Documenta11_Platform5 Impressions

exhibition

Queue in front of the Museum Fridericianum
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz

"Kontrabasssolo, opus 45" by Hanne Darboven
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Hanne Darboven Stiftung, Hamburg / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Kontrabasssolo, opus 45" by Hanne Darboven
© documenta archiv / Photo: Monika Nikolic / Hanne Darboven / Hanne Darboven Stiftung, Hamburg / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Exhibition View
© documenta archiv / Photo: Dieter Schwerdtle

"Lament of the Images" by Alfredo Jaar
© documenta archiv / Photo: Dieter Schwerdtle

"Lament of the Images" by Alfredo Jaar
© Alfredo Jaar / Photo: Werner Maschmann / Courtesy of the artist

"Lament of the Images" by Alfredo Jaar
© Alfredo Jaar / Photo: unknown / Courtesy of the artist

"One Million Years - Past (3998.031 BC to 1969 AD), 1970, Future (1999 AD to 1.001.998 AD),1998, 1970/1998," by On Kawara
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / One Million Years Foundation

"One Million Years, Past 9-25, Future 9-25, 2002," by On Kawara
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / One Million Years Foundation

„Große Tischruine / Large table ruin, 1970-1998 (detail),“ by Dieter Roth
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Dieter Roth Estate / Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Documenta11 under construction: Location former Binding Brewery
© Werner Maschmann

documenta Halle. Front View
© Werner Maschmann

"The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read, 2002," by Kutlug Ataman
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Courtesy of the artist

"Cazuelas (Beginnings) / Gefäße (Anfänge), 2002," by Gabriel Orozco
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Courtesy by the artist

"'Explorer and Explorers Confronting the History of Exploration'...! The Theater of the World" by Georges Adéagbo
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Articulés - Desarticulés / Articulated - Disarticulated" by Annette Messager
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Desarticulés / Articulated - Disarticulated" by Annette Messager
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Gallantry and Criminal Conversation" by Yinka Shonibare
© documenta archiv / Photo: Monika Nikolic / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Gallantry and Criminal Conversation" by Yinka Shonibare
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"El Hierro Conversation, 2002" by Craigie Horsfield
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Shooting Gallery, 2000" by Kendell Geers
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz /VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"The Insmonia Drawings" by Louise Bourgeois
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / The Easton Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"New Buildings for Berlin" by Isa Genzken , 2001
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Spec, 2001-2002," by Simparch
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Courtesy by the artists

"Bataille Monument, 2002" by Thomas Hirschhorn
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Bataille Monument" by Thomas Hirschhorn
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Fachwerkhäuser des Siegener Industriegebiets (Abwicklungen) / Half-timbered Houses of the Siegen Industrial Zone (Developments), 1971-1972," by Bernd and Hilla Becher
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn – August Sander Archiv

"Park - A Plan for Escape" by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Park – A Plan for Escape" by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
© documenta archiv / Photo: Monika Nikolic / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

"Die Koppel" by John Bock
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz / Courtesy of the artist, Studio John Bock

Documenta11 Team: Bernd Leifeld (managing director documenta GmbH), Lauri Firstenberg (curatorial assistant), Octavio Zaya (co-curator), Carlos Basualdo (co-curator), Ute Meta Bauer (co-curator), Okwui Enwezor (artistic director documenta 11), Susanne Ghez (co-curator), Sarat Maharaj (co-curator), Mark Nash (co-curator) , Markus Müller (director of communication documenta 11)
© documenta archiv / Photo: Ryszard Kasiewicz

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In the course of our research and preparation for Documenta11 in 2002 the curatorial team discussed the possibility of organising a sixth platform. It would feature the voices of artists, curators, critics and intellectuals formed by the experience of Documenta11 and its various platforms. The spirit of the event should be that of “reculer pour mieux sauter”, looking back to look forward, using the event to reformulate the issues most urgent to our practices just as Documenta11 itself enabled us to rethink our political, cultural and aesthetic engagements.

Documenta11 team members Ute Meta Bauer, Angelika Nollert and myself visited Okwui in Munich where he was confined by illness but where he continued to work on his Haus der Kunst and critical and curatorial projects.

Introduction by Mark Nash, Ute Meta Bauer and Angelika Nollert