Documenta 16 will take place from 12 June to 19 September 2027 in Kassel and will be led by Naomi Beckwith. The curatorial team is composed entirely of women: Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng. Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator at MCA Chicago with prior experience at the Broad Art Museum and a focus on diaspora as cultural production. Romi Crawford researches race and ethnicity in American visual culture, teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and founded the New Art School Modality in 2023. Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a Colombian writer and editor who has contributed to Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail and whose publications include Dream of Europe: Selected Seminar and Interviews, 1984-1992.
Naomi Beckwith, the artistic director of documenta 16, has unveiled her creative team for the next edition of the contemporary art exhibition, which will take place in 2027 (12 June-19 September). This marks the first time that the influential show, which is held in the German city of Kassel every five years, will be led by an all-female team. Beckwith, the deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, was announced as the curator of the 16th edition of Documenta in December last year.
Carla Acevedo-Yates is currently a curator at the MCA Chicago. Previously, she was the associate curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she organised solo exhibitions by Johanna Unzueta, Claudia Peña Salinas, Duane Linklater, and Scott Hocking. "Her recent exhibitions, publications, and lectures have focused on diaspora as a site of cultural production that reimagines social and political life," says a documenta statement. In 2022, she organised the Focus section at the Armory Show fair in New York.
Romi Crawford's research practice explores areas of race and ethnicity linked to American visual culture including art, film, and photography, according to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she works as a professor. Her publications include The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017). In 2023, she founded the New Art School Modality, a new art institution that aims to make art education more accessible.
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