documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen.…
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body is proposed by documenta 14 curator Pierre Bal-Blanc in collaboration with the Greek choreographer Kostas Tsioukas, and performers and dancers Myrto Kontoni and…
In spring 2014, Theo Eshetu happened to be filming the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin in the southwestern suburb of Dahlem as workers were taking down a banner to ready the facade for the 8th Berlin Biennale…
Few filmmakers in recent years have managed to combine formal innovation with a programmatic stance toward filmmaking quite like Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. In the process of reinventing…
with Luis-Manuel García, Elena Puentes, Panagiotis Vaxevanakis, and Dimitris Papanikolaou
This panel discussion organized in collaboration with the FASMA Festival looks into the political present and history of electronic music, particularly focusing on its diverse roots.
In 1903 Isadora Duncan and her family arrived in Athens, where they resolved to remain and establish a place for dance to be experienced in a fluid relationship with everyday living. Designed according…
Cornelia Gurlitt was the daughter of the well-known Dresden art historian Cornelius Gurlitt Sr. and the sister of Hildebrand Gurlitt. A talented graphic artist and draughtswoman well-versed in the angular…
The brutalist Neue Hauptpost, renamed the Neue Neue Galerie by documenta 14, was inaugurated in 1975 as Kassel’s main post office and mail distribution center. In the wake of the partial privatization…
Carmelo Bene’s 1971 film Don Giovanni is not an adaptation of a famous Don Juan story. Instead, the film critically investigates the multifaceted legend of the wealthy male sinner who seduces one woman after another. This is a film about Don Juanism…
(A text which reflects on those who are absent and on biographies, narrates Durito’s first encounter with the Cat-Dog, and talks about other things that may or may not be relevant, as the impertinent…
with Andrew Feinstein, Johan Grimonprez, and Marina Fokidis
A discussion on Democracy and War with Andrew Feinstein, author, and Johan Grimonprez, artist moderated by Marina Fokidis, Head of documenta 14 Artistic Office, Athens
Early in the winter of 2015, the Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut quietly reopened its permanent display of Islamic art and architecture. Less a wing than a modest corner of a…
