
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Publication Toba Khedoori
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RE-VIEW exergue - on documenta 14. The second screening - after the festival week
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Lecture by Dr. Karoline Hille "The women artists of the first documenta: history and stories"
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DokfestForum at the Fridericianum
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exergue - on documenta 14. 41st Kassel Dokfest
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Britto Arts Trust at Asia Now in Paris
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Catherine David: on her 70th birthday
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The documenta archiv takes over the complete photographic oeuvre of Monika Nikolic (1943-2024)
- Fridericianum

Kasseler Museumsnacht 7. September 2024
- Fridericianum

Melvin Edwards: Some Bright Morning August 31, 2024 – January 12, 2025
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lumbung Kassel
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Nadia Martin and Anna Petrova: Introducing our new Goethe Fellows
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documenta 15 artwork can be experienced again by children and accompanying persons
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New Finding Committee of documenta 16 appointed
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Politics of Form Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Critique
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Performance Archive Die Schwarze Lade / The Black Kit
- Fridericianum
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Saturday, May 25, 2024, 10.30 am–6 pm at the Fridericianum: Symposium on ReUse & Upcycling in Construction and Creative Industries
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Press Release: Resolution on Key Recommendations for the Organizational Development Path now Clear for Setting up the Finding Committee for documenta 16
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Saturday, May 4, 2024: Take a seat for democracy – strengthening democracy with a view to the European elections
documenta 1 “Alles-Brücke” becomes an “Alles-Hause” under self-management by elementary school pupils
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documenta 14: Mataaho Collective wins the Golden Lion at the 60th Biennale di Venezia
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25 years of documenta City of Kassel - Anniversary tour program to the documenta outdoor artworks
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Buch-Kunst: Kunst-Buch - Public tours on February 8 and 14
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Commenting Procedure on the Central Recommendations of the Organizational Development Concluded
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Book presentation: Alexia Pooth, Exhibition Politics. Die documenta und die DDR (Kerber 2024)
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Ausstellungsankündigung: Ulla Wiggen OUTSIDE / INSIDE
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Commenting procedure opened on the five central recommendations of the Organizational Development
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Final Report of the Organizational Development of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH now available
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IN | OUT — Canonization Processes of Modern Art and the First documenta
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Symposium: documenta fifteen as a Watershed Moment? Art, Politics, and the Public Sphere
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Press release: documenta 16 Finding Committee resigns
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Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger resigns from Finding Committee at documenta 16
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Ranjit Hoskoté resigns from Finding Committee at documenta 16
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Statement on the coverage by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 9, 2023: Nele Pollatschek "Not again, Documenta"
documenta 13 Artist Anna Boghiguian awarded the 2024 Wolfgang Hahn Prize
Veranstaltungshinweis Tania Bruguera in Berlin: Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions – 100 Stunden kollektive Lesung mit der documenta fifteen Künstlerin
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documenta Managing Director Andreas Hoffmann on Social Media Likes by ruangrupa Members regarding the Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Berlin last Saturday
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"documenta fifteen as a Watershed Moment? Art, Politics, and the Public Sphere" – Symposium in Kassel
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Book-Art: Art-Books. New studio exhibition in the reading room
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Kassel Museum Night September 2-3, 2023 Program

Cutes – Collected Queer and Trans Comics
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New publication in the documenta archiv series: Alexia Pooth: Exhibition Politics. The documenta and the GDR
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OUT NOW Publication: Vincent Fecteau
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The City of Kassel announces: Chief Curator of the Museum of Israeli Art visits Kassel and documenta
Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation/Kochi-Muziris Biennale (DBF-KMB) Award goes to Amol K Patil
GUDSKUL at MOMENTUM 12
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High appeal for young people and long visits: documenta presents visitor surveys on documenta fifteen. Sustainability survey conducted for the first time.
INLAND to form part of Manifesta 15 in Barcelona (2024)

Who is who?: Two new Goethe Fellows in the documenta archiv
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Sustainability Project osWertical to be discontinued
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documenta annual financial statements 2022: documenta fifteen closes in the black
- Fridericianum
DIAGONAL PRESS LIBRARY at Fridericianum July 15, 2023 – January 14, 2024
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Fridericianum shows Tauba Auerbach: TIDE July 15, 2023 – January 14, 2024
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Preview Ulla Wiggen: OUTSIDE / INSIDE
Goethe Medal for the OFF-Biennale
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The café has new opening hours!
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"about: documenta" in the Neue Galerie: documenta fifteen – room reopening
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Proposal List 2 | An Art-Lecture on Charlotte Salomon's "Life? or Theater? A Play with Songs"
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Arnold Bode Prize awarded to documenta fifteen lumbung member Wajukuu Art Project
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documenta fifteen Artist Richard Bell at Tate Modern – Aboriginal Tent Embassy, May 20 to June 18, 2023 in London

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens presents documenta fifteen artwork Return to Sender by the Nest Collective
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Statement of the former Artistic Directors of documenta on the proposal for the appointment of the documenta 16 finding committee

Pınar Öğrenci's Aşît nominated for Visions du Réel International Film Festival
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Announcement by the Supervisory Board: documenta 16 Finding Committee has been appointed

Exhibition of the Year 2022 Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale
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lumbung Press has a new home in Barcelona
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Review of documenta fifteen: Shareholders present final report of expert advisory panel
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News from the Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoffmann to become new Managing Director at documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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Purchase of documenta artworks
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Appeal for donations for the whereabouts of the documenta fifteen artwork Eltern und Kleinkinder Krippe / Public Daycare by Graziela Kunsch
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Top 100 rankings: ruangrupa and documenta fifteen Artists right up there in the top spots
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Start of the selection process of the search committee for the Artistic Direction of documenta 16
Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice awarded to Richard Bell-initiated project
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Material cycles: sale of documenta fifteen facilities and technical equipment
2022 Arnold Bode Prize awarded to Wajukuu Art Project
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New interim management for documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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documenta 16 will run from June 12 to September 19, 2027
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documenta fifteen closes with very good attendance figures
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Joint declaration by the Supervisory Board and the shareholders of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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The statement of Finding Committee
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Stellungnahme der Gesellschafter der documenta gGmbH
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Press release from the scientific advisory panel of documenta fifteen
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Press release from the undersigned members of the scientific advisory panel of documenta fifteen
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documenta fifteen at the halfway point with very good visitor numbers - more schoolchildren and season ticket holders, fewer group bookings
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Shareholders of documenta introduce scientific advisory panel
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Alexander Farenholtz takes over as interim Managing Director of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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Statement by the Supervisory Board of documenta gGmbH
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Event on Antisemitism in the Arts
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Series of Events "We need to talk! Art – Freedom – Solidarity" suspended
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Four documenta fifteen publications with Hatje Cantz as official publishing partner
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We need to talk!, online conversation series, May 8, 15, and 22, 2022
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Forms of Kinship – Liquid Dependencies
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Statement on accusations of antisemitism against documenta fifteen
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Event of the seminar„Aktuelle Forschung zu Kunst, Gesellschaft, Ökonomie und Wissen“ und des documenta Instituts
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Moritz Wesselerʼs Tenure as Fridericianum Director now Extended
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Toba Khedoori at the Fridericianum
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Martine Syms at the Fridericianum: Aphrodite’s Beasts
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documenta committees decide documenta fifteen takes place as planned in 2022
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Victim or perpetrator? Theses on the National Socialist past of the curators of the first documenta exhibition
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Reopening of the Fridericianum and beginning of the exhibition Vincent Fecteau
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Vincent Fecteau at the Fridericianum
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BEUYSLABORKASSEL2021 – Presenting Kassel’s Cultural Program to mark Joseph Beuys’ 100th Anniversary
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Launch of virtual Platform6 created in honor of Okwui Enwezor
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Arnold Bode Prize 2021 goes to INSTAR and Tania Bruguera
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lumbung calling — a series of conversations marking the start of documenta fifteen’s Public Program
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documenta fifteen welcomes five new lumbung members
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Maria Eichhorn Takes Over the German Pavilion 2022
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documenta fifteen is scheduled to take place from June 18 to September 25, 2022.
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documenta archiv now a member of AsKI (Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V.)
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documenta fifteen presents Visual Identity
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documenta fifteen joins the Action Network Sustainability in Culture and Media (ANKM)

Window display – 37. Kasseler Dokfest as guest at ruruHaus
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Illumination of the Fridericianum with a film by Trisha Baga
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Presentation of the new outdoor sculptures at the Fridericianum by Alexandra Bircken
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The holdings of the documenta archiv are to be prepared for international and interdisciplinary research in a "cataloguing campaign"
- Fridericianum

The Fridericianum presents "Waters’ Witness", the first solo exhibition in Germany of Tarek Atoui
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Invitation: Tarek Atoui at the Fridericianum
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KW 36 – Kasseler Woche der Museen
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Livestream of the press conference on the introduction of Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude as Founding Director of the documenta Institute
- documenta Institut
Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude appointed Founding Director of the documenta Institute
- documenta archiv
Change at the helm of the documenta archiv
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documenta fifteen and lumbung practice. Announcement of the first lumbung members
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documenta gGmbH enlists Dr. Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck as new Director of the documenta archiv
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Invitation: Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude appointed Founding Director of the documenta Institut
On the current media discussion on Werner Haftmann
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Exhibition "Forrest Bess" at the Fridericianum 15.2.2020 – 3.5.2020
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documenta archiv receives Bazon Brock’s premature legacy Hubert Burda funds indexing
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Invitation: Forrest Bess at the Fridericianum
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Dr. Birgit Jooss takes on new role
Dr. Sabine Schormann, Director General of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, on the death of Manfred Schneckenburger
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„about: documenta“ Permanent exhibition from Friday, November 22, 2019
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Opening of the exhibition by Rachel Rose at the Fridericianum 26.10.2019 – 12.1.2020
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Invitation: Rachel Rose
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New Goethe-Institut Fellowship for international curators and researchers at the documenta archiv
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How much Bauhaus is in documenta? Seeking traces
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Invitation: Launch of the virtual exhibition "How much Bauhaus is in documenta? Seeking traces"

"Never been modern? Bauhaus and documenta in true affinity"
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Fridericianum kicks off exhibition program with Lucas Arruda and Ron Nagle
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„Bauhaus | documenta. Vision and Brand“ 24.5.–8.9.2019, Neue Galerie, Kassel

Sabine Schormann, Director General documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH on the re-establishment of the "Foreigners and Refugees Monument" by Olu Oguibe
Dr. Sabine Schormann on the death of Okwui Enwezor
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ruangrupa selected as Artistic Direction of documenta 15
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Exhibition: Bauhaus | documenta.
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Course Set for documenta 15 – Closure of Accounts for documenta 14 Finalized
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New Communications Department: Johanna Köhler Joins the documenta and Museum Fridericianum Team in Kassel
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As of November 2018: Moritz Wesseler New Director of Kassel’s Fridericianum
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Finding Committee for documenta 15
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With new strength towards documenta 15
Interim Management of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
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documenta 14: Daybook has recently been awarded a bronze medal at the „Best Book Design from all over the World“ 2018
An obelisk for Kassel – the city of Kassel and the artist Olu Oguibe together appeal for donations
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Evaluation documenta 14
Date for documenta 15 has been set
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The documenta 14 exhibition opens today in Kassel
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The Parliament of Bodies Kassel, April 27–29, 2017 How does it feel to be a problem?
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Opening of documenta 14’s press and information center in Kassel
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University of Kassel appoints Nora Sternfeld to its documenta Professorship
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"Myth of documenta" opens in Shanghai on April 28, 2017
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Presentation by Klaus Honnef: How photography came to documenta
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The documenta archiv gets a new image with a web presence, logo, and -custom typography.
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Exhibitions on the history of documenta in Beijing and Shanghai
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Cabinet exhibition honoring Harry Kramer at the Museum für Sepulkralkultur
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Online accreditation for press and trade visitors
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The third issue of the documenta 14 magazine South as a State of Mind #8 [documenta 14 #3] has been published.
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Job Opportunity for documenta 14
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Invitation to the Groundbreaking for The Parthenon of Books
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Call for book donations for the first artwork of documenta 14
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Einladung zur Filmpremiere documenta 1955 – Der Film, der nie gedreht wurde mit anschließender Diskussion

New landing page for the outdoor works of art from past documenta exhibitions
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New publication by the Museum Fridericianum
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2016 Arnold-Bode Prize goes to Hiwa K
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Birgit Jooss introduced as new Director of the documenta archiv
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The second issue of the documenta 14 journal South as a State of Mind #7 [documenta 14 #2] has been published
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Heralding documenta 14
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Anicka Yi. „Jungle Stripe“

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Twice-weekly Flights between Kassel and Athens begin in April 2017
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Images
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The German Pavilion at the 57. Biennale di Venezia
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Neupositionierung des FlicFlac auf dem Friedrichsplatz
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Talks, readings, and conversations to launch the documenta 14 publication program with South as a State of Mind #6 [documenta 14 #1]
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Start of the documenta 14 publication program
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The dates of documenta 14 are now public:
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Symposium documenta 1997 – 2017: erweiterte Denkkollektive / expanding thought-collectives
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Hessischer Kulturpreis 2015
- Fridericianum

Marcel Broodthaers
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handover of the documenta archive
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12.000 visit documenta's anniversary celebrations
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60 years documenta –anniversary celebration
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Symposium documenta 1997 – 2017: erweiterte Denkkollektive /expanding thought-collectives 17 and 18 July, documenta Halle
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documenta 14 website is now live
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Adam Szymczyk – „I don’t trust the choice between yes and no“
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