Category: Germany

• New Museum Online Event: Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work

  

  Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) was an internationally renowned, Nigerian-American curator, art theorist and political scientist, whose scholarship and portfolio of major projects were the focus of a recent discussion: “Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work,” hosted online by the New Museum, New York, 21 January 2021.

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 26, 2021

  Art – Politics, Contemporary Art, Curating, Germany, New York, Nigeria, Online Event

  Documenta 11, New Museum, Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale

• ALBUS – an exhibition of photography by Justin Dingwall and Thando Hopa (ArtCo Gallery, Germany)

  

  South African photographer Justin Dingwall and lawyer and model Thando Hopa have recently collaborated on a new project featuring photographic portraits that address albinism as a key theme. Both the model and the photographer have created a series of poignant images that invite audiences to reflect on – and rethink – attitudes towards beauty, skin colour, corporeality…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  November 22, 2016

  Art, Art – Politics, Exhibition Preview, Germany, Photography, South Africa

  Albinism, ArtCo Gallery, Justin Dingwall, Lebogang Mashile, Thando Hopa

• Memory and Museums at “AfroEuropeans V” (University of Münster, Germany)

  

  Earlier in September I was pleased to present a conference paper at AfroEuropeans V: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (University of Münster, 16-19 September 2015) – the fifth biennial network event exploring socio-political issues and spatialities relating to histories of migration, diaspora formation, economic interdependencies and cultural links between Africa and Europe. My contribution…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 28, 2015

  African Diaspora, Art – Politics, Conferences, Cultural Discourse, Diasporas, Europe, Germany, Museums, Performance Art, Racism

  African European Studies, AfroEuropean, Anna Rastas, Anti-racism, Anti-racist art, Corporeality, ENPAD, European Network for People of African Descent, Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, University of Münster

• El Hadji Sy’s ‘alchemy of assemblages’ at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt

  

  Earlier this month I went to Germany to undertake gallery-based research at the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt and spent time reviewing the temporary exhibition, El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics (5 March-10 October, 2015). This detailed retrospective about the life and work of internationally renowned Senegalese artist-curator and activist El Hadji Sy…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  June 17, 2015

  Africa, Art, Art – Politics, Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Curating, Exhibition Review, Exhibitions, Germany, Museums, Performance Art, Senegal

  abstract art, Clementine Deliss, El Hadji Sy, Frankfurt, Laboratoire Agit’Art, Weltkulturen Museum

• Contemporary Art Conversations: “In the Heart of the Lights,” by curator Simon Njami

  

  Curator, writer and art critic Simon Njami will be giving a keynote lecture on 17th February 2015 to launch a series of events at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry to accompany his current exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 – A Commemoration of the Berlin Congo Conference (on display at SAVVY Contemporary  in…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 30, 2015

  Africa, Contemporary Art, Curating, Europe, Germany

  1884, Ann Laura Stoler, Berlin Conference, Colonialism, Cultural memory, Curating Difficult Knowledge, Imperialism, Scramble for Africa, Simon Njami