Ex-Position

In 2002, Documenta 11 took up the challenge of expanding the one-sidedly Western, linearly written art history with long overdue artistic positions from all over the world. Due to the advancing globalization, the project D11 was presented as a multidisciplinary concept that aimed at networking theory and art. This paper examines the individual steps of the realization of the concept with regard to knowledge production on the one hand and the mechanisms of the "consumable end product" on the other. Using a number of artistic strategies, it will be shown to what extent the artistic confrontations with real problems are related to globalization and to what extent artists integrate the intellectual possibilities of interlocking constellations of discursive spheres into their artistic works.