Aïcha Diallo

Diallo’s professional experiences include leading Education & Outreach at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, serving as managing editor and part of the founding team of the digital art platform Contemporary And (C&), and co-programming KontextSchule at the University of the Arts Berlin. As co-founding director and performer with Label Noir, a Black German theatre troupe, she challenged the boundaries of performance and narrative. Diallo has also participated in the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
Diallo has been involved with a range of prestigious international platforms and institutions, including the Dak'Art Biennale, Chimurenga, Aperture, and prêt-à-partager at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). She served as a jury member on the selection committee for the
Soros Arts Fellowship 2020 at the Open Society Foundations. Her expertise in cultural and artistic initiatives has also led her to serve on juries for other influential contexts, such as the Goethe-Institut. Additionally, Diallo is the co-editor of Untie to Tie: Colonial Fragments in School Contexts, an anthology that critically explores the enduring impacts of coloniality within educational spaces.
An active member of bildungsLab and the Beyond Inhabitation steering committee, Diallo contributes to public discourse through commentary, interventions, and publications. From 2019 to 2020, she worked 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 spaces, 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, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar.
She is currently a PhD candidate in the Emerging Urban Inequalities program at the University of Sheffield, where her research examines Dakar at the intersection of cultural production, urban inequality, and spatial justice. Diallo holds an M.A. (with distinction) in Intercultural Education from Freie Universität Berlin and a B.A. in European Studies from Queen Mary University of London.