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Adam Szymczyk

Director Artístico de documenta 14, 2017

Adam SzymczykBorn in 1970 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Currently Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel.

Adam Szymczyk was a co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, where he worked as Curator from 1997 to 2003 before assuming his post in Basel. At Kunsthalle Basel, he organized exhibitions including Piotr Uklanski: Earth, Wind and Fire (2004); Tomma Abts (2005); Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam, and Lee Lozano: Win First Don't Last Win Last Don't Care (both 2006); Micol Assaël: Chizhevsky Lessons (2007); Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are (2009); Moyra Davey: Speaker Receiver (2010); Sung Hwan Kim: Line Wall (2011); Paul Sietsema and Adriana Lara: S.S.O.R. (both 2012), as well as group shows including Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) (with Salvatore Lacagnina, 2010) and How to Work/How to Work (More for) Less (both in 2011).

In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art under the title When Things Cast No Shadow, and in 2012 he curated Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

He is a member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2011, he was recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.

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documenta 14

Atenas, Grecia
8 abril - 16 julio 2017

Kassel, Alemania
10 junio - 17 septiembre 2017

Director Artístico: Adam Szymczyk

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