Documenta 13 has started

Since June 9th, the otherwise quiet Kassel has been the vibrating
center of international contemporary art. The 13th Documenta
gathers artists from 55 countries that
will adjust the world's artistic scale of our time.

“Breakdown and reconstruction” is the motto of Documenta
13, behind the presentation of actual artistic evidence of
collapse and reconstruction is much more.

Because
if the artistic director Christov-Bakargiev explains that it
may be “art or not”, what the participants exhibit, she wants to say
that the border between what art is and what is not
becoming increasingly less important in our day.

This is once again about the relationship between art and
society and the call to think about this relationship
, which has been heard from Kassel every 5 years since 1955.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the artistic director of Documenta,
according to her own statement on Documenta 13, pursues a not concept
concept that creates space and time. Because time and space are
perceived differently in our globalized world than before
. B.
broken up and redesigned by using the Internet.

contemporary artists also take the world different, which is why the documenta is devoted to artistic research and all forms of strength and imagination that accompany artistic work.

The documenta and the world

This wide -open concept is expressed in the places where the
13th Documenta takes place: just as the Documenta 13
is limited in the idea, the space of events is limited.
used , the Fridericianum,
the Documenta-Halle and the new gallery, but already here the Documenta 13 plants
into the city.

takes place in very unusual places
: on those that serve nature and technology history, such as
Ottoneum and Orangery, or in the middle of the green area of ​​the Karlsaue, in
industrial buildings behind the former main train station and in many other
civilian rooms.

Documenta 13 also takes
place in Kabul (Afghanistan), Cairo, Alexandria (Egypt) and Banff (Canada) that it wants to make “a polylog
with other places”. With the given motto, next to
Kassel Kabul was selected as the most spectacular venue, here the
art scene was almost wiped out by the war.

An exhibition takes place in Kabul, accompanied by a number of workshops,
seminars and lectures in Kabul and the Afghan province of Bamiyan.
The subject and the goal are mostly produced in Afghanistan works related
to collapse and reconstruction and the promotion of the dialogue
between artists and the audience.

In Egypt, a seminar takes place as part of the documenta as
a two -part series of events and exchange programs between Kassel,
Cairo and Alexandria. The most remote place in Documenta 13 is located in
Canada: In the city of Banff, participants of the Documenta meet from 2nd to
15th August Kultur creators from all over the world to research
and exchange ideas.

Art and more

The list of participants of such an unlimited documenta not only
lists artists: among the almost 300 names are agricultural scientists
and activists, computer engineers and inventors, geneticists and musicians,
non-art artists and pastors, subconscious analyzics and
scientists (and 77 other professional groups that
deal with art).

However, a good half of this list consists of artists,
and only 8 of the approximately 175 artists can be found on the current list of the
most important artists in the world, which
is formed according to the frequency of public presence. So the artistic
avant -garde is really gathered here.

The concept makes you curious, as the first visitor storms
show. Anyone who has come up with after several visits to their favorite pieces
can continue to look at the current state of
contemporary art
for a long time based on the writings of the publication series “100 notes - 100 thoughts”.

already outlined the concept of the exhibition
in her “letter to a friend” (No. : “The dance was very frenetic, lively, rattling, sounding, rolling,
twisting and taking a long time”, also more than 100
days in which Documenta 13 takes place.