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Documenta11 Timeline

6.6 - 15.9 2002

On October 26, 1998, the
Oberbürgermeister of kassel, Georg
Lewandowski, acting on behalf of
Documenta’s supervisory board,
announced Okwui enwezor as
artistic director of Documenta11.

insistently transnational,
interdisciplinary and
transgenerational in its concerns,
the broad artistic and critical scope
of Documenta11 was devised by
enwezor and his team of six co-
curators, carlos Basualdo, ute
meta Bauer, susanne Ghez, sarat
maharaj, mark nash, and Octavio
zaya, who were introduced to the
public on October 12, 2000.

comprised of a constellation
of five platforms, realized on
four continents over the span
of eighteen months between
march 2001 and september
2002, Documenta11 extends
in substantive, spatial and
temporal terms beyond the
traditional 100 days format of
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past documenta exhibitions. The
first four platforms were devised documenta11
as committed, discursive, public gaston andré
interventions, and enacted within ancelovici
(colectivo cine-ojo),
distinct communities around documenta11
chile the atlas group
themes conceived to probe the memoirs of an (Walid ra’ad),
contemporary problematics and everyday War, 1986* neW york, usA.
possibilities of art, politics, and Film still, sweet Talk or a Beirut
29 minutes, color
society. creating a network of photographic Archive,
courtesy of First Run, 1975-/1993-*
partners, collaborators, and icarus Films, new york nr. of prints 2477
interlocutors, many institutions *work shown at nr. of available prints 200
and foundations were instrumental Documenta 11 hi-Resolution scans
in realizing, together with (b&w/color)
Documenta11, the platforms, Digital-c prints (b&w/
color/various sizes)
among them the Academy of
courtesy of the artist
Fine Arts Vienna/institute for *work shown at
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