Scientific Advisory Board of documenta und Museum Fridericianum appointed

They have been appointed for five years by the shareholders’ meeting at the proposal of the Supervisory Board and in consultation with the Management Board.
 
With immediate effect, the Scientific Advisory Board will advise and support the Supervisory Board and the Management Board of documenta gGmbH on a technical and scientific level. Its members will address current social and academic discourses within the specific context of documenta gGmbH and harness these for the further development of documenta. They will promote the professional and curatorial networking of documenta gGmbH while contributing their own and other relevant international, outward-looking and pluralistic perspectives from science and research.
 
“Just as each individual documenta exhibition brings forth new levels of development on the basic principle of documenta, the founding of the Scientific Advisory Board represents a significant advancement in the evolution of the world art exhibition. For the future of documenta, I am delighted at the commitment shown by the renowned experts and their willingness to contribute their expertise to the concrete cooperation with the bodies of documenta gGmbH,” says Sven Schoeller, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at documenta gGmbH and Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel.
 
Timon Gremmels, Hessian Minister of State for Science and Research, Art and Culture, emphasizes: “With the establishment of the Scientific Advisory Board we have taken another key step towards the future viability and increased crisis resilience of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH. In so doing, we are sending out a strong signal for the further development of documenta as a global cultural event.”
 
Andreas Hoffmann, Managing Director of documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, welcomes the Scientific Advisory Board: “I would like to thank all members for their commitment, their knowledge, and their perspectives. With their impulses, they make an important contribution to further profiling the institution as an internationally relevant platform for artistic exchange and, at the same time, to being able to react to challenges in a well-founded manner.”