Art World documenta 14 Cancels ‘Auschwitz on the Beach’ Performance Amid Intense Criticism In a statement published on documenta 14’s website, curator of public programs Paul B. By Henri Neuendorf, Aug 22, 2017
Art World documenta 14 Erects an Obelisk in Central Germany to Welcome Refugees Three weeks ahead of the opening of documenta 14 in Kassel on June 10, the second half of Adam Szymczyk By Hili Perlson, May 19, 2017
Art World ‘The Ship Is Now Back on Course’: documenta Boosts Its Budget After a New Report Shows It Overspent Even The final audit of documenta’s over-budget 2017 edition has revealed that losses were more than €2 million By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 30, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Documenta Director Adam Szymczyk Wants to Show Gurlitt Collection of Nazi-Looted Art 14 and Germans Enraged by Documenta Relocation). By Henri Neuendorf, Apr 16, 2015
Art World The Tao of Szymczyk: documenta 14 Curator Says to Understand His Show, Forget Everything You Know The documenta 14 press preview. Photo Hili Perlson. By Hili Perlson, Apr 6, 2017
Art & Exhibitions The Head of Documenta Has Resigned Amid an Ongoing Antisemitism Scandal as the Mega-Exhibition Seeks Sabine Schormann, director general of Documenta, has resigned from her post. By Kate Brown, Jul 18, 2022
Politics ‘This Was Our Error’: Documenta Curators Have Apologized for Including a Mural With Antisemitic Imagery The members of Ruangrupa, the artistic team behind Documenta 15, have issued a formal apology over the By Dorian Batycka, Jun 24, 2022
Market In an Unofficial Spinoff of Documenta 15, Johann König Is Selling 100 Works from Past Documenta Artists Documenta 15 on Misa.art, the online marketplace set up by German gallerist Johann König. By Anna Sansom, Jul 4, 2022
Art World Smeared as ‘Disaster Tourism,’ documenta 14 Tried to Revive Athens’s Post-Crisis Art Scene. “The pre- and post- documenta argument that has been heavily used is, in my opinion, a partial association By Hili Perlson, Nov 19, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Cuban Artists Show Up En Masse to Documenta, Bringing Their Plight at Home to the Wider Art World for Documenta 15, which opens to the public on June 18. By Artnet News, Jun 17, 2022
Art & Exhibitions Documenta 2022 Will Now Have Even More Curators, With the Nine-Person Collective Organizing It Bringing documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH: ruruHaus. Photo: Nicolas Wefers. By Kate Brown, Jun 22, 2020
Art World Details of Secretive documenta 14 Keep Trickling In: Venues of Athens Leg Revealed More details are slowly being revealed about documenta 14, which opens on April 8 in Athens, and June By Alyssa Buffenstein, Mar 23, 2017
Opinion Ruangrupa, the Collective in Charge of the Next Documenta, Reflect on What It Means to Curate in Times exhibition "about: documenta" in the Neue Galerie. By ruangrupa, Jun 4, 2020
Reviews Documenta 15’s Focus on Populist Art Opens the Door to Art Worlds You Don’t Otherwise See—and May Not Ruangrupa emerged in the 2000s out of Indonesia’s grassroots, artist-driven, post-dictatorship art scene By Ben Davis, Jul 5, 2022
Art World These Artists Made It Into Two of the Year’s Three Biggest Exhibitions—Have You Heard of Them? 1978-9) and later, Third Text (1987), and Third Text Asia (2008), which were influential in asserting post By Hili Perlson, Jun 27, 2017
Art World From Frog Art to a Socialist Shoe Store, These Are the 8 Unmissable Artworks of documenta 14 in Kassel Courtesy documenta 14. By Ben Davis & Hili Perlson, Jun 9, 2017
On View Documenta 14’s Athens Pre-Program Focuses on Sex, Violence, and Immigration a workshop titled "Interior Effects as an Outcome of War," which focused on undiagnosed, untreated Post By Caroline Elbaor, Sep 22, 2016
Politics More Than 130 Documenta Artists and Organizers Issue a Statement Condemning ‘Racist Attacks’ Against Dozens of artists and organizers involved in the forthcoming Documenta 15 have issued a statement in By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 3, 2022
Art World The City of Kassel Is Buying the Controversial Monument to Refugees That Was the Heart of documenta It won the Arnold Bode Prize, which is awarded each documenta by the city. By Kate Brown, Jun 20, 2018
People Jan Hoet, Documenta 9 Curator and Pioneer of Ghent’s Contemporary Art Scene, 1936–2014 Complete obituaries can be found at the Washington Post and FlandersNews.be. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 27, 2014