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Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

Roles in Archive: Author, Panelist, Speaker

Okwui Enwezor is the newly appointed director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich. His work is engaged in postcolonial studies and African contemporary art and their relationships to acts of political resistance. Enwezor has written for many publications, including Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, of which he is a founding editor. He has served on numerous advisory boards, juries, and curatorial teams, and is the current Artistic Director of Meeting Points 6. Enwezor has served artistic director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (1998), Documenta 11 (2002), the Bienial Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla (2006), and the 7th Gwangju Biennial (2008). He was Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute (2005–09).