Untere Karlsstr. 4, 34117 Kassel
Phone +49 561 70 72 73 100
e-mail archiv@documenta.de
Opening Hours of the Reading Room:
Tuesday to Friday
From 9.00 am til 4.00 pm
With appointment via lesesaal[at]documenta.de
The reading room will be closed on Friday, October 4th, 2024.
Online inquires for the records, media and library material can be sent directly to the following e-mail addresses:
• aktenarchiv[at]documenta.de
• medienarchiv[at]documenta.de
• bibliothek[at]documenta.de
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On September 7, the documenta archiv will once again be taking part in the Kassel Museum Night.
Together with cultural scientist Alexia Pooth, we invite you to a filmic journey exploring divided Germany.
Recently a special gift from director and film producer Brigitte Kramer. She curated the film program in the Bali cinemas for documenta 10 (1997) and accompanied the artistic director of documenta 10, Catherine David, with her camera on her international research trips between Kassel, Paris, Venice and São Paulo.
The influential exhibition organizer, museum director and professor Kasper König died on August 9, 2024 aged 80. With his passing, the international art world has lost an exceptional figure.
Do art and science go together or not at all? Top-class guests – art historians, artists, media scientists and computer scientists – will discuss their perspectives and opinions in an exciting panel discussion.
This year, we are once again welcoming two Goethe Fellows to the documenta archiv. Nadia Martin (Buenos Aires) and Anna Petrova (Odessa/Berlin) will be joining the team for the coming months.
US video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73. Bill Viola was represented four times at the documenta in Kassel: Most recently with his work “The Raft”, which was shown as a collection piece from the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in the rotunda of the Fridericianum as part of documenta 14 (2017).
