Aïcha Diallo

Aïcha Diallo is an urban cultural researcher, curator, editor, and educator.

Diallo has held key roles, including leading Education & Outreach at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, managing editor as part of the founding team of Contemporary And (C&), and co-programming KontextSchule at the University of the Arts Berlin. She has served as a jury member for the Soros Arts Fellowship and other institutions like the Goethe-Institut.

From 2019 to 2020, she served as an Associate Lecturer in Pedagogy and Social Practices at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, where she taught on topics including memory, collective trauma, and the intersections of body, urban space, and representation.

Diallo has been a fellow at the Arts Rights Justice Academy under the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development at the University of Hildesheim and a visiting scholar at the Institut Fondamental de l’Afrique Noire (IFAN) and the Musée Théodore Monod, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar.

In her PhD research, Diallo explores cultural production, urban inequality, and spatial justice in Dakar. She holds an MA (Distinction) in Intercultural Education from Freie Universität Berlin and a BA in European Studies from Queen Mary University of London.

Supervisors: Prof Beth Perry, Prof AbdouMaliq Simone, Dr Krzysztof Nawratek

Recent publications:

• Diallo, A., Niemann A., Shabafrouz M. (eds.). 2021. Untie to Tie – Colonial Fragments in School Contexts – Koloniale Fragmente im Schulkontext – Fragments coloniaux dans le contexte de l’école. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn: https://www.academia.edu/97410955/Untie_to_tie_Koloniale_Fragmente_im_Schulkontext_Colonial_Fragments_in_School_Contexts
• Diallo, A.. 2023. “Decolonial Aesthetics/Aesthetis has Become a Connector across Continents – a Conversation of Contemporary And (C&) with Walter Mignolo.” In: Michaela Ott & Babacar Mbaye Diop (eds.), Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: https://www.academia.edu/98098043/Decolonial_Aesthetics_Aesthesis_Has_Become_a_Connector_Across_the_Continents_A_Conversation_of_Contemporary_and_amp_with_Walter_Mignolo
• Diallo A. 2023. “Who is in the Archive?.” In: Bauer J.S., Figge M., Großmann L. and Wilma Lukatsch W.. Künste dekolonisieren Ästhetische Praktiken des Lernens und Verlernens. transcript, Bielefeld: https://www.academia.edu/117061012/Who_is_in_the_Archive
• Diallo A. and Castro Varela M.. 2023. “Die Gespenster der Vergangenheit: Trauma, Kunst und Postkolonialität – ein Gespräch.” In: Castro Varela, M. and Haghighat L.. Double Bind Postkolonial – Kritische Perspektiven auf Kunst und Kulturelle Bildung. transcript, Bielefeld: https://www.academia.edu/105653817/Die_Gespenster_der_Vergangenheit_Trauma_Kunst_und_Postkolonialit%C3%A4t_Ein_Gespr%C3%A4ch