Simon Njami

Simon Njami

Simon Njami (born January 4, 1962 in Lausanne ) is a Paris- based author , curator and art critic .

Career

Njami was born in Switzerland in 1962; his parents are both from Cameroon .

He organized a large number of exhibitions on contemporary art from Africa, especially Africa Remix (2004), the African pavilion at the Venice Biennale (together with Fernando Alvim , 2007) and the Joburg Art Fair in 2008. From 2001 to 2003 he was artistic director of the group Rencontres de la Photographie Africainen and since 2001 director of the Bamako Photography Biennale .

He is also a consultant for the Association Française d'Action Artistique , is a co-founder of the magazine Revue Noire and has published titles such as Coffin and Co. and Flash Afrique! .

Works (selection)

as an author

• Sargnagel & Cie ( Cercueil & Cie , 1985). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-42823-7 (detective novel).
• African gigolo. Novel . Seghers, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-232-10205-X .
• James Baldwin ou le devoir de la violence . Seghers, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-232-10247-5 (biography).

as editor

• Africa remix. Contemporary art of a continent . Hayward Gallery, London 2005, ISBN 1-85332-246-6 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, February 10 to April 17, 2005).
• Bamako 2003. Recontres de la photographie africaine . Koehler, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7107-0710-1 .
• Exhibition catalog: The Divine Comedy .
  • German edition 2014 for the exhibition at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main: The Divine Comedy , Kerber, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-86678-931-9 .

literature

• Benedetta Jules-Rosette: Interview with Simon Njami . In: Dies .: Black Paris. The African Writers' Landscape . University Press, Urbana, Ill. Pp. 196-201, 1998, ISBN 0-252-02066-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dürer's blog
2. ^ Joburg Art Fair

Web links

Commons : Simon Njami  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Simon Njami in the catalog of the German National Library