Alicia Knock

Curator in the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at the Centre Pompidou since 2015, where she develops a transnational history of art with a focus on modern and contemporary practices from Africa and Central Europe. Her curatorial projects include Ernest Mancoba (2019), Chine-Afrique (2020), and Global(e) Resistance (2020), alongside experimental formats such as Museum On/Off (2016). Committed to amplifying women artists, she has curated exhibitions at Fondation Fernet Branca and Bandjoun Station, and the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She is also the curator of the landmark exhibition Black Paris, which premiered at the Centre Pompidou in March 2025. “Black Paris” traces fifty years of artistic presence in the French capital, from 1947—when the anticolonial journal Présence Africaine was founded—to the 1990s, marked by the end of apartheid and the launch of Revue Noire. Bringing together African, African American, and Caribbean artists, the exhibition addresses the historical neglect, dispersal, and in some cases loss of their works, as well as the lack of critical recognition. For the first time in a French national institution, it charts a vibrant history of artistic emancipation and expression in Paris.