Short Bio
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (PhD), born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, is an independent art curator and biotechnologist.
He has been living on and off in Berlin since 1997, where he studied Food Biotechnology in the University of Technology Berlin, did a doctorate in Medical Biotechnology in the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and a post-doctorate in Biophysics in Montpellier. He currently works, parallel to his activities as a curator, as a scientist in a medical device company.
He is the founder and art director of the art space SAVVY Contemporary Berlin www.savvy-contemporary.com, where he has directed and curated exhibits with more than 60 artists from 5 continents.
He has worked as independent curator, art director or adviser for several international exhibition projects or festivals in Germany, France, England and Cameroon and has published more than 20 exhibition catalogues.
He is also the initiator and editor-in-chief of the journal SAVVY|art.contemporary.african. www.savvy-journal.com , the first bilingual e-journal on contemporary African art.
He has presented in or cooperated in different projects with institutions like the Berlinische Galerie, Tensta Konsthal Sweden, Goethe Institute, Institute für Auslandsbeziehung (ifa), Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Arsenal Berlin, 7. Berlin Biennale, dOCUMENTA 13 / Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, District Berlin. Upcoming presentations are in the KfB Bank Stiftung and Akademie der Künste Berlin. He was a fellow of the 2013 Einstein Foundation’s Berlin der Begegnung.
Curriculum Vitae
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
2013
- Einstein Foundation – Berlin der Begegnung Fellowship 2013
Das interdisziplinäre Netzwerk der Einstein Stiftung für exzellente Nachwuchskräfte in Berlin
Schloss Genshagen
http://www.einsteinfoundation.de/de/personen-projekte/berlin-der-begegnung.html
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Curator: To Whom It May Concern
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Ato Malinda, Nathalie Bikoro, Ingrid Mwangi
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- Games
Curator:
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Ato Malinda – feat. Nathalie Bikoro, Ingrid Mwangi
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
2012
- The White Male Complex
Curator: Thomas Eller
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Thomas Eller, DETEXT, Adib Fricke, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Walter Robinson, Felix Schneeweiss, Superman, Markus Voit, Clemens Wilhelm
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- SAY IT LOUD. on words and actions
Curators: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Susanne Husse, Megan Marissa Steinman
Curator for Group Exhibition at District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin
Artists: Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff, Erik Bünger, Jeremiah Day, DETEXT, Discoteca Flaming Star, Ebon Heath, Gary Hill, Satch Hoyt, Sejla Kameric, Daniel Knorr, Falke Pisano
http://www.district-berlin.com
- There is no wind on the moon
Curators: Tobias Hering, Bonaventure Soh Ndikung
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Maria Iorio, Raphaël Cuomo, Dani Gal, Jan Lemitz
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- The Romantic Idea of an Ideal Space
Presentation at the dOCUMENTA 13 / Konrad Adenauer Stiftung für begabten Forderung
Kulturhaus Dock 4
- Archival Practices: Visual tendencies of a generation
Curator: Zeynep Akbal
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Mofor Clementine Cendoh, Em’Kal Eyongakpa, Musing Derick Tenning (INAIZ), Ndoumbe Ewane, Rene Etta Tabot
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- Demonstrate
Thomas Eller speaks with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Berlinische Galerie
- Positioning Osmotic Impulses
Curators: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pauline Doutreluingne
Curator for Group Exhibition at Gefängnis am Amtsgericht Neukölln
Artists: Abrie Fourie (ZA) / Anne Duk Hee Jordan (DE/KR) / Brandon LaBelle (US) / Darri Lorenzen (IS) / Fernanda Trevellin (BR) / Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (PE) / Marc Bijl (NL) / Juan Duque (CO) / Azin Feizabadi (IR) / Nathalie Bikoro (GA) / Jennis Li Cheng Tien (TW) / Emeka Okereke (NG) / Tere Recarens (ES) / Julia Prezewowsky (DE) / Surya Gied (KR/DE) & Angelo Wemmje (DE) / Ariel Reichman (ZA/IL) / Yassine Balbzioui (MA) / Eliana Heredia (AR/IT) / Maya Schweizer (FR) / Michael Zheng (CN/US) / Anna Anderegg (CH) / Balz Isler (CH), Yukihiro Taguchi (JP) / Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (PE) / Jean Genet (FR) / Cao Fei & Ou Ning (CN) / Clemens von Wedemeyer (DE) / Azin Feizabadi (IR)
http://osmoticimpulses.wordpress.com/
- How to Tame Ghosts
Curators: Giusy Sana and Bonaventure Soh Ndikung
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Halida Boughriet and Mudi Yahaya
- The Pornography of Everyday Life
Curator: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
7. Berlin Biennale | Draftsman’s Congress at St. Elisabeth Kirche
Artists: Bjorn Melhus (Künstler | Berlin), Carson Chan (Kurator | Berlin), Christophe Ndabananiye (Künstler | Berlin), Claudia Lamas Cornejo (Kunst Managerin | Berlin), Dalila Dalleas Bouzar (Künsterlin | Berlin), Daniel Daoudi (Künstler, Kurator, Kunst Manager | Berlin), Eemil Karila (Künstlerin | Berlin), Marcio Carvalho (Künstler | Berlin), Maud Eglantine Piquion (Kunst Managerin, Kuratorin | Berlin), Nasan Tur (Künstlerin | Berlin), Nezaket Ekici (Künsterlin | Berlin), Paul Huf (Künstler | Berlin), Pauline Doutreluingne (Kuratorin | Berlin), Ralf Schmerberg (Künstler, Produzent, Facilitator | Berlin), Satch Hoyt (Künster | Berlin), Susanne Husse (Kuratorin | Berlin), Van Bo Le-Mentzel (Architekt, Designer | Berlin), Yassine Balbzioui (Künstlerin | Berlin).
- Packet-Soup
Curator: Claudia Lamas Cornejo
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Jan Kuck, Werner Boote, Steve McPherson, Pamela Longobardi, Nathalie Fari, Susanne Richter, Yingmei Duan
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- Untitled (Absence)
Curator: Anna Lena Werner
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Lela Ahmadzai, Lars Bjerre
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- Know Thyself
Curator: Anastasia Stein
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Clara Jo, Tiago Romagnani Silveira
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
- The Universe is Built on a Plan
Curator: Nicole Loeser
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
Artists: Raha Rastifard, Michael Zheng, Veronika Witte, Jovana Popic, André Wagner
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition
2011
- Algérie Année Zero - Dalila Dalleas
Curator of art exhibition
Centre Culturel Français d’Alger, Algeria
- De-linearizing the Linear Genealogy | A Case Study on Positioning the Other in Berlin
Lecture and discussion
Institut für Auslandsbeziehung e.V. Berlin
- SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Curators’ Network Programme – 12 International Curators
- Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads
Curator of International Group Exhibition with 26 Artists
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Berlin
www.settlednomads.wordpress.com , www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de
- (Re-) Mapping the field: a bird’s eye view on discourses
Presentation of SAVVY | art.contemporary.african. Edition 1
Daimler Contemporary Berlin
www.savvy-journal.com , www.sammlung.daimler.com
- The Body as Grammar in the Language of Transnationality
Curator of Video Screening Program for the Transeuropa Festival
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Berlin and Espace Jemmapes Paris
www.arsenal-berlin.de , www.jemmapes.com
- Looks Familiar
Curators: Susanne Husse, Jana Sotzko
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition/Jan 11/looksfamiliar_en.html
- A Twist in the Ta(i)l(e)
Curator and Art Director for Group Exhibition, Co-curator: Franziska Lesák
SAVVY Contemporary
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition/March 11/a twist in a tail_en.html
- Here and Now… Amnesia
Curator: Katia Hermann
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, cooperation with Kulturamt Neukölln
www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition/March 11/Here and now_en.html
- Beyond Football – Shifting Interests and Identity
Curator: Emeka Udemba
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, cooperation with Goethe Institute
www.goethe.de , www.savvy-contemporary.com/exhibition/2011/beyond football_en.html
- For Those on the Periphery
Curator: Mimi Cherono N’gok
Art Director for Group Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, cooperation with ifa
- Ghostbusters | Imagination and Memory of Home
Curator: Nadine Siegert
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, cooperation with ifa and Kulturamt Neukölln
2010
- Die Polemik in Hybridität und kultureller Identität
Presentation with Akinbode Akinbiyi
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Who knows tomorrow exhibition
- Tensta – Kreuzberg
Presentation at Tensta Konsthal Stockholm
- Afrosphären in der deutschen Kunstszene
Presentation at August Bebel Institut Berlin
- Perspectives on In/Outside
Curator for Exhibition, Co-curator: Simone Kraft | Artists: Pierre Juillerat, Le Van Bo
SAVVY Contemporary
- IdEntität
Curator: Andreas Feddersen
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Arctic Heat –Kunst aus Nordfinnland und Lappland
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, cooperation with Finnland Institut Berlin
- RPLCMNT
Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
- Stardust in a Nutshell
Curator: Annette Schemmel
Art Director for Exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary
- Bouche à Oreille
Curator for Group Exhibition | Artists: Yingmei Duan, Verena Kyselka
SAVVY Contemporary
- Understatement Hyperbole
Curator for Group Exhibition | Artists: Petra Lottje, Soavina Ramaroson
SAVVY Contemporary
2009
- Consciences and Frontiers
Curator of International Group Exhibition with 15 international artists
Co-curators: Simone Kraft, Sophie Eliot, Dorina Hecht
Alte Post Berlin
2008
- Post Barroco
Co-Curator for Group Exhibition, Curator: Antje Gerhardt
Alte Post Berlin
- This world is not my home
Curator for Group Exhibition with 15 international artists, Co-curator: Simone Kraft
Kunsthaus Tacheles
- Articulating utopia
Curator for Group Exhibition,
Feine Künste Gallery Berlin
- Consume society – Consumed society
Curator for Group Exhibition,
Kunstprojekt International Temporary Art (K:ITA) Berlin
