Curatorial Projects — Max Diallo Jakobsen

IndexCuratorial Projects

Exhibitions, residencies, and research studios.

A growing body of curatorial work staged in partnership with institutions, galleries, and artist communities across Africa, Europe, and North America.

ARAK Collection — Curatorial Fellowship — 2026 · Johannesburg · Courtesy ARAK Collection

2026 · Curator · ARAK Curatorial Fellow

After Material

ARAK Collection · UJ FADA Gallery

A group exhibition examining material practices, craft traditions, and the afterlives of discarded and repurposed objects. Featuring Ange Dakouo, Ocom Adonias, Matt Kayem, Paul Njihia, Njola Allen Nabukenya. Accompanied by a reader.

Zahra Mansoor installation view — 2026 · Karachi · Courtesy Zahra Mansoor

2026 · Curator · Essayist

Fanaa is the Eclipse: Zahra Mansoor

Sanat Initiative

Solo exhibition and accompanying essay tracing how a single purple velvet couch became the anchor of Mansoor's salon practice across Paris, Karachi, and beyond.

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Ibrahim Mahama: The Harvest Season

2026 · Curatorial Assistant

Ibrahim Mahama: The Harvest Season

Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain

Forthcoming exhibition assisting curators Jeanne Barral and Aby Gaye. Mahama is presented alongside nine invited artists and collectives.

Viola Nimuhamya — One at a Time installation view at Southnord — 2025 · Stockholm · Courtesy of Sebastian Waldenby / Stockholm Craft Week

2025 · Curator

One at a Time

Southnord

First solo exhibition of Viola Nimuhamya, accompanied by the curatorial essay Familiar Forms: Labor, Material, and Space.

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REFERENCES: Research Film Series

2025 · Curator · Southnord Resident

REFERENCES: Research Film Series

Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre

An ongoing film screening series on pan-African cultural networks and the afterlives of anticolonial struggle, presented at LuCAC.

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Here, Time Pauses

2025 · Bordeaux

2025 · Curator

Here, Time Pauses

Galerie Revel

Solo exhibition of new landscapes and figure paintings by Stephen Price, accompanied by a curatorial essay.

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Giving Form to the Whole World

2024 · Antwerp

2024 · Curator

Giving Form to the Whole World

Art Antwerp · Galerie Revel

Solo presentation of Samuel Nnorom's textile sculptures, reading Ankara fabric as inheritance and indictment of the global textile trade.

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Ninfo, Te Quiero

2024 · Bordeaux

2024 · Curator

Ninfo, Te Quiero

Galerie Revel

Solo exhibition of Juan Arango Palacios — painting and textile weaving that conjure a Colombian imaginary, queered through diaspora.

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Exceed Your Vision

2024 · Princeton

2024 · Curatorial Contributor

Exceed Your Vision

Princeton University · Poetic Record

A group exhibition curated by James Welling, presented as part of Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, organised by Deana Lawson.

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Livity

2023 · Princeton

2023 · Featured Artist · Contributor

Livity

Princeton Black Arts Collective

A group exhibition curated by Azariah Jones gathering 13 Black artists' reimaginings of dormant sites of memory as active portals.