Overview
- Naomi Beckwith announced an expanded curatorial roster for Documenta 16 that adds Raven Chacon as curator-at-large and Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus, and Noam Segal as curatorial advisers.
- Raven Chacon is a Diné artist and composer who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music and previously showed at Documenta 14 as part of Postcommodity.
- Osei Bonsu is senior curator for international art for Africa and its diaspora at Tate Modern, Timea Junghaus led Roma cultural initiatives including the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, and Noam Segal is an associate curator focused on art and technology at the Guggenheim.
- Beckwith has said some invited artists have declined participation, reporting worries about artistic freedom in Germany and objections to Germany’s stance on the Gaza war, a dynamic that follows the 2022 Documenta controversy and the exhibition’s new code of conduct defining antisemitism.
- Documenta 16 is scheduled to run in Kassel from June 12 through September 19, 2027, and the new team could shape who participates and how the program responds to political and institutional scrutiny.