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...Yasmeen M. Siddiqui Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 BIENNALE AND Al HITAO 2801 asmeen M. Sidd...

...Selene Wendt [email protected] © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 All the World s Histories AT THE 59TH VENICE BIENNALE Selene Wendt I n 2015, Okwui Enwezor made history with his groundbreaking exhibition for the 55th Venice Biennale, All the World s Futures. He extended...

...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...

...Christa Clarke This article considers what the African presence at the 2024 Venice Biennale says about visibility and the politics of representation related to broader shifts in the global cultural landscape. It offers an overview of the main exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere...

...Perrin M. Lathrop This article assesses the stakes, execution, and implications of Adriano Pedrosa’s intervention into the history of global modernism in Foreigners Everywhere , his 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale, with a focus on the biennale’s representation of artists from Africa and its...

...Anna Arabindan-Kesson This article reviews a selection of works by Black diaspora artists who were included in the 2024 Venice Biennale. The article focuses on artists included in the pavilions of Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Benin, along with artists included in the Arsenale...

...Selene Wendt The interconnectivity of seemingly disconnected situations and stories throughout the 56th International Art Exhibition All the World’s Futures (2015), curated by Okwui Enwezor and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, contributes to an exhibition that is simultaneously fragmented...

... hosted four successful biennales of contemporary art as “Rencontres Picha” (“Encounters with Pictures Ever evolving, each exhibition Shas grappled with the troubled political and economic conditions...

...Z. S. Strother This review examines the fourth edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale (October 9 to November 8, 2015). Toma Muteba Luntumbue, the artistic director, and cocurator Daniella Géo assembled a strong corpus of socially engaged works of art in phase with Édouard Glissant’s conception...

...Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi The creation of the Dak’Art Biennale in 1989 marked a pivotal moment in the African and international art scenes. President Abdou Diouf’s government had emerged from the worst part of Senegal’s economic crisis in the 1980s and was ready to return to international cultural...

...Rebekah Flake This review considers the curatorial strategies employed by each pavilion at the Fifty-Fourth Venice Biennale in 2011 and the ways that they represent national perspectives through themed group exhibitions. The works of individual artists are discussed in terms of their contribution...

.... The visitors get to experi• BIENNALE ence works by the great stars of the art world whose exhibitions they never would have gotten...

... HAVANA BIENNALE CUBA TERRY SMITH Journal of Contemporary African Art rom its inception in 1984, the Havana Biennial F quickly built...

...Joanna Grabski Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 THE DAK'ART BIENNALE EXHIBITING CONTEMPORARY ART AND GEOPOLITICS IN AFRICA Joanna Grabski ak'Art, Senegal's Biennial of Contempo• Framing...

... exchanges between artists from ation of the Dakar Biennale are embedded events, etc. Africa and their counterparts from the rest in the logic of Senegalese cultural politics. From this point of view, the institution of the world, its mission to provide a forum...

... that the 2nd Johannes• trotting the global exhibition circuit but it burg Biennale, held there from is a reputation that has been earned through October of 1997 through January many years of engagement with the issues that of 1998, would to a degree match the coun• he sought...

...Jen Budney Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 Survey of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale: 20 questions and then some Jen...

...Khaled Hafez Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 Artists, No-Curators, And Other Intellectual Jargon: The International Cairo Biennale Khaled Hafez ike Egyptian soap-operas...