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Announcement of D16’s Extended Curatorial Team
Naomi Beckwith, Artistic Director of D16, welcomes new members to her Curatorial Team: Raven Chacon joins the team as Curator-at-Large, Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus, and Noam Segal as Curatorial Advisors. Their collective international experience, expansive knowledge of contemporary music and movement performance, and expertise in new technologies bring together perspectives from diverse geographic backgrounds, disciplines, and intellectual traditions. Together—alongside Naomi Beckwith and her core Curatorial Team Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng—the group will shape the program and artistic vision of D16, looking to artistic strategies of improvisation as a tool for engaging uncertainty and probing the promises and perils of current technologies.
A word 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 invite visitors to Kassel from June 12 through September 19, 2027, creating a space for shared experiences, listening, and transcultural dialogue. The exhibition and programs will honor artists as they navigate a world in turmoil, developing strategies and new possibilities for living together amid planetary indeterminacy. Improvisation, experimentation, and collective learning will open new paths.
Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator, author, and art historian based in London. He currently serves as the Jorge M. Pérez Senior Curator of International Art, Africa, and Diaspora at Tate Modern. There, he is responsible for shaping the museum’s international exhibition program, collection strategy, and curatorial research. He has strengthened the museum’s international collection of art from Africa and the African diaspora through key acquisitions and exhibition programs. He holds an MA in Art History from University College London and a BA in Curatorial Studies from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His scholarly work focuses on postcolonial approaches to historiography and the development of global and transnational modernisms, with a particular emphasis on artists from Africa and the Global South.
Raven Chacon is an award-winning composer, performer, and installation artist who was born at Fort Defiance on the Navajo Nation. In 2022, he became the first Indigenous artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, and staged his works at numerous museums, festivals, and biennales worldwide. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks presented at documenta 14 and the Carnegie International, as well as the two-mile-long land art installation Repellent Fence at the US/Mexico border. Chacon has been active as a musician for twenty-four years and has contributed to more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. Since 2004, as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP), he has mentored over 300 young Native American composers in high schools as they compose new string quartets.
Timea Junghaus is an art historian and curator. Her work deals with questions of migration and displacement as well as critical engagements with artificial intelligence and contemporary technological transformations. As a leading figure in the field of contemporary art and critical thinking among the Sinti and Roma in Europe, she was the founding director of Gallery8 – Roma Contemporary Art Space in Budapest (2013–2017), a co-initiator of the institutional project RomaMoMA, and the executive founding 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, scholar, and an academic in the field of contemporary art, specializing in the intersection of art, technology, and society. She serves as the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she chairs the LG Guggenheim Award. Previously, she served as Director of Curatorial Research in the Curatorial Practice master’s program at the School of Visual Arts. She holds a PhD in hermeneutics and cultural studies. As a former visiting scholar at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has given lectures internationally and authored articles for leading art publications, artist catalogs, and peer-reviewed journals. Segal has collaborated with major international institutions and biennals, including the Palais de Tokyo, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Performa NYC, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the BAM in New York, Gwangju Biennial and the Berlin Biennale.
Tickets for the exhibition and guided tours of D16 are now available online as well as on-site at Fridericianum and at Kassel Marketing. A particular focus is placed on accessible tour options in Easy Language as well as German and International Sign Language. Additionally, D16 offers solidarity tickets: You can purchase a ticket to enable another person to receive free admission or a complimentary guided tour.
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