A nyolctagú jelölő bizottság javaslata alapján Adam Szymczyk személyében megválasztották a 2017-ben megrendezésre kerülő kasseli documenta 14 művészeti vezetőjét. A nemzetközi szakértőkből álló bizottság első körben hat kandidátust kért fel koncepció kidolgozására, ezek alapján hármukkal személyesen is beszélgettek, ezután született meg a döntés. A posztra jelentkezni nem lehetséges.
A jelölő bizottság tagjai voltak: Suzanne Cotter, Chris Dercon, Susanne Gaensheimer, Kim Hong-hee, Koyo Kouoh, Matthias Mühling, Joanna Mytkowska, Osvaldo Sánchez.
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Adam Szymczyk (born 1970 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland) is Director and Chief Curator at Kunsthalle Basel. He was a co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, at which he worked as Curator from 1997 till 2003, when he assumed his new post in Basel. At Kunsthalle Basel, he organized exhibitions including Piotr Uklanski: Earth, Wind and Fire (2004); Tomma Abts (2005); Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam and Lee Lozano: Win First Don’t Last Win Last Don’t Care (both 2006); Micol Assaël: Chizhevsky Lessons (2007); Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are (2009); Moyra Davey: Speaker Receiver (2010); Sung Hwan Kim: Line Wall (2011); Paul Sietsema and Adriana Lara: S.S.O.R. (both 2012), as well as group shows including Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) (with Salvatore Lacagnina, 2010), How to Work/How to Work (More for) Less (both in 2011). In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art under the title When Things Cast No Shadow and in 2012 he curated Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. He is a Member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2011, he was recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.