Okwui Enwezor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 183485 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Okwui Enwezor |
| NOMBRES | Okwui |
| APELLIDO | Enwezor |
| FIRMA | ENWEZOR O |
| AFILIACIONES | Okwui Enwezor is the Editor and Publisher of Nka |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Selected Writings, Volume 2
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta 11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific critic, essayist, and theorist. Se…
Postwar Revisited
Selected Writings, Volume 1
Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption
Written with Octavio Zaya, this essay introduced the catalog of the exhibition In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, from May to September 1996. Curated by Enwezor and Zaya, along with Clare Bell and Danielle Tilkin, the exhibition presented the work of thirty photographers, most of whose work was seen for the first time by US viewers
Selected Writings, Volume 2
The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence
There is a dual narrative that is often taken to be characteristic of modernity: the first is the idea of its unique Europeanness, and the second is its translatability into non-European cultures. This narrative argues for the mutability of modernity, thus permitting its export and enhancing its universal character while putting a European epistemological stamp on its subsequent reception. The traveling character of this dimension of modernity as…
Antinomies of Art and Culture
Exodus of the Dogs
Research Article| November 01 2009 EXODUS OF THE DOGS Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 60–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; EXODUS OF THE DOGS. Nka 1 November 2009; 2009 (25): 60–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Download citation file: Zotero Reference…
Curating the World
The Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor is undoubtedly one of the major curators of and thinkers about art in the world today. His 2002 exhibition DOCUMENTA 11—which took up such topics as democracy, truth and reconciliation, creolisation, and the fate of four African cities—has been endlessly discussed and imitated. A show not only about the idea of the world but also introducing a new ‘global’ style of art, it is widely understood to be one of the defi…
Mega-exhibitions
The Paulding Avenue Trilogy
Research Article| May 01 2004 THE PAULDING AVENUE TRILOGY: INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-19-1-20 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE PAULDING AVENUE TRILOGY: INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS. Nka 1 May 2004; 2004 (19): 20–25. doi: https:/…
The Postcolonial Constellation
It is a commonplace of the current historical thinking about globalization to say: There are no vantage points from which to observe any culture since the very processes of globalization have effectively abolished the temporal and spatial distance that previously separated cultures. 1 Another way this thinking has been expressed is in the idea of globalization as the mode and ultimate structure of singularization, standardization, and homogenizat…
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
A Conversation with Okwui Enwezor
This interview took place on September 8, 2001, in a public forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was sponsored by the Department of Museum Education in conjunction with the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, which was curated by Okwui Enwezor for the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and presented at the MCA for its U.S. premiere by the curator Francesco Bonami from September 8 to…
Reading the Contemporary
Bringing together twenty-two essays by artists, critics and scholars, this anthology, as the editors note in their introduction, aims to address key issues in contemporary African art and visual culture while analysing the relationship between art, politics and culture in the production of a modern consciousness. Four sections on history, practice, identity, and cultural transaction provide a framework for the philosophical and critical perspecti…
Harlem on My Mind
Other| May 01 1998 Harlem on My Mind: RHAPSODIES IN BLACK: ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1998) 1998 (8): 58–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8-1-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; Harlem on My Mind: RHAPSODIES IN BLACK: ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Nka 1 May 1998; 1998 (…
Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation
(1997). Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation. Third Text: Vol. 11, No. 40, pp. 21-40
The joke is on you
Research Article| May 01 1997 The joke is on you: The work of Yinka Shonibare Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1997) 1997 (6-7): 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-6-7-1-10 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; The joke is on you: The work of Yinka Shonibare. Nka 1 May 1997; 1997 (6-7): 10–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-6-7…
Social grace
Frank Bowling
Research Article| May 01 1996 Frank Bowling: A Conversation Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Olu Oguibe Olu Oguibe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4-1-18 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe; Frank Bowling: A Conversation. Nka 1 May 1996; 1996 (…
The Ruined City
Research Article| May 01 1996 THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4-1-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO. Nka 1 May 1996; 1996 (4): 14–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
The body in question
(1995). The body in question: Whose body? ‘Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’. Third Text: Vol. 9, No. 31, pp. 67-70
Snap Judgments
Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation
(1997). Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation. Third Text: Vol. 11, No. 40, pp. 21-40
Reading the Contemporary
Bringing together twenty-two essays by artists, critics and scholars, this anthology, as the editors note in their introduction, aims to address key issues in contemporary African art and visual culture while analysing the relationship between art, politics and culture in the production of a modern consciousness. Four sections on history, practice, identity, and cultural transaction provide a framework for the philosophical and critical perspecti…
The Postcolonial Constellation
It is a commonplace of the current historical thinking about globalization to say: There are no vantage points from which to observe any culture since the very processes of globalization have effectively abolished the temporal and spatial distance that previously separated cultures. 1 Another way this thinking has been expressed is in the idea of globalization as the mode and ultimate structure of singularization, standardization, and homogenizat…
Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence
There is a dual narrative that is often taken to be characteristic of modernity: the first is the idea of its unique Europeanness, and the second is its translatability into non-European cultures. This narrative argues for the mutability of modernity, thus permitting its export and enhancing its universal character while putting a European epistemological stamp on its subsequent reception. The traveling character of this dimension of modernity as…
Exodus of the Dogs
Research Article| November 01 2009 EXODUS OF THE DOGS Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 60–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; EXODUS OF THE DOGS. Nka 1 November 2009; 2009 (25): 60–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Download citation file: Zotero Reference…
The body in question
(1995). The body in question: Whose body? ‘Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’. Third Text: Vol. 9, No. 31, pp. 67-70
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
A Conversation with Okwui Enwezor
This interview took place on September 8, 2001, in a public forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was sponsored by the Department of Museum Education in conjunction with the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, which was curated by Okwui Enwezor for the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and presented at the MCA for its U.S. premiere by the curator Francesco Bonami from September 8 to…
Social grace
The Ruined City
Research Article| May 01 1996 THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4-1-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO. Nka 1 May 1996; 1996 (4): 14–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
Ouattara
Research Article| May 01 1995 OUATTARA: BEYOND SHAMANISM Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 25–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; OUATTARA: BEYOND SHAMANISM. Nka 1 November 1995; 1995 (2): 25–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-25 Download citation file: Zotero Referenc…
The Inverted Sign
Research Article| May 01 1995 THE INVERTED SIGN Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor is the Editor and Publisher of Nka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 44–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-44 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE INVERTED SIGN. Nka 1 November 1995; 1995 (2): 44–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-44 Download…
Fusion
Other| May 01 1994 “FUSION: WEST AFRICAN ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE” Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1994) 1994 (1): 56–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-1-1-56 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; “FUSION: WEST AFRICAN ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE”. Nka 1 May 1994; 1994 (1): 56–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-1-1-56 D…
Fusion
Other| May 01 1994 “FUSION: WEST AFRICAN ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE” Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1994) 1994 (1): 56–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-1-1-56 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; “FUSION: WEST AFRICAN ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE”. Nka 1 May 1994; 1994 (1): 56–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-1-1-56 D…
The body in question
(1995). The body in question: Whose body? ‘Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’. Third Text: Vol. 9, No. 31, pp. 67-70
Ouattara
Research Article| May 01 1995 OUATTARA: BEYOND SHAMANISM Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 25–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; OUATTARA: BEYOND SHAMANISM. Nka 1 November 1995; 1995 (2): 25–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-25 Download citation file: Zotero Referenc…
The Inverted Sign
Research Article| May 01 1995 THE INVERTED SIGN Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor is the Editor and Publisher of Nka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 44–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-44 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE INVERTED SIGN. Nka 1 November 1995; 1995 (2): 44–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-44 Download…
Social grace
Frank Bowling
Research Article| May 01 1996 Frank Bowling: A Conversation Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Olu Oguibe Olu Oguibe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4-1-18 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe; Frank Bowling: A Conversation. Nka 1 May 1996; 1996 (…
The Ruined City
Research Article| May 01 1996 THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1996) 1996 (4): 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4-1-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE RUINED CITY: DESOLATION, RAPTURE, AND GEORGES ADEAGBO. Nka 1 May 1996; 1996 (4): 14–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation
(1997). Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation. Third Text: Vol. 11, No. 40, pp. 21-40
The joke is on you
Research Article| May 01 1997 The joke is on you: The work of Yinka Shonibare Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1997) 1997 (6-7): 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-6-7-1-10 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; The joke is on you: The work of Yinka Shonibare. Nka 1 May 1997; 1997 (6-7): 10–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-6-7…
Harlem on My Mind
Other| May 01 1998 Harlem on My Mind: RHAPSODIES IN BLACK: ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1998) 1998 (8): 58–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8-1-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; Harlem on My Mind: RHAPSODIES IN BLACK: ART OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Nka 1 May 1998; 1998 (…
Reading the Contemporary
Bringing together twenty-two essays by artists, critics and scholars, this anthology, as the editors note in their introduction, aims to address key issues in contemporary African art and visual culture while analysing the relationship between art, politics and culture in the production of a modern consciousness. Four sections on history, practice, identity, and cultural transaction provide a framework for the philosophical and critical perspecti…
A Conversation with Okwui Enwezor
This interview took place on September 8, 2001, in a public forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was sponsored by the Department of Museum Education in conjunction with the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, which was curated by Okwui Enwezor for the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and presented at the MCA for its U.S. premiere by the curator Francesco Bonami from September 8 to…
The Postcolonial Constellation
It is a commonplace of the current historical thinking about globalization to say: There are no vantage points from which to observe any culture since the very processes of globalization have effectively abolished the temporal and spatial distance that previously separated cultures. 1 Another way this thinking has been expressed is in the idea of globalization as the mode and ultimate structure of singularization, standardization, and homogenizat…
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
The Paulding Avenue Trilogy
Research Article| May 01 2004 THE PAULDING AVENUE TRILOGY: INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-19-1-20 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; THE PAULDING AVENUE TRILOGY: INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS. Nka 1 May 2004; 2004 (19): 20–25. doi: https:/…
Curating the World
The Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor is undoubtedly one of the major curators of and thinkers about art in the world today. His 2002 exhibition DOCUMENTA 11—which took up such topics as democracy, truth and reconciliation, creolisation, and the fate of four African cities—has been endlessly discussed and imitated. A show not only about the idea of the world but also introducing a new ‘global’ style of art, it is widely understood to be one of the defi…
Mega-exhibitions
Antinomies of Art and Culture
Exodus of the Dogs
Research Article| November 01 2009 EXODUS OF THE DOGS Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 60–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Okwui Enwezor; EXODUS OF THE DOGS. Nka 1 November 2009; 2009 (25): 60–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-60 Download citation file: Zotero Reference…
Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence
There is a dual narrative that is often taken to be characteristic of modernity: the first is the idea of its unique Europeanness, and the second is its translatability into non-European cultures. This narrative argues for the mutability of modernity, thus permitting its export and enhancing its universal character while putting a European epistemological stamp on its subsequent reception. The traveling character of this dimension of modernity as…
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum
Snap Judgments
Selected Writings, Volume 2
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta 11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific critic, essayist, and theorist. Se…
Postwar Revisited
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