Documenta 16 expands curatorial team for 2027 exhibition

Naomi Beckwith, the artistic director for Documenta 16, has announced the expansion of her curatorial team with four new appointments. Raven Chacon, a Diné artist and the first Indigenous artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music, will serve as curator-at-large.

Joining the team as curatorial advisers are Osei Bonsu, a British-Ghanaian art historian and senior curator at Tate Modern; Timea Junghaus, an art historian recognized for her work with Sinti and Roma contemporary art; and Noam Segal, a scholar focusing on the intersection of contemporary art and technology from the Guggenheim Museum.

These new members join an existing core team that includes Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng. The upcoming Documenta 16 is scheduled to take place in Kassel, Germany, from June 12 to September 19, 2027, with a programmatic focus on improvisation and navigating planetary uncertainty.