Until 25 September documenta fifteen will take place in Kassel, Germany. One of the main art events on the calendar, this year documenta was curated by the Jakarta-based artists’ collective ruangrupa, the first time in the exhibition’s history that it is led by artistic directors from.
Following its relaunch from Tara Arts to Tara Theatre in 2021 under Artistic Director Abdul Shayek, 2022 will see the company produce shows and events locally, nationally and internationally of differing scales and on different platforms.
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Wajukuu Art Project. Photo: Shabu Mwangi
The Indonesian collective ruangrupa, who are curating the 2022 edition of Documenta, have announced additional international collaborators. The group are organising their show around the idea of
Pooling their harvest is Britto Arts Trust, an organisation based in Dhaka and which explores Bangladesh’s missing histories, cultures and communities; also FAFSWAG, a Moana Oceanic arts collective ‘committed to social change’, especially within the context of queer indigenous identity; and the Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR), which emerged from a public action called by the artist and activist Tania Bruguera in which people read and discussed Hannah Arendt’s book