![]() ![]() All the while, pressure was building up at the top level of German politics, where the Green cultural minister had been involved in mitigation since the very beginning.ĭocumenta fifteen: The Question of Funding hosts Eltiqa, 2022, installation view, WH22, Kassel, June 15, 2022. ![]() ![]() These include a January blog post by a small Kassel-based organization decrying members of the Palestinian collective The Question of Funding as anti-Semitic a cancelled series of public debates on anti-Semitism and racism in May various instances of inadequate crisis management and even before the opening, the exhibition space of the Palestinian collective was vandalized with a cryptic death threat. But by that point a cascade of events had been fermenting for months. The culmination of these events was documenta’s decision in June to remove a banner made by the Indonesian collective Taring Padi depicting the political violence of the Suharto regime, in which the public noticed two clearly anti-Semitic figures. The question is how it can be defended in a way that also allows for a constructive critique of the exhibition.Īnti-Semitism allegations have cast dark clouds over what is arguably the world’s largest contemporary art exhibition. Whether this documenta should be defended is not the question.
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