{"id":3775,"date":"2026-03-24T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:25:33","slug":"mission-and-commission-documenta-and-the-art-market-1955-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/2026\/mission-and-commission-documenta-and-the-art-market-1955-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Commission: Documenta and the Art Market, 1955-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cToday, documenta\u2019s independence from the art market is a given \u2013 at least, on the formal level, but this has not always been the case. There was a time when documenta was at the centre of a web of vested interests as diverse as the need for funding, the desire to democratize art, and the lucrative pretensions of an emergent art market. Mission and Commission: documenta and the Art Market 1955 – 1968<\/em> explores the confluences and conflicts of such interests, approaching a well-known story from a novel, lesser-known angle. Among the main characters of this side of documenta\u2019s history are established celebrities such as Arnold Bode, the \u2018founding father\u2019 of the project, but also figures such as, among others, Hein St\u00fcnke, owner of the Galerie Der Spiegel and co-organiser of the Kassel exhibition for almost a decade; renowned gallery owner Rudolf Zwirner; visual poet Eugen Gomringer; and the Danish collector and founder of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Knud Jensen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cToday, documenta\u2019s independence from the art market is a given \u2013 at least, on the formal level, but this has not always been the case. There was a time when documenta was at the centre of a web of vested interests as diverse as the need for funding, the desire to democratize art, and the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[47,70],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-archive","tag-documenta"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t