Robin Riskin

Many thanks to @rriskinitall for sharing her insights during the Curious Curating workshop. It touched on the role of curators, collaboration as a vehicle for career development, the method of curious curating among other career and skills centered topics. Participants left inspired to experiment in the presentation and curatorial essence of their work. This is part of the Rising Star training program which combines in-person and online workshops.

Happy birthday Dad 🎈🎂🍰 what a year it’s been—we traveled, explored, graduated, arted, ate, laughed, loved and hugged. Celebrating you and all you’ve grown and given life to. My original curator, exhibition-goer, seer, knowledge-keeper and encyclopedia 👓👁️👓 and chef! love you ♥️

Tomorrow’s exhibition is not an ending but a beginning. How does one end something that has only just started to breathe? What we will witness tomorrow is the birth of something new, something that does not yet have a name. We invite you to be part of that moment. It has been an honour to hold space for some of the most brilliant minds across arts, culture, design, film, and literature the world has ever seen. Many Trees, A Forest.

Many trees do not compete but converge. And in that convergence, something larger begins to breathe. Many Trees, A Forest is a living process. A space where artists step into curatorial thought, and curators return to the intimacy of making. What emerges is a multidimensional voice with a collective rhythm that is layered, questioning, becoming. This group exhibition marks the culmination of the Curious Curating Workshop an in-process laboratory where curatorial ideas were tested, unlearned, and reimagined together. Come and encounter the forest.

The Curious Curating Workshop culminates this weekend in Many Trees, A Forest. A group exhibition and in-process laboratory shaped entirely by its participants. What emerges here is both an exhibition and a shift in orientation: artists stepping into curatorial authorship, curators returning to the instinct of making. A quiet disruption of roles, where practice becomes porous and knowledge is collectively grown. Join us from Saturday through Monday to witness the unfolding of a shared inquiry of a living archive of experimentation, process, and possibility. 📍 Didi Museum, Victoria Island, Lagos 🗓️ April 25–27 | 12PM Come and encounter what happens when many voices learn to hold a forest.

As we enter week 2 of the Curious Curating Workshop, meet our Facilitators. We’re excited about the learning so far. Curating is care, and more also is the techniques, science and intuitive processes of manifesting intentional contexts for human engagements. We are learning even much more these layers of meaning of curating. #Curiouscurating #didimuseum #angelsandmuse

It has been a transformational week of exploring alternative approaches of the curatorial practice. Week begins next week Monday. Meet the rest of the Curious Curating Workshop participants. #Curiouscurating #didimuseum #angelsandmuse

Happy birthday, “if you love me…” (15.4.2016) 🎈 🚂

Happy 10 year anniversary, “if you love me…” “Many upon a space and time, there have been moments where lines of steel and iron were drawn; and like ants, there was a following of the most efficient trajectories for the sugars in the coast of Gold they called it. These lines crisscrossed and thickened with time and gained the power to bite the hand that drew it. The Lines’ heirs deciding it was too powerful to be left alone decided to desegment it, defacing, erasing it on their whim. Who could blame them, Newton was still in vogue in many places. No one thought to also look Around the edge of a crystal ball; but then many did not see how the bending of light around that ball could mean for generations to come. And now here we are. It’s been an interesting game, indeed, it has. But let us tweak the game a bit… “When all remains un-done, and the crane let down; the butterfly become caterpillar again; may the Hurricanes it caused remain, while the spaces between the lines expand for more inclusions and faster locomotion so gown and town flow through each other faster while we have our hands stretched out of the windows feeling for the Graviton in the Cornfields. - Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah @niiokantaskyleo Co-Curator, “if you love me…” 2016 - “if you love me…” 15 April - 5 May 2016 an MFA exhibition at the Kumasi Railways Locomotive Shed co-curated by Robin Riskin @rriskinitall , Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah @niiokantaskyleo , Selom Kudjie @k_mls_k in collaboration with @blaxtarlines , Department of Painting and Sculpture @knust.gh , Ghana Railway Company, and Ghana Railway Workers’ Union with support from @ghana_museums , Western Regional Library, Kumasi Metropolitan Authority, DDP Outdoor, Ltd. and the artists, engineers, producers, inhabitants, architectures and ecosystems who co-created it… - Photos by @deryk_bempah

Happy 10 year anniversary, “if you love me…” “In the activity of living, there are various encoun- ters of abandoned objects, a work to be retouched, a finished work, a planned trip, projects unrealized, a commodity that warms the shelf, a space of a just sold object, a clustered store, a caterpillar, a bud, a planet in perpetual rotation yet to be known, Morse code being reordered ... “At any state, each encoun- ter could be experienced as a segment. A segment is bound by two specific points. But it is likely to be infested by other points within or without. For they participate in an open system. Being a kind of line, they could borrow from a line, and reconfig- ure the segment. A line is an ensemble of endless possibilities.” Selom Kudjie @k_mls_k Co-Curator, “if you love me…” 2016 - “if you love me…” 15 April - 5 May 2016 an MFA exhibition at the Kumasi Railways Locomotive Shed co-curated by Robin Riskin @rriskinitall , Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah @niiokantaskyleo , Selom Kudjie @k_mls_k in collaboration with @blaxtarlines , Department of Painting and Sculpture @knust.gh , Ghana Railway Company, and Ghana Railway Workers’ Union with support from @ghana_museums , Western Regional Library, Kumasi Metropolitan Authority, DDP Outdoor, Ltd. and the artists, engineers, producers, inhabitants, architectures and ecosystems who co-created it… - Footage by @alvinashiatey and @ibrahimmahama3 Graphic design by Yaw Akosah Yiadom Photo of Okanta, Robin and Kudjie by the late @ashantiimmigrant 🖤

Yesterday, we opened the doors to something special. We are so excited to welcome this brilliant group of creative professionals spanning diverse fields and disciplines to the Curious Curating Workshop in collaboration with @rriskinitall and our in house curator @patrickodimnfe Together, we’re exploring multidimensional practices, learning to curate curiously, and discovering new ways to enrich their craft and push the boundaries of what creativity can look like.

RESCHEDULED DUE TO FLIGHT DELAYS!!! CURATOR’S DESK presents Curious Curating with Robin Riskin—an engaging session exploring artistic, ecological, and indigenous approaches beyond “the cube.” 🗓 Wednesday, April 8, 2026 ⏰ 3:00 PM 📍 House of George Arts & Crafts Gallery, Abeokuta Join us to learn, connect, and grow in the art space.