Zasha Colah, currently one of the two artistic directors at ar/ge kunst Bolzano, is to curate the next Berlin Biennale. The exhibition will open in summer 2025.
Zambian and Indian-raised, Colah worked in Mumbai until 2014, where she was curator of Indian Modern Art at JNAF/CSMVS Museum and curator of public programmes at the National Gallery of Modern Art. She went on to cofound the Clark House Initiative, an artist and curatorial collective that variously took the Black Panthers Party, Dalit Panthers Party, Fluxus Group, Richard Wright, John Cage, AA Raiba, Joseph Beuys, Frantz Fanon, BR Ambedkar, Namdeo Dhasal, Cheikh Anta Diop, Nil Yalter, Jean Bhowanagary and Krishna Reddy as its reference points.
In 2014 she moved to Berlin, but for the last six years she has been based in Turin. She was the curator of body luggage at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz, Austria, in 2016, and cocurator of the 3rd Pune Biennale with Luca Cerizza the following year. In 2018 she joined the curatorial team of the 2nd Yinchuan Biennale. Her 2020 doctorate addressed the topic of illegality and meta-exhibition practices in Indo-Myanmar since the 1980s.
