organized sobat-sobat

we wanted to thank everyone who supported us and our demands for better working conditions at documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, wanted to thank everyone who read and shared our Open Letter, took part in our actions and joined us in various conversations. Thank you! This year’s documenta may be over, the struggle for better…

»I am Lena, I am Yara –Lena and Yara are around 55 organized sobat-sobat, who are referring to institutional critique. The press article published during the weekend was one of the actions collectively decided to broadcast our Open Letter. The interview, the actions during Meydan #3 and the open letter itself, are attempts to expand…

hessenschau.de, veröffentlicht am 10.09.22 um 11:37 Uhr, ein Artikel von Sonja Süß – Find the link to the article here: https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/documenta-beschaeftigte-in-kassel-protestieren-gegen-arbeitsbedingungen,documenta-arbeitsbedingungen-100.html

english version – Dear visitors, We, the sobat-sobat (art mediators) of documenta fifteen, have decided to speak openly to you about our precarious and underpaid working conditions. Before documenta fifteen comes to an end, we would like to achieve an improvement not only for us, but also for workers at the next documenta and in…

german version – Liebe Besucher*innen,  wir als sobat-sobat (Kunstvermittler*innen) der documenta fifteen haben uns entschlossen, offen mit euch über unsere prekären und unterbezahlten Arbeitsbedingungen zu sprechen. Bevor die documenta fifteen zu Ende geht, möchten wir nicht nur für uns, sondern auch für die Arbeiter*innen der nächsten documenta und im Kunst- und Kulturbetrieb im Allgemeinen eine…

Along with the Meydan [in Urdu, Fārsi, Ukrainian, Turkish and Arabic »refers to an accessible common space in a city, such as a square or public park, where people come together.«] and its multilayered program comes a weekend full of activities – and actions by the organized sobat-sobat team! In the following we’ve prepared a…

Throughout a workshop afternoon with Serigrafistas queer, we were able to put our ambivalent feelings when it comes to our position as sobat-sobat [an Indonesian word for ›friends‹ or ›companions‹ to paper and to develop further phrases just like we did for our silk-screen printing actions. Serigrafistas queer also offered us one of their banners…

What better place is there to visualize demands and critique of an institution than right across this very institution’s headquarters? Exactly, we thought when we decided for this particular outside space on the opposite of that particular institution whose name is – you might have guessed it already – documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH. Here,…

Workwear as resistance! Throughout the hundred days of documenta, dear colleagues organized two silk-screen printing sessions and invited other documenta fifteen workers, the artistic team and the public to join. The motifs that were printed derived from a workshop with Serigrafistas queer on June 6th 2022 and various discussions on the ambivalence that comes with…

After the collective writing process of our Open Letter to documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, we asked ourselves: ›What’s Next?‹, and the answer to this question was almost graspable in the air: ›Actions!‹The need for formats, for ways of protesting the many unacceptable situations on part of the institution originally derived from the idea of…