Senegalese-born Curator N’Goné Fall has been announced as one of the presidents of the jury for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency of 2023. Alongside other jury members, she will review the submissions for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency of 2023.
Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City has announced the third open call for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2023 in collaboration with Contemporary And (C&). Artists, architects, designers, directors, performers, fashion designers, writers or urban practitioners have been invited to apply to uncover and transform historical colonial stratifications and dominant narratives in Berlin’s public space.
The announcement reads:
“We are very excited to announce our two internationally renowned jury presidents who – with their rich varieties of experience, knowledge and perspectives – will be chairing the 2023 jury which will review the submissions for »AGITP[R]OP!« – the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency of 2023: Hou Hanru, prolific writer and curator and N’Goné Fall, independent curator and cultural policies specialist.”
N’Goné Fall (born 1967) is a Senegalese curator, editor, cultural policies specialist and academic.
She graduated with honours from Paris’ École Spéciale d’Architecture. From 1994 – 2001, she was the editorial director of the contemporary African art magazine Revue Noire. She edited An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century (Revue Noire / DAP 2002); Photographers from Kinshasa (Revue Noire 2001); Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography: a century of African photographers (Revue Noire 1998). She has served as a consultant to governments on cultural policies and has curated cultural exhibitions in Africa, Europe and the United States. She was a guest curator of the Bamako and Dakar biennales respectively in 2001 and 2002. She is the author of strategic plans and evaluation reports for national and international institutions in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the USA. She has been a visiting professor at the Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt (2007 – 2011); a lecturer at the Michaelis School of Arts in Cape Town, South Africa (2017) and at the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey in Niger (2018).
In 2018, N’Goné Fall was appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron as General Commissioner of the Africa 2020 Season, a French initiative to view the world from an African perspective and a series of more than 1,500 cultural, scientific and pedagogical events all over France from December 2020 to September 2021.
Other esteemed permanent jury members include the curatorial collective Nyabinghi Lab (Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Saskia Köbschall, Tmnit Zéré), Contemporary And (C&)’s founders Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the visual artist Raul Walch as well as Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard and Philipp Khabo Köpsell on behalf of the Dekoloniale team.
