오쿠이 엔위저

소개

오쿠이 엔위저 는 나이지리아 출신 큐레이터이자 미술평론가, 작가, 시인, 미술사 교육자이다. 미국 뉴욕 시와 독일 뮌헨에 거주한다. 2014년 《아트리뷰》가 선정한 '미술계에서 가장 영향력 있는 100인' 목록에서 24위에 올랐다.

Okwui Enwezor was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, academic administrator, 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. In 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.