documenta 16 ADDS 4 NEW CURATORS TO ITS TEAM

documenta 16 (D16), one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in the world, held every five years in the city of Kassel, Germany, has expanded its curatorial team. Naomi Beckwith, artistic director of D16, welcomed Raven Chacon as curator at large and Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus, and Noam Segal as curatorial advisors. Together, their international experience, extensive knowledge of contemporary music and movement-based performance, and specialization in new technologies bring together perspectives from diverse geographies, disciplines, and intellectual traditions.

Together with Beckwith and her core curatorial team, made up of Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng, the group will shape the program and artistic vision of D16, which draws on improvisational artistic strategies as a tool for addressing uncertainty and examining the promises and perils of today’s technologies.

A few words from Naomi Beckwith, artistic director of D16: “I couldn't be more thrilled to work with these brilliant makers and scholars whose convictions are as strong as their commitment to collaborative practice.”

D16 will welcome visitors to Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027, creating a space for shared experiences, listening, and cross-cultural dialogue. The exhibition and its programs will honor artists who navigate a turbulent world, and will develop strategies and new possibilities for living together amid planetary indeterminacy. Improvisation, experimentation, and collective learning will open new paths.

Raven Chacon is an award-winning composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, on the Navajo Nation. In 2022, he became the first Native American artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a solo artist, he has exhibited, performed, and presented his work at numerous museums, festivals, and biennials around the world. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created works presented at documenta 14 and the Carnegie International, as well as the three-kilometer-long land art installation Repellent Fence, located on the border between the United States and Mexico.

Chacon has been an active musician for 24 years and has participated in more than 80 releases on various national and international labels. Since 2004, as part of the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project (NACAP), he has mentored more than 300 young Native American composers in high schools, supporting them as they compose new string quartets.

Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator, author, and art historian based in London. He is currently Jorge M. Pérez Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora at Tate Modern, where he is responsible for shaping the museum’s international exhibition program, collection strategy, and curatorial research.

He holds an MA in History of Art from University College London and a BA in Curatorial Studies from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His academic work focuses on postcolonial approaches to historiography and the development of global and transnational modernisms, with particular emphasis on artists from Africa and the Global South.

Timea Junghaus is an art historian and curator. Her work addresses issues of migration and displacement, as well as the critical analysis of artificial intelligence and contemporary technological change. A prominent figure in contemporary art and critical thought among the Sinti and Roma of Europe, she was founding director of Gallery8 – Roma Contemporary Art Space in Budapest (2013–2017), co-initiator of the institutional project RomaMoMA, and founding executive director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in Berlin (2017–2025). She curated Paradise Lost, the first Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, in 2007, and has collaborated with numerous institutions and biennials, including documenta, Manifesta, the Milan Triennale, and the Berlin Biennale.

Noam Segal is a curator, researcher, and scholar in the field of contemporary art, specializing in the intersection of art, technology, and society. She is the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she chairs the LG Guggenheim Award. She was previously director of curatorial research in the MA program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts. She holds a PhD in hermeneutics and cultural studies. She was a visiting researcher at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, has lectured around the world, and has published articles in leading art publications, artist catalogs, and peer-reviewed journals. Segal has collaborated with major international institutions and biennials, including the Palais de Tokyo, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Performa NYC, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, BAM in New York, the Gwangju Biennale, and the Berlin Biennale.