Johanne Affricot

Johanne Affricot is an independent curator and cultural maker. Her curatorial practice centers on holding and facilitating space for collective strategies of radical imagination and critical dialogue, aiming to foreground polyphonic narratives, build cultural infrastructures and networks that foster collaboration, and advance cultural regeneration connected to broader social transformation. She serves as Curator-at-Large at the American Academy in Rome and is the founder and artistic director of SPAZIO GRIOT and GRIOTMag. 

Among her curatorial projects are the solo exhibitions Whiteface by Candice Breitz; A Plot, A Scandal by Ligia Lewis; Path to the Stars by Mónica de Miranda; Il Mio Filippino: For Those Who Care to See by Liryc Dela Cruz, as well as the group shows Artists Making Books: Pages of Refuge and Sediments: After Memory. She co-edited the limited-edition poetry collection Rage & Desire (Spazio Griot, British Council) with Inua Ellams and the publication Exercises for the Imagination of a Space (Spazio Griot, Palazzo delle Esposizioni). An independent researcher, Affricot holds an MA in “Innovation and Development” from La Sapienza, Università di Roma.