Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, the exhibition Ginwala organised with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, is a good example of the big thinking the curator embraces, using the Indian Ocean as a muse to connect culture, food, histories and politics between the continents the water separates and conjoins, with works from artists like Oscar Murillo, Shiraz Bayjoo and Rossella Biscotti. After closing at Zeitz MOCAA in January, the exhibition travelled to Berlin’s Savvy Contemporary and Gropius Bau, where Ginwala is associate curator at large, in April. Ginwala also curated a show of Sri Lankan artist and activist Vinoja Tharmalingam at Experimenter in Kolkata, some of which work had been created for Colomboscope, the biannual Sri Lankan art festival where Ginwala is artistic director, and whose 8th edition opens in January, with projects from Anupam Roy and Jayatu Chakma, among others. The next couple of years will be busy too: Ginwala was named one of the five curators handling Sharjah Biennial 16, due to open in 2025.

*reentry (77 in 2020, with Defne Ayas)