Documenta fifteen

Exhibition design and pavilion architecture in cooperation with INLAND - Documenta 15, Kassel (GER) - 06/22

INLAND’s exhibition at Documenta 15 unfolds in the Ottoneum Natural History Museum — a heritage-listed space dedicated to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human–nonhuman relations. Here, INLAND presents a living archive that brings together materials, projects, and collaborations exploring alternative models of coexistence.

The spatial design bridges past and future, urban and rural, echoing the museum’s dual role as a repository of natural and cultural knowledge. A geometric light installation of beeswax paper links the exhibition zones with a warm, diffuse glow. Its subtle scent extends the experience into the sensory realm, evoking materiality, memory, and transformation.

In the museum garden, the Cheese Pavilion embodies INLAND’s principles of ecological cycles, craftsmanship, and communal exchange. Conceived as both architectural prototype and social space, it hosts the Bio Kiosk Schmackes, where visitors can share food made with the collective’s own goat cheese.

INLAND is a Spanish arts collective and collaborative agency based in Madrid and the Basque region. Working at the intersection of art, agriculture, and activism, it approaches exhibition-making as a form of lived ecological collaboration.

Materials: spruce wood, MDF, clay paint, beeswax, LED panels

Dimensions: approx. 150 m2