Haja Fanta


Haja Fanta is a curator, researcher, and writer with a diverse and international practice between London and Dakar. She is a Curator of Publishing Practices at RAW Material Company. She collaborates with artists, organisations, and institutions to deliver cohesive and engaging exhibitions, projects, and programmes within the sphere of arts and culture. She is also the founder of Studio Marrah, a research-driven curatorial studio.

Her research focuses on artistic and cultural production from West Africa and its diaspora, the relationship between art and society, and the role of the archive. Recent projects include investigating post-independence art and cultural policy in Senegal, supported by the Arts Council and Kol Pot, an investigation into preserving Sierra Leonean hi(stories).

Haja's previous programming projects have involved collaborations with notable organisations such as the Southbank Centre, National Portrait Gallery, The Africa Centre (London), and HOME by Ronan Mckenzie. In addition to her curatorial and research work, she has written for publications like Black Embodiments Studio, BYREDO, Contemporary&, NOTION, and Texte zur Kunst. She shares her thoughts and insights through her Substack ‘A Loose Thread’.

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