Visit by Bonaventure Ndikung, Germany

Bonaventure Ndikung

Function: Curator, author, biotechnologist & founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary Berlin Country: Germany Visiting period: 19 - 20 August Visiting year: 2019 Part of Visit by Bonaventure Ndikung, Germany

Bonaventure Ndikung © Alexander Steffens

Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon), is an independent curator, author and biotechnologist. He is founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary Berlin. He was curator-at-large for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and guest curator of the 2018 Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal.

Together with the Miracle Workers Collective, he is curator of the Finland Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. He is currently guest professor in curatorial studies and sound art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt; artistic director of the 12th Rencontres de Bamako, a biennale for African photography, 2019; as well as artistic director of Sonsbeek 2020, a quadrennial contemporary art exhibition in Arnhem, the Netherlands.