Curating today with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

What does it mean to curate a biennial today, at a moment marked by political fracture, ecological strain, and contested narratives? This conversation brings together Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, curator of the São Paulo Biennial, and Kathleen Weyts, Editor-in-Chief of Glean Magazine, to reflect on how large-scale exhibitions are imagined and shaped now.

Moving beyond formats and logistics, they will explore contemporary curatorial practices as forms of authorship, listening, and responsibility. How can exhibitions create space for storytelling without flattening complexity? What does it mean to work with artists, publics, and institutions across uneven histories and geographies? And how might biennials still function as places for thought rather than spectacle?

This exchange offers insight into exhibition-making as a living process—one that sits at the intersection of art, politics, and public life—and invites us to reconsider what we expect from cultural platforms today.