Overview

• Beckwith named Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng to her core team.
• Documenta 16 is scheduled in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027.
• The four curators will shape the exhibition and lead publications and public programming.
• Beckwith, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator, is the first Black woman to helm a documenta edition.
• The appointments arrive as the organization faces ongoing scrutiny, including criticism of a new code of conduct seen by free-speech advocates as conflating antisemitism with anti-Zionism.