Amandine Nana is a writer, poet, curator, editor and researcher. She has been a full time curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris since 2023 where she curated in 2024 “Tituba, qui pour nous protéger ?” [Tituba, who protects us ?] a transnational group show inspired by Maryse Condé worldbuilding. In 2025 she’s curating “ Collective Joy – Learning Flamboyance !” a collective show and participatory experiment featuring international artists such as Lorraine O’Grady, Resolve Collective, Alberto Pitta, Cauleen Smith, Moki Cherry, Thomas Hirschhorn, Helina Metafaria, Pris Roos, Caleb Kwarteng Prah next to a local French emerging art scene and social justices initiatives.
Trained between Paris, Dakar and New York as an art historian and urbanist with a background in Humanities (École Normale Supérieure Ulm, Sciences Po Paris, Sorbonne University ) she specialized in African & Diaspora studies. In her multidisciplinary practice she is particularly interested in the role of storytelling, myths, archives, black geographies, and collaborative, spatial, participatory practices nurtured by critical pedagogies in the arts. She is also in Paris the founder of Transplantation, a non-profit socio-cultural organization, art and reading space and the EIC of Air Afrique magazine.