Olu Oguibe’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including, most recently, documenta 14 for which he won the Arnold Bode Preis and the 2018-2019 Ruhr Triennale, among others. He also curated and co-curated many major exhibitions at the turn of the century for venues including Tate Modern and Venice Biennale, and introduced several major contemporary art curators to curating. For three decades beginning in the late-eighties, he wrote film, theatre, literary and art criticism for newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals in Africa, Europe and the US, and taught in several universities. His institutional critiques, theoretical essays and pioneering studies of non-Western and female contemporary artists helped put global contemporary art and art institutions on a more open course. Outside his visual-art-related practices, he has also written and published several collections of award-winning poetry. Oguibe began his public life as a student activist in the eighties, and later received a PhD in history of contemporary art from University of London in 1992. He’s currently represented by KOW, Berlin.

ABOUT SFSIA

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and politics. The program consists of seminar-style lectures, deep readings, and workshops. An evening lecture program is free and open to the public. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art was founded and is directed by Warren Neidich and is co-directed by Barry Schwabsky.