BRITTO Arts Trust to join ‘documenta fifteen’ in Germany

BRITTO Arts Trust, an artist-run non-profit organization, will be joining the world’s largest art event “documenta fifteen” – a 100-day-long exhibition that appears every five years at Kassel in Germany since 1955. 

The documenta fifteen will be officially opened between June 18 and September 25, organized by documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, said the organizers at a press conference on Wednesday.

The projects that will be translated into Kassel are – Palan,  Pakghor,  Rasad, Chhayachhobi, Fera, Photography from Revisit + 1 and Graffiti.

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As many as 19 artists and contributors from BRITTO Arts Trust are invited by documenta fifteen to install, work and experience the process and the final outcomes in person in Kassel. 

BRITTO Arts Trust is showcasing seven different fragments of a core project focused on politics of food. 

The increasing control and politics on seeds, pesticides crops and food by the largest global corporations is alarming to the lives at present and will become a big threat to the generations to come. Over the years, a larger ecosystem has been created to execute this process-based project.  

The entire project of BRITTO is financially supported by the documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH and their major supporters Goethe Institut, Arts Collaboratory and Bagri Foundation.

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The Artistic Director of the documenta fifteen Ruangrupa, which is a collective from Indonesia, has built the foundation of documenta fifteen on its core values and ideas Lumbung, as an overall concept of the starting point for documenta fifteen. 

Lumbung is the Indonesian word for a collectively governed rice-barn, where the gathered harvest is stored for the common good of the community. 

Over the coming years, lumbung will be operational in the lead up to documenta fifteen in 2022, and beyond.

Towards documenta fifteen, Ruangrupa invited community-oriented collectives, organizations and institutions from around the world to practice lumbung with each other and work on new models of sustainability and collective practice of sharing. 

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BRITTO is offered to showcase this collective project in documenta’s at “documenta halle” in the heart of Kassel city. 

A 20 years journey Book of BRITTO Arts Trust will also be published by the Steidl publishing house from Germany. 

A year-long research-based book and a harvesting-based recipe book will be published from the lumbung press that is set by the lumbung members and lumbung artists at documenta halle.