Documenta Fifteen
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The Museum of Sepulchral Culture is the venue for documenta fifteen
The event will take place from June 18th to September 25th, 2022. documents fifteen Under the artistic direction of ruangrupa, the exhibition takes place at various locations in Kassel. The Jakarta-based collective has based the fifteenth edition of documenta on the values and ideas of lumbung, the Indonesian term for a communally used rice barn. As an artistic and economic model, lumbung is based on principles such as collectivity, collaborative resource building, and equitable distribution, and is realized in all areas of collaboration and exhibition conception.
Iumbung will be the collaborative practice of ruangrupa and the artistic team, the lumbung members and lumbung artists, and all participants on the path to documents fifteen in 2022 and beyond.
As part of documenta fifteen, Kassel's industrially shaped eastern district is for the first time receiving significant attention from a documenta exhibition: In the Bettenhausen district, characterized by extensive factory and commercial areas, the site of HÜBNER GmbH & Co KG and the nearby Hallenbad Ost (East Indoor Swimming Pool) form a large exhibition complex for documenta fifteen. From the city center, with the ruruHaus serving as the starting point and living room of the documents fifteen as well as Fridericianum, documenta Halle, Natural History Museum in the Ottoneum, GRIMMWELT and Museum for Sepulchral Culture, the documents fifteen across the Fulda river towards the east.
What can be seen?
The Mexican artist, who works in Barcelona, will be participating in documenta fifteen. Erick Beltrán He examines the mechanisms of power that define, evaluate, classify, reproduce, and disseminate images and discourses. He explores the question "What is power?" together with a local research group and presents the results in a large-scale installation of prints and sculptures. He also presents Hamja Ahsan At this and seven other exhibition venues, advertising signs for snack bars were displayed. Halal Fried Chicken offer. The signs form a network of references to Islamic history, diasporic fast-food culture, and colonial past.
carriers of documents fifteen is the documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH with the shareholders City of Kassel and State of Hesse.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The lumbung network is supported by Goethe Institute.
Main partner of the documents fifteen: Savings Banks Finance Group, Volkswagen AG
Artistic Director
ruangrupa
Artistic Team
Andrea Linnenkohl
Ayse Güleç
Frederikke Hansen
Gertrude Flentge
Lara Khaldi
lumbung member
Britto Arts Trust (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
FAFSWAG (Auckland, Aotearoa)
Fondation Festival Sur Le Niger (Ségou, Mali)
Gudskul (Jakarta, Indonesia)
INLAND (various locations, Spain)
Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (Havana, Cuba)
Jatiwangi art Factory (Jatiwangi, Indonesia)
Más Arte Más Acción (Nuquí, Chocó, Colombia)
OFF Biennale (Budapest, Hungary)
Project Art Works (Hastings, United Kingdom)
The Question of Funding (Ramallah, Palestine)
Trampoline House (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Wajukuu Art Project (Nairobi, Kenya)
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin, Germany)
Interim Director General of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
Alexander Fahrenholtz
