Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an independent curator and biotechnologist. He is Curator-at-Large for Adam Szymczyk’s Documenta 14, the founding director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, and Editor-in-Chief of SAVVY, a journal for critical texts. His curatorial projects include If You Are So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich? On the Economy of Knowledge, Marrakesh, 2014 (P. Doutreluingne); Giving Contours to Shadows, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; but the sea kept turning blank pages looking for history – on the state of refugeeness, SAVVY Contemporary, 2014; the discursive program – Wir Sind Alle Berliner: 1884-2014, ICI Berlin, 2015 (S. Kobschall, A. Jäger, S. Njami), The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse – On Divinity, Parallel- and Supra-realities or the Exorcisement of ‘Witchery’ and The Conundrum of the Imagination – on the paradigm of exploration and discovery (2016). He is co-curator with S. Ovesen of An Age of our Own Making for Images Biennale 2016 in Holbæk, Roskilde, and Copenhagen. Selected lectureships at Fondation Gulbenkian Paris, 2013; Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, 2014; Haverford College, 2014; Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, 2014; CuMMA Discourse Series, Aalto University Helsinki, 2015. As adjunct professor, he lectured on Post-/Decolonial Theory and Art to the class of Prof. Antje Majewski at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel.