Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

The Leitmotifs: Three questions posed for art but also for its public Artistic director: Roger M. Buergel documenta is regarded as the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was supposed to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it with its own failed Enlightenment. Nobody would have thought at that time that the exhibition, often called the Hundred Day Museum, would become an unparalleled success. Nevertheless, the twelfth documenta will be taking place in summer 2007. The singular character of the exhibition has been preserved. Every five years, a new director is chosen and the exhibition is reinvented, a concept which to date has been affirmed by the public's interest. The number of visitors has continually risen. More than 650 thousand visitors came to Documenta11. Under continually changing directorship, and in the equally leisurely and inexorable rhythm of five years, documenta has advanced to become an authoritative worldwide seismograph of contemporary art. At documenta it becomes manifest whether art is succeeding in grasping the world in images and whether these images have validity for its public. Halil Altindere Eleanor Antin Maja Bajevic Yael Bartana Johanna Billing James Coleman Danica Dakic Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg Harun Farocki Andrea Geyer David Goldblatt Sanja Ivekovic Luis Jacob Amar Kanwar Mary Kelly (USA) Jiri Kovanda Zofia Kulik Louise Lawler Zoe Leonard LIN Yilin Inigo Manglano-Ovalle J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere George Osodi Alejandra Riera Lotty Rosenfeld Martha Rosler Allan Sekula Ahlam Shibli Jo Spence Hito Steyerl Imogen Stidworthy Jürgen Stollhans Guy Tillim Tseng Yu-Chin Lidwien van de Ven Simon Wachsmuth ZHENG Guogu Artur Zmijewski