ARAK Collection

The ARAK Collection announces Keamogetse Mosienyane as a recipient of its 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Mosienyane is a Motswana interdisciplinary researcher, cultural worker, and curator from Botswana. Her practice engages questions of space, temporality, and structure, examining how spatial imaginaries are formed and negotiated across different scales and contexts. With academic grounding at the African Centre for Cities and in Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape, she brings a research-led approach to contemporary curatorial practice.

Her recent institutional experience includes the curatorial internship programme at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the 2025 fellowship programme at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. She is also a contributor to the Botswana-based collective Banana Club, where she supports curatorial research and public programming.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Mosienyane will develop a curatorial project that examines how land is configured, inhabited, and contested across African contexts, foregrounding spatial practices as sites of memory, power, and lived experience.

The ARAK Collection announces Innocent Ekejiuba as a recipient of its 2026 Art Writing and Fellowship.

Ekejiuba is a Nigerian cultural researcher based in the U.S.A. Currently a Visiting Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at Pratt Institute’s Creative Enterprise Leadership International Graduate Program, in Washington, D.C. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Howard University, where his research examines the structural challenges facing African art and cultural ecosystems, with a focus on indigenous knowledge systems as critical frameworks for engagement and renewal.

He holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University and Pratt Institute, and has undertaken advanced study at institutions and programmes including the Salzburg Summer Academy, RAW Material Company (RAW Académie), Independent Curators International, the Lagos Biennial, and MACAAL.

For the ARAK Collection Fellowship, Ekejiuba will develop a research-led project that engages the curatorial legacies of Okwui Enwezor, Bisi Silva, and Koyo Kouoh to generate new dialogues between their methodologies and artists within the ARAK Collection.

The ARAK Collection announces the recipients of the 2026 Curatorial and Writing Fellowship Programme
Introducing the Fellows:

Aleesha Suleman as a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.
Innocent Ekejiuba is a recipient of the 2026 Art Writing and Publishing Fellowship.
Keamogetse Mosienyane is a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.
Billy Fowo is a recipient of the 2026 Curatorial Fellowship.

Apply now and be part of the ARAK Collection Annual Curatorial Fellowship Program 2026! The program aims to promote a better knowledge and understanding of African Contemporary Art in the Middle East and Beyond.
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Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Suzana Sousa

Suzana Sousa is an art curator and researcher focused on developing narratives and producing knowledge from the Global South through collaboration and experimentation. Her work explores contemporary African art, cultural politics, and the construction of nationalisms through culture and visual arts. She has also engaged with feminist curatorial practices and African women artists. Sousa is completing a PhD at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa on nation-building processes in Angola within museums and visual arts since 1975 and serves as a research fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research. In 2022, she received the Next Generation Social Sciences for Africa Doctoral Scholarship and the Ivan Karp Research Award. She currently has the exhibition O poder de minhas mãos at SESC, São Paulo, Brazil (Aug 2025–Jan 2026).

Introducing 2026 Advisory Board Member Bernard Akoi-Jackson

Bernard Akoi-Jackson is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and lecturer. His work employs ‘disturbed methodologies’ to interrogate post- and decoloniality through painting, performance, installation, text, and video. He explores quotidian interactions, bureaucratic vestiges of colonialism, and linguistic experimentation, creating immersive and absurdist interventions. Akoi-Jackson has co-curated exhibitions with blaxTARLINES KUMASI (The GOWN must go to TOWN, Cornfields in Accra, Orderly Disorderly), curated Galle Winston Kofi Dawson: In Pursuit of something “Beautiful”, perhaps… at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, and co-curated the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale. He holds a PhD in Painting & Sculpture (KNUST) and leads the performative lab eX-para-Mental. He is a member of the Ghanaian artist collective Exit Frame.