Documenta began in 1955 as an attempt to re-establish culture and visual arts as the main focus of society and to reconnect Germany to the field of the international art of the moment after the policies of the Third Reich. Since then, Documenta is held periodically every five years and has become a global contemporary art exhibition that sets out the urgencies that define our present and reflect on the relationship between art and society.
In addition to the exhibition presented in the city of Kassel in 2012, this year’s edition of Documenta (13) is conceived as a choreography of different activities, knowledge, methods, materials and artistic gestures articulated around four major topics and spatial fields corresponding to four positions in which artists and thinkers currently find themselves and from which they operate.