Simon Njami

Simon Njami (dem born am 1962 insyd Lausanne) be a writer den an independent curator, lecturer, art critic den essayist.

 Career 

 Writing 
Njami publish ein first novel "Cercueil et Cie" insyd 1985, follow by "Les Enfants de la Cité" insyd 1987, den "Les Clandestins" den "African Gigolo" insyd 1989. He wrep biographies of James Baldwin den Léopold Sédar Senghor, chaw short texts, scripts give cinema, den documentary films.

Njami be de co-founder of Revue Noire,Annalisa Quinn (6 March 2018), After a Promise to Return African Artifacts, France Moves Toward a Plan New York Times. a journal of contemporary African den extra-occidental art, wey na he be visiting professor for de University of California, San Diego.

 Publications by Njami 

 Cercueil et Cie, novel, Lieu Commun, Paris, 1985
 Les Enfants de la Cité, novel, Gallimard, Folio Junior, Paris, 1987
 African Gigolo, novel, Seghers, 1989
 Les Clandestins, novel, Gallimard, Folio Junior, Paris, 1989
 James Baldwin ou le devoir de violence, biography, Seghers, Paris, 1991
 C'était Senghor, biography, Fayard, Paris, 2006

Exhibitions (dem select)
 "I've been abducted hundreds of times", a solo show by Gosha Ostretsov, curate by Simon Njami, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Nani Bernardo, May–June, 2017.
 Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, den Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France, March - September, 2017.
 "The City in the Blue Daylight", Dak'art, The Dakar Biennale, 2 May - 3 June 2016
 Santu Mofokeng, Mets Solo, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, March 2016
 Something Else, Off Biennale Cairo, 2015
 Après Eden, Maison Rouge, Paris, 2015
 Xenopolis, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, 2015
 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt am Main, 2014 - SCAD Museum, Savannah, USA, 2014-2015 - Smithsonian Institution/ African Art Museum, Washington, 2015
 WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884–2014, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 15 November 2014 – 28 February 2015
Portrait of Marrakech, Magnum Photos and Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Art (MMP+), 2013
Art at Work, co-produce by de Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Co-curator plus David Adjaye, Kampala, Ouganda, 2012.
Dokolo/Revue Noire Collection, Bamako encounters, 2011
Moataz Nasr, Chain reaction, Chateau de Blandy, France, 2011
Art at Work, co-produced by the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Co-curator plus David Adjaye, Ouagadougou, Addis Ababa, 2010
A Collective Diary, Herzilya Museum, Israel, 2010
Fiction#3, Bili Bidjocka, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France, May 2010
A useful dream, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, June 2010
As you like it (First African contemporary art fair), Johannesburg, March 2008
Artistic director of de Luanda Triennale, sept/dec 2010
Artistic Director of Picha (Lubumbabshi biennale), Oct 2010
Artistic director of SUD (Douala triennale), dec 2010
Ordinary pain, Noorderlicht festival Groningen, September 2009
Made in Africa, The Dokolo Collection, National Museum, Nairobi, 2009
Beyond the Desert, Darb 1718, Cairo, 2009
Co-Curator of the First African Pavilion at the 52e Venice Biennale, 2007
The Invention of memory, Réunion Island, September 2007
Chief curator of the VIIe Rencontres de Bamako, November 2007
L'image révélée, Tunis, 2006
Cities scape, ARCO 2006
Chief curator of les Rencontres africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, 2005
Africa Remix, Düsseldorf, Londres, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, Johannesburg, 2004/2007
Un prisme lucide – photographies, Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2004
Chief curator of les Rencontres africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, 2003
Up and Coming, ARCO, Madrid, 2003
Co-commissaire de Next Flag, Bruxelles, Zürich, 2002
Chief curator of les Rencontres africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, 2001
Le temps de l'Afrique, Las Palmas, 2000, Madrid, 2001
Biennale d'Art contemporain de Dakar (co-curator), Dakar, mai 2000
L'Afrique par elle-même, photographies (co-curator), Paris, São Paulo, Londres, Bamako, Washington, Berlin, Cape Town, 1998/1999
Traces of Identity, photographies, Toronto, 1997
Suites Africaines (co-curator), Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, 1997
Die Andere Reise, Vienne, 1996
Otro Pais, Las Palmas, Palma de Majorque, Barcelone, 1995
Paris Connection, Paris/San Francisco, 1991
Ethnicolor, Paris, 1987

Texts den co-editions (selection)
Ethnicolor, he edit plus Bruno Tilliette, Autrement, Paris, 1987
El Anatsui, un artiste sur le fil de l'histoire, insyd El Anatsui, A Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, Saffron Books, London, 1998
Remembrance of things Past, Ten years of debate about African Contemporary Art, Tobu Museum of Art, 1998
Co-editor den co-author of Rotimi Fani-Kayodé et Alex Hirst, Photographs, Revue Noire/Autograph, Paris/Londres, 1996
Co-editor of Pierre Verger, Le Messager, photographies, Revue Noire, Paris 1993, DAP, New York, 1996
Co-editor den co-author of de Anthology of African Photography, Revue Noire, Paris, 1997, DAP, New York, 1999
L'invention de la vie, insyd Peut-on être vivant en Afrique, Presses Universitaires de France, 2000
Der Kurator als Nackter König, Kontextualisierung und Dekontextualisierung, insyd de catalogue South meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, 2000
Les Spores de l'étamine, insyd de catalogue of de exhibition Afriques, Barcelona, 2001
Chroniques d'un millénaire / Chronicles of a Millennium, introduction au catalogue des IVè Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Eric Koehler, Paris, 2001
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Between einself den de Other, plus Pierre-Olivier Rollin, text for the documenta 11, publish by de Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles, 2002
Das doppelte glück der sanftmut und der bitterkeit, insyd de catalogue of Africa Apart, NGBK, Berlin, 2002
A certain View of Mankind, for de exhibition Portraits of Pride, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Raster Forlag, 2002
Cronicas del hijo de un siglo, Espacio C, Camargo, 2002
El Corazon de las luces, insyd Planeta Kurtz, Random House Mondadori, Barcelona, 2002
Jane Alexander, A Turbulent Silence, introduction to de catalogue of Daimler Chrysler Award, Hatje Cantz, 2002
Co-curator den co-author of BLINK, photographies, Phaidon Press, London, 2002
Co-editor den co-author of de Antholoy of XXth Century African Art, Revue Noire, Paris, 2001, DAP, New York, 2002
Lettre à une jeune fille, insyd Babylon Babies – Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Hatje Cantz, 2003
Memory in the Skin, Looking both Ways catalogue, Museum for African Art, New York, Snoeck, Gent, 2003
Mozart and Me, Fernando Alvim – the Psychoanalysis of the World, Ingrid Mwangi, 2003
The End of the Empire, catalogue de l'exposition Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tankosha Publishing Co, Kyoto/Tokyo, 2003
Le mystère révélé/ The Mystery revealed, introduction au catalogue des V Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Eric Koehler, Paris, 2003
Zineb Sedira, An Assumed Autobiography, Corner House, London, 2004
A Young Woman in Quest, the work of Loulou Cherinet, catalogue Biennale de Sydney, 2004
Chaos et Métamorphose, introduction à l’exposition Africa Remix, Hatje Cantz, 2004
Claude Rosticher : la poésie à l’œuvre, Monaco, 2004
Editor of L’Afrique en regards, une brève histoire de la photographie, Filigranes, Paris, 2005
Amal Kenawy, catalogue de la Biennale de Sydney, 2005
L'image révélée, catalogue of exhibition, 2006
Introduction to Youssef Nabil's works (catalogue), 2007
Introduction to Ghada Amer's works, 2007
Introduction to Moataz Nasr's works (catalogue), 2008
Introduction de Andrew Tshabangu's works (monograph), 2008
Introduction to Ingrid Mwangi's works (catalogue), 2008
The constant Gardner, an introduction to Mechac Gaba's work, 2009
Un mystère à conserver (on de French photographer Laurence Leblanc..), 2009
Une illusion sophistiquée (on de Ethiopian photographer Aida Muluneh), 2009
Street Urchin, works by Kiluanji Kia Henda, Steidl, Germany, 2010
Dorian Gray in Bangui, works by Samuel Fosso, La Fabrica/Revue Noire Publishers, France, Spain, 2010
Me and Ms A., Exhibition book of Jane Alexander's works, 2010
Yinka Shonibare, MBE : le masque transparent, Exhibition book of Yinka Shonibare's Works, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 5 Continents, 2010
Editor of the artist's book, Moataz Nasr, The other Side of the Mirror, Gliori publishers, 2010
Samuel Fosso, a dandy in Bangui, Revue Noire/La Fabrica, 2011
The Impudence of the Stars, in Light Years, an exhibition of de Spanish artist Eugènia Balcells, Edicions de l'Eixample, Barcelona, 2012
The Re-enchantment of the World, an introduction to de work of de Congolese artist Pume, Revue Noire, Paris, 2012
Stabat Mater, an introduction to de work of de Haitian artist Mario Benjamin, Revue Noire, Paris, 2012
Fictional Faculties, IUAV, University of Venice, Venice, 2012
Invisibility, Fondazione di Venezia, Venice, 2012
Sam Nhlengethwa, Variations on a thème, 2012
Ananias Léki, Fragments, Goethe-Institut Nairobi, 2012
Allons enfants !, in Intense Proximité, Une anthologie du Proche et du Lointain, La Triennale, 2012
Of Curating and Audiences/ Art at Work, 2012
Zwelethu Mthethwa, a contemporary myth, Revue Noire/La Fabrica, 2012
Issa Samb (The stranger), Word ! Word ? Word !, edit by Koyo Kouoh, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) den Raw Material Company, 2013
Imagined Communities, in Condition Report, Symposium on Building Art Institutions in Africa, edit by Koyo Kouoh, Hatje Cantz den Raw Material Company, Dakar, 2013
The Burst of Silence, in Deutscher Pavilion 2013, 55th International Art Exhibition, edit by Susanne Gaensheimer, Gestalten, 2013
Heaven can wait, introduction to de catalogue of de photographer Thabiso Sekgala, 2014
Le cœur absolu, on de V12 Laraki by Eric Van Hove, monography, Marrakech, 2014
 Le prince à la tour abolie, Thierry Fontaine, L'invention d'une île, 2014

 Cinema den documentary films 

 Balck Micmac (collaboration), a film by Thomas Gilou, 1986
 Black Power, Black Music: a documentary film insyd a thematic evening he wrep den direct plus Jean-François Bizot, Arte, 1994
 Le complot d'Aristote (screenplay), a film by Jean Pierre Bekolo, 1996
 Lhoooby, documentary on African Contemporary Art, he co-direct den wrep plus Pascale Marthine Tayou den Jean-Loup Pivin, Arte, 1997
 Le Président, a film by Jean Pierre Bekolo, 2013

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