As the saying goes, it’s the victors who write the story. But in the case of Documenta, Germany’s world-famous art exhibition founded in the rubble of World War II, the opposite is also true.

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Fiona Hall, “Fall Prey” (2009–12), mixed media, dimensions variable (courtesy Fiona Hall, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; all images courtesy Documenta 13) There’s been much talk in the art world ...

Every five years since 1955, documenta and the Fridericianum Museum have organised the world’s most important exhibition of international contemporary art in the German city of Kassel. The documenta ...

KASSEL (dpa) – With a year before the documenta, one of the world’s leading exhibitions of contemporary art, officially gets under way, organizers in its hometown of Kassel in northern Germany are ...

When the time came to make the three-hour pilgrimage from Berlin to the humble town of Kassel, Germany, for Documenta—arguably the world’s largest exhibition of contemporary art—I was overcome with ...

KASSEL (dpa) – Germany’s documenta has traditionally seen itself as a “world exhibition” of contemporary art. But until now the art on display once every five years was mainly European and North ...

One of the art world’s most important events, Documenta, is at its halfway point. So far, a tiny fraction of the art has been the main topic of conversation. By Alex Marshall Documenta, an art world ...