Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung


Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a contemporary art curator and writer. He lives in Berlin.
Ndikung moved to Germany in 1997 to study at the Technical University Berlin. He holds a doctorate in medical biotechnology from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf /TU Berlin, and a post-doctorate in biophysics from the University of Montpellier.
Ndikung is the founding director of SAVVY Contemporary, an independent project space in Berlin. SAVVY Contemporary is an art space and discursive platform for exhibitions, performances and other events. It situates itself on the threshold between concepts of the West and non-West in order to understand and deconstruct them.
From 2015 - 2018, together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, he was a curator at Galerie Wedding, a public gallery in Berlin.  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 became part of the curatorial team of Adam Szymczyk's documenta 14, in the role of Curator at large.
Together with Pauline Doutreluingne he 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 2017-2019, and together with artist Nasan Tur, is professor for the Spatial Strategies MA program at Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin.