documenta 12 - from 16 June to 23 September 2007 - a review

751,301 visitorsAfter 100 days, documenta 12 came to an end on a sunny Sunday. The exhibition, devised by artistic director Roger M. Buergel and curator Ruth Noack featuring work by 109 artists
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Artists' projects
Which artist turned the No.4 Tram into an exhibition room? How did Friedl's Zoo Story end? What was on the daily menu in elBulli? To which art work does the revolutionary song Arise Oh Women belong?
If you don't know the answers to these
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Fashion show by Oumou Sy
22 September 2007, 9 pm, Kulturbahnhof, Bahnhofsplatz 1
On 22 September 2007, the Kulturbahnhof in Kassel hosted a fashion show by Senegalese artist and fashion designer Oumou Sy. It featured new collections as well as a
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Screening: Fairytale
21 to 23 September 2007, 10 am to 6 pm, Großer Saal (Kulturzentrum Schlachthof)
Since February 2007, some forty people have been working on the cinematic realisation of Ai Weiwei’s artistic action, Fairytale. Within the framework of
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Exhibition talks with Ruth Noack
19 and 20 September 2007, 6 to 7 pm, Neue Galerie
If one takes the idea seriously that the exhibition can only realise itself through the audience, then the open-minded and curious audience of documenta 12 plays a decisive
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Family Sunday at documenta 12
16 September 2007, 10 am to 8 pm
On Sunday, 16 September 2007, the documenta will organise another family day. Children up to 15 years of age will be admitted free to the exhibition when accompanied by at least one adult.
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Exhibition talks with Ruth Noack
14 and 15 September, 6 pm to 7 pm, Neue Galerie
If one takes the idea seriously that the exhibition can only realise itself through the audience, then the open-minded and curious audience of documenta 12 plays a decisive
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Film weekend at documenta 12
14 and 15 September 2007, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
As the exhibition rapidly approaches its conclusion, documenta 12’s film programme presented two outstanding highlights with the premier of the films Casting a glance by James
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One night in the Aue-Pavillon
Shortly after 8 pm all the media installations suddenly fall silent and the circles of chairs in the Palmenhain (“circle of enlightenment”) are empty. As the sun sinks behind the Aue and the last documenta 12 visitor leaves
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Exhibition talks with Ruth Noack
5 and 6 September, 6 pm to 7 pm, documenta 12 Halle
If one takes the idea seriously that the exhibition can only realise itself through the audience, then the open-minded and curious audience of documenta 12 plays a decisive
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Through the night with Ai Weiwei and Wim Delvoye
ARTE, 4 September 2007, 0:20 am
The Chinese documenta 12 artist meets up with his colleague, Wim Delvoye, a Belgian conceptual artist, at the documenta 12 in Kassel. After a visit to the main cemetery – Ai
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Family Sunday at documenta 12
2 September, 10 am to 8 pm
For the first time, the documenta will be organising a family Sunday. On 2 September, we will be inviting families to participate in a varied programme at documenta 12, starting with the Lunch Lecture
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Lunch Lecture Review: Tanaka Atsuko and her environment – The position of female artists in Japan
1 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
At today’s Lunch Lecture, the art critic Haruo Fukuzumi, editor-in-chief and founder of the Japanese art journal AIDA
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Lunch Lecture Review - You can't teach a new dog old tricks, or can you?
31 August 2007, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Question: What do Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Italy, Iran, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan
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Die Teilung der Erde (The division of the world) - Schlachthof Conversation with the artist Dierk Schmidt
21 August 2007, 5 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Comprising eleven abstract paintings, the work Die Teilung der Erde – Tableaux zu rechtlichen
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“The documenta is an opportunity for me! It’s not an art exhibition but an encounter with the world!”
Gerda Lippitz has attended all the exhibitions since documenta 4, and has always been in possession of an exhibition pass. Although not born here, she is
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Biodversity at Friedrichsplatz
Hans Joachim Flügel walked determinedly along the border of the Poppy Field on the Friedrichsplatz and then pointed to a small, insignificant looking plant: “It was actually by chance. I had an appointment at the Natural
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Lidwien van de Ven: document in Fridericianum - Phases of an artwork
In her installation document (2007), van de Ven features photographs that have been taken over the past seven years. The artist presents her monumental photographs as digitally printed posters
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Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064 - A public reading
Part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, 19 August 2007, 1 pm to 6 pm, documenta 12 Halle
On 19 August 2007, documenta 12 presented Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp.
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One day when I was growing up in the early 1960s...Lunch Lecture with Yvonne Rainer
17 August 2007, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Her choreography - to my eyes, at least - eluded historical references in its seemingly arbitrary originality and ingrown
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How many pink toe shoes can (neo)avant-garde-oriented dance performances tolerate these days?
16 to 18 August 2007, 9 pm, tif – Theater im Fridericianum
In Yvonne Rainer’s AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M. (2006), Emily Coates wears precisely
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RoS Indexical (2007) & AG Indexical, with a Little Help from H.M. (2006)
16 to 18 August 2007, 9 pm, tif – Theater im Fridericianum
Yvonne Rainer is represented at the documenta 12 by two of her dance performances. She is staging one new and one already
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The art of Tricksen
Visibly irritated, the guard hurries past Louise Lawler‘s black-and-white photograph Paris, New York, Rome, Tokyo and heads towards the curtain: “Would you mind coming out of there,” she demands, pulling aside the curtain obstructing
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“For me, photography itself is also a form of research”
Interview with documenta 12 artist Lidwien van de Ven
Lidwien, your photos and posters in the installation “document” (2007) imply visual literacy and political knowledge. Do you expect the
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Lunch Lecture Review: Amar Kanwar – Image and Education – The Lightning Testimonies
13 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
In Monday‘s Lunch Lecture the documenta 12 artist Amar Kanwar spoke about his work The Lightning Testimonies, and reported on
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Siegesgärten
Raised above the ground, with 70 packets of seeds hidden within its grass, this 17-metre-long flower-bed is an indictment of the latest form of Colonialism: biopiracy.
Four examples of the motifs and texts by the artist, Ines Doujak, are to be
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Movie trailer at documenta 12: Roger M. Buergel in conversation with Mark Lewis
10 August, 8 pm, Gloria Kino
Scenes of people scurrying to and fro, captured from a very different perspective: Only their shadows appear to collide randomly. It is rush hour.
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Art education with Ruth Noack
8 to 10 August, 6 to 7 pm, Neue Galerie
At its halfway stage on 4 August, the exhibition recorded a total of 330,000 visitors, with interest in art education at documenta 12 also reaching record levels. This week the exhibition
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Review - Jürgen Stollhans as Guest Speaker in the Salon des Refusés
8 August, 5 pm, Former police station
Invited to deliver the guest lecture in the Salon des Refusés this Wednesday was the documenta 12 artist Jürgen Stollhans. In his presentation he
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documenta 12 in the Land der Ideen
6 August, 3 pm, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
documenta 12 has been chosen as one of “365 Orte im Land der Ideen” (365 Places in a Country of Ideas) by an initiative entitled “Deutschland – Land der Ideen”.
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Pictures of the poppy field
The artist will be publishing a book on the work and would like to encourage you to contribute to it.
The work Mohnfeld (Poppy Field) by Sanja Iveković was realised with the support of the Office for Gender Equality
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Lunch Lecture Review: Dirty and Stinking
1 September, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Panel members: Ulrich Schötker (documenta 12 visitors service), Catrin Seefranz (press spokesperson) and Michael Wilhelm (documenta 12 visitors service).Moderation: Carmen
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Local resident Süleyman Gül supports the documenta 12 advisory board initiative 1+1
On the morning of Friday 27 July Süleyman Gül, owner of Cafe Hurricane in Kassel-Nordstadt, slipped tickets for documenta 12 worth a total of 1,000 Euros into the 1+1 box on
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Lunch Lecture Review: Fast and Furious Collaboration: Ad-hocing in Art
26 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
What is the current state of (cultural) collaboration? What role is to be played by the curators who invite collaboration in post-Fordist cultural
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Screening - Enquête sur le/notre dehors 2004–2007
24 July, 5 pm, Gloria Kino
Enquête sur le/notre dehors 2004–2007 (Research on the/our exterior 2004–2007) is a documentary by the documenta 12 artist Alejandra Riera in collaboration with Peter Pál
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Lunch Lecture Review: The Palmbook
20 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Rather than taking their places on the specially-constructed podium, Heiderose Hildebrand and Eva Sturm chose to sit on the stairs in order to be on the same level as the audience. At
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Lunch Lecture Review: Processual Aesthetics, Processual Editing: Net-Working
19 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
This panel discussion focussed on the aesthetics and practices of cultural networks and on how to fashion productive collaboration. The director
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Black Chords Plays Lyrics
Thirteen black guitars and amplifiers are arranged in the space. Walls of black fabric separate the ensemble from its setting, creating an aesthetic situation dominated by spotlights on the individual guitars. Black Chords Plays Lyrics is a
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Review - Danica Dakic: EL DORADO. Guided Tour
18 to 20 July, 4 pm to 5.30 pm

“Colori Colorado”, lilts a child‘s voice. These opening words echo through the halls of the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel, rhyming neatly with El Dorado, also the
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EL DORADO. Guided Tour
18 to 20 July, 4 pm to 5.30 pm
In the performance EL DORADO. Guided Tour, Danica Dakic becomes a multivocal creature which guides visitors through the German Tapetenmuseum ('Wallpaper Museum'), supported in the process by Sabine
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Lunch Lecture Review: How to survive the Paper Industry
17 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
With Simon Worthington (Mute, London), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari), Moderator: Nat Muller (Rotterdam) Editors of independent newspapers and magazines are
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Ibon Aranberri in conversation with Pablo Lafuente
documenta 12 magazines, 17 July, 4 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Questions concerning utopia and its violent end also characterise the two works Aranberri is showing at documenta 12. There are 46 framed aerial
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Shooshie Sulaiman's invitation to her Emotional Library
What actually defines a pleasant social situation? And how do the design and form of a room impact upon our perception of art? Or upon our conversations and gestures? Since 3 July, the artist Shooshie Sulaiman has
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Shooshie Sulaiman - Emotional library
3 to 17 July 2007
Beginning on July 3, the artist Shooshie Sulaiman will be inviting individual documenta 12 visitors into her Emotional library. The performance revolves around Shooshie Sulaiman as a fundamental but
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Permanent discussion - Room for talking about art and language
13 July, 2 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The project „Kunst – Sprache – Öffentlichkeit. Kommunikationsraum documenta 12“ (University of Kassel) invites to „Gesprächsraum Kunstsprache“, in
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The end of Fairytale
On Monday the last group of the 1001 Chinese visitors finally embarked upon their long journeys home to Beijing, Shanghai and the provinces. Their departure spells the end of the Fairytale. Packed into the suitcases of our Chinese guests were
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Lunch Lecture - Review: On curatorial methods: Universalist frescoes, grand statements and major exhibitions
documenta 12 magazines, 12 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The documenta magazines had invited four of their co-editors to take part in a debate on
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documenta 12 Künstler Simon Wachsmuth in discussion with Roger M. Buergel
11 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
What image do we have of the past? How true and accurate are the accounts of history presented to us? In the installation Where We Were Then, Where
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Review Lunch Lecture - Shared, Mobile, Improvised, Underground, Hidden, Floating
documenta 12 magazines, 5 July, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Lunch Lecture - Review: Shared, mobile, improvised, underground, hidden, floating
Seated on the podium of the
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Living newspaper – Silent Symposium
documenta 12 magazines, 6 July, 4 to 6 pm, documenta 12 Halle

The Living Newspaper invites members of the public to participate in a silent meeting during which ideas, drawings, questions and comments are
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The Living Newspaper
documenta 12 magazines, 3 to 7 July

The first Living newspaper originated in Russia around 1917, when Jacob Leby Moreno devised a medium to present daily news to the illiterate. Living newspapers were improvisational and consisted
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Auf einmal und gleichzeitig. Eine MachbarkeitsstudieMusical scenes for the negation of work.A documenta 12 performance on 2, 3 and 4 July 2007
In a collective work process, the artists Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, together with the composer and conductor
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"Auf einmal und gleichzeitig. Eine Machbarkeitsstudie" - Musikalische Szenen zur Negation von Arbeit"(At once andsimultaneously. A feasibility study) Musical scenes for the negation of work
from Alice Creischer, Christian von Borries and Andreas Siekmannwith the
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The Friedrichsplatz between lightning red and songs of revolution
“Now that the red is slowly taking over Friedrichsplatz it gives me hope that it will turn into a 'red square'. And maybe, in the future, Friedrichsplatz will become Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz." (Sanja
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Review Lunch Lecture - Cooperation in art and culture: When migrants lay down their own conditions
documenta 12 art education and documenta 12 advisory board, 29 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
maiz is an autonomous centre for migrants in Linz. Founded in
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Siyahî - Interview with the editor of the Turkish culture magazine

Siyahi is a culture magazine published in Istanbul and is participating in the documenta 12 magazines project. The title means “almost black”, with the additional, rather ironic,
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Renée Green: Why reply?
documenta 12 magazines, 27 June, 5 pm, documenta 12 Halle

A presentation by Renée Green, in which she will reflect upon conditions for thinking, creating and taking action in the present moment, via International Cultural
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1 + 1 Donate a free ticket...
...and documenta 12 will pass it on to a social welfare organisation in Kassel.
The documenta 12 advisory board would like to encourage visitors to documenta 12 to purchase an extra ticket in addition to their own, to donate it to a
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documenta 12 magazines: The world metaphor
documenta 12 magazines, 28 June, 4 pm, documenta 12 Halle
The world metaphorAt 4 pm, Brian Holmes (author and cultural critic) will consider documenta 12 as an exhibition of importance, not only to Germany and the
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The golden crown caps - the documenta 12 guidance system
 The idea for the gold-plated crown caps came from the design agency Vier5, which also devised the orientation system for documenta 12. They found the model for their crown caps in the spring of 2007, in the
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Lunch Lecture - Review: "Bare life" (...)
documenta 12 magazines, 27 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
What is the meaning of a string of DNA code on the back of a dinosaur? This still, taken from the Hollywood blockbuster “Jurassic Park”, furnishes an
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Lunch Lecture: Review – “The Empty Conversation”
documenta 12 magazines, 25 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
Photo: Julia Fuchs, © Julia Fuchs
What impact does a completely empty room, devoid of art and absolutely open, have on the viewer? Can such
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Soccer match: The Chinese take on the Schlachthof Youth Centre
On Saturday afternoon a small team of six Chinese, recruited from Ai Weiwei’s guests, played against six Kassel youngsters from the Schlachthof youth centre on the Nordstadtpark soccer pitch.
The first
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Review Lunch Lecture: Informal Territories - Fairytal
documenta 12 magazines, 21 June, 1 pm, documenta 12 Halle
What happens when parties of Chinese citizens stay in Kassel? Does their presence change the image of the town? Who is exoticising whom? Are
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The documenta 12 advisory council presents the netzWERKstatt (netWORKshop)
On Wednesday, the initiative documenta – hier mit uns! (documenta – here with us!), a project organised by the netzWERKstatt in cooperation with the documenta 12 advisory council, was
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Performance: Lin Yilin - The Game of Monumentality
17 June, Nordstadtpark

On Sunday there was a performance by the documenta 12 artist Lin Yilin, when 32 people from Kassel had an encounter with 32 people visiting the documenta in a game
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Official opening of documenta 12 by the German President, Horst Köhler
Following the official opening of documenta 12 by the German President, the artistic director and the curator, Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, gave President Köhler a personal guided tour of
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Flashing Nipples Remix
Towards eleven o'clock the lights gradually went out in the park as a flashing line of people wound its way slowly down the mountain.This unannounced happening was an intervention by the artist Mary Kelly, who had placed three flashing lights on
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Opening party at Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Thousands of people gathered, despite incessant rain, to celebrate at Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe on the evening before the official opening of the twelfth documenta. Following a performance by the local youth Jazz Orchestra, the
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Opening press conference
More than 2,600 journalists came to Kassel from all over the world for the documenta 12 opening press conference. In the ensuing round of questions, especially Ferran Adrià's (pdf) contribution aroused journalists' curiosity before they
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documenta 12 edition
Art makes experiences of a special kind possible. One may talk about these experiences. But one can also demonstrate them visually – in other words, show them. Here, the medium of the exhibition can become the basis of a new way of showing, a new
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documenta 12 is the product of a good three and a half years' work, and over 500 artworks are currently gathered in Kassel. Three days before the opening, the artistic director Roger M. Buergel and the curator Ruth Noack have lifted the secrecy surrounding the names of the
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documenta 12 opening Party on 15 June in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe This year’s documenta feels a close connection to the city of Kassel and its inhabitants and would like to express this relationship. For that reason, on the evening before the opening we will not be
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The Grand Tour has begun
Following the official opening of the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, the first two stops on the “Grand Tour 2007”, this week sees the opening of documenta 12 and skulptur projekte münster 07. Once every ten years there is a very
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Lovely Andrea – Video installation by Hito Steyerl
The artist on her work: There is bondage all over the place.Bondage is everywhere. I bind; you bind; we are bound. The art of knot tying is not just popular in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. I spin; you spin; we are
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Second Lives - the documenta 12 film programme
Second Lives - the documenta 12 film programmeIt is doubtful if cinema is sufficient for this; but, if the world has become a bad cinema, in which we no longer believe, surely a true cinema can contribute to giving us back
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documenta 12 trailer: Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside 
It is rush hour: everyone is hurrying to work. And later to their homes.Shadows are the main actors in the pictures of everyday life recorded by artist and film-maker Mark Lewis in London’s
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Georg Schöllhammer presents documenta 12 magazines project in London
Together with Afterall magazine, Georg Schöllhammer, editor-in-chief of documenta 12 magazines, will present the project on May 9 2007 at the Photographers' Gallery in London. For over two
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The Migration of Form Dedicated to Arend Oetker There are many crises at the documenta. How lovely. There are crises connected with the exhibition's financing — of the 19,000,000 euros in its budget, only
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The Subtle. Roger M. Buergel on 24 April at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Roger M. Buergel is to give a talk on The Subtle on 24 April 2007 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, as part of the Reden über Kunst (Talking about Art) series of lectures. The artistic director
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documenta 12 magazines – transregional meeting in New York
The 6th transregional meeting for documenta 12 magazines will be held in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in New York from 26—27 March. The subject of the two-day workshop is the third leitmotif
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Presentation in St. Gallen of the first issue of the documenta 12 magazine
Georg Schöllhammer, director of the documenta 12 magazines project, is introducing the first issue Modernity? on Wednesday 14 March 2007. The lecture Documenta Magazines —
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Presentation in Vienna of documenta 12 Magazine N°1, Modernity?
The first issue of the documenta 12 Magazine was presented at the Wiener Secession on Monday, 26 February 2007. Modernity? addresses one of the three documenta 12 leitmotifs posed by Roger M. Buergel
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The documenta 12 Magazines Project Transregional Meetings in Johannesburg
As part of the series Transregional Meetings, held in collaboration with the Goethe Institut, a panel discussion is being held in Johannesburg on 24 February 2007 on the third 'leitmotif'
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Discussion of the documenta 12 magazines project and Brumaria at ARCO
On 17 February 2007, Georg Schöllhammer (Director of documenta 12 magazines) and Darío Corbeira (co-editor of Brumaria) discuss the third of the documenta 12 leitmotifs: What is to be
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100 Days of Cinema at documenta 12 – Panel discussion at the Berlinale
The world of cinema is meeting at the Berlinale, which opened yesterday. Where there is cinema, art is often close by, which is why Berlin’s film festival was chosen to offer a first
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documenta 12 magazines - presentation by Georg Schöllhammer in Paris
Georg Schöllhammer presents documenta 12 magazines in Paris on 14 February as part of the seminar Something you should know: artistes et producteurs aujourd’hui. The seminar of the École
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Lecture “Migration of Form” by Roger M. Buergel on 14 February in Munich
“An exhibition such as the documenta needs to tread a kind of path. To put it quite simply, there are things – artistic forms and juxtapositions – which have to be placed in
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Lecture by Ruth Noack in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on 7 February
On 7 February 2007, Ruth Noack will hold a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on “Migration of Forms”. The documenta 12 curator will present the history of the
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Public presentation of documenta 12 at the Royal College of Art in London
Just half a year before the opening of the exhibition, documenta 12, the Royal College of Art and the Goethe-Institut London cordially invite you to a public presentation on 30 January
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"Arte y revolución. Descongreso sobre historias del arte." A contribution to the documenta 12 magazines project
The Spanish culture and current affairs magazine Brumaria (Madrid) cordially invites you to a round of talks from 24 – 27 January 2007 entitled
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( 7. Februar 2007) ____
 
 
The Crystal Palace for documenta 12 is beginning to take shape
 
 
 
In this case, the proverbial “first sod” will in fact leave a symmetrical scar in the turf. Beginning today,
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'Location, Location, Location! – Is Provincial a Bad Word?' – a panel discussion with Roger M. Buergel in New York
Roger M. Buergel will be participating in the panel discussion 'Location, Location, Location! – Is Provincial a Bad Word?' in New York on
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'Migration of Form' – a lecture by von Roger M. Buergel in Philadelphia
Roger M. Buergel will be holding a lecture on the 'Migration of Form' at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on 11 January 2007, at 5.30pm. Katherine Stein Sachs and Keith L.
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'Migration der Form' – a lecture in German by Roger M. Buergel in Dresden on 24 January
"An exhibition like the documenta needs something akin to a red thread. After all it's about putting things – I mean artistic forms and issues – in context with one
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'Archive in motion' at the Chongqing Art Museum
The documentary part of the jubilee exhibition '50 Jahre/50 Years documenta' is being shown at the Chongqing Art Museum in China from 12 to 25 December. As the curator, Michael Glasmeier examines the history of
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Art education occupies a special place at documenta 12 and will be getting an architecture appropriate to it. In contrast to the tendency to understand art education as a service and a marketing instrument, at the next international art exhibition in June 2007 education
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The Politics of Images: Practices and Approaches to Art in the Middle East and North Africa I In partnership with the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialog, documenta 12 magazines invites the public to a panel discussion with publicists and curators that will focus
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documenta 12 magazines – transregional magazine meeting at the Cairo Goethe Institute The next transregional meeting of documenta 12 magazines will take place in Cairo on November 11-13. The participating writers, editors, and theorists from
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Panel with Ruth Noack on “Chinese Art Today“ in Turin
  As part of ARTISSIMA 13, Ruth Noack will take part in a panel discussion on the theme of “Chinese Art Today” on November 12. Besides the curator of documenta 12, the panel will consist of Fei
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The Migration of Forms – Lecture by Roger M. Buergel
“Is the migration of forms, understood not only as a historical and aesthetic fact, also viable as a curatorial method?” (Roger M. Buergel) On November 1, Roger M. Buergel will give a lecture on
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“Bounty and Beauty” – Ruth Noack at the Generali Foundation
On November 10, as part of the conference on “Art After Conceptual Art,” Ruth Noack will give a lecture entitled “Kopfgeld und Schönheit” (Bounty and Beauty), followed by a discussion
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Lecture by Roger M. Buergel at MACBA
On the invitation of MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Roger M. Buergel will speak on the theme of “What is an exhibition?” on November 25. The lecture takes place as part of the conference “Another
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Trans-Regional Magazine Congress at the Goethe-Institut São Paolo
Another trans-regional congress is being held for the documenta 12 magazine in São Paolo from 8–9 October. The participants are representing art periodicals from Brazil, Singapore, Serbia,
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documenta and Städelschule cordially invite you to a lecture by Geeta Kapur
On 6 October 2006 documenta 12 in cooperation with the Städelschule is hosting a lecture by the Indian critic and curator Geeta Kapur in Frankfurt. One of
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Roger M. Buergel Speaks at the Centre Pompidou
Roger M. Buergel is talking about the leitmotifs and perspectives for documenta 12, in Paris on 5 October. In his lecture at the Centre Pompidou, Buergel would like to show how and why his agenda came to be
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Talk by Ruth Noack in Sofia
  On Sunday 28 September Ruth Noack is delivering a lecture entitled 'Our journey towards documenta 12' at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Sofia. Admission is free to this event, which was organised by the
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Would you like to participate in an artistic experience? - A project by Ricardo Basbaum for documenta 12
Objects leave the works floor – ten white-blue steel objects are carried out of the workshop and loaded into a minibus and a colourful school bus.
The
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Trans-Regional Magazine Meeting
The first Trans-Regional Meeting of the documenta 12 magazines is being held in Hong Kong from 11 to 13 September. Editors, authors, theorists and artists from China, Russia, Sweden, USA, Indonesia, Chile and Lebanon are
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Ruth Noack and Georg Schöllhammer Speak at the Art Academy in Prague
"The topics are general but the statements should always be personal", is the highly promising title of a series of talks organised by tranzit – a locally and internationally active project
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Gift Vouchers for documenta 12 Available Online
Order vouchers for admission to documenta 12 online in the shop area. Payment is by credit card or Direct Debit. There are four different types of vouchers to choose from, for Day
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The '50 Years documenta' Exhibition in Salamanca
The retrospective '50 Years documenta 1955–2005. archive in motion' has been on show at the Goethe Institute in Salamanca, Spain, since 23 June 2006, in a cooperation with the Madrid Goethe Institute. After
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documenta 12 Presentations in Belgium
Roger M. Buergel and Ruth Noack held two lectures on documenta 12, in Belgium as part of the Public Talks series. Public Talks is a series of events initiated in collaboration with etablissement d’en face,
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A Lecture by Georg Schöllhammer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel
Director of the documenta 12 magazine Georg Schöllhammer lectured on the concept behind the magazine project, at the Kunsthochschule Kassel on 28 June 2006. The lecture was open
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The Subtle. Roger M. Buergel on 24 April at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Roger M. Buergel is to hold a talk on The Subtle on 24 April 2007 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, as part of the 'Reden über Kunst' (Talking about Art) series of lectures. The artistic director
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