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* editor, ''The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994'', Munich: Prestel, 2001. [http://www.mccoyspace.com/nyu/10_s/ideas/texts/week13-Enwezor-Short_Centruy.pdf Introduction], [[Media:Small_Irene_2001_The_Short_Century_Independence_and_Liberation_Movements_in_Africa_1945-1994_Chronology.pdf|Chronology]]. {{en}}
 
* editor, ''The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994'', Munich: Prestel, 2001. [http://www.mccoyspace.com/nyu/10_s/ideas/texts/week13-Enwezor-Short_Centruy.pdf Introduction], [[Media:Small_Irene_2001_The_Short_Century_Independence_and_Liberation_Movements_in_Africa_1945-1994_Chronology.pdf|Chronology]]. {{en}}
 
* editor, ''Documenta 11 Platform'', 5 vols., Kassel: Documenta, and Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002-2003. Volumes: 1. "Democracy Unrealized", 2002, 411 pp; 2. "Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation", 2002, 404 pp; 3. "Creolité and Creolization", 2003, 273 pp; 4. "Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos", 454 pp; 5. "Exhibition", 2002, 620 pp. {{en}}
 
* editor, ''Documenta 11 Platform'', 5 vols., Kassel: Documenta, and Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002-2003. Volumes: 1. "Democracy Unrealized", 2002, 411 pp; 2. "Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation", 2002, 404 pp; 3. "Creolité and Creolization", 2003, 273 pp; 4. "Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos", 454 pp; 5. "Exhibition", 2002, 620 pp. {{en}}
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** Enwezor, [[Media:Enwezor Okwui 2002 The Black Box.pdf|"The Black Box"]], in ''Documenta 11 Platform: Exhibition'', 2002, pp 44-55. {{en}}
 
* ''Grossausstellungen und die Antinomien einer transnationalen globalen Form / Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form'', Munich: Fink, 2002, 59 pp. Lecture delivered at Humboldt University, Berlin, 4 Dec 2001.  {{de}}/{{en}}. English version repr. in ''Manifesta journal'' 2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp 6-31.  
 
* ''Grossausstellungen und die Antinomien einer transnationalen globalen Form / Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form'', Munich: Fink, 2002, 59 pp. Lecture delivered at Humboldt University, Berlin, 4 Dec 2001.  {{de}}/{{en}}. English version repr. in ''Manifesta journal'' 2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp 6-31.  
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* [http://sci-hub.tw/http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328 "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition"], ''Research in African Literatures'' 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82.
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* [http://sci-hub.tw/http://www.jstor.org/stable/4618328 "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition"], ''Research in African Literatures'' 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82. {{en}}
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* [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_The_Artist_as_Producer_in_Times_of_Crisis.pdf|"The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis"]], 2004.
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* [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2004_The_Artist_as_Producer_in_Times_of_Crisis.pdf|"The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis"]], 2004. {{en}}
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* ''Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography'', Gottingen: Steidl, and New York: International Center of Photography, 2006, 383 pp. Catalogue of exh. held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 10 Mar-28 May 2006. [https://steidl.de/Buecher/Snap-Judgments-New-Positions-in-Contemporary-African-Photography-1217186155.html]
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* ''Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography'', Gottingen: Steidl, and New York: International Center of Photography, 2006, 383 pp. Catalogue of [https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/snap-judgements-new-positions-in-contemporary-african-photography exh.] held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 10 Mar-28 May 2006. [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/africa_3730jsp/], [https://steidl.de/Buecher/Snap-Judgments-New-Positions-in-Contemporary-African-Photography-1217186155.html]. Exh. reviews: [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/design/colorful-and-clashing-looking-at-africa.html Cotter] (NYT), [https://www.academia.edu/5758182/ Duran] (SECAC Rev). {{en}}
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** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2006_The_Uses_of_Afro-Pessimism.pdf|"The Uses of Afro-Pessimism"]].
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** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2006_The_Uses_of_Afro-Pessimism.pdf|"The Uses of Afro-Pessimism"]]. {{en}}
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* editor, ''The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society'', Sevilla: Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS), 2006, 335 pp. Catalogue.  
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* editor, ''The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society'', Sevilla: Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS), 2006, 335 pp. Catalogue. {{en}}
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* [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=8FD6EED1E0BDF851CCF16F2A8D7504B8 "History Lessons"], ''Artforum'' 46:1, New York, Sep 2007, pp 382ff.
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* [[Media:Enwezor Okwui_2007_History_Lessons.pdf|"History Lessons"]], ''Artforum'' 46:1, New York, Sep 2007, pp 382ff. {{en}}
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* ''Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art'', New York: International Center of Photography, and Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. Catalogue of an [https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/archive-fever-uses-of-the-document-in-contemporary-art exhibition] held at the International Center of Photography, New York, Jan. 18-May 4, 2008. [http://worldcat.org/oclc/213866952]. Exh.reviews: [https://www.mica.edu/Documents/FacultyBiographies/amor_articles/AF_April08_364-5.pdf Avgikos] (Artforum), [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18arch.html Cotter] (NYT), [http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/44477/ Saltz] (NYMag), [https://www.academia.edu/244275 Swartz] (NYArts), [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1111 Maimon] (CAA), [https://www.erudit.org/culture/cv1057878/cv1071744/19484ac.pdf Pelizzari] (Ciel variable), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.2752/175145208X373798 Bodinson] (Photo & Culture).
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* ''Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art'', New York: International Center of Photography, and Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. Catalogue of an [https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/archive-fever-uses-of-the-document-in-contemporary-art exhibition] held at the International Center of Photography, New York, Jan. 18-May 4, 2008. [http://worldcat.org/oclc/213866952]. Exh.reviews: [https://www.mica.edu/Documents/FacultyBiographies/amor_articles/AF_April08_364-5.pdf Avgikos] (Artforum), [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18arch.html Cotter] (NYT), [http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/44477/ Saltz] (NYMag), [https://www.academia.edu/244275 Swartz] (NYArts), [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1111 Maimon] (CAA), [https://www.erudit.org/culture/cv1057878/cv1071744/19484ac.pdf Pelizzari] (Ciel variable), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.2752/175145208X373798 Bodinson] (Photo & Culture). {{en}}
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** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2008_Archive_Fever_Photography_Between_History_and_the_Monument.pdf|"Archive Fever: Photography Between History and the Monument"]], pp 10-51. Lead essay.
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** [[Media:Enwezor_Okwui_2008_Archive_Fever_Photography_Between_History_and_the_Monument.pdf|"Archive Fever: Photography Between History and the Monument"]], pp 10-51. Lead essay. {{en}}
 
* editor, with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/54739ac8334fe07053a4e932 Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity]'', Duke University Press, 2008. {{en}}
 
* editor, with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/54739ac8334fe07053a4e932 Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity]'', Duke University Press, 2008. {{en}}
 
* with Chika Okeke-Agulu, ''Contemporary African Art Since 1980'', Bologna: Damiani, 2009, 366 pp. [http://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragmenten/archief/2010/contemporary-african-art-since-1980/ Preface], [http://orientationtrip2011.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/text-contemporary-african-art-since-1980-by-okwui-enwezor-chika-okeke-agulu.pdf Chs 1-7]. {{en}}
 
* with Chika Okeke-Agulu, ''Contemporary African Art Since 1980'', Bologna: Damiani, 2009, 366 pp. [http://www.athenaeum.nl/leesfragmenten/archief/2010/contemporary-african-art-since-1980/ Preface], [http://orientationtrip2011.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/text-contemporary-african-art-since-1980-by-okwui-enwezor-chika-okeke-agulu.pdf Chs 1-7]. {{en}}

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Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City and Munich.

Publications

  • editor, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Duke University Press, 1994-2019. [1]
  • "Where, What, Who, When: a Few Notes on 'African' Conceptualism", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queen's Museum of Art, 1999, pp 109-117. Catalogue essay. (English)
  • editor, with Olu Oguibe, Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the Marketplace, London: Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA), 1999, 432 pp. TOC.
  • editor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, Munich: Prestel, 2001. Introduction, Chronology. (English)
  • editor, Documenta 11 Platform, 5 vols., Kassel: Documenta, and Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002-2003. Volumes: 1. "Democracy Unrealized", 2002, 411 pp; 2. "Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation", 2002, 404 pp; 3. "Creolité and Creolization", 2003, 273 pp; 4. "Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos", 454 pp; 5. "Exhibition", 2002, 620 pp. (English)
    • Enwezor, "The Black Box", in Documenta 11 Platform: Exhibition, 2002, pp 44-55. (English)
  • Grossausstellungen und die Antinomien einer transnationalen globalen Form / Mega Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form, Munich: Fink, 2002, 59 pp. Lecture delivered at Humboldt University, Berlin, 4 Dec 2001. (German)/(English). English version repr. in Manifesta journal 2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp 6-31.
  • "Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition", Research in African Literatures 34:4 (Winter 2003), pp 57-82. (English)
  • "The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis", 2004. (English)
  • Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Gottingen: Steidl, and New York: International Center of Photography, 2006, 383 pp. Catalogue of exh. held at the International Center of Photography, New York, 10 Mar-28 May 2006. [2], [3]. Exh. reviews: Cotter (NYT), Duran (SECAC Rev). (English)
  • editor, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Sevilla: Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS), 2006, 335 pp. Catalogue. (English)
  • "History Lessons", Artforum 46:1, New York, Sep 2007, pp 382ff. (English)
  • Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, New York: International Center of Photography, and Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, Jan. 18-May 4, 2008. [4]. Exh.reviews: Avgikos (Artforum), Cotter (NYT), Saltz (NYMag), Swartz (NYArts), Maimon (CAA), Pelizzari (Ciel variable), Bodinson (Photo & Culture). (English)
  • editor, with Terry Smith and Nancy Condee, Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, Duke University Press, 2008. (English)
  • with Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Bologna: Damiani, 2009, 366 pp. Preface, Chs 1-7. (English)
  • "Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence", in Altermodern: Tate Triennial, London: Tate, 2009; upd. version, South Atlantic Quarterly 109:3 (2010), pp 595-620. (English)
  • editor, Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection, Burlafingen: Walther Collection, and Göttingen: Steidl, 2010, 445 pp. Catalogue. (English)
  • editor, Intense Proximity: An Anthology of the Near and the Far. La Triennale 2012, Paris: Centre national des arts plastiques: Artlys, 2012, 687 pp. Catalogue. (English)
  • editor, with Rory Bester, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Munich: Prestel, 2013, 543 pp. Catalogue. (English)
  • editor, Sarah Sze: Centrifuge, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018, 128 pp. Catalogue. (English)

Interviews

Links

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