Documenta (13)

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Documenta 13 (stylised as dOCUMENTA (13)) was the thirteenth edition of the German contemporary art exhibition Documenta. It took place between 9 June until 16 September 2012 in Kassel, Germany. The exhibition was held under the theme "collapse and recovery".{{Cite web |last=Birnbaum |first=Daniel |date=2012-10-01 |title=Documenta 13 |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/documenta-13-194227/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}} Exhibits could be seen in several venues in the city, among others in the Fridericianum museum, in the Orangerie and in the Karlsaue, a large urban park.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=June 14, 2012 |title=Art Show as Unruly Organism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/documenta-13-in-kassel-germany.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326045656/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/documenta-13-in-kassel-germany.html |archive-date=2024-03-26 |work=New York Times}}{{cite web |title=Documenta |url=http://www.experience-germany.com/html/documenta.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925155233/http://www.experience-germany.com/html/documenta.html |archive-date=2021-09-25 |access-date=2013-12-31 |publisher=Experience-germany.com}}[http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de/aktuell.html?&L=1 fridericianum-kassel.de] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518195622/http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de/aktuell.html?&L=1 |date=18 May 2012}}

Its artistic director was the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev{{cite web |url=http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=299&det=ok&title=Carolyn-Christov-Bakargiev-to-direct-Documenta-13 |title=Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to direct Documenta 13 |publisher=FlashArt |access-date=10 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024153221/http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=299&det=ok&title=Carolyn-Christov-Bakargiev-to-direct-Documenta-13 |archive-date=24 October 2012}} who was chief curator of the Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin and, in 2008, also head of the Biennale of Sydney.

The exhibition's welcoming of Occupy Wall Street protesters has been framed as a "watershed" moment in the decline of that movement.{{Cite journal |last=Loewe |first=Sebastian |title=When Protest Becomes Art: The Contradictory Transformations of the Occupy Movement at Documenta 13 and Berlin Biennale 7 |url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/38717476/FIELD-01-Loewe-WhenProtestBecomesArt-libre.pdf?1441824776=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DWhen_Protest_Becomes_Art_The_Contradicto.pdf&Expires=1727599826&Signature=YwnGyCoOtxP8ZPioRkdJxnoKqynyq0niVbJjuI8LF9XDDmTpp~8Ab3QCXu61F6z6xS-PIrtfKqohf6Sy1uAIO8WZUOuI96vdr6Yd6iShwjuTjgc5HWrBT4DQPJwsnS6GTQ0SfFOGUXMVijW8ShqsvyBqGDdQ5DquIXLBSsqoMlyaZ0WMYkretAir8GjZHzu~Hh9~mw3I2dST138caFQVcf5kNXvvi-YgBywyDm457zES3YcHzxXqESBlpQlyOrmvcwsGcLfhMzpqusfUDfym6s9ISO9xTL5y3ubX0lHZE-U1yddUTNWu52plxzl2iNfH12P6lHrwargLKqH7Ns7RCA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA |journal=Field: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism |pages=186}}