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discussed the historical, social, and institutional conditions for contemporary artistic production, and
reception, both in seminars with the 120 guides, who work for Documenta11’s Visitors service, and in public
lectures. in this ongoing project, invited international scholars and artists of Documenta11 present ideas
and their work. Dedicated also to the fostering of critical dialogue with young professionals in the fields of
visual practice, the Documenta11 education project also comprises a fellowship program. On march 4, 2002,
nine young curators, artists, and scholars from mexico, japan, india, italy, Belarus, the us, Germany, and
Austria began their work in kassel to participate in the formation of the fifth platform.

On February 28, 2002, Documenta11 announced the architectural firm kühn malvezzi selected to design the
exhibition galleries. The German-italian firm, founded in 2001, based in Vienna, and consisting of Wilfried
kühn (*1967), johannes kühn (*1969), and simona malvezzi (*1966), devised an elegant, articulate,
multifaceted spatial design for our new venue at the Binding Brauerei. The scale of the exhibition spaces
adds substantially, in total square meters, to the exhibition space of Documenta11, allowing for a scale
that enables a focused engagement with the individual artistic works. Built in 1897, the brewery was
expanded four times over the course of its one hundred year history and shut down two years ago. The
stylistically heterogeneous building complex is the starting point of kühn malvezzi’s architectural design
for Documenta11. Developing a flexible grid structure to transform this non-art site into an ideal exhibition
space, they made minimal interventions into the building’s substance and its partly historic landmark
façade. in addition to the Binding Brauerei, The museum Fridericianum, the karlsaue, the documenta-hall,

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