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Kassel (dpa) - The next documenta is likely to be more global than any before: The list of co-curators from all over the world continues to grow.

The art exhibition in Kassel is scheduled to take place from June 18 to September 25, 2022.

15 artist collectives from more than a dozen countries are involved in the preparations.

The «documenta fifteen» is managed by the Indonesian artist collective Ruangrupa.

They call their working principle «lumbung», the Indonesian word for a communally used rice barn in which excess harvest is stored.

The documenta 2020 announced that institutions from all over the world should join forces “to practice lumbung together”.

The «lumbung members» should «share and preserve resources such as time, space, money, knowledge, care and art».

The list of these «lumbung members» has now grown to 14 collectives with an undisclosed number of heads.

It should stay that way for the time being, as the documenta press office announced: "Within the framework of documenta fifteen, this network will not grow any further - it should, however, continue to have an effect beyond documenta fifteen, in which this network will continue to exist and remain active."

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Involved are: Britto Arts Trust (Bangladesh), FAFSWAG (Oceania), Fondation Festival sur le Niger (Mali), Gudskul (Indonesia), INLAND (Spain), Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (Cuba), Jatiwangi art Factory (Indonesia), Project Art Works (Great Britain), Question of Funding (Palestine), Más Arte Más Acción (Colombia), OFF-Biennale (Hungary), Trampoline House (Denmark), Wajukuu Art Project (Kenya) and, as the only German representative, the «Center for Art and Urbanism »in Berlin.

Due to the corona pandemic, members currently only meet digitally.

The radius of the Zoom conferences has expanded considerably, said a spokeswoman: "With the appointment of five more lumbung members, we are now holding meetings between Nairobi, Havana and Kassel."

The contact is important “to get to know the individual artistic approaches and related lumbung practices better”.

There are sometimes "considerable challenges", reported the press office, for example due to the time differences.

The schedule until 2022 is not in jeopardy: "The preparations on the way to documenta fifteen are going according to plan".

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"Lumbung" members

Center for Art and Urbanism