50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005
dal 31/8/2005 al 20/11/2005
Segnalato da
31/8/2005
50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005
Fridericianum, Kassel
An Exhibition in Five Chapters
An Exhibition in Five Chapters
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum is staging a
major jubilee exhibition on the multifaceted history of the documenta. The
exhibition 50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005, curated by Michael Glasmeier,
addresses this sometimes contradictory and erratic history from a present-day
perspective, choosing a range of approaches and materials. In an endeavour to
present as many aspects as possible, the exhibition is divided into five
intersecting and complementary sections: an archival chapter, an art history
chapter, a site-specific chapter, a film chapter, and a scholarly chapter. It is not
a recollective exhibition. It is about dealing productively with an institution that
has the task of reflecting each current present.
From the abundance of material available in the documenta Archive of the City of
Kassel, a selection has been made for the chapter archive in motion, casting light
on historical knowledge about past documenta-exhibitions, presented in eleven
separate “chambersâ€. To stress the living nature of the archive, this selection is
backed by works of contemporary artists, offering a broader view of history and
demonstrating a creative approach to the archive.
Artists:
William Engelen | Friederike Feldmann | Sabine Groß | Katrin von Maltzahn | Katharina Meldner | Jonathan Monk | Alexander Roob | Tilo Schulz | Andreas Seltzer / Heike Vogler | Heidi Specker | Kai Vöckler
The chapter Discreet Energies does not focus on well-known exhibition highlights:
for this section, discreet works that sometimes run contrary to the course of art
history are being brought back to Kassel. The selected works by more than 90
international artists are discreet because they do not obtrude or embody scandals,
because they are too poetic or anarchic. In this setting – away from the major
exhibition of the documenta – they become the subject of a new discussion.
documenta-works by:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila | Giovanni Anselmo | Ida Applebroog | Art & Language | Jo Baer | Thomas Bayrle | Samuel Beckett | Joseph Beuys | Zarina Bhimji | Guillaume Bijl | Julius Bissier | Bernhard Blume | Christian Boltanski | George Brecht | Marcel Broodthaers | John Cage | Luis Camnitzer | Robert Capa | Lawrence Carroll | Christo | Lygia Clark | William Copley | Marcel Duchamp | Ed Emshwiller | Walker Evans | Jean Fautrier | Robert Filliou | Fischli & Weiss | Lucio Fontana | Terry Fox | Malcolm Goldstein | Rodney Graham | Johan Grimonprez | Ulrike Grossarth | Hans Haacke | Richard Hamilton | Peter Handke | Karl Hartung | Werner Heldt | Pierre Henry | Ernst Hermanns | David Hockney | Mauricio Kagel | R.B. Kitaj | Pierre Klossowski | Alison Knowls | Ferdinand Kriwet | Wilhelm Lehmbruck | George Maciunas | Piero Manzoni | Agnes Martin | Gordon Matta-Clark | Henri Michaux | Paula Modersohn-Becker | Malcolm Morley | Bruce Nauman | Claes Oldenburg | Nam June Paik | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Markus Raetz | Gerhard Richter | Dieter Roth | Ed Ruscha | Reiner Ruthenbeck | Rob Scholte | Jan Schoonhoven | Seth Siegelaub | Robert Smithson | Nancy Spero | Mark Tansey | Paul Thek | André Thomkins | Mark Tobey | Heinz Trökes | Hans Uhlmann | Ed van der Elsken | Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | Weegee | William Wegman | Fritz Winter | Krzysztof Wodiczko | Adolf Wölfli | Wols
The exhibition will be accompanied by a two-volume catalogue published by Steidl
Verlag. German/English edition. Price: 38 Euro. ISDN 3-86521-146-1
50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005 is being staged by the Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel. The organisers are the documenta and the Museum Fridericianum
Veranstaltungs-GmbH, the documenta Archive of the City of Kassel, and the Institute
for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart. Funded by the German Federal
Cultural Foundation, Halle.
Patronage: Federal President Horst Köhler.
Image: Gerhard Richter, Arnold Bode, 1964
Foto: Kurt-Willi Julius
Courtesy: Gerhard Richter
kunsthalle fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18 D-34117 Kassel