{"id":7880,"date":"2025-08-18T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:42:07","slug":"naomi-beckwith-reveals-documenta-16s-all-female-artistic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7880\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Beckwith Reveals Documenta 16’s All-Female Artistic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNaomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum\u2019s deputy director and chief curator, has named her artistic team for her edition of Documenta, which will open in Kassel, Germany, in June 2027. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am grateful to be working with this team on Documenta 16<\/a>. I admire their independence of spirit and thought, characterized by a deep respect for artists and audiences alike,\u201d Beckwith said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to exploring the diverse fields of contemporary artistic practices together and engaging in dialogue with the pressing questions shaping our planet\u2019s social and cultural landscapes and their futures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBeckwith will plan the exhibition of Documenta 16 with the four-person team of Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodr\u00edguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng. They will also run point on the publication and programming for Documenta 16, which will run from June 12, 2027, to September 19, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarla Acevedo-Yates is a curator and scholar specializing in contemporary art of the Americas with a focus on the Caribbean and Latin America diasporas. She has held curatorial roles at the\u00a0Michigan State University\u00a0Broad Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where her recent projects included \u201cForecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s \u2013 Today\u201d\u00a0and \u201centre\u202fhorizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMayra A. Rodr\u00edguez Castro\u00a0is a writer and publicist who in 2018 was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRomi Crawford is a professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studies the intersection of art-making, economics, and politics. She is also the founder of the Black Arts Movement School Modality and New Art School Modality platforms.<\/p>\n

\n\tXiaoyu Weng led the modern and contemporary art department at the Art Gallery of Ontario and is the newly named director<\/a> of the New York alternative space Art in General, a position she will hold while helping run the Tanoto Art Foundation. She previously worked at the Guggenheim Museum, where she created an online series<\/a> examining anti-Asian racism, with an eye to contemporary artists\u2019 perspectives on the swell of it during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the first all-female artistic team to lead Documenta since the quinquennial\u2019s founding in 1955. Beckwith is the first Black woman to helm an edition of the show, as well as the second-ever American-born artistic director, after Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeckwith\u2019s appointment followed a protracted selection process that followed the heavily scrutinized 2022 edition<\/a>. Against the backdrop of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, the entire selection committee\u00a0resigned before Documenta could even name a curator<\/a>\u00a0for the upcoming edition, forcing the art festival to restart the selection process. An entirely new selection committee was announced earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tSven Schoeller, chairman of Documenta\u2019s supervisory board, called Beckwith\u2019s appointment \u201cthe start of a new future for documenta.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum\u2019s deputy director and chief curator, has named her artistic team for her edition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,7942,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-7880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-documenta-16","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}