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He is to lead the House of World Cultures (HKW) into the future: the curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, who was born in Cameroon in 1977 and has lived in Berlin since 1997, will take over as director. Ndikung, who was appointed by the former Minister of State for Culture, Monika Grütters, studied biotechnology in Berlin and then worked as a curator for major exhibitions, such as Documenta 14 and the Venice Biennale. In 2009 he founded the art space “Savvy Contemporary”. The personnel is not without controversy, because Ndikung repeatedly faces heavy criticism Israel practiced, among other things in view of the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas in the summer of 2014. Since 2006, Ndikung’s predecessor Bernd Scherer had turned the HKW into an internationally renowned think tank for the global present. Judging by the program that Ndikung presented on Tuesday, he tends to focus more on national and regional cultural identities. a conversation
