Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, PhD (born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a curator, author and biotechnologist. He is currently a professor in the Spatial Strategies MA programme at the Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. From 2023, he will take up the position of Director at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
As artistic director, exhibitions include: SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin (also founder); 12th Bamako Encounters, 2019; Sonsbeek20–24, a quadrennial contemporary art exhibition, Arnhem, Netherlands; 13th Bamako Encounters 2022, a biennale for African photography in Mali. Ndikung was the curator-at-large for Adam Szymczyk's Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, 2017, and a guest curator of the Dak’Art biennale in Dakar, Senegal, 2018. Together with the Miracle Workers Collective, he curated the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2019.
He was a recipient of the first OCAD University International Curators Residency fellowship in Toronto in 2020.
