For quite a long time, the practice of art collecting was entirely connected to the physical world. It has typically required white-cube galleries, an auction room, and the permanent finality of hanging a canvas on a wall. However, with time, the process of how people experience, interact and acquire art started to change.
Anna Semenova is a curator based in Barcelona, working across institutional and independent contexts shaped by instability - post-industrial sites, geopolitical rupture, collective memory.
The Sikkens Prize honours an artist or collective who is pioneering in the field of colour. The prize is awarded to Otobong Nkanga because, in a time that calls for both imagination and responsibility, she shows that the power of colour begins where it awakens – in the earth, in the community, in life itself.