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exergue - documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Greece 2024, English / German spoken with English subtitles, 848 min.
Open City Documentary Festival 2025
exergue - on documenta 14 follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14. Titled “Learning from Athens”, the 2017 edition of the world’s most prominent art exhibition was held for the first time both in its home of Kassel in Germany and Athens in Greece, a gesture that referenced Germany’s bail-out of Greece, which ultimately profited the German government. documenta 14 went notoriously over budget, prompting a media scandal and financial investigation that overshadowed the artistic merits of the exhibition.
To coincide with the screening of exergue - on documenta 14, Adam Szymczyk, artistic director of documenta 14, will be present in-person for an in-depth conversation, hosted by Chris McCormack.
Co-presented with Open City Documentary Festival 2025 and Art Monthly.
exergue - on documenta 14 follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14. Titled “Learning from Athens”, the 2017 edition of the world’s most prominent art exhibition was held for the first time both in its home of Kassel in Germany and Athens in Greece, a gesture that referenced Germany’s bail-out of Greece, which ultimately profited the German government. documenta 14 went notoriously over budget, prompting a media scandal and financial investigation that overshadowed the artistic merits of the exhibition.
To coincide with the screening of exergue - on documenta 14, Adam Szymczyk, artistic director of documenta 14, will be present in-person for an in-depth conversation, hosted by Chris McCormack.
Co-presented with Open City Documentary Festival 2025 and Art Monthly.
07:30 pm
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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18 - 20 April
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exergue - on documenta 14
Structured in 14 episodes (screening over three consecutive days), exergue – on documenta 14 offers a look behind the scenes of the institutional contemporary art world. The film follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14.
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