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| Okwui Enwezor photographed by Bjorn Iooss. Image via Vogue.it. |
From
blogs.artinfo.com, December 4, 2013:
Okwui
Enwezor, director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, has been appointed Director of
Visual Arts for the 56th Venice Biennale, which is to take place from May 9 to
November 22, 2015. The 50-year-old Nigerian-born curator and writer previously
served as artistic director of the Documenta 11 in 2002, the Bienial
Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla in 2006, the Gwangju Biennial in 2008, and the Triennal
d’Art Contemporain of Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in 2012. From 2005 to 2009
he was dean of academic affairs and senior vice president of the San Francisco
Art Institute.
“We … turn
to a person who has a great many experiences to his name, with an ample history
of activities and studies in a wide range of topics concerning art,” said Paolo
Baratta, chairman of the Board of Directors of la Biennale di Venezia. “Enwezor
has investigated, in particular, the complex phenomenon of globalization in
relation to local roots. His personal experience is a decisive starting point
for the geographic range of his analysis, for the temporal depth of recent
developments in the art world, and for the variegated richness of the present,”
Baratta continued.
“No event
or exhibition of contemporary art has continuously existed at the confluence of
so many historical changes across the fields of art, politics, technology, and
economics, as la Biennale di Venezia,” Okwui Enwezor stated after his
appointment. “La Biennale di Venezia is the ideal place to explore all of these
dialectical fields of reference, and the institution of la Biennale itself will
be a source of inspiration in planning the Exhibition.”
Enwezor’s
work engages in African, European, Asiatic, North and South American art of the
20th and 21st Century, in modern and contemporary art of the African countries
and the contemporary art of the African diaspora.
Enwezor
follows Italian curator Massimiliano Gioni, whose 55th Biennale and critically
acclaimed exhibition “The Encyclopedic Palace” ended in November with over
475,000 visitors.
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