Talk Art: An Agent of Change

Art: An Agent of Change © IAF15 © IAF15

Saturday, 3rd February 2024, 15:00-16:00

NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi

India Art Fair Talks Programme

Director and Chief Curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Head of Arts at CERN, Mónica Bello and Director of KHOJ International Artists’ Association, Pooja Sood explore how artists and arts organisations can tangibly effect change and address pressing global ecological and societal issues. The conversation will be moderated by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, artist and curator at the Raqs Media Collective.

Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 
Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung © Alexander Steffens © Alexander Steffens
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
, PhD is a curator, author and biotechnologist, currently serving as Director and chief curator of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, Germany. He founded SAVVY Contemporary in 2009, where he served as the artistic director until 2022. He was the artistic director of Sonsbeek20-24, Arnhem, Netherlands, as well as the 12th and 13th editions of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, Mali. He was guest curator for the Dak’Art biennale in Dakar, Senegal, 2018 and was the Curatorat-large for Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany in 2017. He curated the Finland Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019, together with the Miracle Workers Collective. He is professor in the Spatial Strategies MA program at the Weissensee Academy of Art in Berlin.






Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung’s participation is supported By Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi.

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