Author: Daniela Roth

About Daniela Roth: Daniela Roth, D.phil. is the Munich Editor for Omenka magazine. She was born 1970 in Aalen and completed studies in Art History, Sociology, Comparative Literature and Law at the universities of Würzburg, Bonn and München. Her doctoral thesis is on the work of artist, Romuald Hazoumè from the Republic of Benin, West Africa. Roth is a specialist with extensive knowledge of the art history of the African continent. She has travelled widely acquiring profound insights into movements within contemporary African art. Roth has also carried out numerous research projects and published extensively on art, cultural developments and pop culture and globalization phenomena. Daniela Roth also contributes regularly to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on cultural issues in Africa.

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The Walther Collection

Posted on February 24, 2014 (February 24, 2016)

Okwui Enwezor, Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich and designated Director of the 56th Biennale in Venice (2015), curated the first exhibition of the Walther Collection, Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity in Neu-Ulm. He also edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Events of the Self was the beginning of a series of exhibitions covering several years of African photography and […]

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