Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Introduced by Laura Bardier. Director, ESTE ARTE
Welcomed by Ama Amoedo. Founder, Fundación Ama Amoedo
and Verónica Flom. Directora, Fundación Ama Amoedo
In English, without translation.
By invitation only.
Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a curator, author, and biotechnologist. He is the founder and was artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, 2009–22; artistic director of sonsbeek 20–>24, Arnhem, 2020–22; artistic director of 14th Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, 2022; curator of the Finnish Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019; guest curator of the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, 2018; and curator-at-large of documenta 14, Athens & Kassel, 2017.
Laura Bardier (1976, Montevideo) is the Founding Director of ESTE ARTE and the Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation in New York. Previously, Bardier held key positions at the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli (Italy) and major private collections in the United States. Bardier was a member of the National Committee of Visual Arts of Uruguay and is a Board member of ArtTable, ICI-Independent Curators International, and Creative Capital.