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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.…

Saturday September 9, 2017
Celebration of the Accomplishment of the Collection of Forbidden Books
with Marta Minujín
12 pm, noon, Friedrichsplatz, Kassel…

documenta 14 is an exercise in fragility, one which wants to learn from Athens today. After the official closing of the Athens part of the exhibition on July 16, 2017 the project continues in more than thirty venues and public sites in Kassel, documenta’s birthplace, on view until September 17, 2017, with several programs that assume presence in both Kassel and Athens…

Today, June 10, 2017, the documenta 14 exhibition opens in Kassel. Over 160 international artists present works conceived for documenta 14 at more than thirty different sites, public institutions, squares…

The opening press conference takes place on June 7, 2017, at the Kongress Palais Kassel, Holger-Börner-Platz 1, 34119 Kassel, at 11 am. This is not a public event…

We continue to collect book donations for The Parthenon of Books.
Please bring your forbidden book along on your visit to documenta 14 and drop it off directly at the Parthenon…

On April 8, documenta 14 opens its exhibition in Athens. Extending over the city in more than 40 different public institutions, squares, cinemas, university locations, and libraries, over 160 international artists will show works newly conceived for documenta 14…

documenta 14 is founded on several important institutional partnerships in Athens and Kassel. Each of these individual relationships with institutions—and the people who make them work—results in specific programming, research, and collaborative projects…

The documenta 14 Press and Information Center is an information site and first point of contact for all visitors and members of the press in Athens and Kassel…

During a press conference held at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) and documenta 14 presented the multiple dimensions of their collaboration spanning both institutions as well as their founding cities…

Press and professionals can request accreditation for the press conference and preview of documenta 14 online. To apply for accreditation, we kindly ask you to complete the online form…

34 Exercises of Freedom

September 14­–24, 2016 at Parko Eleftherias
Athens Municipality Arts Center

You are invited to be part of the Parliament of Bodies documenta 14 public program, hosted in the Athens…

Artistic Director of documenta 14 Adam Szymczyk was on a recent research trip to Johannesburg and Bamako when German Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Athens, where the minister…

Launch of the documenta 14 publication program with South as a State of Mind #6 [documenta 14 #1]. The first issue is now published in print and online. You can purchase the magazine in book shops in Germany…

On the occasion of the July 2015 referendum in Greece, Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director of documenta 14, spoke to Margarita Tsomou in Athens. The conversation was published on July 3, 2015 on ZEIT ONLINE…

Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director of documenta 14, spoke to Catrin Lorch about his wish to show the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2017. The conversation was published on April 15, 2015 in Süddeutsche…