Department: Tate Modern Curatorial
Host: Kerryn Greenberg, Curator, International Art
Nadine’s Fellowship took place during the refresh of Tate’s Africa Strategy. Using works that were either already in Tate’s collection, identified in Tate’s strategy papers, or requiring consideration, Nadine explored connections that can be made between artists working in African nations – including Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique and Mali – with artists working in the former Soviet Union and Cuba.
Taking an in-depth view of a specific focus area, Nadine’s research helped to inform the acquisitions Tate hoped to make in coming years.
Alongside another of the 2018 Fellows, Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Nadine contributed to a course, Towards Tomorrow’s Museum, run in partnership between Tate and King’s College London. The course, attended by 36 participants with 18 different nationalities represented, examined current priorities and new models for art museums.
On the topic of ‘Decolonising the Museum’, Nadine spoke about the history and contemporary programmes of the Iwalewahaus, a research centre and museum for modern and contemporary African arts in Bayreuth, Germany, where she was Deputy Director.
Installation view of Mashup (2015) at Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth. Courtesy Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth.
Biography
Nadine Siegert is a curator, researcher and editor. She has been the Director of the Goethe-Institut Nigeria since 2021 and had previously worked at the Goethe-Institut South Africa. From 2011 to 2019 she was the Deputy Director of Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth. Her PhD is tilted ‘(Re)mapping Luanda on nostalgic and utopian aesthetic strategies in contemporary art in Angola’. She ran the project ‘Mashup the Archive’ together with Sam Hopkins and was curatorial assistant to the exhibition Things Fall Apart by Mark Nash.
She was Curator in Residence at Vila Sul, Goethe-Institute Salvador de Bahia (2017) and runs the publishing house iwalewabooks.
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