Art Calendar - 31 December 2021

LUMBUNG KONTEKS - DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN

presents new series of talks - held on the first Sunday of every month from 5 December 2021

Tickets for the exhibition out now

The public programme of documenta fifteen, called Meydan, continues after lumbung calling with the new online conversation series lumbung konteks. For each issue, two lumbung members of documenta fifteen will be invited to present their practice and their larger ecosistem and to reflect on it in a shared conversation. In doing so, the lumbung members share stories, songs and tools for alternative communal living and working practices and talk about differences and intersections of their respective contexts.

This seven-part series will take place on the first Sunday of every month from 5 December 2021.

The background

Documenta 15 is led by the artist collective ruangrupa. The ruangrupa collective was founded in Jakarta in 2000 and is a renowned name in the Indonesian art and culture scene. ruangrupa is internationally experienced and networked and, for example, organised the art project "Market Share" together with the German artist Tobias Rehberger as a partner of the Goethe-Institut in 2015.

The documenta was founded by Kassel art professor and designer Arnold Bode in 1955 and is considered the most important exhibition for contemporary art. In 2017, it was directed by Polish curator Adam Szymczyk and took place in two cities, Kassel and Athens. It reached more people than ever before in its history; it denounced suffering, colonialism, capitalism, climate catastrophe, but unfortunately recorded a financial deficit.

The directors of documenta 15 ruangrupa, on the other hand, have a participatory approach and an excellent network. Taking their own principle further, they identified other artist collectives from around the world as participants for 2022. The way the participants were announced was also something quite new - they were announced in the German homeless magazine "Asphalt". The list of artists' collectives was also arranged by time zone, not alphabetically.

Members of the artistic team and ruangrupa in front of the ruruHaus, from left to right: Lara Khaldi, Iswanto Hartono, Gertrude Flentge, Mirwan Andan, Frederikke Hansen, Julia Sarisetiati, Reza Afisina, Ajeng Nurul Aini, Ade Darmawan, Indra Ameng, Kassel, 2021,

Photo: Nicolas Werfers

© documenta fifteen 2022

The theme of documenta 15 is the implementation of a lumbung, which in Indonesian means a kind of common property based on the sharing of resources. lumbung, is a "rice barn" where the harvest of a community is gathered together as a common resource for the future and distributed according to common criteria.

Tickets for documenta 15 are on sale and the day ticket costs 27 euros. Every ticket purchase supports sustainability projects in Germany and Indonesia with 1 euro. Soli tickets can also be purchased, which will then be donated to a visitor as a free ticket.

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By Renzo F.,  31. December 2021