Richard Bell is one of the few individual artists curated into Documenta 15, the highly-anticipated global survey of contemporary art. This year, for the first time, it’s been dominated by ...

Richard Bell has installed a replica of the 1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy in a German town for the Documenta festival, before taking it to London’s Tate Modern museum.

The most fruitfully jarring artistic disruptions at documenta 15 unsettle their own settings, ... (2022), Hübner Areal, Kassel (photo Frank Sperling) Richard Bell, “Western Art” (2020-22 ...

Bell's work often touches on colonial themes and is critical of Western art production. The path into the documenta hall leads through a tunnel-like structure made of rusting corrugated metal.

Richard Bell, Umbrella Embassy, 2022, installation view: Fridericianum, 14 June 2022. Photo: Nicolas Wefers Every five years since 1955 the German city of Kassel holds Documenta, an enormous ...

They are mostly White people whose areas of expertise are in the fields of Anthropology and ‘Western Art’.” Richard Bell, Bell’s Theorem, 2002. Credit: Image courtesy of the artist and ...

Bell’s early life. Bell is a Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman, Gurang Gurang man born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland. He grew up living in a “shanty” with his family.

Embassy was first show in Melbourne in 2013 has now been exhibited in New York, Moscow, Venice, Jerusalem, Jakarta and at Documenta in Kassel last year. It is currently stationed at the Kochi ...

Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008, still from HD video, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. A new Prime Minister, aka Gary Foley, has been installed by the Chinese ...

Richard Bell, who for decades has highlighted the erasure of Australia’s Indigenous culture, will discuss the documentary, You Can Go Now, at the Gene Siskel Film Center Courtesy of Milani ...

It is here that Bell manages his greatest about-face and power shift. With a giggle and laugh, he expresses not the pain of everyday racist belittlement, but the abject absurdity of those who flaunt ...