About the Author

Okwui Enwezor is a curator, art critic, editor and writer. Since 2011 he has been the Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. He has been Artistic Director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996-98), of documenta 11 in Kassel (1998-2002), of the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (2005-07), of the 7th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea(2008), and of the Triennal d'Art Contemporain of Paris (2012). He's held academic positions as Dean of Academic Affairs of the San Francisco Art Institute (2005-09), as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Illinois, and at the Columbia University, New York. In spring 2012 he's been appointed as Visiting Professor in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.