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 La Intermundial Holobiente, Theaterschlag , 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Nils Klinger

La Intermundial Holobiente, Theaterschlag, 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Nils Klinger

We asked curators and writers about the BDS(M) scandal and they predicted documenta’s future.

 Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, Tritangtu , 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Nils Klinger.

Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, Tritangtu, 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Nils Klinger.

We asked curators and writers about the Taring Padi controversy and about identitarian art.

 Hamja Ahsan, documenta Fried Chicken , 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Frank Sperling

Hamja Ahsan, documenta Fried Chicken, 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, 2022. Photo: Frank Sperling

We asked writers and curators about the interesting and distressing aspects of documenta 15.

Picked by Daniel Baumann, Joanna Fiduccia, Dean Kissick, Ella Plevin, Robert Schulte, Klaus Speidel

 Ibrahim Mahama Check Point Prosfygika. 1934-2034. 2016-2017  (2017) Photo: Mathias Völzke

Ibrahim Mahama
Check Point Prosfygika. 1934-2034. 2016-2017 (2017)
Photo: Mathias Voelzke

Alexander Scrimgeour gets to the bottom of the problem that is the Athens instalment of Documenta

 Angelo Plessas

Angelo Plessas
Photo: Stathis Mamalakis

Recommendations from Angelo Plessas
& Andreas Angelidakis

 The documenta team: Peter Iden, Arnold Bode, Harald Szeemann, Bazon Brock, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Ingolf Bauer Photo: © documenta Archiv

The documenta team: Peter Iden, Arnold Bode, Harald Szeemann, Bazon Brock, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Ingolf Bauer
Photo: © documenta Archiv

Harald Szeemann’s documenta 5 is considered one the most important exhibitions in the history of art. But hardly anyone is familiar with its original concept, which, in the spirit of May 1968, turned radically against art as something you could own. Instead of the art object, the collective event took centre stage. Bazon Brock, who worked with Szeemann on the project, talks about the exhibition that could have been.

 Leon Kahane and Yanis Varoufakis photographed by Keren Cytter 

Leon Kahane and Yanis Varoufakis photographed by Keren Cytter 

Since this summer everybody knows that Yanis Varoufakis is a principled idealist, that his wife is an artist, and that he drives a motorbike very fast.