Okwui Enwezor

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The curator and foundation director discusses showing art outside city centres and why she banned the word ‘offsite’ in her office

BY Róisín Tapponi AND Hoor Al Qasimi | 03 MAR 23

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

BY Róisín Tapponi | 04 DEC 20

Pablo Larios highlights the damaging effects of network fatigue in contemporary art 

 

BY Pablo Larios | 24 DEC 19

An epochal exhibition of the Ghanaian artist – the last curated by Okwui Enwezor – gives the Munich institution a new face

BY Jane Ure-Smith | 14 MAY 19

Can Ralph Rugoff’s ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’ exhibition address histories of narrow nationalism, fascism, and empire head-on?

BY Negar Azimi | 24 APR 19

‘Wherever he is now, I know he is waiting for me. There is so much we did not have the time to address’

BY Simon Njami | 25 MAR 19

In style as well as substance, the late curator embodied a politics of inclusivity

BY Naomi Beckwith | 25 MAR 19

The Nomura Art Award, funded by a Japanese financial services company, is now the largest cash prize available in the arts

BY Frieze News Desk | 21 MAR 19

A tribute to the late curator and his belief in the primacy of documentation

BY Osei Bonsu | 19 MAR 19

A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’

BY Sean O'Toole | 18 MAR 19

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

BY Jörg Heiser | 15 MAR 19

Enwezor, who embraced a more pluralistic art history beyond the Euro-American canon, had been battling cancer for several years

BY Frieze News Desk | 15 MAR 19

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

BY Adriano Pedrosa | 31 JAN 19

‘The show singlehandedly thrust Africa back into the culture of global contemporary art.’

BY Kobena Mercer | 24 JAN 19

Art and culture have a role in describing the unevenness of the world: where do we go from here?

BY Amy Sherlock AND Pablo Larios | 28 OCT 18

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

21 AUG 18

In further news: declining UK museum visitors sees country fall in world rankings; first winner of Turner Prize, Malcolm Morley, dies at 86

05 JUN 18

Raqs Media Collective on their 2017, from a séance with an 18th century automaton-tiger to imagined conversations with Édouard Glissant

BY Raqs Media Collective | 21 DEC 17

Leading artists, museum curators, writers and critics to discuss the history of art and its continuing significance in contemporary practice

14 SEP 16

What makes us human

BY Amy Sherlock | 01 JUN 15