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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Contributors
Contributor
An individual, collective, or corporate entity.
First Name
Okwui
Surname or Business Name
Enwezor
Years Affiliated
Year range (starting year/ending year) affiliated with NTU CCA Singapore, or leave blank if not applicable.
For date range with year only: YYYY/YYYY, e.g., 2014/2015
For date range with year and month: YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM, e.g., 2014-07/2015-06
2018-2019
Affiliation
Company, organization, or institution name
Haus der Kunst, Germany
Birth Date
1963
Birthplace
Nigeria
Death Date
2019
Occupation
Professional title or identity
Curator
Biographical Text
Long-form biography for the Contributor (no character count). A short-form biography (no more than 240 characters) should be added to the Contributor's Description
<span>Okwui Enwezor was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Enwezor was born in Calabar, Nigeria, in 1963, and grew up in Enugu. He moved to New York in the early 1980s, and earned his undergraduate degree in political science from what is now New Jersey City University. He wrote and performed poetry, and like so many in that field, he soon found his way into art criticism. In the early 1990s, he began curating shows, and in 1994, while based in Brooklyn, he cofounded Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. In 1996, Enwezor organized “In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present” at the Guggenheim Museum’s location in the SoHo section of Manhattan. The show featured 30 artists, among them Seydou Keïta, of Mali, and Samuel Fosso, of Nigeria, both of whom have since been canonized. Soon after, he curated the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, which opened in 1997. It was one in a string of the closely watched international exhibitions he oversaw over the coming two decades; he also went on to organize the 2008 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and the 2012 Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2005 Enwezor was named dean of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he would remain until 2009. And as an adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, he organized trailblazing exhibitions like “Snap Judgement: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography” in 2006 and “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life” in 2012. In 2011, Enwezor became director of the Haus der Kunst, the sprawling kunsthalle in Munich, Germany, which under his watch hosted solo exhibitions of work by Stan Douglas, Georg Baselitz, Ellen Gallagher, James Casebere, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Hanne Darboven, Frank Bowling, Matthew Barney, and many more, as well as, in 2016, “Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965,” an unprecedented survey of the story of postwar modernism around the world that included some 350 pieces by more than 200 artists. Enwezor passed away on 15 March 2019.</span>
Country of Practice
At least one country of practice should be listed for each Contributor, up to three countries of practice.
Germany
United States
Public Resource Centre Affiliation
Artist Research Platform
Library
Video Resource Platform
None
None
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Contributor Type
International Advisory Board
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Okwui Enwezor
Subject
The topic of the resource
Curatorial Practice
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Okwui Enwezor
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Africa
Europe
North America
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Contributors
Contributor
An individual, collective, or corporate entity.
First Name
Ranjit
Surname or Business Name
Hoskote
Years Affiliated
Year range (starting year/ending year) affiliated with NTU CCA Singapore, or leave blank if not applicable.
For date range with year only: YYYY/YYYY, e.g., 2014/2015
For date range with year and month: YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM, e.g., 2014-07/2015-06
2018-
Birth Date
1969
Birthplace
India
Occupation
Professional title or identity
Cultural Theorist and independent Curator
Biographical Text
Long-form biography for the Contributor (no character count). A short-form biography (no more than 240 characters) should be added to the Contributor's Description
<span>Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation.</span>
Country of Practice
At least one country of practice should be listed for each Contributor, up to three countries of practice.
India
Public Resource Centre Affiliation
Artist Research Platform
Library
Video Resource Platform
None
None
Contributor Type
International Advisory Board
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Dublin Core
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Title
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Ranjit Hoskote
Subject
The topic of the resource
Curatorial Practice
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Ranjit Hoskote
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Asia