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The symposium Critical Fabulations of documenta is about the gaps, omissions, and suppressed histories in the narratives surrounding documenta. Rather than treating these absences as deficits, it understands them as productive starting points for rethinking its history.
How much theory is there in art—and how much art is there in theory? This question has shaped debates around documenta at least since its 10th edition in 1997, when Catherine David placed theoretical discourse at the center of the exhibition. Nearly 30 years later, the curator of the upcoming documenta 16, Naomi Beckwith, revisited this question: in her exhibition ECHO DELAY REVERB at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, she examined the influence of poststructuralist and postcolonial theories on US-American art.
The China Moment is the first research exhibition presented by the documenta Institut. The exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein focuses on a pivotal phase in contemporary Chinese art, during which the relationship between the individual, the state, and society underwent a fundamental transformation.
The documenta Institut in Kassel is being repositioned for the future: After a founding phase under the umbrella of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, the institute, which is dedicated to the significance and impact of the world's most important exhibition of contemporary art and other exhibition formats, is now taking up its work as an independent research institution with financial support from the state of Hesse. The search for a successor to founding director Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude is underway.
