2022 Adjudicators
Shonisani Netshia- South Africa- Group A
Biography
Shonisani Netshia is a lecturer in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, specialising in Painting. She received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Fine Arts in the Department of Visual Art in 2007 and recently completed Magister Technology of Fine Art in the Department of Visual Art for […]
Shenaz Mohamed- South Africa- Group B
Biography
Shenaz Mahomed (b.1992 in Pretoria) remembers that the decision to study art was initially met with skepticism from her parents. However, her commitment and success has led to them being proud of her efforts and they now fully support her artistic endeavors. Mahomed obtained both her undergraduate (2014) and Masters degree in Fine Arts, (2018) […]
Prof. Sharlene Khan- South Africa- Group B
Biography
South Africa, India, South Korea, Greece and has participated in various international conferences. Her writings on contemporary visual arts appears in local and international journals, books, art catalogues and magazines. She was a recipient of the Rockefeller Bellagio Visual Arts residency (2009), the Canon Collins/Commonwealth Scholarship (2011), the African Humanities Post-doctoral Fellowship (2017), the National […]
Meriam Bousselmi- Germany- Group C
Biography
Lawyers of Tunisia since 2010. Trained to work in different contexts and different languages, as an international bilingual Arabic-French writer, director, lawyer, lecturer, researcher and bridge builder. She had the double opportunity/responsibility to conceive, manage and take part in wide-reaching artistic, cultural and legal projects in different countries. Through ongoing thought-provoking artistic work, she is […]
Diane Victor- South Africa- Group A
Biography
Victor was born in Witbank, South Africa. She received her BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1986. From 1990 to the present, Victor has lectured part-time, teaching drawing and printmaking at various South African institutions including the University of Pretoria, Wits Technikon, Pretoria Technikon, Open Window Academy, Vaal […]
Dr Stefan Eisenhofer- Germany- Group B
Biography
Stefan Eisenhofer PhD, Ethnologist and Historian, Chief Curator of the Departments Africa South of the Sahara (since 2001) and North America (since 2016) in the Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich. He has published many books and articles and has curated numerous exhibitions on African arts and history, amongst others “Rituals, Artists, Kings. Tradition and Modernity in […]
Alexia Walker- South Africa- Group C
Biography
Alexia Walker is an independent art advisor currently based in Johannesburg. She established the art advisory Walker Art to help collectors build their collection and better understand and manage the value of their art. She has modern and contemporary art expertise with a special focus on Africa. She works with private, corporate and institutional clients […]
Basak Senova- Austria- Group A
Biography
Basak Senova is a curator and designer. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University. As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey. In 2017, she received her Associate Professorship from the Higher Education Council of Turkey, and resident fellowship […]
Sophie Boulé- South Africa- Group GS
Biography
Sophie joined the cultural diplomatic network in 2021 as a Cultural Attaché and Deputy Director of the French Institute of South Africa, after having been Deputy General Delegate for International Relations of the City of Paris, for 2 years. She was involved in the City of Paris in 1995 and was in charge of the […]
Armelle Dakouo- France- Group GS
Biography
Armelle Dakouo has been working in art and culture since 2008 in France and on the African continent. In 2010, she created the artistic label Onomo Visual Art for the group Onomo International in Dakar and produced travelling photo exhibitions between 2010 and 2013 in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon. She moved to Casablanca in […]
Bénédicte Alliot- Paris- Group GS
Biography
Doctor in English studies and lecturer at the University of Paris-Diderot until 2002, Bénédicte Alliot was Director of the French Institute of South Africa in Johannesburg (2002-2006), then Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in New Delhi, India (2006-2010). She then headed the Cultural Seasons unit at the Institut Français in Paris. Since early 2016, […]
Prof Julius Heinicke- Berlin- Group C
Biography
Julius Heinicke is Professor of Cultural Policy and holds the UNESCO Chair “Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development” at the University of Hildesheim. From 2017-2020, he was Professor of Applied Cultural Studies at Coburg University of Applied Sciences in the project “Coburger Weg”, which was awarded the Genius Loci Prize of the Stifterverband in […]
