Documenta is a quintennial international art exhibition, long assumed to be the most important contemporary art exhibition of our time. Its home is in Kassel in Germany, where it was begun in the 1950s to exorcise the spectre of facism and its destruction of freedom. that is why it is upheld as an exhibtition hwere curators and artists have artistic freedom.

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