"Kunst first, Geld second!" Das documenta 14 Finanzdefizit im öffentlichen Diskurs

Lecture by Tamara Bodden at the traces research station

In the series Vergiftete Verhältnisse - Gespräche zur Gegenwartskunst, Tamara Bodden will speak on June 7 about the reporting on the financial deficit of documenta 14. Who was allowed to speak, who was not? What was said - and what was concealed?

A few days before the end of documenta 14, the local Kassel newspaper HNA reported that the exhibition's budget would not be met. According to the report, the world-famous art show was heading for a deficit of millions. In her lecture, Tamara Bodden takes a look at the resulting media coverage of the documenta 14 deficit. Her topic is the public debate about the financing of documenta 14, consisting of regional, national and international newspaper articles, petitions, open letters and press conferences. Looking back on this discourse sheds light on the matter itself. About the events as such and the power to interpret them. How did the voices from art, politics and society negotiate the case in Kassel at the time? And what can we learn from this for our present day?

Location: traces research station at Lutherplatz, 34117 Kassel