Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77
The biennial’s 2023 edition will feature more than 140 artists including Kader Attia, Hassan Hajjaj, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid and Carrie Mae Weems
From Louise Bourgeois at The Jewish Museum to Sam Durant’s High Line Plinth commission
Plus, artists with disabilities in the Covid era and Goya's Disasters of War
Show conceived by Okwui Enwezor will unite works by 37 artists exploring mourning and loss as a response to violent injustice
Honour bestowed on four previous artistic directors of the international exhibition
The Art Newspaper's features editor Ben Luke pays tribute
Many of Enwezor's ideas "are more relevant today than ever before", Obrist says
1 May 2015: The Nigerian curator's exhibitions in the Giardini and Arsenale of the Venice Biennale promise to be the most topical Venice show of recent years
Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history
“The short century: liberation and independence in Africa 1945-94”, creates a “critical biography of Africa”