Carla Acevedo-Yates, a San Juan-born curator and scholar specializing in contemporary art of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the US, has held curatorial positions at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Xiaoyu Weng is a Shanghai-born curator and writer whose work often explores themes of identity, feminism, and decolonization. Aside from overseeing the Singapore-based private Tanoto Art Foundation, she was recently appointed as executive director of New York’s nonprofit alternative space Art in General. Commenting on the appointments, Beckwith stated: “I am grateful to be working with this team on Documenta 16. Documenta 16 is scheduled to take place from June 12 to September 19, 2027, in Kassel.