Curatorial Intensive on Marginal Regions, Displacement and Heritage in
Contemporary Art
Angels and Muse is pleased to invite applications for a five-day residential curatorial intensive in Benin City, Nigeria, convened with support from Gwaertler Stiftung.
Hosted at Angels and Muse’s Black Muse space in Benin City, the intensive will convene12 curators, researchers, and cultural workers interested in rethinking curatorial practice through questions of heritage, marginality, displacement, memory, and regional knowledge systems.
Taking place from June 22nd – 28th, 2026, the programme responds to the imbalance within overriding narratives of contemporary African art, where metropolitan centres often overshadow the histories, practices, and cultural infrastructures of marginal regions and communities. The intensive seeks to foreground overlooked histories and
underrepresented cultural producers, and other regions existing outside dominant
institutional visibility.
Through critical conversations, collaborative workshops, archival inquiry, field research, and peer exchange, participants will explore how indigenous traditions, oral histories, and lived experiences of displacement can inform new curatorial methodologies and cultural futures