Peter Okotor

Born in Lagos/Nigeria in 1988.

Peter Okotor is an artist and curator whose artistic practice focuses on hearing and listening. He employs archival sound as a mnemonic device to highlight past events and their contribution to historical memory. Okotor uses field recordings to investigate social and global events, making statements about collective memories and histories, while reflecting on how auditory experiences shape our understanding of the world and provide a framework for debates.

His curatorial work questions pre-existing notions of belonging and identity, while rethinking ongoing discussions on decolonization. Since 2023, he has served as the Exhibition and Technical Manager at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. He also attended the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg/Austria.

Among the exhibitions Okotor has co-curated are The [Re:] Entanglement: Colonial Indexicality (2019), Diaspora At Home, Lagos (2021), Moving Between, a virtual experience of the Kofar-Mata dye pits, Lagos (2022), and Gender Troubles In Contemporary Curating, Open Studio, Salzburg (2023). Recently, he collaborated as a researcher on Ballet of The Masses – On Football and Catharsis, a project involving performance, music, discourse, film, and literature at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/Germany (2024). He is also the recipient of the Bisi Silva Scholarship in Salzburg.