29 documents
Otobong Nkanga Read Bio Collapse
Otobong Nkanga Read Bio Collapse
Otobong Nkanga lives and works in Antwerp. Her solo exhibitions include Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino (upcoming); Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (2020-21); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (both 2020); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; Tate St Ives (both 2019-20); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018). Additionally, her work has been included in institutional group exhibitions such as 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Sharjah Biennial 14 (2019); Documenta 14, Athens–Kassel (2017); Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris (both 2016); 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015). In 2019, Nkanga received a Special Mention Award at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and was also awarded the Sharjah Biennial Prize (with Emeka Ogboh); the Peter-Weiss-Preis; and the Flemish Cultural Award for Visual Arts – Ultima.
Nasher Sculpture Center
Call for papers: Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 8, 2023
Category
Sculpture, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Art History, Extractivism
Institution
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM)
Otobong Nkanga: Craving for Southern Light
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 24, 2023
Category
Installation, Performance
Institution
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Otobong Nkanga and Anna Boghiguian
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 18, 2022
Subjects
Planet Earth , Climate change, Textiles & Fiber Art, Games & Play
Institution
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Otobong Nkanga
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 6, 2021
Subjects
Textiles & Fiber Art, Planet Earth , Water & The Sea
Institution
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
Otobong Nkanga: Of Cords Curling around Mountains
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 24, 2021
Category
Nature & Ecology, Sculpture
Institution
Digital PTSD: The Practice of Art and Its Impact on Digital Trauma
Part II
Ed Atkins, Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Devra Davis, Irene Dionisio, Katerina Fotopoulou, Vittorio Gallese, Vincent Hendricks, Catherine Malabou, Otobong Nkanga , Tabita Rezaire, Legacy Russell, and Miao Ying
e-flux Events
Posted: May 20, 2021
Category
Technology, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Digital Humanities, Knowledge Production
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
2021 program and events
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 22, 2021
Category
Photography
Subjects
Socially Engaged Art, Public Art
Institution
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Program 2021
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 1, 2020
Category
Labor & Work
Subjects
Materialism, Identity Politics
Institution
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Otobong Nkanga: Uncertain Where the Next Wind Blows
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 21, 2020
Subjects
Socially Engaged Art, Africa, Landscape
Institution
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Otobong Nkanaga receives inaugural Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 12, 2019
Institution
Tate St Ives
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 16, 2019
Category
Labor & Work, Bodies
Subjects
Diaspora
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 18, 2019
Category
Migration & Immigration, Colonialism & Imperialism, Performance
Subjects
Biennials, Southeast Asia
RAW MATERIAL COMPANY
Call for applications RAW Académie Session 5
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 17, 2018
Category
Call for applications, Contemporary Art, Education
Subjects
Art Criticism, Artistic Research , Curating
Institution
Ar/Ge Kunst
Program 2018
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 10, 2018
Category
Contemporary Art, Borders & Frontiers, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Artistic Research , Identity Politics, Collaboration, Biopolitics
Institution
RAW MATERIAL COMPANY
2018 residencies, programme and events
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 15, 2018
Subjects
Artistic Research , Site-Specific Art, Knowledge Production, Africa
Institution
Artes Mundi
Artes Mundi 8
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 6, 2017
Category
Music, Surveillance & Privacy, LGBTQ+
Subjects
Law & Justice, Documentary, Police & Prisons, Identity Politics
Nottingham Contemporary
Marguerite Humeau and Otobong Nkanga
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 15, 2016
Category
Performance, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Evolution, Science, Animals, Textiles & Fiber Art, Plants & Forests
Institution
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 4, 2016
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Extractivism
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Streamlines: Oceans, Global Trade and Migration
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 24, 2015
Category
Migration & Immigration, Globalization, Economy, Borders & Frontiers, Land & territory, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Water & The Sea
Institution
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA)
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin: Democratic Luxury / Otobong Nkanga: Bruises and Lustre
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 13, 2015
Category
Globalization, Capitalism, Land & territory, Labor & Work
Institution
Yanghyun Foundation
Otobong Nkanga wins 2015 prize
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 7, 2015
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 21, 2015
Category
Painting, Capitalism
Subjects
Africa, Curating
Institution
Portikus
Otobong Nkanga
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 9, 2015
Category
Performance
Subjects
Extractivism, Africa
Institution
Museum Folkwang
Otobong Nkanga
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 24, 2015
Category
Installation, Photography, Drawing
Subjects
Public Space
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 14, 2013
Category
Language & Linguistics, Music, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Biennials, Sound Art, Folklore & Tradition, Historicity & Historiography
Tate Modern
Across the board: Politics of Representation
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 20, 2012
Category
Performance
Subjects
Representation, Identity Politics
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 20, 2010
Institution