Curated by Jan Hoet, Michael Kröger, and Véronique Souben

Documenta IX curator and Belgian art impresario Jan Hoet is always where you least expect him. Named director of MARTa in 2001, he has since been working toward the inauguration of this Frank Gehry–designed museum in the German countryside, conceived in partnership with the local furniture industry. Although MARTa’s focus is on the interface between art, architecture, and design, its opening show allows Hoet to look back at his own career and acknowledge those who have inspired him: The resulting Wunderkammer of some three hundred works on subjects like art, jazz music, literature, and boxing will surely serve as a shrine to Hoet’s emotional approach to everything. For as he once said to me: “If you don’t understand boxing, you don’t understand art.”

— Christian Rattemeyer