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Okwui Enwezor // ⓘ (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) [1] was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City [ 2 ] and Munich. In 2014, he was ranked 24 in the ArtReview list of the 100 most powerful people of the art world.
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[1] Okwui Enwezor served as the 56th Biennale's curator, its first from Africa. [1] His theme was "All The World's Futures". Enwezor created the Arena, an interdisciplinary space for live performance in Giardini's Central Pavilion. The Arena's main performance was a live reading of Das Kapital .
In 2008 Sheikh's work was included in Okwui Enwezor's, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York City. In 2009 the Mapfre Foundation, Spain, organized a mid-career retrospective and publication that opened in Madrid and traveled to the Huis Marseille , Amsterdam ...
Another example for subverting binary taxonomies is the book Contemporary African Art after 1980 by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu. [21] Rather than putting contemporary African art in relation to Western traditions, they contrast it with modern African art, in that it defies linear grand narratives of modernism and is radically postcolonial.
He was one of the curators of [5] (Kassel, 2002), as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor. He was also one of the curators of the first and second [ 6 ] (1995 and 1997. The large list of exhibitions he has curated include [ 7 ] In/Sight, African Photographers 1940 to the Present (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997, and Versiones del Sur ...
New European Painting emerged in the 1980s and reached a critical point of major distinction and influence in the 1990s [1] with painters like Gerhard Richter, [2] [3] Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Bracha L. Ettinger [4] [5] [6] whose paintings have established and continue to create a new dialogue between the historical archive, American Abstraction and figuration. [7]
A Georges Adéagbo, Ravi Agarwal, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Gaston André Ancelovici (Colectivo Cine-Ojo), Fareed Armaly, Rashid Masharawi, Michael Ashkin, Asymptote Architecture, Kutlug Ataman, The Atlas Group, Walid Raad