All about Adam: a profile of Documenta’s activist director

Adam Szymczyk, the Polish curator who is Documenta 14s artistic director, introduced this years edition with a powerful statement: We aim to question the supremacist, white and male, nationalist, colonialist way of being and thinking that continues to construct and dominate the world order. The inequalities in the art world have been centuries in the making, but in the past ten years the signs of a rebalance have become more visible. Documenta has long been at the vanguard of the expansion of t