Pauline Burmann Email & Phone Number

Pauline Burmann is specialist in contemporary African Art history and the diaspora. She studied History of Art, at the VU Free University of Amsterdam and “Contemporary Art history Africa” at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London. Burmann is the director of the platform African Arts and Theory and works as an independent researcher, artistic programmer and academic advisor, facilitator, curator for platform African Arts and Theory. She has been responsible for advising for exhibitions and art residencies, collaborating with individual artists, collectors and others, international art institutes, universities and art-academies, media and musea, and governmental institutions. The platform has an archive, library and is based in Amsterdam.She lectured "Art history of contemporary African art and theory" at several universities and art schools in Europe and Africa. Pauline Burmann is board member Deveron projects Scotland an artist in residency where the Town is the Venue.In the Netherlands Burmann is chairperson of the board of the Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency Award. The Thami Mnyele Foundation have been giving more than thirty years Awards in the form of artist- in- residence to artists from Africa and the Diaspora. Burmann is responsible for the selection, the programme, the collection and the organisation of the award.latest activities* Curator ARTZUID; Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale 2021.* Advising several master and PHD students from University Amsterdam, Erasmus University and Leiden University in contemporary African Art.* Norval Foundation l Nominating Board Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, 2022.* Beelden Aan Zee, curating exhibition ‘AIR Africa, artists in residencies in Africa”, 2023* EU project ‘Recollect, Reckoning with Europe’s Colonial Past Through the Cultural Sector for a More

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