Greece's National Museum of Contemporary Art collaborates with 'documenta 14'

The news was officially announced by the exhibition organisers in Kassel on Tuesday and passed on by the Athens municipality press office.
The museum will house a significant proportion of the international art exhibition in Athens, while a sizeable portion of the EMST collection will then be put on show in Kassel, adding an unique dimension to the long-awaited art event.
This is the first time that the 60-year-old documenta exhibition will be held in a second city, in addition to Kassel, following an agreement signed by Athens Mayor George Kaminis and Kassel Mayor Bertram Hilgen.
Preparations for the Athens opening of documenta 14 are now in the final stages, with a series of events planned for the launch between April 6-8. These include a horseback procession through the centre of Athens and a 100-day horseback journey covering 1,850 miles, from Athens to Kassel, passing through the western Balkan countries such as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia and Slovenia.
More than 5,000 foreign journalists, artists, critics and official delegation members are expected to attend the official press conference and other launch events.
The exhibition in Athens will then run until July 16 and that in Kassel from June 10 until September 17, featuring actions from all over the world to highlight a dialectic relationship that is attempted for the first time in the documenta exhibition's 60-year history.
Documenta is one of the world's largest international modern art exhibitions, which has been held in the German city of Kassel every five years since 1955.