Lumbung harvest

For the 30th edition of de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, which started in October 2024 and runs until June 2025, followed by a year long fellowship, we have been hosting four collectives who are learning and practising lumbung as a model and method for collective organisation. Lumbung during documenta fifteen was both a rhizomatic collective of collectives, and the practice of decentralised collective redistribution, transforming the art institution and its exhibitionary logic. This edition of the programme is dedicated to collectives whose art and curatorial practice is distinguished by its role as a conduit for the communities with which it engages. The programme is geared towards taking the lumbung practices of documenta fifteen as a case study. On this page we collect the harvests — interviews, witness reports, shared research, et cetera — from the programme trajectory.