Temitayo Olalekan
°1994, Nigeria
Temitayo Olalekan (he/him, *1994) is a Nigerian artist and independent curator based in Marseille. He holds an MA in Visual Arts and Art Theory from Université Aix-Marseille (2022) and an MFA from École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2024).
In his curatorial projects, Olalekan creates and nurtures environments that address the plurality of post-colonial questions. These spaces invite diverse responses, counter-truths, and non-institutional and political objections, fostering contemplative and restorative dialogues. He views curation as an artistic exploration aimed at integrating disparate fragments of our worldviews.
Olalekan collaborates with the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care in Paris and has served as a curatorial assistant to Mirela Baciak for The Myth of Normal: Chronic Contradictions (2024), a group exhibition at the Salzburger Kunstverein. His work is also featured in the Campus Panic (2024) exhibition in Marseille.