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Documenta 13 – 100 days – free access to journal articles

16 sep 2012

Last update: 24 may 2023

To mark Documenta 13 we have been allowing free access to selected Afterall journal articles on artists featured in the exhibition. These are normally only accessible to those with a subscription. More articles will be made available over the course of the exhibition. Join us on Facebook for updates.

Michael Rakowitz, What Dust Will Rise?, 2012 Commissioned and produced by Documenta 13 with the support of Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, and Lombard Freid Projects, New York. Photograph: Roman März. Courtesy the artist and Lombard Freid Projects, New York

Available from 9 August 2012

Michael Rakowitz:

Storytelling by Sofía Hernández by Chong Cuy

‘A Visionary Dream, Unrealized’: The Drawings of Michael Rakowitz by Stephanie Smith

Jimmie Durham:

Stone as Stone: An Essay About Jimmie Durham by Anders Kreuger

Jimmie Durham: For the Price of a Magazine by Anthony Huberman

Available from the 30 June

Doug Ashford & Julie Ault:

Citizen Artists: Group Material by Alison Green

Counter-Time: Group Material’s Chronicle of US Intervention in Central and South America by Claire Grace

Subject Production and Political Art Practice by Marius Babias

Javier Téllez:

El sueno de la razon produce monstruos: On the Work of Javier Téllez by Michèle Faguet

Acting Naturally: The Face and the Mask by Melissa Gronlund

Available from the 9 June

Kai Althoff: Pictures from a Damaged Life by Alexandra Heimes

Gerard Byrne: Why It’s Time for Realism, Again by Maria Muhle

Tacita Dean: Magic World: A Report on a Future Visit to Shepperton by Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar

Julie Mehretu: Julie Mehretu’s ‘Perfect’ Pictures by Peter Eleey

Sanja Ivekovic: Pictures of Women by Nataša Ilić and Dejan Kršić

Omer Fast: From Homer to Omer Fast by Elisabeth Lebovici

Rosemarie Trockel: Mechanics of Meaning, or the Painting Machine by Anne Wagner

You can use the search function on this site to find further Afterall articles on artists in the exhibition, including, Alighiero Boetti, Thea Djordjadze, Trisha Donnelly, Sam Durant, Theaster Gates, Susan Hiller, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Goshka Macuga, and Anri Sala.

Documenta 13 opens to the public on Saturday 9 June and continues until the Sunday 16 September 2012.

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