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Otobong Nkanga is a visual Artist and live performer born in Kano, Nigeria. She currently lives and works in Paris and Antwerp. Nkanga began her art studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria and continued at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. She was at the residency program at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2008 she obtained her Masters in the Performing Arts at Dasarts, Amsterdam. The Netherlands.
She has also been awarded with the 2015 Yanghyun Prize and the 2017 Belgian Art Prize.
She has also been awarded with the 2015 Yanghyun Prize and the 2017 Belgian Art Prize.
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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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She has exhibited widely internationally. Recent shows include: Animism, Extra City Kunsthal and MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium, [2010]. Diagonal Views, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands, [2009]. Re/presentaciones: ellas, Casa Africa, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, [2008]. Flow, Studio Museum Harlem, New York [2008]. Africa remix, Toured Paris, Düsseldorf, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Stockholm; Snap judgments: New Positions in African Contemporary Photography, toured New York, Miami, Mexico, Canada and the Netherlands; and over the course of the last five years, she participated in the Sharjah, Taipei, Dakar, São Paulo and Havanna Biennials, Canary Islands. Upcoming shows include: I Am A Native Foreigner at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Manipulate the World at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2017) and a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2018).