Okwui Enwezor

If exit polls are to be believed (and the recent UK elections have sadly shown they should be) the main show of this year's 56th Venice Biennale is a flop. ‘Dreadful’, 'dire’, 'depressing’ are some of the more printable adjectives I’ve heard to describe it. ‘Venice is Bad' was the insightful email header from a supposedly serious art news source.

Tate Modern and African art

The rise and fall of biennials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and South Africa

Ahead of dOCUMENTA (13), reflections on the exhibition by its previous curators

Keeping fit, autonomy, disappointment and art criticism

Photography, Africa, dystopian fantasies and ‘the present as a screen’

A celebration of the over-looked, the under-appreciated and the disappeared

International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Various venues, Kassel, Germany

Various venues, Kassel, Germany

Various venues, Kassel, Germany

In the work by the South African artist apartheid remains an inscrutable memory