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1-54 Forum Returns

by 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

This year, 1-54 Forum returns after a brief hiatus and honours its founder, Koyo Kouoh. The 2025 edition is led by RAW Material Company, also founded by Kouoh Kouoh who have curated a day of artistic and discursive convening in tribute to her legacy. Threaded through the programme is the idea of institution building as a curatorial practice a tenet central to Kouoh’s work and a continuing pillar of the Forum. Across opening reflections, conversations, and artistic gestures, invited guests consider how cultural infrastructures can be imagined, sustained, and shared.

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Episodes

  1. Closing Remarks | Poetic Gesture

    Closing remarks by Simon Njami Poetic Gesture by Gabe Feijoo Film screening by Eric Baudelaire Curated by RAW Material Company in tribute to Koyo Kouoh. Produced by 1-54 Forum.

  2. Talk | On Possible Futures and the question of Sustainability

    Sustaining art and institutions requires both vision and resources. This conversation brings together practitioners exploring how funding, support structures, and collective strategies shape the possibilities for artistic and institutional futures.Teesa Bahana (32° East), Sepake Angiama (Iniva)…

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  3. Talk | On Institution Building as a Curatorial Practice

    How can building an institution be understood as a curatorial act in itself? Inspired by Koyo Kouoh’s vision of “institution building as creative practice,” this conversation brings together practitioners who have each reimagined what cultural infrastructures can be. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng…

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  4. Opening Remarks | On Institution building as a curatorial practice

    Marie Hélène Pereira for RAW Material Company Curated by RAW Material Company in tribute to Koyo Kouoh. Produced by 1-54 Forum.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This year, 1-54 Forum returns after a brief hiatus and honours its founder, Koyo Kouoh. The 2025 edition is led by RAW Material Company, also founded by Kouoh Kouoh who have curated a day of artistic and discursive convening in tribute to her legacy. Threaded through the programme is the idea of institution building as a curatorial practice a tenet central to Kouoh’s work and a continuing pillar of the Forum. Across opening reflections, conversations, and artistic gestures, invited guests consider how cultural infrastructures can be imagined, sustained, and shared.

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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

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This year, 1-54 Forum returns after a brief hiatus and honours its founder, Koyo Kouoh. The 2025 edition is led by RAW Material Company, also founded by Kouoh Kouoh who have curated a day of artistic and discursive convening in tribute to her legacy. Threaded through the programme is the idea of...

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