ruangrupa, the Artistic Direction of documenta fifteen, and the Artistic Team do not regard Kassel as an exhibition venue. Instead, the city is understood as an ekosistem (the Indonesian word for “ecosystem”), as a mesh of social contexts in which documenta fifteen emerges and grows.
The exhibition focuses on four areas of Kassel: Mitte, Fulda, Nordstadt, and Bettenhausen. Starting from Kassel’s Mitte with its many museum buildings, documenta fifteen extends around the Fulda River, the city’s historically important arterial waterway. From there, the exhibition opens up to Nordstadt and, for the first time in documenta’s history, to the industrial district of Bettenhausen. documenta fifteen consciously leaves the historical and social traces of the locations visible in order to situate them in new contexts.
The thirty-two exhibition venues of documenta fifteen are:
Mitte
- C&A Façade, Obere Königsstraße 35, 34117 Kassel
- documenta Halle, Du-Ry-Straße 1, 34117 Kassel
- Frankfurter Straße/Fünffensterstraße (Underpass), 34117 Kassel
- Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, 34117 Kassel
- Friedrichsplatz, 34117 Kassel
- Gloria-Kino, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 3, 34117 Kassel
- Grimmwelt Kassel, Weinbergstraße 21, 34117 Kassel
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Brüder-Grimm-Platz 5, 34117 Kassel
- Hotel Hessenland, Obere Königsstraße 22, 34117 Kassel
- KAZimKuba, Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1, 34117 Kassel
- Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Weinbergstraße 25–27, 34117 Kassel
- Museum of Natural History Ottoneum, Steinweg 2, 34117 Kassel
- Rainer-Dierichs-Platz, 34117 Kassel
- ruruHaus, Obere Königsstraße 43, 34117 Kassel
- Stadtmuseum Kassel, Ständeplatz 16, 34117 Kassel
- WH22, Werner-Hilpert-Straße 22, 34117 Kassel
Fulda
- Bootsverleih Ahoi, Blücherstraße 20/22, 34123 Kassel
- Greenhouse (Karlsaue), Auedamm 18, 34121 Kassel
- Hafenstraße 76, 34125 Kassel
- Hiroshima-Ufer (Karlsaue), Am Auedamm, 34121 Kassel
- Karlswiese (Karlsaue), An der Karlsaue, 34121 Kassel
- Compost heap (Karlsaue), Coordinates: 51.298472, 9.493083, 34121 Kassel
- Rondell, Johann-Heugel-Weg, 34117 Kassel
- Walter-Lübcke-Brücke, 34117 Kassel
Bettenhausen
- Hallenbad Ost, Leipziger Straße 99, 34123 Kassel
- Hübner areal, Agathofstraße 15, 34123 Kassel
- Sandershaus / Haferkakaofabrik, Sandershäuser Str. 79, 34123 Kassel
- St. Kunigundis, Leipziger Str. 145, 34123 Kassel
- Platz der Deutschen Einheit (Underpass), 34125 Kassel
Nordstadt
- Nordstadtpark, 34127 Kassel
- ook_visitorZentrum, Weserstraße 26, 34125 Kassel
- Trafohaus, Lutherstraße 2, 34117 Kassel