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