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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.
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 ...
George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon, 2020–2021 United States racial unrest On December 31 and into the early hours of January 1, protesters and police clashed in a New Year's Eve protest which police declared a riot shortly before midnight, alleging the demonstrators' use of violence.
Selection from the same series and a new series called The Penal Colony' [6] were shown at the Venice Biennale, 2015, curated by Okwui Enwezor. His films have been awarded international and national awards and have been shown extensively in film festivals, art galleries, museums, including Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
He states "the Virgin Mary’s motherly care encourages us to use our God-given time for building up the world and peace, not destroying it." In the Catholic Church, January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. (Catholic News Agency) Disasters and accidents. 2021 Tribistovo poisoning
[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 .
Writing about African Conceptualism for the groundbreaking exhibition Global conceptualism: points of origin, 1950s-1980s at Queens Museum, Okwui Enwezor wrote "In African art, two things are constantly in operation: the work and the idea of the work. These are not autonomous systems.
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 ...