“dOCUMENTA (13) in a state of hope,” Cairo lecture and launch of first notebooks, April 21, 2011, 7 pm Goethe Institute
“100 Notes – 100 Thoughts.” Now available: The first 17 notebooks in both printed and e-book editions. www.documenta.de... more
“100 Notes – 100 Thoughts.” Now available: The first 17 notebooks in both printed and e-book editions
Horst Hoheisel: Aschrott Fountain cleaning, 10 am, March 29, 2011
Artist Horst Hoheisel, with Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will perform the monthly cleaning of Negative Form, Hoheisel's counter-memorial to the Aschrott Fountain in the center of Kassel, at 10 am on March 29, 2011.... more
dOCUMENTA (13) presented Pierre Huyghe’s new film The Host and the Cloud on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2011, in Kassel
The Host and the Cloud was a real experiment that occurred in a shut-down museum at the far end of an amusement park. It was witnessed live by an audience and partially filmed on three days - Halloween, Valentine’s Day and May Day between 2009 and 2010.... more
Chus Martínez, Agent, Member of Core Group, Head of Department in the curatorial office of the Artistic Director in Kassel
dOCUMENTA (13) is pleased to announce that Chus Martínez, Agent of dOCUMENTA (13) since 2009, will expand her activities to become Agent, Member of Core Group, Head of Department in the curatorial office of the Artistic Director in Kassel.... more
Second dOCUMENTA (13) artist book published in cooperation with Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht: `seeing studies´ by Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Ashkan Sepahvand for the institute for incongruous translation
Book presentation: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 8 pm, Casco, Utrecht Workshop: January 19 - 22, 2011, including a talk by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Saturday, January 22, 2011, 3 pm, Casco, Utrecht... more
“100 Notes – 100 Thoughts.” The first contributions to dOCUMENTA (13) publications are announced
As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje Cantz are publishing a series of notebooks, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, that is comprised of facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations. Commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13)'s Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev together with Agent, Member of Core Group, and Head of Department Chus Martínez, this series is edited by Head of Publications, Bettina Funcke.... more
AND AND AND / Event 6 / Lu Cafausu / Pilgrimage to San Cesario di Lecce / November 2, 2010
dOCUMENTA (13) announces curatorial team and process
During a press conference held today in Berlin at the Hebbel Theater / HAU 1, dOCUMENTA (13) announced: dOCUMENTA (13) is a series of artistic acts and gestures that are already taking place as well as an exhibition that will open on June 9, 2012, and that will run for 100 days. dOCUMENTA (13) does not follow a single, overall concept but engages in conducting, and choreographing manifold materials, methods, and knowledges.... more
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gave a lecture at Northwestern University, Chicago on October 4th 2010
The Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at Northwestern University in Chicago explores both the making of contemporary art and the ideas and theories that drive it.... more
AND AND AND / Event 5 / Vladimir Volnovik / An Address to the city of Tbilisi / Summer 2010
Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg, The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol. I: El Taco. A dOCUMENTA (13) artists’ book presented at Portikus, Frankfurt/Main on September 24, 2010, at 11 am
As a prelude to the exhibition in the summer of 2012, dOCUMENTA (13) will publish a comprehensive series of publications in the upcoming two years. The first installment is the artists’ book by Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg, produced on the occasion of their exhibition at Portikus by dOCUMENTA (13) and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book marks the expansive nature of dOCUMENTA (13) in respect to its research processes and its collaborative nature. It also pushes the limits of time and space of its editorial production, not only through engaging with extraterrestrial material – meteorites – but also through this engagement with Portikus almost two years before the actual exhibition in Kassel in the summer of 2012. ... more
AND AND AND / Event 4 / Twin Towers Go Global & Pedro Lasch / Three Anniversary Reports / September 11, 2010

