Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (2017)

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (* 1977 in Yaoundé ) is an independent curator, art critic, author and biotechnologist of Cameroonian origin, who has lived mainly in Berlin since 1997 . He studied food biotechnology in Berlin, did his doctorate in medical biotechnology and then studied biophysics in Montpellier .

Ndikung is the artistic director of the art space SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, which he founded in 2009. In 2015, Adam Szymczyk appointed Ndikung to the documenta 14 curator team as curator-at-large .

Ndikung is the project initiator and editor-in-chief of the SAVVY art.contemporary.african magazine , a bilingual e-journal for critical texts on contemporary African art .

As a curator, artistic director or consultant, he has worked for various international exhibition projects or festivals in Germany, France, England and Cameroon and has published more than 16 exhibition catalogs. He participated in projects of Tensta Konsthall in Sweden, the Goethe Institute , the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa), the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien and the Arsenal Berlin .

In December 2011 he curated the exhibition “Combler les lacunes de la mémoire: le passé composé du futur” at the Center Culturel Français in Algiers , Algeria. 2012 found u. a. Cooperations with the 7th Berlin Biennale and the Berlinische Galerie take place. As part of the Wiener Festwochen 2017 he curated The Conundrum of Imagination together with Pauline Doutreluingne . Together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, he took over the artistic direction of the city gallery Wedding in Berlin from 2015 to 2018. He was curator-at-large for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel and guest curator of the 2018 Dak'Art Biennale in Senegal. He is currently visiting professor for art theory and curatorial studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Together with the Miracle Workers Collective , he will curate the Finnish pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.

He was appointed artistic director of the 12th edition of the sonsbeek 2020 quadrennial.

Publications

2019. That, Around Which The Universe Revolves. On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space, Elena Agudio, Anna Jäger, Saskia Köbschall and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (eds.) Archive Books (i. E.)

2019. We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal. Of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman, Antonia Alampi, Federica Bueti and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (eds.), Archive Books (i. E.)

2019. Whose Land Have I Lit on Now ?, Elena Agudio, Federica Bueti and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (eds.), Archive Books (i. E.)

2018. Those Who Are Dead Are Not Ever Gone , Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Author) Archive Books (translations in German The have died are gone never and French Ceux qui sont morts ne sont jamais partis have also been published in Archives Books.)

2017. The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse. On Divinity, Supra-Realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery, Federica Bueti and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (eds.), Green Box Books.

2015. Giving Contours To Shadows , Elena Agudio, Marius Babias, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Storm Janse van Rensburg (ed.), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artists flock to cheap Berlin from around the world . In: reuters.de . August 6, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b biography of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (PDF). Website of Galerie Wedding, Berlin, accessed on August 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ savvy-contemporary.com. Website of the art space, accessed on August 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Team - documenta 14. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ SAVVY art.contemporary.african. E-journal website, accessed August 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ e-flux.com/announcements/193349/miracle-workers-collective-to-represent-finland-at-the-2019-venice-biennale/
  7. ↑ e-flux.com/announcements/248728/bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung-appointed-artistic-director-of-sonsbeek-2020/
  8. ↑ archivebooks.org/2018/12/25/pamphlet-1bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung-die-gestorben-are-are-niemals-fort/

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personal data
SURNAME Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Cameroonian curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaoundé , Cameroon