CARLA ACEVEDO-YATES, THE LATIN AMERICAN VOICE ON THE CURATORIAL TEAM OF DOCUMENTA 16

Naomi Beckwith, appointed artistic director of documenta 16 in December 2024, announced the curatorial team with which she will develop the exhibition, publications, and programming of the event, taking place from June 12 to September 19, 2027, in Kassel. The team comprises Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng.

Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator and researcher working with contemporary art of the Americas from a transcultural perspective, with a particular focus on the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. She has held curatorial positions at the Michigan State University Broad Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she curated the group exhibitions Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s – Today and entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, among other projects. Her recent exhibitions, publications, and lectures have focused on diaspora as a site of cultural production that reimagines social and political life.

Naomi Beckwith said: “I am grateful to walk with this team in crafting documenta 16. I admire their independence of spirit and thought which, for each, is fueled by their generosity to artists and audiences alike. We are all excited to traverse, together, myriad fields of current artistic practices and to be in dialogue with the immense issues shaping our planet’s manifold social and cultural landscapes and its futures.”

documenta 16 will take place from June 12 to September 19, 2027 in Kassel.