Natasha Ginwala (Sri Lanka)

Natasha Ginwala is Associate Curator at Large at Gropius Bau, Berlin; Artistic Director of Colomboscope in Sri Lanka and the 13th Gwangju Biennale with Defne Ayas (2021). Ginwala has curated Contour Biennale 8, “Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium” and was part of the curatorial team of documenta 14, 2017. Other projects include “Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora” (with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Michelangelo Corsaro) at Zeitz MOCAA; survey exhibitions of Bani Abidi, Akinbode Akinbiyi, and Zanele Muholi at Gropius Bau. Ginwala was a member of the artistic team for the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2014, and has co-curated “The Museum of Rhythm,” at Taipei Biennial 2012 and at Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, 2016–17. Ginwala writes regularly on contemporary art and visual culture. Recent co-edited volumes include “Stronger than Bone” (Archive Books and Gwangju Biennale Foundation) and “Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound” (Columbia University Press).