{"id":1390,"date":"2014-03-27T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maischna.de\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:16:02","slug":"the-man-behind-savvy-contemporary-meet-dr-bonaventure-ndikung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lafritude.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"The man behind Savvy Contemporary: meet Dr. Bonaventure Ndikung!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you do appreciate art then Savvy Contemporary<\/a> will definitely ring a bell.\u00a0 Savvy Contemporary is a non-profit art space located in Berlin Neu K\u00f6ln,\u00a0 a laboratory for conceptual, intellectual, and artistic production and<\/p>\n

exchange that takes up the challenge of investigating the ‘threshold’ between, as well as critically reflecting on and questioning discourses around \u00bbWestern art\u00ab and \u00bbnon-Western art\u00ab.\u00a0 In this regard, SAVVY<\/p>\n

Contemporary is a fertile ground for a critical and intellectual discourse on the development of contemporary art as well as on positions of contemporary art in the diaspora. Due to its historical and geo-political<\/p>\n

background as a former frontline town in the East-West-conflict, Berlin is particularly stamped by an East-West-dialogue. Thereby, other important and leading issues like the North-South-dialogue were ignored for a<\/p>\n

long while. SAVVY Contemporary takes upon itself this duty to promote and advocate the North-South-dialogue in the art scene in Berlin. Savvy Contemporay has many goals to realise and it is intended to support its <\/a><\/p>\n

project by acquiring financial help from sponsors. Become a friend! <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bonaventure\"<\/a>About the founder of Savvy Contemporary: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (PhD), was born in 1977 in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon. He has been living on and off in Berlin since<\/p>\n

1997, where he studied food biotechnology at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin. He completed his doctorate in medical biotechnology at the Heinrich Heine University in<\/p>\n

D\u00fcsseldorf and a post-doctorate in Biophysics in Montpellier. He currently works, parallel to his activities as a curator, as a scientist in a medical device company. He is the<\/p>\n

founder and art director of the art space SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, where he has directed and curated exhibits with more than 30 artists from five continents. He has<\/p>\n

worked as curator, art director and consultant for several international exhibition projects and festivals in Germany, France, England and Cameroon, and has published<\/p>\n

more than 15 exhibition catalogues. He is also the initiator and editor-in-chief of the journal SAVVY art.contemporary.african, the first bilingual e-journal on contemporary<\/p>\n

African art. He has cooperated on different projects with the Tensta Konsthal Sweden, Goethe-Institut, Institut f\u00fcr Auslandsbeziehung (ifa), Kunstraum<\/p>\n

Kreuzberg\/Bethanien, Arsenal Institut f\u00fcr Film und Videokunst e.V. Berlin.<\/p>\n

Links: http:\/\/savvy-contemporary.com\/<\/p>\n

Foto credit: Paul Huf<\/p>\n