A curator at the Palais de Tokyo since 2023, Amandine Nana is also an author, poet and researcher. Trained as an art historian and urban planner, she has a multidisciplinary background in the humanities (\u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure Ulm, Sciences Po Paris, Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, Columbia University) and specializes in African and diaspora studies. She is particularly interested in the role of narratives, marginalized publics, archives, and practices of collaboration and critical pedagogies in exhibition curation and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has built her hybrid curatorial practice at the intersection of the arts, research, literature, publishing, education and architecture in an international context between Paris, Dakar and New York. She has collaborated on exhibition projects and programmes at numerous institutions and events including the \u201cChimurenga Library\u201d project presented at Centre Pompidou in 2021. A recipient of the Foundation Martine Aublet \/ Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly research grant in 2021, she has carried out research at the Mus\u00e9e Th\u00e9odore Monod \/ IFAN in Dakar in 2021 as well as co-founding in 2022 the seminar \u201cPerspectives Africana\u201d at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure Ulm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is also the founder of Transplantation, a socio-cultural non-profit organization and archive, that promotes Afrodiasporic and immigrant imaginaries as a lever for social change in France. Together with artist Monika E. Kazi, she was awarded the Prix Dauphine for Contemporary Art in 2020, and the Chaumet Echo Culture Award in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n