On Monday, Alexander Farenholtz was unanimously appointed interim managing director by the Documenta supervisory board.
This was announced by the chairman of the supervisory board of the art show, the mayor of Kassel, Christian Geselle, and the Hessian art minister, Angela Dorn.
The shareholders were happy to have found an experienced cultural manager in the challenging situation.
Farenholtz, who was born in 1954, will take on the task with immediate effect; his commitment is initially limited to September 30th.
Farenholtz is very familiar with the Documenta.
The administrative science graduate was appointed managing director in 1989 for the realization of Documenta 9 under the artistic direction of Jan Hoet.
At the beginning of 2002 he was appointed administrative director of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
He held this office alongside the artistic director Hortensia Völckers until he reached retirement age in January 2020.