The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art
The documenta Institut invites you to its first research exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein. With The China Moment, the documenta Institut focuses on a decisive phase in contemporary Chinese art.
Filmscreening: Ghosts, Icons, Clouds, Dreams
As part of the accompanying program for the exhibition “The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism in Chinese Contemporary Art,” which runs until March 22, 2026, at the Kasseler Kunstverein, we invite you to the film screening of "Ghosts, Icons, Clouds, Dreams" at the BALi Kinos. The moving-image works of four Chinese artists, Bo Wang, Tang Han, He Zike, and Zheng Yuan, navigate between history and the present, reality and dream, attentively capturing the rapid transformations of contemporary China. From Hong Kong’s wig industry and its haunting memories of Asia’s late-20th-century modernization, to Mao’s portrait on banknotes and its crisis of representation in the digital age; from “data center clusters” in Southwest China, where sky clouds and digital clouds converge, to the dreams of laborers within a tech-driven society obsessed with speed and efficiency. The program accompanies the exhibition “The China Moment” at Kasseler Kunstverein, the first research exhibition by documenta Institut Kassel.
Call for Abstracts: Kunst – Ausstellung – Diskurs
We invite scholars from various disciplines, artists, designers, and early-career researchers to submit their abstracts! About a year before the opening of documenta 16 (2027), the conference will examine the relevance, functions, and uses of theoretical discourse at contemporary art exhibitions. Naomi Beckwith, director of the upcoming documenta, most recently curated the exhibition "ECHO DELAY REVERB" at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, which traced the far-reaching influence of so-called "French theory" on American art. She argues that this theory was not only received linearly, but also changed and productively misunderstood in the course of its artistic translation.