We are very proud to announce that artist Erick Beltrán (Mexico City, 1974) is included in the list of artists recently unveiled by documenta fifteen, one of the major contemporary art events in the world.

Since 1955, documenta takes place every five years in Kassel (Germany)during 100 days. The fifteenth edition of the exhibition, whose Artistic Direction is taken in charge by Indonesia collective ruangrupa, will take place from June 18th to September 25, 2022.

ruangrupa is the Artistic Direction of the fifteenth edition of documenta. The Jakarta-based artists’ collective has built the foundation of their documenta fifteen on the core values and ideas of "lumbung" (Indonesian term for a communal rice barn). "Lumbung" as an artistic and economic model is rooted in principles such as collectivity, communal resource sharing, and equal allocation, and is embodied in all parts of the collaboration and the exhibition.

The work of Erick Beltrán is an investigation on the concept of edition. It focuses on the mechanisms that define, value, classify, reproduce, and distribute images and discourses to create social, cultural, political, and economic conducts and values in contemporary societies. Beltrán analyzes and reflects on transversal knowledge constructions and figures, through diverse formats such as publications, installations, diagrammatic displays, or lectures.