We wanted to share a podcast 'Nkata Podcast: Art & Processes' with our fellow Koyo Kouoh!

The podcast conversation starts with Koyo recounting her earlier days. Then, prompted by Emeka Okereke, she dwells extensively on the experiences that propelled her towards her vocation as a curator.

She speaks of her encounter with Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the birth of her son; her work as the editor of the German version of Magaret Busby’s Daughters of Africa (1992), and meeting of the late avant-garde Senegalese artist Issa Samb. These encounters – layered unto her upbringing (having been born, raised and “bathed in the care of extra-ordinary women”) in Cameroun before moving, with her mother, to France and Switzerland at the age of 13 – served as the earliest compass in a world and discipline that she would eventually help forge.


NKATA is an Igbo word from the language spoken by the Igbo people of Nigeria. It simply means “Conversation”. Thus this podcast series will feature conversations with selected individuals (artists, cultural operators, and creatives) whose work I have known – some over many years and others, a little less so. The podcast is hosted by Emeka Okereke, a Nigerian visual artist and writer.

The podcast is included into Emeka Okereke's exhibition around the podcast. For the first time, a selection of five conversations from the ongoing monographic conversation series, Nkata Podcast: Art & Processes hosted by Emeka Okereke is on display. The exhibition takes place at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k) Berlin from 02 March - 28 April 2024 as part of the collective show, A Home for Something Unknown.

You can listen to the podcast here

More about the Nkata Podcast: Art & Processes here

More about the exhibition A Home for Something Unknown here