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Secession PodcastAuthor: Vienna Secession
Secession Podcast is a digital series created by the Secession in 2022. In conversations with artists, curators, and theorists, the podcast series offers interesting insights into the Secessions exhibition programme of twelve to fifteen contemporary art shows every year. The program also features discussions on current issues, as well as experimental sound formats and creating an oral history archive conversations between members of the Association of Visual Artists, who share their personal recollections and reflect on the 125-year history of this unique artist-run institution. Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Artists: Ndidi Dike in conversation with Jeanette Pacher
Episode 82
Wednesday, 15 April, 2026
Ndidi Dike’s exhibition Rare Earth Rare Justice unfolds as a large-scale installation structured around absence, death, and mourning and was developed over a year by the artist in close collaboration with Secession’s tech and curatorial team. Thanks to a “Dialogue Residency” supported by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, the artist was able to spend two months in Vienna, working in detail on the elements of the installation and the accompanying publication. The extended stay also allowed the artist to reflect on the work and experience how visitors would interact with it once the exhibition had opened. Further chapters will be presented at Färgfabriken, Stockholm and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Towards the end of the residency, Ndidi Dike and Jeanette Pacher recorded this podcast as part of an ongoing conversation between the artist and the curator. Ndidi Dike Rare Earth Rare Justice 6.3. – 31.5.2026 At the centre of Rare Earth Rare Justice lies the ongoing exploitation of the African continent’s natural resources, and specifically the extraction of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dike traces how extractive industries fuel ecological devastation, climate change, displacement, and resource-driven conflicts, exposing how global demand for technology is met through systemic violence and dispossession. More Ndidi Dike is an internationally renowned British-Nigerian sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist born in London. Rare Earth Rare Justice is her first major solo exhibition at an Austrian institution. Dike works across mixed media, painting, sculpture, collage, photography, video, and installation. Her practice engages with the social, political, and economic conditions shaping the modern world, with a particular focus on the legacies of colonialism, postcolonialism, forced migration, and global capitalism. Solo exhibitions include Working Through an Impasse, Art Twenty-One, Lagos, NG (2021), In the Guise of Resource Control, Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2017), State of the Nation, National Museum Onikan, Lagos, NG (2016) and Waka-into-Bondage: The Last ¾ Mile, Centre for Contemporary Art CCA, Lagos, NG (2008). Her work has been presented at biennials like Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025), Nigerian Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Sonsbeek 20–24, Arnhem, NL (2021), Lagos Biennial, NG (2019), Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar and 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, BR (both 2018). Dike’s work can currently also be seen at Tate Modern, London in the acclaimed group exhibition Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence (on view until 10 May 2026). www.instagram.com/ndidi.dike/ Jeanette Pacher is a curator at the Vienna Secession since 2007. She is a regular lecturer in the Department of Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, member of the BIG ART advisory board, and from 2023 to 2025, she was jury member of KÖR – Art in Public Space Vienna. Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession. The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast. Programmed by the board of the Secession. Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard Audio Editor: Paul Macheck Executive Producer: Jeanette Pacher
