Vit à : Marseille , France
Temitayo Olalekan (1994) is a Nigerian freelance researcher, artist, writer, and curator who lives and works in Marseille and Brussels.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in technology (human anatomy) from LAUTECH, Nigeria (2015), a master’s degree in visual arts and art sciences from the Université Aix-Marseille, France (2022), a DNSEP from the École des beaux-arts de Marseille, France (2024) and a postgraduate diploma in curatorial studies from KASK, Belgium (2025).
He works with associations and institutions in France and abroad, including the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care in Paris, Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Kunsthal Mechelen (BE), Het Paviljoen (BE) and Kunsthal Gent (BE).
He is currently Assistant Curator (intern) of World History of the Commons at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (BE).
He is developing this research around a curatorial model that bears the name Südrhizom Kunstverein (DE, Association for the Art of the Rhizomic South). This project situates inter-territorial identities, ecological transformations and colonial histories within an expanded global South — conceived as both a socio-geopolitical and epistemic construct, challenging standard frameworks and arguing for a pluralist epistemological approach.
He is co-curator of the forthcoming exhibition projects at Het Paviljoen (BE) (02-06.2025) and Kunsthal Gent (BE) (05-07.2025).