“The East” at documenta and the major exhibition as event and institution
In her talk, given on 16 June 2021 at the opening of “documenta. Politics and Art”, co-curator Prof Dr Dorothee Wierling discussed two themes of our current exhibition, namely the attitude of documenta towards “the East” and the social-historical aspect of the international art show.
Documenta as a Forum for Distancing Germany from Its Nazi Past and Seeking Alignment with North America
documenta. Politics and Art
Report from Exile
Fred Stein – a Family’s portrait by Peter Stein
Hannah Arendt: Only within the Limits of Nature is Freedom Possible
Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe | Alexander von Humboldt and Film
Column: Democracy 2019
Column: Moses before Moses
Column: How Revolutions End
Column: At Any Price
Column: Piggy Bank Nation: Why Cash Still Matters in Germany
Column: Saving: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Column: Revolution Today
Column: The Dutch and Their ‘Oranje Feeling’
Column: Take to the Streets on 8 March!
Column: What is Virtual Reality? Uses for Society and Culture
Column: The Power of the Picture
Column: Unsatisfied Curiosity
Column: Willi Ruge: Photos for a New Era
Column: The Empathetic Museum
Column: The World Revolution That Wasn’t
Column: Using Children to Play Power Politics
Column: Press, Pictures and the Public
Column: Why the Nazis Were Afraid of Modern Art
Column: Do We Need Museums, Or Can They Go?
Column: “For me, homewards only ever heads toward Germany”
