Politics documenta Artists Launch (Another) Petition Protesting Political and Financial Meddling David), documenta 11 (Okwui Enwezor), documenta 12 (Roger Buergel / Ruth Noack), and dOCUMENTA (13) By Henri Neuendorf, Dec 13, 2017
Analysis The Gray Market: Why documenta 14’s Budget Mess Is More Complicated Than It Seems (and Other Insights An independent audit of documenta 14 won't arrive until later this coming week, and documenta's communications By Tim Schneider, Sep 18, 2017
Art World What Brought documenta to the Brink of Bankruptcy? Auditors Find a One-Word Culprit: Athens documenta chairman and Kassel mayor Christian Geselle in a statement. By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 15, 2017
Art & Exhibitions documenta’s Board Presents an Interim Audit Report, and Some Excuses of documenta." By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 22, 2017
Art World From Socks to Artistic Tablecloths, Here’s the Best Merch From documenta 14 The shop includes the expected documenta totes (€10), documenta ballcaps (€19), and white leather documenta By Ben Davis, Jun 6, 2017
Art & Exhibitions Documenta Looks to the Future on Its 60th Anniversary, with Substantial Gift from Kassel Documenta 14 director Adam Szymczyk emphasized the need for Documenta to engage in global cultural exchange.Photo By Henri Neuendorf, Jul 16, 2015
Art & Exhibitions Germans Enraged by Documenta Relocation exhibition last week (see "Athens to Host Documenta 14"). By Henri Neuendorf, Oct 13, 2014
People ‘Community-Based’ Indonesian Collective ruangrupa Will Be the Artistic Director of documenta 15 director Sabine Schormann succeeded Annette Kulenkampff last fall, after she agreed to step down from her post By Kate Brown, Feb 22, 2019
Art & Exhibitions A Startling Exhibition on the History of Documenta Reveals the Political Moves—and Nazi Ties—of Its First Co-founders of Documenta Werner Haftmann (left) and Arnold Bode at the opening ceremony of Documenta By Kate Brown, Jun 24, 2021
Politics Documenta Planned to Address Accusations of Anti-Semitism Through a Series of Talks—But Then Abruptly Documenta vehemently denies the allegations. By Kate Brown, May 4, 2022
Art World documenta’s Curators Mount a Blistering Defense After Claims of Financial Mismanagement They went on to ask: "How can the value production of documenta be measured?” By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 14, 2017
Art & Exhibitions Athens to Host Documenta 14 Documenta is not unprecedented. By Alexander Forbes, Oct 7, 2014
Art World Former documenta CEO Annette Kulenkampff Is Cleared of Criminal Wrongdoing for Last Year’s $6.3 Million company a year earlier than planned, leaving her post on June 1 and becoming managing director of the By Naomi Rea, Aug 9, 2018
Art World Adam Szymczyk Led documenta to the Brink of Bankruptcy With a Show That Went Vastly Over Budget A post-mortem is already scheduled at a second board meeting next week, where the independent auditors By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 12, 2017
Law & Politics Investigation of documenta 14’s Shaky Finances Widens to Include Possible Embezzlement of Public Funds , Bertram Hilgen, and Christian Geselle, his successor in both posts. By Kate Brown, Feb 15, 2018
Art World Kassel Plans a Permanent documenta Institute to Build on the Art Festival’s Success In Kassel, the establishment of a planned €24 million ($26.7 million) documenta institute is in its final By Henri Neuendorf, Jun 21, 2017
Art World documenta Taps a Corporate Art Exec as CEO in a Bid to Regain Public Trust After Last Year’s Budget Scandal Kulenkampff agreed to step down from her post by mutual decision in November, a year before the expiration By Henri Neuendorf, Apr 25, 2018
Art World Adam Szymczyk Pushes Back Against documenta’s Financial Audit, Accusing the Board of ‘Fabricating’ a (The city's incumbent mayor is always automatically also the chair of documenta.) By Hili Perlson, Nov 21, 2017
Art World Over 200 Artists Pen a Letter in Defense of Adam Szymczyk and documenta’s Organizers In a response posted on publishing platform e-flux, artist Georgia Sagri wrote that she didn't understand By Henri Neuendorf, Sep 18, 2017
Art World Documenta Chief Leaves Post, Replaced by Hatje Cantz Publisher Documenta managing director Bernd Leifeld will step down from his post on April 1st, according to an By Alexander Forbes, Mar 25, 2014