BCA welcomes Barby Asante as Guide Curator for our artists in residence

We are delighted to announce Barby Asante as Guide curator for our Black Futures exhibitions. Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator, and educator.

A highly respected specialist in her field, Barby's work focuses on the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. Asante can often be found working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co researchers, making her the perfect guide for our early career curators, Pelumi Odubanjo and Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Robinson of Lanquid Hands.

The selected artists and co-curators, with Barby’s guidance, will bring new and alternative interactions and focus to our archival material – a new dialogue between past, present and future.

Asante taught on Fine Art and Critical Studies programmes in London, Berlin, Gothenburg and Rotterdam. She is co-founder of a collaborative agency concerned with ethics, intersectionality and education in the contemporary arts who were mentors to the sorryyoufeeluncomfortable collective. She is also on the board of the Women's Art Library and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning.

We are hugely excited to see Barby bring her approach to the archives through both her curation practice, guidance and mentorship of early career artists and curators.

Find out about Barby's other projects and current PhD on her official website.

The forthcoming projects will be available to view on the Exhibitions and Events section of the Black Cultural Archives from early October onwards.