It has made the city of Kassel world-famous and made it synonymous with the most important contemporary art exhibition series: documenta. In the usual five-year cycle, it celebrates a round anniversary with the 15th edition between June 18 and September 25, 2022, and was also curated by a collective for the first time: Ruangrupa from Jakarta occupies the chief chair(s) of documenta fifteen. The group took as its guiding principle the values of lumbung, the Indonesian term for a communal rice barn. These principles include collectivity, a shared construction of resources, and their equitable distribution.
These maxims were taken into account in the entire exhibition conception of documenta fifteen: Ruangrupa invited various organizations and collectives to »practice lumbung with each other, to work on new sustainability models as well as collective practices of sharing.« Out of this emerged lumbung member, 14 groupings that already in 2021 organized the series of talks lumbung calling and lumbung konteks and realized the accompanying public program Meydan, the Turkish and Arabic word for marketplace or public space.
