Curating Dr. Ndikung is the founding director of
SAVVY Contemporary, an independent project space and
discoursive platform for exhibitions,
performances and other events. It situates itself on the threshold between concepts of the West and non-West to understand and deconstruct them. From 2015 to 2018, together with
Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Ndikung was a curator at
Galerie Wedding, a public gallery in
Berlin-Wedding. Ndikung and Ovesen also co-curated the year long
Danish art project
Images 2016 – An Age of our Own Making, that took place in
Holbæk,
Roskilde and
Copenhagen. In 2015, Ndikung contributed a key essay to the project
The Citizen, which the German photographer
Tobias Zielony created for the
German pavilion at the
56th Venice Biennale. Ndikung's piece with the title "The Penultimate Dance On The Roof" dealt with the
self-empowerment of the activist
refugees, who had occupied the building of the former
Gerhart-Hauptmann-School in
Berlin-Kreuzberg. The double-page was published by the daily
The Citizen in
Khartoum,
Sudan, and put on display in the Pavilion as a migrating image. In the same year, Dr. Ndikung became part of the curatorial team of
Adam Szymczyk's
documenta 14, in the role of Curator at large. Together with
Pauline Doutreluingne Dr. Ndikung curated the Performeum at the
Wiener Festwochen in 2017. Ndikung was a guest curator for the 13th
Dakar Biennale in Senegal, under the artistic direction of
Simon Njami. As part of the Miracle Workers Collective he curated the
Finnish pavilion at the 58th
Venice Biennale in 2019. He was artistic director of the 12th
Bamako Encounters in 2019, a biennale for African photography in
Mali. Ndikung is artistic director for
Sonsbeek 2020-2024, a large-scale sculpture exhibition that takes place in
Arnhem, the
Netherlands. Ndikung was a guest professor in curatorial studies and
sound art at the
Städelschule in Frankfurt from 2017 to 2019, and together with artist
Nasan Tur, is professor for the Spatial Strategies MA program at
Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. In June 2021, Ndikung was appointed as the Director of Berlin's
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, to take over from
Bernd M. Scherer on 1 January 2023. Ndikung is the chief curator of the 2025
São Paulo Art Biennial.
Other activities In 2022, Ndikung was a member of the jury of the
Venice Biennale, chaired by
Adrienne Edwards. == Recognition ==