Kassel to build permanent Documenta Institute

Kassels city council has settled on a location to build a new Documenta Institute to serve as a research centre and to host events, conferences and exhibitions studying its significance in the contemporary art world.The city has budgeted the construction of the new centre at 24m and plans to build it on a plot of land that is currently a carpark in the north of the city, close to the university. The German government will stump up 12m, the state of Hesse will provide a further 6m and the city w