documenta 12 was the twelfth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 16 June and 23 September 2007 in Kassel, Germany. The artistic director was Roger M. Buergel in collaboration with Ruth Noack.documenta 12 Katalog/Catalogue, 2007, 416 pages,
Documenta 12 magazines was one of the central projects of the documenta exhibition. It was conceived and directed by Georg Schöllhammer.
Documenta 12 magazines
Documenta 12 magazines (also the Magazine project or simply the magazines) was a central project of the 12th edition (2007) of the documenta exhibition, similar in dimensions and world outreach to the "platforms" of the previous edition. Started in 1955, documenta is one of the largest and most influential exhibitions of contemporary art, taking place every five years (since the 1972 edition) in the German city of Kassel. documenta 12 magazines, conceived and directed by Georg Schöllhammer, curator and editor-in-chief of Austrian magazine Springerin, invited over 90 publications – with different formats, media and orientations in the field of art, culture, and politics from around the world – to discuss the motifs and themes of the 2007 edition. The project opened space for artists, art critics and theoreticians to plunge into an exercise of reflection on how major contemporary issues are presented in different socio-cultural contexts. The editorial team of documenta 12 magazines, run by Georg Schöllhammer, included international writers, curators and art critics Heike Ander, Fouad Asfour, Maria Berrios, Cosmin Costinas, Cordula Daus, Hu Fang, and Keiko Sei.
Invited two years before the exhibition (16 June–23 September 2007), the participating publications have generated over 300 articles, essays, interviews, commentaries and illustrated essays that are gathered in the documenta 12 magazines online journal, where interested readers can assemble their own individual magazine. From these contributions also came the three printed editions published by Taschen: "Modernity?"; "Life!" and "Education:", related to the three leitmotifs of documenta 12: Is modernity our antiquity?, What is bare life? and What is to be done (Education)?
This communication process continues during the hundred days of exhibition in documenta-Halle. Editors and authors participate in lectures and meetings, and magazine issues are released to the public.
Participants ASonia Abián Ferran Adrià Saâdane Afif Ai Weiwei Halil Altındere Eleanor Antin Ryōko Aoki David Aradeon Ibon AranberriB Monika Baer Maja Bajević Yael Bartana Mária Bartuszová Ricardo Basbaum Johanna Billing Cosima von Bonin Trisha BrownC Graciela Carnevale James Coleman Alice CreischerD Danica Dakić Juan Davila Dias & Riedweg Gonzalo Díaz Atul Dodiya Ines Doujak Lili Dujourie Lukas DuwenhöggerF Harun Farocki (Deep Play) León Ferrari Iole de Freitas Peter FriedlG Poul Gernes Andrea Geyer Simryn Gill David Goldblatt Sheela Gowda Ion Grigorescu Grupo de artistas de vanguardia Dmitri GutovH Sharon Hayes Romuald Hazoumé Hu Xiaoyuan Ashley HuntI–J Sanja Iveković Luis Jacob Jorge Mario JáureguiK Amar Kanwar Mary Kelly Olga Kisseleva Bela Kolárová Abdoulaye Konaté Bill Kouélany Jirí Kovanda Sakarin Krue-On Zofia Kulik KwieKulikL Louise Lawler Zoe Leonard Lin Yilin Lee Lozano Lu HaoM–N Churchill Madikida Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Kerry James Marshall Agnes Martin John McCracken Nasreen Mohamedi Andrei Monastyrski Olga NeuwirthO J.D.'Okhai Ojeikere Anatoli Osmolovsky George Osodi Jorge OteizaP Annie Pootoogook Charlotte Posenenske Kirill Preobrazhenskiy Florian PumhöslR Yvonne Rainer CK Rajan Gerhard Richter Alejandra Riera Gerwald Rockenschaub Lotty Rosenfeld Martha RoslerS Luis Sacilotto Katya Sander Mira Schendel Dierk Schmidt Kateřina Šedá Allan Sekula Ahlam Shibli Andreas Siekmann Nedko Solakov Jo Spence Grete Stern Hito Steyerl Imogen Stidworthy Mladen Stilinović Jürgen Stollhans Shooshie Sulaiman Oumou Sy Alina SzapocznikowT Atsuko Tanaka David Thorne Guy TillimU–Z Lidwien van de Ven Simon Wachsmuth Xie Nanxing Yan Lei Tseng Yu-Chin Zheng Guogu Artur Żmijewski
See also 9 Scripts from a Nation at War
References
Further reading Dominic Eichler, Documenta 12 2007 in "Frieze", issue 104, January-February 2007. Elena Zanichelli, "We also expected answers that weren’t harmonious." – Interview with Georg Schöllhammer, Documenta 12.
External links Documenta magazine project website