On Kawara
From 2003 to 2011 Dercon served as the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. In his first year, he notably invited Ydessa Hendeles to co-curate "Partners", combining work by Diane Arbus, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Hanne Darboven, Walker Evans, Luciano Fabro, On Kawara, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Giulio Paolini, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner with Hendeles’s own artwork "Partners (The Teddy Bear Project)" (2002), a large-scale installation built around an archive of family-album photographs, each including the image of a teddy bear.