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ARAK Collection is an independent, Qatari-based initiative, that aims to promote through exhibitions, publications, research and educational programs, Contemporary African Art and Artists.

The ARAK Collection announces Billy Fowo as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.Fowo is a Cameroonian curator ...
25/04/2026

The ARAK Collection announces Billy Fowo as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Fowo is a Cameroonian curator and writer based in Berlin, Germany, with research interests spanning the sonic, linguistics, and literature. He is a graduate of de Appel Curatorial Programme (2023) and currently works with SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas.

He has contributed to major international platforms, with texts published in catalogues and publications including the São Paulo Biennial (36th edition), Sharjah Biennial 15, Kunstforum International, and Mousse Magazine. He has also served on the Selection Committee for the Future Generation Art Prize 2023/24 and as a juror for Encontros da Imagem 2025.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Fowo will develop a curatorial project that examines abstraction and form-making practices across African and diasporic contexts, challenging inherited distinctions between art and craft, tradition and contemporaneity.

The ARAK Collection announces Keamogetse Mosienyane as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.Mosienyane is a Mot...
25/04/2026

The ARAK Collection announces Keamogetse Mosienyane as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Mosienyane is a Motswana interdisciplinary researcher, cultural worker, and curator from Botswana. Her practice engages questions of space, temporality, and structure, examining how spatial imaginaries are formed and negotiated across different scales and contexts. With academic grounding at the African Centre for Cities and in Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape, she brings a research-led approach to contemporary curatorial practice.

Her recent institutional experience includes the curatorial internship programme at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the 2025 fellowship programme at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. She is also a contributor to the Botswana-based collective Banana Club, where she supports curatorial research and public programming.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Mosienyane will develop a curatorial project that examines how land is configured, inhabited, and contested across African contexts, foregrounding spatial practices as sites of memory, power, and lived experience.

The ARAK Collection announces Innocent Ekejiuba as a recipient of its 2026 Art Writing and Fellowship.Ekejiuba is a Nige...
25/04/2026

The ARAK Collection announces Innocent Ekejiuba as a recipient of its 2026 Art Writing and Fellowship.

Ekejiuba is a Nigerian cultural researcher based in the U.S.A. Currently a Visiting Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at Pratt Institute’s Creative Enterprise Leadership International Graduate Program, in Washington, D.C. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Howard University, where his research examines the structural challenges facing African art and cultural ecosystems, with a focus on indigenous knowledge systems as critical frameworks for engagement and renewal.

He holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University and Pratt Institute, and has undertaken advanced study at institutions and programmes including the Salzburg Summer Academy, RAW Material Company (RAW Académie), Independent Curators International, the Lagos Biennial, and MACAAL.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Ekejiuba will develop a research-led project that engages the curatorial legacies of Okwui Enwezor, Bisi Silva, and Koyo Kouoh to generate new dialogues between their methodologies and artists within the ARAK Collection.

The ARAK Collection announces Aleesha Suleman as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.Suleman is a Kenyan-India...
25/04/2026

The ARAK Collection announces Aleesha Suleman as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Suleman is a Kenyan-Indian cultural practitioner, writer, and curator from Kenya, Mombasa, based in Qatar,Doha. Her research-driven practice explores questions of identity, memory, and place through postcolonial, class, and subaltern frameworks, with a particular focus on East Africa, the Indian Ocean, and global diasporic formations. Working across exhibition-making, writing, and community-led enquiry, she examines how historical power structures continue to shape visual culture and modes of cultural production.

She currently works as an Exhibitions Project Manager at the Museum of Islamic Art under Qatar Museums, where she has contributed to major exhibitions including presentations of works by Ara Güler and installations by Yayoi Kusama.

Suleman holds an MA in Museum and Gallery Practice (Distinction) from University College London, and a BS in Foreign Service (Honours) from Georgetown University.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Suleman will develop a curatorial project focused on the Tsinga Tsinga school

The ARAK Collection announces the recipients of the 2026 Curatorial and Writing Fellowship ProgrammeIntroducing the Fell...
25/04/2026

The ARAK Collection announces the recipients of the 2026 Curatorial and Writing Fellowship Programme
Introducing the Fellows:

Aleesha Suleman as a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.
Innocent Ekejiuba is a recipient of the 2026 Art Writing and Publishing Fellowship.
Keamogetse Mosienyane is a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.
Billy Fowo is a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Apply now and be part of the ARAK Collection Annual Curatorial Fellowship Program 2026! The program aims to promote a be...
16/01/2026

Apply now and be part of the ARAK Collection Annual Curatorial Fellowship Program 2026! The program aims to promote a better knowledge and understanding of African Contemporary Art in the Middle East and Beyond.
For more info, please check our website.
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Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Suzana SousaSuzana Sousa is an art curator and researcher focused on developing n...
30/12/2025

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Suzana Sousa

Suzana Sousa is an art curator and researcher focused on developing narratives and producing knowledge from the Global South through collaboration and experimentation. Her work explores contemporary African art, cultural politics, and the construction of nationalisms through culture and visual arts. She has also engaged with feminist curatorial practices and African women artists. Sousa is completing a PhD at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa on nation-building processes in Angola within museums and visual arts since 1975 and serves as a research fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research. In 2022, she received the Next Generation Social Sciences for Africa Doctoral Scholarship and the Ivan Karp Research Award. She currently has the exhibition O poder de minhas mãos at SESC, São Paulo, Brazil (Aug 2025–Jan 2026).

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Bernard Akoi-JacksonBernard Akoi-Jackson is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, ...
30/12/2025

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Bernard Akoi-Jackson

Bernard Akoi-Jackson is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and lecturer. His work employs ‘disturbed methodologies’ to interrogate post- and decoloniality through painting, performance, installation, text, and video. He explores quotidian interactions, bureaucratic vestiges of colonialism, and linguistic experimentation, creating immersive and absurdist interventions. Akoi-Jackson has co-curated exhibitions with blaxTARLINES KUMASI (The GOWN must go to TOWN, Cornfields in Accra, Orderly Disorderly), curated Galle Winston Kofi Dawson: In Pursuit of something “Beautiful”, perhaps… at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, and co-curated the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale. He holds a PhD in Painting & Sculpture (KNUST) and leads the performative lab eX-para-Mental. He is a member of the Ghanaian artist collective Exit Frame.

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Heba El KayalHeba El Kayal is a curator, writer, and advisor from Cairo, speciali...
30/12/2025

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Heba El Kayal

Heba El Kayal is a curator, writer, and advisor from Cairo, specialising in modern and
contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a BA in English &
Comparative Literature (American University in Cairo), an MA in Modern Art History &
Curatorial Studies (Columbia University), and is pursuing an LLM. Her career spans Dubai,
Beirut, New York, and London, working with auction houses, collectors, and artists. She
served as Chief Curatorial Consultant at the Norval Foundation, curated the Generations
section at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025, and holds advisory roles with ArteEast
(USA), Strauss & Co (South Africa), and the ARAK Collection.

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Lifang ZhangLifang Zhang is an art historian and writer based in Beijing, current...
30/12/2025

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Lifang Zhang

Lifang Zhang is an art historian and writer based in Beijing, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS). She earned her PhD in Art History from Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research focuses on contemporary African art and Afro-Asian artistic exchanges. Zhang has curated and co-curated research-based projects including Viable Visions: Retrospective of Martin Abasi Phiri in Lusaka and If These Walls Could Talk in Harare.

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Thembinkosi GoniweThembinkosi Goniwe is an artist and art historian whose work en...
30/12/2025

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Thembinkosi Goniwe

Thembinkosi Goniwe is an artist and art historian whose work engages contemporary African visual arts, postcolonial critique, and Black radical thought. He trained in Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and in History of Art at Cornell University. Goniwe has lectured at UCT, Wits, Fort Hare, and Vaal University of Technology and currently lectures on Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University. He has curated exhibitions in South Africa, the United States, Venice, and Edinburgh, and published extensively on African art

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