Oh Yah!! Nigerian Becomes First African To Take Charge Of 120-Year Old Venice Biennale Venice (Pictured)

Yes! This is the kind of news I love to hear about my Nigeria people not crime..:)..From migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean to war in Ukraine, the 2015 Venice Biennale, which opens Saturday, will have a markedly political edge under the direction of its Nigerian curator.

Okwui Enwezor is the first African to take charge of the 120-year-old festival, which is one of the most important fixtures on the global contemporary art circuit.


This year’s is the 56th edition and will be the longest ever held, following a decision to extend it to just over six months to enable it to overlap for longer with the Expo 2015 world fair, held in Milan.

The official theme is “All the World’s Futures”, and Enwezor has set the tone for how that is interpreted by centering his own show around “Das Kapital”, Karl Marx’s dissection of capitalism’s origins and dynamics.

The 51-year-old curator, also an art critic, editor and writer who has been the director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst museum since 2011, said he wanted to get people thinking about the role of capital in the modern world.“Capital is the great drama of our time,” he said.