...Naomi Beckwith © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 A Letter to Okwui October 2020 Naomi Beckwith African Motherland a place where everyone was royalty and where indigenous spirituality Dear Okwui, bound the community together in egalitarian Remember that time when you were told you serenity...

...Natasha Becker This article takes a critical and intimate look at Okwui Enwezor’s work in South Africa during the 1990s and asserts that the international exhibition he curated in Johannesburg in 1997—the Second Johannesburg Biennale, Trade Routes: History and Geography —is an important lens...

...Octavio Zaya © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 For Okwui A Gentle Smile from the Beyond Octavio Zaya 1 Some time ago, I wrote that life is struggle between perhaps and never more, that its paradise was made to be lost, and that time is the ravishing agent. As Blanchot, I always assumed...

...Susette Min In 2012, Okwui Enwezor was appointed artistic director of the third iteration of La Triennale, which he titled Intense Proximité ( IP ). While Enwezor had the credentials to legitimize the French art scene, he was also keenly aware of his own revolving roles as guest and host...

... of a sputnik and kids learning how to fly drones. Courtesy the artist Out of Bounds A Reflection on Okwui Can the failures of the twentieth century lead us to- Enwezor s Contribution ward new degrees of freedom? What does freedom to the Art World and artistic responsibility have in common? Can the concept...

...Jane Chin Davidson; Alpesh Kantilal Patel © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. OKWUI ENWEZOR and the Art of Curating Jane Chin Davidson and O kwui Enwezor was the eminent...

...Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Notes in Reverie of Okwui Enwezor Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Intended to be, as my father In my eyes, he was a rare, unparalleled, thinker on would have it, loving, brief, matters of cultural visuality during the transition...

...Monique Kerman When Okwui Enwezor gained world renown as artistic director of Documenta11 in 2002, his accomplishments as curator of contemporary African art were already well established. His In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940–Present , exhibition (1996) had the temerity to describe...

...Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 OKWUI ENWEZOR in conversation with Derek Conrad Murray...

...-centered , multilocated area of artistic inquiry makes it possible for artists like El, with the deepest commitment to their practice and to specificity of their work, to remain creatively and actively connected to their locations. Copyright © 2011 by Okwui Enwezor 2011 Carto...

...Abdellah Karroum © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Okwui s Curating World Abdellah Karroum When I am asked what is the most important thing in entrance to Serbia because of the visa. Although Okwui life, I answer luck, and the second most important is and my colleagues were allowed to enter...

...Mikhael Subotzky; Gideon Mendel © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Mikhael Subotzky and Gideon Mendel Mikhael Subotzky and Gideon Mendel, Three Portraits for Okwui (composited), 2013/2020. Ink on paper, 42.4 x 33.9 cm. each. Courtesy and © the artists Gideon Mendel is a South African...

...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 1994 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1994 ...

...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 THE INVERTED SIGN Okwui Enwezor FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE'S postcard-sized drawings rendered with colored pen• cils on cardboard possess a strange and intoxicating charm. Poised between a readily...

...Selene Wendt Selene Wendt’s review “Creating Space for Enwezor’s Curatorial Vision” addresses a small selection of the many works featured in Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15). Conceived by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, SB15 included more than one hundred and fifty artists and collectives...

... Biennale, Trade Routes: History and Geography, 1997. Courtesy and © Penny Siopis 166 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 DOI 10.1215/10757163-8971538 © 2021 by Nka Publications It was 1996, and Okwui had set up a temporary West. He would be recounting their shared ambi- home...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu; Salah M. Hassan © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 From the Editors W hen we announced, in issue no. 44 of this In early 1994, Okwui reached out to a number journal, the March 15, 2019, death of our of us young artists, critics, and scholars scattered dearest friend, brother...

...Sir David Adjaye, OBE © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 David Adjaye and Okwui Enwezor, 2015, Haus der Kunst lecture and seminar on architecture, Munich, Germany. Photo: © Marion Vogel All the World s Futures Sir David Adjaye OBE In a series of essays published by Jacques Derrida the art world...

... in front of Olu. Next to him, an anti- tively challenge Eurocentric prejudice rather than quated radiator was hissing, humming, and creak- merely embody patronizing fantasy. Olu insisted ing very loudly. I was immediately taken off guard right away that I had to meet Okwui as soon as pos- by a belly burst...