- documenta archiv
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, we are once again welcoming two fellows in 2026 for a six-month residency in Kassel, and we are pleased to introduce them.
Anaclara Talento Acosta (Montevideo, Uruguay) describes herself as a post-contemporary artist, researcher, and archival specialist. Her practice explores the intersections of contemporary art, cultural studies, and archival research. She holds a bachelor’s in visual arts from the Uruguayan University of the Republic (UdelaR), an MFA from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and completed a certificate program in audiovisual collections from the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA). She is a member of the Contemporary Art Foundation (FAC), Uruguay, since 2007, and of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) since 2017.
Her fellowship project examines documenta after the Cold War as a performative political structure, investigating how curatorial practices generate political action rather than merely represent it. Focusing on documenta 10 (1997), documenta 11 (2002), documenta 14 (2017), and documenta 15 (2022), the research analyzes exhibition design, institutional processes, and curatorial strategies through archival materials including correspondence, curatorial documents, exhibition plans, and audiovisual records.
Her broader artistic research includes: EMH – An Essay on Motherland History, on historical memory and collective identities; Pink Mist, on grief, appropriation, and intertextuality; Letters to Sebastian, on memory as rehearsal; Love in Another Language, on language, coloniality, and community; Flames Go to Heaven to Die, on emotional entities strengthened by disorder; Privately Buried Publicly Erased, an archival project on memory and erasure in Palestine; and Acts without Stage, which develops a methodology for reading historical events as involuntary performances through archival research, visual analysis, and storytelling, examining history as a performative field while generating new artistic, curatorial, and theoretical possibilities.
