documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH welcomes Nicole Deitelhoff and Christoph Menke as members of the newly founded Scientific Advisory Board. Nicole Deitelhoff was already Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of documenta fifteen in 2022 and played a key role in dealing with the anti-Semitic incidents. From now on, Deitelhoff and Christoph Menke will advise the Supervisory Board and the management of documenta gGmbH on a professional and scientific level.
The Scientific Advisory Board has the task of taking up current social and scientific discourses in the specific context of documenta gGmbH and making them fruitful for the further development of documenta.The members promote the professional and curatorial networking of documenta gGmbH and contribute their own and other relevant international, world-opening and pluralistic perspectives from science and research.
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 important step towards the future viability and increased crisis resilience of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH. We are thus sending a strong signal for the further development of documenta as a global cultural event.”
The members are appointed for five years at the suggestion of the Supervisory Board. In addition to Deitelhoff and Menke, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, Susanne Gaensheimer, Diane Lima and Thomas Sparr were also appointed to the Advisory Board.
To the press release of documenta gGmbH: Here…