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Adam Szymczyk and documenta 14

Adam Szymczyk, artistic head of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (Athens, 8. April – Kassel, 17. September 2017), during the press conference on 7. June 2017 in the Kongress Palais in Kassel.

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  • Ill. 1: Piotr Uklański - Piotr Uklański (*1968 Warsaw): Untitled (Fist), 2008. Steel pipe, paint, 1000 x 700 x 20 cm, 5. Berlin Biennale, 2008
  • Ill. 2:  Ania Molska - Ania Molska (*1983 Prudnik): Untitled, 2008. Metal, wood, 600 x 500 x 340 cm, 5. Berlin Biennale, 2008
  • Ill. 3:  Paulina Olowska - Paulina Olowska (*1976 Danzig): “Collaged Stryjeńska” exhibition, 5. Berlin Biennale, Schinkel Pavilion, 13.-29.6.2008
  • Ill. 4: The curators of documenta 14 - The curators of documenta 14 at the press conference on 7. June 2017 in the Kongress Palais in Kassel
  • Ill. 5a: Alina Szapocznikow - Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973): Grand tumeur II, 1969; Tumeurs accumulées I, 1969/70
  • Ill. 5b: Alina Szapocznikow - Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973): Souvenir I, 1971
  • Ill. 6: Arin Rungjang  - Arin Rungjang (*1975 Bangkok): 246247596248914102516... And then there were none (Democracy Monument), 2017
  • Ill. 7: Marta Minujín  - Marta Minujín (*1941 Buenos Aires): The Parthenon of Books, 2017
  • Ill. 8: Banu Cennetoğlu - Banu Cennetoğlu (*1970 Ankara): BEINGSAFEISSCARY, 2017
  • Ill. 9: Stelios Faitakis  - Stelios Faitakis (*1976 Athen): Fortunately absurdity is lost (but they haved hoped for much more), 2014
  • Ill. 10: Nikos Alexiou - Nikos Alexiou (1960-2011): The End, 2007
  • Ill. 11: Lucas Samaras - Lucas Samaras (*1936 Kastoria): Hebraic Embrace, 1991-2005
  • Ill. 12: Jannis Kounellis - Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017): Untitled, 1993. Coal, sacks, steel
  • Ill. 13: Yiannis Bouteas - Yiannis Bouteas (*1941 Kalamata): Untitled, 1974-80
  • Ill. 14: Costas Tsoclis - Costas Tsoclis (*1930 Athens): Harpooned Fish, 1985-2000
  • Ill. 15: Dimitris Alithinos - Dimitris Alithinos (*1945 Athens): A Happening, 1973
  • Ill. 16: Vlassis Caniaris - Vlassis Caniaris (1928-2011): Hopscotch, 1974
  • Ill. 17: Köken Ergun - Köken Ergun (*1976 Istanbul): I, Soldier, 2005
  • Ill. 18: Kendell Geers - Kendell Geers (* 1968 Johannesburg): Acropolis Redux (The Director’s Cut), 2004
  • Ill. 19: Danny Matthys - Danny Matthys (*1947 Zottegem): Brabantdam 59, Gent, Downstairs-Upstairs, 1975
  • Ill. 20: Piotr Kowalski - Piotr Kowalski (1927-2004): Perspective Dhuizon, 1970
  • Ill. 21: Andreas Angelidakis - Andreas Angelidakis (*1968 Athens): Polemos, 2017
  • Ill. 22: Zafos Xagoraris - Zafos Xagoraris (*1963 Athens): The Welcoming Gate, 2017
  • Ill. 23: Marina Gioti - Marina Gioti (*1972 Athens): The Secret School, 2009
  • Ill. 24: Piotr Uklański - Piotr Uklański (*1968 Warsaw): Real Nazis, 2017
  • Ill. 25a: Piotr Uklański  - Piotr Uklański (*1968 Warsaw) with McDermott & McGough, The Greek Way, 2017
  • Ill. 25b: Piotr Uklański  - Piotr Uklański (*1968 Warsaw) with McDermott & McGough: The Greek Way, 2017
  • Ill. 26: Artur Żmijewski  - Artur Żmijewski (*1966 Warsaw): Realism, 2017
  • Ill. 27: Artur Żmijewski  - Artur Żmijewski (*1966 Warsaw): Glimpse, 2016-17
  • Ill. 28a: Michel Auder - Michel Auder (*1945 Soissons): The Course of Empire, 2017
  • Ill. 28b: Michel Auder - Michel Auder (*1945 Soissons): The Course of Empire, 2017
  • Ill. 28c: Michel Auder - Michel Auder (*1945 Soissons): The Course of Empire, 2017
  • Ill. 29: Hiwa K - Hiwa K (*1975 Sulaimaniyya): When We Were Exhaling Images, 2017
  • Ill. 30a: Igo Diarra and La Medina - Igo Diarra (*1968 Bamako) and La Medina: Installation made from objects and archive materials on Ali Farka Touré, 2014-17
  • Abb. 30b: Igo Diarra und La Medina - Igo Diarra (*1968 Bamako) and La Medina: Installation made from objects and archive materials on Ali Farka Touré, 2014-17
  • Ill. 31: Beau Dick - Beau Dick (1955-2017): 21 masks from the series “Undersea Kingdom” (2016/17)
  • Ill. 32a: El Hadji Sy  - El Hadji Sy (*1954 Dakar): Disso – Concertation, 2016
  • Ill. 32b: Hadji Sy  - El Hadji Sy (*1954 Dakar): Disso – Concertation, 2016
  • Ill. 33a: Guillermo Galindo  - Guillermo Galindo (*1960 Mexiko-Stadt): Flightdestinationeuropedisastersoundbody, 2017
  • Ill. 33b: Guillermo Galindo - Guillermo Galindo (*1960 Mexiko-Stadt): Flightdestinationeuropedisastersoundbody, 2017
  • Ill. 33c: Guillermo Galindo - Guillermo Galindo (*1960 Mexiko-Stadt): Flightdestinationeuropedisastersoundbody, 2017
  • Ill. 34: Cecilia Vicuña - Cecilia Vicuña (*1948 Santiago de Chile): Quipu Gut, 2017
  • Ill. 35: Aboubakar Fofana - Aboubakar Fofana (*1967 Bamako): Fundi (Uprising), 2017
  • Ill. 36: Miriam Cahn - Miriam Cahn (*1949 Basel): KOENNTEICHSEIN, 2015-17
  • Ill. 37: Stanley Whitney - Stanley Whitney (*1946 Philadelphia): various works like “For Joy and Grief”, “Homa, Roma” etc. in a cabinet, 2017
  • Ill. 38: Marie Cool Fabio Balducci - Marie Cool Fabio Balducci (*1961 Valenciennes, *1964 Ostra): Untitled 2003-2011
  • Ill. 39a: Maria Eichhorn - Maria Eichhorn (*1962 Bamberg): Rose Valland Institute, 2017
  • Ill. 39b: Maria Eichhorn - Maria Eichhorn (*1962 Bamberg):  Rose Valland Institute, 2017
  • Ill. 40a: Pélagie Gbaguidi - Pélagie Gbaguidi (*1965 Dakar): The Missing Link. Decolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone (2017)
  • Ill. 40b: Pélagie Gbaguidi - Pélagie Gbaguidi (*1965 Dakar): The Missing Link. Decolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone (2017)
  • Ill. 41a: Y. Gianikian/A. Ricci Lucchi - Yervant Gianikian (*1942 Merano) and Angela Ricci Lucchi (*1942 Lugo di Romagna)
  • Ill. 41b: Y. Gianikian/A. R. Lucchi - Yervant Gianikian (*1942 Merano) and Angela Ricci Lucchi (*1942 Lugo di Romagna)
  • Ill. 42: Nilima Sheikh - Nilima Sheikh (*1945 Neu-Delhi): Terrain: Carrying Across, Leaving Behind, 2016-17
  • Ill. 43: A. Sprinkle/B. Stephens - Annie Sprinkle (*1954 Philadelphia) and Beth Stephens (*1960 Montgomery, West Virginia): Free Sidewalk Sex Clinic, 2017
  • Ill. 44a: Sergio Zevallos - Sergio Zevallos (*1962 Lima): A War Machine, 2017
  • Ill. 44b: Sergio Zevallos - Sergio Zevallos (*1962 Lima): A War Machine, 2017
  • Ill. 45 Elisabeth Wild - Elisabeth Wild (*1922 Wien): Fantasias, 2016-17
  • Ill. 46: Manthia Diawara  - Manthia Diawara, An Opera of the World, 2017
  • Ill. 47: Agnes Denes  - Agnes Denes
 (*1938 Budapest): The Living Pyramid, 2015/2017
  • Ill. 48: Ibrahim Mahama  - Ibrahim Mahama (*1987 Tamale): Check Point Sekondi Loco. 1901–2030, 2016/17
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Adam Szymczyk, artistic head of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel
Adam Szymczyk, artistic head of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (Athens, 8. April – Kassel, 17. September 2017), during the press conference on 7. June 2017 in the Kongress Palais in Kassel.

An “ecosexual” installation by Annie Sprinkle (*1954 Philadelphia) and Beth Stephens (*1960 Montgomery, West Virginia), both of who are known for their radical feminist art and (since 2005) for wedding rituals marrying them to areas in the world, proposes a marriage with the Earth (Ill. 43). The Peruvian, Sergio Zevallos (*1962 Lima) has been living in exile in Germany since 1989. From the start of the 1980s he has been dealing with conflicts in his home country. His multimedia installation, „A War Machine“ (2017, Ill. 44a, b) deals with so-called social norms that are regarded as normal, sick, civilised or primitive. Elisabeth Wild (*1922 Vienna, Ill. 45) creates an “Iconography of Cool Chic” with her collages from lifestyle magazines. “Her approach is like a collector bringing elements of earthly glamour and glitz together in order to liberate them from the consumer world and transform the all too familiar into new images.” (Adam Szymczyk)[42]. The artist can look back on a turbulent life covering almost all of the 20th century. In 1938 she fled from the Nazis to Argentina with her parents, a Jewish wine merchant family. In 1962 she emigrated once more with her husband, the textile entrepreneur August Wild, to Basel, this time from Juan Perón’s right-wing regime, only to return with her daughter to South America once more in 1996 to live by Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.

Anyone who follows Szymczyk’s recommended tour of the 35 showplaces at the documenta 14 in Kassel[43], will arrive at well-known venues from past Documenta exhibitions, like the Naturkundemuseum im Ottoneum, the Orangerie, the Karlsaue, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. But the exhibition also invites visitors to explore new venues: the Cinestar, the Gloria-Kino and the BALi-Kinos im Kulturbahnhof for film fans; then the out of the way Nordstadtpark, or the Torwache in the centre, which is highly popular with tourists. At the centre of the daily film programme in the Große and Kleine BALi cinemas are works by filmmakers whose lives have been equally influenced by art and migration. In his film “An Opera of the World” (2017. Ill. 46), Manthia Diawara (*1953 Bamako) follows migration routes to Europe, but also documents his return to Mali to observe African ensembles rehearsing an opera on the banks of the Niger, which clearly exposes the social problems and reasons for migration from Western Africa. Agnes Denes, (*1938 Budapest), a multimedia and land art artist who lives in the USA, has been creating pyramids since the mid-1960s. Her latest work, “The Living Pyramid” (2015-2017. Ill. 47), is being shown in the Nordstadtpark, which is primarily frequented by university students and the multinational inhabitants of North Kassel. According to the documenta 14 Map Booklet, the nine metre tall open-air sculpture is “a monumental ecological structure that is simultaneously organic and social because of its need for care that is provided by the artist herself.

The Ghana artist, Ibrahim Mahama (*1987 Tamale, Ill. 48) enveloped both buildings in the uncompleted Torwache (1805) with sewn up jute sacks to make up a “Check Point Sekondi Loco” (2016/17). Mahama deals with traders to exchange new sacks for old torn sacks, with which he has been covering public buildings in Accra since 2011. They are produced in Asia and, in Ghana, are used for global merchandising of cocoa, coffee, rice, beans and charcoal. “The history of world trade materialises in these sacks. For Mahama they are, on the one hand, forensic proof in his search for manifestations of capitalist economics in the world, on the other hand they reveal local references within the international working class. The people who weave, pack, load and transport articles also leave behind their sweat, their names, dates and other coordinates on the sacks. The facts become skin with scars that retell a socio-political and economic prehistory.” (Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung) [44]

 

[42] Adam Szymczyk: Elisabeth Wild, on the website of documenta 14: http://www.documenta14.de/de/artists/13597/elisabeth-wild, also in documenta 14: Daybook, Munich 2017, pages on 7. August

[43] A map with a list of the venues in Kassel can be found on the website of documenta 14, http://www.documenta14.de/de/public-exhibition/

2017, pages on 28. August

[44] Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung: Ibrahim Mahama, on the website of documenta 14: http://www.documenta14.de/de/artists/13704/ibrahim-mahama, also in documenta 14: Daybook, Munich