Voices : Marie Hélène Pereira

Marie Hélène Pereira

Marie Helene Pereira is a Curator and cultural practitioner from Dakar, Senegal. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is Senior Curator (Performative practices) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, as well as a member of RAW Material Company since 2011, and its previous Director of Programs (2019-2022). She has organized exhibitions and related discursive programs, including the participation of RAW to “We face forward: Art from West Africa Today” in Manchester, New York and Shanghai. She co-curated Scattered Seeds in Cali-Colombia (2015-2017) and curated Battling to normalize freedom in Mumbai, India (2017).  Pereira was co-curator of a section of the 13th edition of Dakar Biennale of contemporary African Art, part of the artistic team of Still Present! - the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022), a recipient of the ICI Curatorial Research Fellowship (2021. She is also profoundly interested in the politics of identity and histories of migration.