Aug 20, 2025

Solitude fellow Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is part of the core team of documenta 16

The Artistic Team for documenta 16: Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, Xiaoyu Weng, Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Naomi Beckwith (f.l.t.r.), Kassel 2025. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

We have great news to share! Current fellow Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is part of Naomi Beckwith’s artistic team for documenta 16!

In December 2024, Naomi Beckwith was appointed Artistic Director of documenta 16 by the international selection committee. She is now announcing her core team: The ensemble of Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro and Xiaoyu Weng will work with Beckwith to develop the exhibition, publications and programming of documenta 16.

Naomi Beckwith: »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.«

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and editor. Her titles include Dream of Europe: Selected Seminar and Interviews, 1984–1992, a collection of lectures by Audre Lorde (2020); In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love, selected writings by abolitionist philosopher Joy James, compiled as editorial advisor to Divided Publishing (2023); and Another Sun, a conversation with political theorist Françoise Vergès (2026). Across numerous titles, Castro attends to latent inscriptions, whether met in archives, verse, in song or terrain. In each page, she honors the legacies of poets, wordsmiths, and clandestine philosophers.

documenta 16 will take place from June 12 to September 19, 2027 in Kassel, make sure to save the date!

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