Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor | |
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| Born | Okwuchukwu Emmanuel Enwezor 23 October 1963 Calabar, Nigeria |
| Died | 15 March 2019 (aged 55) Munich, Germany |
| Occupation | Curator |
| Spouse(s) | Jill S Davis (divorced) Muna El Fituri (divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
Okwui Enwezor // ⓘ (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history.
Enwezor served as artistic director of several major exhibitions, including Documenta11 (2002) and the 2015 Venice Biennale, becoming the first non-European and African-born curator to lead both. He was director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst from 2011 to 2018. Enwezor was also the founding editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and held numerous academic appointments. n 2014, he was ranked 24 in the ArtReview list of the 100 most powerful people of the art world. He lived in New York City and Munich. Enwezor died in 2019 after a prolonged battle with cancer.