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Lucía Sanromán is co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial 2027 (with Aimee Harrison), She has been Chief Curator at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). From 2019 to 2024 she was director of the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, the premier experimental kunsthalle in Mexico City where since joining in March 2018 she has implemented a program that balances experimentation with social commitment to local social ecologies and dynamics through programs and exhibitions, including the recent Escucha profunda: prácticas hacia el mundo al revés {Yutsil, María Sosa, Naomi Rincón Gallardo y Fernando Palma Rodríguez} (10/16/2021 to 02/13/2022). Escucha profunda: prácticas hacia el mundo al revés {Yutsil, María Sosa, Naomi Rincón Gallardo y Fernando Palma Rodríguez} (10/16/2021 to 02/13/2022); Amor Rojo: Dora García (24/09/2022 to 26/03/2023); Helen Escobedo: Ambientes Totales (summer 2023), and Pedro Lasch: Entre Líneas / Between the Lines (winter 2023). Previous to this she joined Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, as director of visual arts in October 2015, and became YBCA curator at large in September 2018. Under the program title Changing the Ratio she organized at YBCA a series of survey exhibitions of key women artists who are also pioneers of socially-engaged practice: Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder (2017, co-curated with Susie Kantor), Futurefarmers: Out of Place, in Place (2018), and Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (2019, co-organized with SFMOMA curators Rudolf Frieling and Dominic Willsdon). In addition, she curated a series of exhibitions titled The City Initiative featuring architects, designers, planners, and artists creating provocative work in the urban environment responding to civic urgencies.

Photo by Yvonne Venegs.

As part of OCA’s International Visitor Programme, we had the honour of hosting the National Center for Art Research, Japan (NCAR) in Norway as part of their Nordic research trip. They then travelled on to Sweden (IASPIS) and Finland (Frame) for further research in the region.

The group included: Kameyama Yusuke, Nakae Kana, Nishida Shin, Nozawa Hiroki, Ono Shinji, Onodera Natsu, Tanake Rei, Yachita Mio, Yamaguchi Sakumi, Yamamoto Hanami, Masumi Kaoru and Saito Chie.

Seolhui Lee is a South Korean curator based in Denmark. She is interested in curatorial methodology, particularly how curators sustain their work within institutional systems while extending cultural diversity, spatial contextualization, and contemporaneity by engaging with intersections across different parts of the world. Her curatorial practice focuses on the uncertain condition of being in-between: subject and object, consciousness and unconsciousness, the physical and visible with the psychological and invisible, history and the digital age. Within this tension, Lee places the human body at the center, exploring its resonance and capacity to generate immersive, multisensory experiences.

She co-directed the Korean Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale with Jacob Fabricius, served as curator and chief curator of Kunsthal Aarhus (2023-2025), Malmö Konsthall associate curator (2024), head of the Busan Biennale 2020 exhibition team, and curator for the Seoul Museum of Art (2018-2019), among others. She has also been invited to the ‘Expo Chicago Curatorial Exchange’ (2025), ‘Tate Modern Intensive Course’ (2019), and ‘Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course’ (2016). Furthermore, Lee serves on the permanent collection acquisition committee for MMCA, Korea (2024-), a panel for mentoring ‘Danish Visual Artists’ (2024-), and as an advisor for Frieze Seoul’s Focus Section (2025-).

Photo credit: Chae Dae Han

This visit was hosted and organised in collaboration with Rafiki Arts Initiative.

Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a curator, author and biotechnologist, currently serving as director and chief curator of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, Germany, and chief curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennale. He is the founder and was artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, as well as the artistic director of sonsbeek20–24, a quadrennial contemporary art exhibition in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He also worked as curator-at-large for Adam Szymczyk’s Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany in 2017 and was guest curator of the Dak’Art biennale in Dakar, Senegal, in 2018. Additionally, he served as the artistic director for the 12th and 13th editions of the Bamako Encounters photography biennial in Mali, taking on this role in 2019 and 2022. Together with the Miracle Workers Collective, he curated the Finland Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Prof. Dr. Ndikung was a guest professor in curatorial studies and sound art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and he is currently a professor and head of the faculty of Spatial Strategies Master’s program at the Weissensee Academy of Art in Berlin. He was the recipient of the first OCAD University International Curators Residency fellowship in Toronto in 2020. His published works include, inter alia, The Delusions of Care (2021), An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale: Ruminations on Art, Culture, Politics and Us/Others (2022) and Pidginization as Curatorial Method (2023).