Otobong Nkanga’s multi-disciplinary practice spans tapestry, drawing, photography, installation, video and performance.
Her visual investigation addresses the politics of land and its relationship to the body, as well as the complex and fraught histories of land acquisition and ownership by connecting threads that reveal the entanglements of bodies, land and natural resources. Nkanga is concerned with raw material production and how mining and other forms of extraction leave irreversible traces in the landscape.
Full of literary, religious, and geological references, her work sheds light on how production affects both humans and nature, but also how dependent the world is on this circulation of goods. In Nkanga, the theme is often given a poetic setting, where the titles are central to the understanding of the works.
Her visual investigation addresses the politics of land and its relationship to the body, as well as the complex and fraught histories of land acquisition and ownership by connecting threads that reveal the entanglements of bodies, land and natural resources. Nkanga is concerned with raw material production and how mining and other forms of extraction leave irreversible traces in the landscape.
Full of literary, religious, and geological references, her work sheds light on how production affects both humans and nature, but also how dependent the world is on this circulation of goods. In Nkanga, the theme is often given a poetic setting, where the titles are central to the understanding of the works.
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Artist Otobong Nkanga speaks to curator Caroline Hancock on the occasion of her solo exhibition 'The Breath from Fertile Grounds' at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
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De Keuze van... Margitte Verwoerdt
I recently saw new work by Otobong Nkanga in Venice, in which she had copied whole pieces of sea coral through embroidery. It was beautifully arranged in glass cupboards and hung on the wall, it was so refined and elegant. In her work she explores the problems of the changing environment in a refined and highly aesthetic way.
Margitte Verwoerdt (kunsthistorica, zelfstandig adviseur en curator)
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Otobong Nkanga’s most recent solo exhibitions include the solo show "Of Cords Curling Around Mountains" at Castello di Rivoli, Turin Italy (2021), “Lingering on the Rim” at Lumen Travo Gallery; “When Looking Across the Sea, Do You Dream?” at Villa Arson, Nice (2021); “Uncertain Where the Next Wind Blows” at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2020-2021); “There's No Such Thing as Solid Ground” at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2020); “From Where I Stand” at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough (2020-2021); “Acts at the Crossroads” at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2019); “From Where I Stand”, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives (2019); “A Lapse, a Stain, a Fall” at Ar/geKunst, Bolzano (2018); “To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again” at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago (2018).
Otobong Nkanga is the 1st recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award (Norway, 2019), and was awarded the Peter Weiss Award (Bochum, 2019), the Special Mention Award of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2019), the 2019 Sharjah Biennial Award (Sharjah, 2019), the Flemish Cultural Award for Visual Arts - Ultima (Brussels, 2019), the Belgian Art Prize (Brussels, 2017) and the 8th Yanghyun Art Prize (Seoul, 2015).
Otobong Nkanga is the 1st recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award (Norway, 2019), and was awarded the Peter Weiss Award (Bochum, 2019), the Special Mention Award of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2019), the 2019 Sharjah Biennial Award (Sharjah, 2019), the Flemish Cultural Award for Visual Arts - Ultima (Brussels, 2019), the Belgian Art Prize (Brussels, 2017) and the 8th Yanghyun Art Prize (Seoul, 2015).
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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2023
Otobong Nkanga: Gently Basking in Debris ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2022
Otobong Nkanga: Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded ,Musea Brugge, Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: Togethering ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
2021
Otobong Nkanga: Lingering on the Rim II – Drawings ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Otobong Nkanga ,Kunsthaus Bregenz ,Bregenz, Austria
Otobong Nkanga ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
Otobong Nkanga ,Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo ,Sao Paulo, Brazil
Otobong Nkanga: Lingering on the Rim ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020
Otobong Nkanga: Uncertain Where The Next Wind Blows ,Henie Onstad Art Center ,Høvikodden, Norway
Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing As Solid Ground ,Gropius-Bau ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand ,MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
2019
Otobong Nkanga: Acts at the Crossroads ,Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art , Cape Town, South Africa
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand ,Tate St. Ives ,St. Ives, UK
2018
Otobong Nkanga: A Lapse, a Stain, a Fall ,AR-Ge Kunst ,Bolzano, Italy
Otobong Nkanga: Transition ,Mendes Wood DM, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2017
Otobong Nkanga: The Breath From Fertile Grounds ,Temple Bar Gallery + Studios ,Dublin, Ireland
2016
Otobong Nkanga ,Nottingham Contemporary ,Nottingham, UK
Otobong Nkanga: Cracks Around The Corner ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
Otobong Nkanga: Landversation Beirut ,Beirut Art Center ,Beirut, Lebanon
2015
Otobong Nkanga: Fragments ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
In Situ: Otobong Nkanga ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine ,Kadist, Paris ,18e, Paris, France
Otobong Nkanga: Tracing Confessions ,Museum Folkwang Essen ,Essen, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Mind’s Eye. Images Of Nature From Claude Monet To Otobong Nkanga ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Matter as Actor ,Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street) ,Marylebone, London, UK
The Inner Island ,Villa Carmignac ,Hyères, France
Seas, Lands and Bodies Crossed ,Catherine Bastide ,Marseille, France
2022
Nature Humaine — Humaine Nature ,Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles ,Arles, France
Becoming Flower ,MAMAC Nice ,Nice, France
Silent Land ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trouble wandering (to eternity) ,Kasteel Wijlre ,Netherlands
Museum in Motion ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
Territories of Waste. On the Return of the Repressed ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
A Cielo Aperto 2022 ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
When Faith Moves Mountains ,PinchukArtCentre ,Kiev, Ukraine
Black Melancholia ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
Globalisto: A Philosophy In Flux ,MAMC Saint-Étienne ,Saint-priest-en-jarez, France
Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today ,Mostyn ,Wales, UK
Botanischer Wahnsinn (Botanical Madness). Plant Thinking in Contemporary Art ,Kroller-Muller Museum ,Otterlo, Netherlands
in/stasis ,Artists Space ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
Currency: Photography Beyond Capture ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Otobong Nkanga & Anna Boghiguian ,Kunsthaus Bregenz ,Bregenz, Austria
Hurting And Healing: Tänk Dig Ett Annat Kulturarv ,Tensta Konsthall ,Spanga, Sweden
Screen Time: Photography And Video Art In The Internet Age ,Samek Art Museum ,Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2021
We Are History ,Somerset House ,London, UK
Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, ,Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) ,Bergamo, Italy
Witch Hunt ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Witch Hunt ,Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
Is it Possible to Be a Revolutionary and Like Flowers? ,Nest ,The Hague, Netherlands
Reclaiming Places ,La Loge ,Brussels, Belgium
Hearts and Minds ,Carriage Trade ,New York, USA
Lipstick and Gas Masks. The City Collection Antwerp ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
2020
Say It Loud ,Bonnefanten Maastricht ,Maastricht, Netherlands
Love Among the Artists ,Netwerk / center for contemporary art ,Aalst, Belgium
ONLINE: Garden Of Time: Textiles As Nature Poem ,Mendes Wood DM, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
Global(e) Resistance ,Centre Pompidou Paris ,4e, Paris, France
Our world is burning ,Palais de Tokyo ,16e, Paris, France
Amuse-bouche: The Taste of Art ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
Construção ,Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo ,Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019
La Mesure du Monde ,MRAC Occitanie ,Serignan, France
Group Exhibition ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
IncarNations. African Art As Philosophy ,BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ,Brussels, Belgium
Homeless Souls ,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ,Humlebæk, Denmark
Hand Drawn Action Packed ,Glynn Vivian Art Gallery ,Swansea, UK
Strong Pieces: Feminisms and Geographies ,Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken ,Saarbrucken, Germany
Coexistence. Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections ,Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Helsinki, Finland
Hand Drawn Action Packed ,Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow ,Glasgow, UK
Salle des maquettes ,Galerie de l'UQAM, Université du Québec ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Salon de Peinture ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
2018
Artes Mundi 8 ,National Museum Cardiff ,Cardiff, UK
Laid Bare in the Landscape ,Nevada Museum of Art ,Reno, Nevada, USA
A World View ,Cairns Art Gallery ,Cairns, Australia
Talisman in the Age of Difference ,Stephen Friedman Gallery ,Mayfair, London, UK
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger ,BAK ,Utrecht, Netherlands
General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street ,Moscow, Russia
Emerge Selections 2018 ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art ,Haus der Kunst ,Munich, Germany
2017
Take Me (I'm Yours) ,Pirelli HangarBicocca ,Milan, Italy
Manipulate the World ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
“I Am a Native Foreigner” ,Stedelijk Museum ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lives Between ,CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo ,Tel Aviv, Israel
Documenta 14 ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
Colori. The Emotions of Color in Art ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
Tous, des sang-mêlés ,MAC VAL ,Paris, France
The Absent Museum ,WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre ,Brussels, Belgium
documenta 14 ,Benaki Museum of Greek Culture ,Athens, Greece
BelgianArtPrize 2017 ,BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ,Brussels, Belgium
L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte ,GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
Lives Between ,Kadist, San Francisco ,Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
Stimulants: Circulation and Euphoria ,Tabakalera ,San Sebastian, Spain
2016
Georges Adéagbo and Otobong Nkanga ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Extracted ,USF Contemporary Art Museum ,Tampa, Florida, USA
Kaleidoscope: It’s Me to the World ,Modern Art Oxford ,Oxford, UK
Lucy’s Iris. Contemporary African Women Artists ,Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
Sonsbeek: Transhistory ,Museum Arnhem ,Arnhem, Netherlands
Take Me (I'm Yours) ,Kunsthal Charlottenborg ,Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
Beyond 2° ,Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
LIFE ITSELF ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
2015
Streamlines ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Last Sighting ,daadgalerie ,Berlin, Germany
Material Effects: Contemporary Art from West Africa and the diaspora ,Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University ,East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Otobong Nkanga: Crumbling Through Powdery Air ,Portikus ,Frankfurt, Germany
Speaking Back ,Goodman Gallery, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Meeting Point II ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
14 Rooms ,Art Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
Giving Contours To Shadows ,Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Giving Contours To Shadows ,Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Aerial Views Group Show ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa ,Fowler Museum at UCLA ,Los Angeles, California,USA
BIENNIALS
2022
Busan Biennale 2022- We, on the Rising Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South-Korea
2019
58th Biennale di Venezia 2019, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy
13th Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
Sharjah International Biennial 14, SAF Art Spaces & Venues, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018
Le Grand Monnayage, Hôtel de Ménoc, Melle, France
2017
Documenta 14, Neue Galerie - Neue Neue Galerie (Neue Hauptpost) - Glass Pavilions on KurtSchumacher-Strasse
Dialogues, Manifesta Amsterdam Headquarters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Documenta 14, Archimidous 15, Athens, Greece
Contour Biennale 8, Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen, Belgium
2016
11th Gwanaiu Biennale 2016, The Gwanaiu Biennale Foundation, Gwangiu, South-Korea
Still (the) Barbarians. Limerick Citv Gallerv of Art. Lmerick, Ireland
20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks. Svdney. Australia
2015
13th Biennale de Lyon, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
2014
21st Bienal de São Paulo Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Berlin Biennale 8, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2013
PLAY! Recapturing The Radical Imagination, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Sharjah Biennial 11, Bait Khalid Ibrahim, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2012
9th Shanghai Biennale. Antwerp Pavilion. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Biennale Regard Benin 2012, Centre Kora, Cotonou, Benin
2010
29th Bienal de São Paulo Ciccillo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
3rd AiM International Biennale, Marrakech Biennale Association, Guéliz, Marrakech, Morocco
2006
Triennale de Luanda, Escritório Executivo da Trienal de Luanda, Luanda, Angola
1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Casa de los Coroneles, La Oliva, Las Palmas, Spain
2005
Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004
2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
2003
8th Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havanna, Cuba
2002
5th Biennale of African Contemporary Art, Ancien Palais de Justice, Dakar, Senegal
1st Biennale di Fotografia Africana, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
2001
4th Biennale de Bamako. Musée National du Mali, Bamako. Mali
ART FAIRS
2023
Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022
Paris + by Art Basel, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France
Artagenève Salon d'Art 2022, Palexpo Geneva. Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
2021
Art Monte-Carlo 2021, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
2019
Artissima, Torino, Italy
Frieze London 2019, London, United Kingdom
Frieze New York 2019, New York, United States
Art Monte-Carlo 2019, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Art Brussels 37th, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
1.54 Marrakech 2019, La Mamounia Palace, Marrakech, Morocco
Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Artagenève Salon d'Art 2018, Palexpo Geneva. Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
Frieze London 2018, London, United Kingdom
Art Monte-Carlo 2018, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
Art Brussels 2018, Hôtel de la Poste Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
Art Cologne 2018. Koelnmesse GmbH. Coloane, Germany
2017
Artgenève Salon d'Art 2017, Palexpo Geneva, Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
Art Dubai 2017, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
FIAC 2017, Petit Palais, Paris, Francé
Amsterdam Art Fair 2017, Kunsthal Koper, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
FIAC 2016. Grand Palais, Paris, France
1:54 New York Z016. Pioneer Works. New York. United States
Art Monte-Carlo 2016, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
Art Rotterdam 2016, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Frieze New York 2015, Randall's Island Park, New York, United States
ARCO Art Fair 2015 Feria de Madrid Madrid Spain
Art Dubai 2015, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Paris Choices, Palais des Études, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
1:54 London 2015, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
FIAC 2015, Jardin des Plantes Parie France
Amsterdam Art Fair 2015, Kunsthal Citroën, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Art Dubai 2014. Madinat Jumeirah. Dubai United Arab Emirate
FIAC 2014, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1:54 London 2014, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Frieze New York 2014, Randall's Island Park, New York, United States
2013
Art Dubai 2013. Madinat lumeirah Dubai United Arab Emirates
2012
Art Rotterdam 2012, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam Drawing 2012, Vous Etes lci / Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
HK International Art Fair 2011. Hog Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2010
FIAC 2010, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Art Amsterdam 2010, Amsterdam RAI, Park Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
ARCO Art Fair 2009, Feria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Art Brussels 2009, Brussels Expo Halls, Brussels, Belgium
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Angola
Fondation Sindika Dokolo
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
Belgium
Collectie Vlaams Parlement
Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Mu.ZEE
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)
Finland
Finnish National Gallery / Kiasma Museum
France
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
Centre Pompidou
Collection Départementale d'Art Contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis
Emerige
FRAC Corse
FRAC des Pays de la Loire
FRAC Ile-de-France
FRAC Lorraine
FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur (PACA)
Kadist Art Foundation
SAM ART Projects
Société Générale Art Collection
Germany
Museum Folkwang
Weltkulturen Museum
Italy
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
Nigeria
American Embassy Abuja
Spain
Belgian Embassy Madrid
Collection Arte & Naturaleza
Switzerland
Jean Claude Bastos Foundation
The Netherlands
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Bonnefantenmuseum
DasArts, Academy of Theatre and Dance
Federale Overheidsdienst Buitenlandse Zaken
Màxima Medisch Centrumi
Museum Arnhem
Museum Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen (former Het Domein)
Rabo Art Collection (Rabobank)
Robeco Art Collection
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Stichting Vrienden van het Hart
United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Art Foundation
United Kingdom
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
Tate Modern
United States
Denver Art Museum
Hessel Museum of Art (BARD College)
Nevada Museum of Art (NMA)
Studio Museum Harlem
Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art
US State Department
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/TALKS
2022
Archiving Performance - Between Artistic Poetics and Institutional Policies, University Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Times Reimagined - 59th Venice Biennale: Collateral Exhibitions and Beyond, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
2021
Sex Ecolocies: Public brodram - Plants as reproducers of stories, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim.
Norway
2019
Artist Talk: Zones of Conflict - Responding to Realities, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Look who's talking: Otobong Nkanga, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Artist Talk: In House: Artist in Residence Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Germany
2018
Germination, RAW Material Company -Center for art, knowledge and society, Dakar, Senegal
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, United
States
Artist Talk: Otobona Nkanga NICC Antwerpen, Belgium
Artist/Curator Talk, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Dublin, Treland
Space, Place and Chande, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Dublin, Ireland
La Valeur de l'art, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Paris, France
2014
Shifting States- Platforms for Experimentation, Dutch Art Institute, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Voice ‘Creature of Transition, Lecture performance, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2013
1:54 Forum, Artist talk- Hans Ulrich Obrist in converstion with Otobong Nkanga, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, United Kingdom.
Facing the Opponent: Fieldwork at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institut, Florence, Italy.
Artist Talk: with Otobong Nkanga, Institut für Raumexperimente, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Art Basel Salon, The Global Artworld, Focus Africa, Basel, Switzerland.
Think-Tank II: Persecuted, Mourned, Pitied, Admired/Collected and Photographed, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Art as a meeting point, with Andrea Buddensieg, Otobong Nkanga and Joanna Warsza, discussion organized by Antje Majewski, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, Germany.
Sharjah Biennial 11 panel discussion with Hoor-Al-Qasimi, Yuko Hasegawa and Otobong Nkanga, Sharjah, UAE.
Think-Tank I: The administration of people and goods, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
The Impossible Aesthetic: Situating Research in Arts and Social Sciences/Humanities, Artistic Research and Museum Collections, Lessons from the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.
2012
Performance Year Zero: A living History ‘Conversation: Knowing through Doing’ Otobong Nkanga with Catherine Wood, Part of the series The Tanks: Art in Action, London, United Kingdom.
Permeabilities, Presentation of works and workshop with participants at CEIA, 8th international event, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
When the stage hits you, workshop with the Dutch Art Institute students, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
2011
Art-iculate: A performative lecture by Otobong Nkanga, CCA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Tracks and traces of violences conferences, Lecture Performance by Otobong Nkanga, The University of Bayreuth, (BIGSAS), Germany.
Clark-Mellon Workshop: International Initiatives and Regional Collaboration, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.
6000 Collectors - Experimental Talks with Objects, Lecture by Otobong Nkanga, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Presentation of project at Outre Mesures et Programmes Radio (Maps, Timelines,Radio Programmes), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec, France.
2010
Workshop and project, Intituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency Program, Curacao, The Netherland Antilles.
Workshop Unfixed, Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht.
Memory as a photographic process, presentation at Unfixed Symposium, CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Otobong Nkanga’s works on Land and Mapping, presentation at Crossing Boundaries symposium, Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom.
Presentation of works in Whose Map Is It?, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, United Kingdom.
Artist talk at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2009
Workshop and project with the students of Haute École d’Art et de Design, Geneva, Switzerland (in collaboration with Alexandra Bachzetsis).
2008
Lecture and Workshop State of Bodies/ Suffering, Mieke van de Voort, Generale Staten and Game/Performance. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Discussion and round table at Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Studio Visits, Masters Programme, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede, The Netherlands.
2006
Seminar on African literature, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2001
Lecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, R.D. Congo.
2023
Otobong Nkanga: Gently Basking in Debris ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2022
Otobong Nkanga: Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded ,Musea Brugge, Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: Togethering ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
2021
Otobong Nkanga: Lingering on the Rim II – Drawings ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Otobong Nkanga ,Kunsthaus Bregenz ,Bregenz, Austria
Otobong Nkanga ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
Otobong Nkanga ,Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo ,Sao Paulo, Brazil
Otobong Nkanga: Lingering on the Rim ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020
Otobong Nkanga: Uncertain Where The Next Wind Blows ,Henie Onstad Art Center ,Høvikodden, Norway
Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing As Solid Ground ,Gropius-Bau ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand ,MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
2019
Otobong Nkanga: Acts at the Crossroads ,Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art , Cape Town, South Africa
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand ,Tate St. Ives ,St. Ives, UK
2018
Otobong Nkanga: A Lapse, a Stain, a Fall ,AR-Ge Kunst ,Bolzano, Italy
Otobong Nkanga: Transition ,Mendes Wood DM, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2017
Otobong Nkanga: The Breath From Fertile Grounds ,Temple Bar Gallery + Studios ,Dublin, Ireland
2016
Otobong Nkanga ,Nottingham Contemporary ,Nottingham, UK
Otobong Nkanga: Cracks Around The Corner ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
Otobong Nkanga: Landversation Beirut ,Beirut Art Center ,Beirut, Lebanon
2015
Otobong Nkanga: Fragments ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
In Situ: Otobong Nkanga ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
Otobong Nkanga: Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine ,Kadist, Paris ,18e, Paris, France
Otobong Nkanga: Tracing Confessions ,Museum Folkwang Essen ,Essen, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Mind’s Eye. Images Of Nature From Claude Monet To Otobong Nkanga ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Matter as Actor ,Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street) ,Marylebone, London, UK
The Inner Island ,Villa Carmignac ,Hyères, France
Seas, Lands and Bodies Crossed ,Catherine Bastide ,Marseille, France
2022
Nature Humaine — Humaine Nature ,Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles ,Arles, France
Becoming Flower ,MAMAC Nice ,Nice, France
Silent Land ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trouble wandering (to eternity) ,Kasteel Wijlre ,Netherlands
Museum in Motion ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
Territories of Waste. On the Return of the Repressed ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
A Cielo Aperto 2022 ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
When Faith Moves Mountains ,PinchukArtCentre ,Kiev, Ukraine
Black Melancholia ,CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art ,Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
Globalisto: A Philosophy In Flux ,MAMC Saint-Étienne ,Saint-priest-en-jarez, France
Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today ,Mostyn ,Wales, UK
Botanischer Wahnsinn (Botanical Madness). Plant Thinking in Contemporary Art ,Kroller-Muller Museum ,Otterlo, Netherlands
in/stasis ,Artists Space ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
Currency: Photography Beyond Capture ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Otobong Nkanga & Anna Boghiguian ,Kunsthaus Bregenz ,Bregenz, Austria
Hurting And Healing: Tänk Dig Ett Annat Kulturarv ,Tensta Konsthall ,Spanga, Sweden
Screen Time: Photography And Video Art In The Internet Age ,Samek Art Museum ,Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2021
We Are History ,Somerset House ,London, UK
Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, ,Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) ,Bergamo, Italy
Witch Hunt ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Witch Hunt ,Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
Is it Possible to Be a Revolutionary and Like Flowers? ,Nest ,The Hague, Netherlands
Reclaiming Places ,La Loge ,Brussels, Belgium
Hearts and Minds ,Carriage Trade ,New York, USA
Lipstick and Gas Masks. The City Collection Antwerp ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
2020
Say It Loud ,Bonnefanten Maastricht ,Maastricht, Netherlands
Love Among the Artists ,Netwerk / center for contemporary art ,Aalst, Belgium
ONLINE: Garden Of Time: Textiles As Nature Poem ,Mendes Wood DM, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
Global(e) Resistance ,Centre Pompidou Paris ,4e, Paris, France
Our world is burning ,Palais de Tokyo ,16e, Paris, France
Amuse-bouche: The Taste of Art ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
Construção ,Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo ,Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019
La Mesure du Monde ,MRAC Occitanie ,Serignan, France
Group Exhibition ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
IncarNations. African Art As Philosophy ,BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ,Brussels, Belgium
Homeless Souls ,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ,Humlebæk, Denmark
Hand Drawn Action Packed ,Glynn Vivian Art Gallery ,Swansea, UK
Strong Pieces: Feminisms and Geographies ,Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken ,Saarbrucken, Germany
Coexistence. Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections ,Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Helsinki, Finland
Hand Drawn Action Packed ,Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow ,Glasgow, UK
Salle des maquettes ,Galerie de l'UQAM, Université du Québec ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Salon de Peinture ,M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ,Antwerp, Belgium
2018
Artes Mundi 8 ,National Museum Cardiff ,Cardiff, UK
Laid Bare in the Landscape ,Nevada Museum of Art ,Reno, Nevada, USA
A World View ,Cairns Art Gallery ,Cairns, Australia
Talisman in the Age of Difference ,Stephen Friedman Gallery ,Mayfair, London, UK
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger ,BAK ,Utrecht, Netherlands
General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street ,Moscow, Russia
Emerge Selections 2018 ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art ,Haus der Kunst ,Munich, Germany
2017
Take Me (I'm Yours) ,Pirelli HangarBicocca ,Milan, Italy
Manipulate the World ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
“I Am a Native Foreigner” ,Stedelijk Museum ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lives Between ,CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo ,Tel Aviv, Israel
Documenta 14 ,In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc ,10e, Paris, France
Colori. The Emotions of Color in Art ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art ,Turin, Italy
Tous, des sang-mêlés ,MAC VAL ,Paris, France
The Absent Museum ,WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre ,Brussels, Belgium
documenta 14 ,Benaki Museum of Greek Culture ,Athens, Greece
BelgianArtPrize 2017 ,BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts ,Brussels, Belgium
L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte ,GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
Lives Between ,Kadist, San Francisco ,Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
Stimulants: Circulation and Euphoria ,Tabakalera ,San Sebastian, Spain
2016
Georges Adéagbo and Otobong Nkanga ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Extracted ,USF Contemporary Art Museum ,Tampa, Florida, USA
Kaleidoscope: It’s Me to the World ,Modern Art Oxford ,Oxford, UK
Lucy’s Iris. Contemporary African Women Artists ,Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
Sonsbeek: Transhistory ,Museum Arnhem ,Arnhem, Netherlands
Take Me (I'm Yours) ,Kunsthal Charlottenborg ,Indre by, Copenhagen, Denmark
Beyond 2° ,Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
LIFE ITSELF ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
2015
Streamlines ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Last Sighting ,daadgalerie ,Berlin, Germany
Material Effects: Contemporary Art from West Africa and the diaspora ,Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University ,East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Otobong Nkanga: Crumbling Through Powdery Air ,Portikus ,Frankfurt, Germany
Speaking Back ,Goodman Gallery, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Meeting Point II ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
14 Rooms ,Art Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
Giving Contours To Shadows ,Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Giving Contours To Shadows ,Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Aerial Views Group Show ,Lumen Travo Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa ,Fowler Museum at UCLA ,Los Angeles, California,USA
BIENNIALS
2022
Busan Biennale 2022- We, on the Rising Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South-Korea
2019
58th Biennale di Venezia 2019, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy
13th Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
Sharjah International Biennial 14, SAF Art Spaces & Venues, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018
Le Grand Monnayage, Hôtel de Ménoc, Melle, France
2017
Documenta 14, Neue Galerie - Neue Neue Galerie (Neue Hauptpost) - Glass Pavilions on KurtSchumacher-Strasse
Dialogues, Manifesta Amsterdam Headquarters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Documenta 14, Archimidous 15, Athens, Greece
Contour Biennale 8, Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen, Belgium
2016
11th Gwanaiu Biennale 2016, The Gwanaiu Biennale Foundation, Gwangiu, South-Korea
Still (the) Barbarians. Limerick Citv Gallerv of Art. Lmerick, Ireland
20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks. Svdney. Australia
2015
13th Biennale de Lyon, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
2014
21st Bienal de São Paulo Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Berlin Biennale 8, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2013
PLAY! Recapturing The Radical Imagination, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Sharjah Biennial 11, Bait Khalid Ibrahim, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2012
9th Shanghai Biennale. Antwerp Pavilion. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Biennale Regard Benin 2012, Centre Kora, Cotonou, Benin
2010
29th Bienal de São Paulo Ciccillo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
3rd AiM International Biennale, Marrakech Biennale Association, Guéliz, Marrakech, Morocco
2006
Triennale de Luanda, Escritório Executivo da Trienal de Luanda, Luanda, Angola
1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Casa de los Coroneles, La Oliva, Las Palmas, Spain
2005
Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004
2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
2003
8th Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havanna, Cuba
2002
5th Biennale of African Contemporary Art, Ancien Palais de Justice, Dakar, Senegal
1st Biennale di Fotografia Africana, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
2001
4th Biennale de Bamako. Musée National du Mali, Bamako. Mali
ART FAIRS
2023
Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022
Paris + by Art Basel, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France
Artagenève Salon d'Art 2022, Palexpo Geneva. Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
2021
Art Monte-Carlo 2021, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
2019
Artissima, Torino, Italy
Frieze London 2019, London, United Kingdom
Frieze New York 2019, New York, United States
Art Monte-Carlo 2019, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Art Brussels 37th, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
1.54 Marrakech 2019, La Mamounia Palace, Marrakech, Morocco
Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Artagenève Salon d'Art 2018, Palexpo Geneva. Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
Frieze London 2018, London, United Kingdom
Art Monte-Carlo 2018, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
Art Brussels 2018, Hôtel de la Poste Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
Art Cologne 2018. Koelnmesse GmbH. Coloane, Germany
2017
Artgenève Salon d'Art 2017, Palexpo Geneva, Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
Art Dubai 2017, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
FIAC 2017, Petit Palais, Paris, Francé
Amsterdam Art Fair 2017, Kunsthal Koper, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
FIAC 2016. Grand Palais, Paris, France
1:54 New York Z016. Pioneer Works. New York. United States
Art Monte-Carlo 2016, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Monaco
Art Rotterdam 2016, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Frieze New York 2015, Randall's Island Park, New York, United States
ARCO Art Fair 2015 Feria de Madrid Madrid Spain
Art Dubai 2015, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Paris Choices, Palais des Études, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
1:54 London 2015, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
FIAC 2015, Jardin des Plantes Parie France
Amsterdam Art Fair 2015, Kunsthal Citroën, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Art Dubai 2014. Madinat Jumeirah. Dubai United Arab Emirate
FIAC 2014, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1:54 London 2014, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Frieze New York 2014, Randall's Island Park, New York, United States
2013
Art Dubai 2013. Madinat lumeirah Dubai United Arab Emirates
2012
Art Rotterdam 2012, Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam Drawing 2012, Vous Etes lci / Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
HK International Art Fair 2011. Hog Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2010
FIAC 2010, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Art Amsterdam 2010, Amsterdam RAI, Park Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
ARCO Art Fair 2009, Feria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Art Brussels 2009, Brussels Expo Halls, Brussels, Belgium
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Angola
Fondation Sindika Dokolo
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
Belgium
Collectie Vlaams Parlement
Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Mu.ZEE
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)
Finland
Finnish National Gallery / Kiasma Museum
France
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
Centre Pompidou
Collection Départementale d'Art Contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis
Emerige
FRAC Corse
FRAC des Pays de la Loire
FRAC Ile-de-France
FRAC Lorraine
FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur (PACA)
Kadist Art Foundation
SAM ART Projects
Société Générale Art Collection
Germany
Museum Folkwang
Weltkulturen Museum
Italy
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
Nigeria
American Embassy Abuja
Spain
Belgian Embassy Madrid
Collection Arte & Naturaleza
Switzerland
Jean Claude Bastos Foundation
The Netherlands
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Bonnefantenmuseum
DasArts, Academy of Theatre and Dance
Federale Overheidsdienst Buitenlandse Zaken
Màxima Medisch Centrumi
Museum Arnhem
Museum Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen (former Het Domein)
Rabo Art Collection (Rabobank)
Robeco Art Collection
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Stichting Vrienden van het Hart
United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Art Foundation
United Kingdom
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
Tate Modern
United States
Denver Art Museum
Hessel Museum of Art (BARD College)
Nevada Museum of Art (NMA)
Studio Museum Harlem
Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art
US State Department
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/TALKS
2022
Archiving Performance - Between Artistic Poetics and Institutional Policies, University Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Times Reimagined - 59th Venice Biennale: Collateral Exhibitions and Beyond, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
2021
Sex Ecolocies: Public brodram - Plants as reproducers of stories, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim.
Norway
2019
Artist Talk: Zones of Conflict - Responding to Realities, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Look who's talking: Otobong Nkanga, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Artist Talk: In House: Artist in Residence Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Germany
2018
Germination, RAW Material Company -Center for art, knowledge and society, Dakar, Senegal
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, United
States
Artist Talk: Otobona Nkanga NICC Antwerpen, Belgium
Artist/Curator Talk, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Dublin, Treland
Space, Place and Chande, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Dublin, Ireland
La Valeur de l'art, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Paris, France
2014
Shifting States- Platforms for Experimentation, Dutch Art Institute, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Voice ‘Creature of Transition, Lecture performance, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2013
1:54 Forum, Artist talk- Hans Ulrich Obrist in converstion with Otobong Nkanga, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, United Kingdom.
Facing the Opponent: Fieldwork at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institut, Florence, Italy.
Artist Talk: with Otobong Nkanga, Institut für Raumexperimente, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Art Basel Salon, The Global Artworld, Focus Africa, Basel, Switzerland.
Think-Tank II: Persecuted, Mourned, Pitied, Admired/Collected and Photographed, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Art as a meeting point, with Andrea Buddensieg, Otobong Nkanga and Joanna Warsza, discussion organized by Antje Majewski, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, Germany.
Sharjah Biennial 11 panel discussion with Hoor-Al-Qasimi, Yuko Hasegawa and Otobong Nkanga, Sharjah, UAE.
Think-Tank I: The administration of people and goods, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
The Impossible Aesthetic: Situating Research in Arts and Social Sciences/Humanities, Artistic Research and Museum Collections, Lessons from the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.
2012
Performance Year Zero: A living History ‘Conversation: Knowing through Doing’ Otobong Nkanga with Catherine Wood, Part of the series The Tanks: Art in Action, London, United Kingdom.
Permeabilities, Presentation of works and workshop with participants at CEIA, 8th international event, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
When the stage hits you, workshop with the Dutch Art Institute students, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
2011
Art-iculate: A performative lecture by Otobong Nkanga, CCA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Tracks and traces of violences conferences, Lecture Performance by Otobong Nkanga, The University of Bayreuth, (BIGSAS), Germany.
Clark-Mellon Workshop: International Initiatives and Regional Collaboration, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.
6000 Collectors - Experimental Talks with Objects, Lecture by Otobong Nkanga, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Presentation of project at Outre Mesures et Programmes Radio (Maps, Timelines,Radio Programmes), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec, France.
2010
Workshop and project, Intituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency Program, Curacao, The Netherland Antilles.
Workshop Unfixed, Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht.
Memory as a photographic process, presentation at Unfixed Symposium, CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Otobong Nkanga’s works on Land and Mapping, presentation at Crossing Boundaries symposium, Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom.
Presentation of works in Whose Map Is It?, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, United Kingdom.
Artist talk at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2009
Workshop and project with the students of Haute École d’Art et de Design, Geneva, Switzerland (in collaboration with Alexandra Bachzetsis).
2008
Lecture and Workshop State of Bodies/ Suffering, Mieke van de Voort, Generale Staten and Game/Performance. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Discussion and round table at Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Studio Visits, Masters Programme, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede, The Netherlands.
2006
Seminar on African literature, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2001
Lecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, R.D. Congo.
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