Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a contemporary art curator and writer. He lives in Berlin.[1]
Ndikung moved to Germany in 1997 to study at the Technical University Berlin. He holds a doctorate in medical biotechnology from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf /TU Berlin, and a post-doctorate in biophysics from the University of Montpellier.[2][3]
Ndikung is the founding director of SAVVY Contemporary, an independent project space in Berlin.[4] SAVVY Contemporary is an art space and discursive platform for exhibitions, performances and other events. It situates itself on the threshold between concepts of the West and non-West in order to understand and deconstruct them.[5][6]
From 2015 - 2018, together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, he was a curator at Galerie Wedding, a public gallery in Berlin.[7][8] Ndikung and Ovesen also co-curated the year long Danish art project Images 2016 – An Age of our Own Making, that took place in Holbæk, Roskilde and Copenhagen.[9][10]
In 2015 Ndikung became part of the curatorial team of Adam Szymczyk's documenta 14, in the role of Curator at large.[11][12]
Together with Pauline Doutreluingne he curated the Performeum at the Wiener Festwochen in 2017.[13][14] Ndikung was a guest curator for the 13th Dakar Biennale in Senegal, under the artistic direction of Simon Njami.[15][16]
As part of the Miracle Workers Collective[17] he curated the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.[18]He was artistic director of the 12th Bamako Encounters[19] in 2019, a biennale for African photography in Mali.[20] Ndikung is artistic director for Sonsbeek 2020-2024, a large-scale sculpture exhibition that takes place in Arnhem, the Netherlands.[21][22]
Ndikung was a guest professor in curatorial studies and sound art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt from 2017-2019[23], and together with artist Nasan Tur, is professor for the Spatial Strategies MA program at Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin.[24] [25]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Documenta-Bonaventure-Ndikung". ZITTY (in Deutsch). 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Art Must Be A Space Of Dissonance: In Conversation With Bonaventure Ndikung". IGNANT. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Bonaventure Ndikung is the Curator Defying the North-South Dichotomy". www.sleek-mag.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "SAVVY Contemporary | Contemporary And". www.contemporaryand.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Off-space No. 23: Savvy Contemporary, Berlin / ArtReview". artreview.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Concept". S A V V Y Contemporary. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Galerie Wedding". galeriewedding.de. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Galerie Wedding (Wedding Gallery)". www.visitberlin.de. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "An Age of Our Own Making". images.holbaek.dk. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ Charlottenborg, Kunsthal. "An Age of Our Own Making". Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Team - documenta 14". www.documenta14.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Paul Preciado and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Join Documenta 14's Curatorial Team". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Who discovered whom? | Contemporary And". www.contemporaryand.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "THE CONUNDRUM OF IMAGINATION | Archive | EXHIBITIONS | Leopold Museum". www.leopoldmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Dak'Art Biennale 2018: The Red Hour | Ocula". ocula.com. 2019-02-03. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ Editor, News (2017-08-30). "Biennial of Contemporary African Art Dak'Art announced the guest curators for it's 13th edition". Biennial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Artists: Miracle Workers Collective". Frame Contemporary Art Finland. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ Russeth, Andrew (2018-05-08). "Finland Taps Miracle Workers Collective for 2019 Venice Biennale". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Bamako Encounters 12th - Bamako Encounters, 12th edition". www.rencontres-bamako.com. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Bamako Encounters: Streams of Consciousness". British Journal of Photography. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ Russeth, Andrew (2019-02-01). "Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Will Curate 2020 Edition of Storied Sonsbeek Exhibition in the Netherlands". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to Curate 2020 Edition of Sonsbeek". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- ↑ "Bonaventure Ndikung - Städelschule". www.staedelschule.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2019-02-03.
- ↑ "New Post-Graduate Program With New Professors Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Nasan Tur". Contemporary And (in Deutsch). 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
- ↑ "Spatial Strategies MA—Of Spaces: Criticality, Coloniality, Vulnerability - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
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