Athens / KasselMarch 17, 2017

Documenta 14

documenta 14 and its Athens-based partner, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), will work together in Athens and Kassel. The EMST, as the largest venue, will be the main host of the documenta 14 in Athens. In return, a curated selection of works from the EMST collection, ranging from the 1960s to the present will be exhibited at the Fridericianum during the documenta 14. From April 8 to July 16 (Athens), documenta 14 will showcase a wide range of newly commissioned artworks at the recently renovated EMST building, a former brewery conceived by the visionary Greek architect Takis Zenetos in collaboration with Margaritis Apostolidis in 1961. Curator Monika Szewczyk said "the incredible factory building," which was designed along a horizontal axis and meant to be extendable without interrupting production, inspired the exhibition. The show will revolve around the idea of a libidinal economy and aims to rethink production processes, materials, and currencies as both social and public flows. Opening on June 10 and running through September 17 (Kassel), an exhibition of more than two hundred artworks from the EMST collection, including major works by Stephen Antonakos, Vlassis Caniaris, Bia Davou, Mona Hatoum, and Jannis Kounellis, will be presented at the Fridericianum. It will be supervised by EMST curators Tina Pandi and Stamatis Schizakis. The exhibition at Fridericianum during documenta 14 in Kassel marks the first time that the collection of Greece's National Museum of Contemporary Art is presented in Germany. The approach of Katerina Koskina and the curatorial team of EMST consider the collection vis-à-vis the long history of the Fridericianum, established in 1779 as the first public museum in mainland Europe.
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