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Gordon Hookey, Solidarity , 2017. by Ben Eastham ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE / ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ART / BENAKI MUSEUM / MUSEUM OF ANTI-DICTATORSHIP / NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART / PARKO ELEFTHERIAS ,  Athens April 8-July 16, 2017 The fourteenth edition of Documenta takes place, for the first time in the institution’s history, across two locations. By staging it in Germany and Greece, and expressing the hope that an exhibition bankrolled by the former might effectively critique the infrastructures of power that have immiserated the latter, curator Adam Szymczyk signalled that this would be a Documenta defined by its internal contradictions. The embrace of paradox continued in the press conference for the Athens opening, during which Szymczyk spoke about the possibility of “learning from Athens” through a process of “unlearning what we know.” That revealing “we” encapsulates some of the concerns surrounding the decision to splay Documen...

Photography by Lala Meredith-Vula After years of secrecy, Documenta 14 has quietly released its artist list on its website . This year’s quinquennial, which is headed by Adam Szymczyk, takes place in Athens and Kassel, Germany . Its Greek half opens to the public on Saturday, and a preview was held this morning. Documenta’s organizers had been notably tight-lipped about the artist list and details around this year’s edition, citing the fact that they didn’t want to play into the art-world PR cycle . Some projects were known already—Maria Eichhorn’s Rose Valland Institute , for example—but for the most part, Documenta 14’s details had been kept under wraps. At this morning’s preview the artists were unveiled—quite literally. A stage curtain was lifted to reveal all the curators and artists (minus the deceased ones, of which there are quite a few), who were seated in rows, like students at a graduation ceremony. A choir performing a Jani Christou wa...