Otobong Nkanga
° 1974
Born in Kano (NG), lives in Antwerp (BE).
Otobong Nkanga studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She obtained her master's degree in performance art from DasArts in Amsterdam. Since 2007, she lives and works in Antwerp. Nkanga's drawings, installations, photos, sculptures, tapestries, poems and performances explore the social and topographical relationship with our environment. Nkanga brings to light the memories and historical impact of human interventions in nature, and she studies the systems and methods associated with the mining, processing and transport of raw materials. In doing so, she pays much attention to the connection between ores, material culture and the redistribution of power and knowledge.
Media
>CV Otobong Nkanga
>View of the performance Glimmer on 15.10.2015
>View of the performance Glimmer on 15.10.2015
>This article first appeared as Monika Szewczyk, ‘Exchange and Some Change: The Imaginative Economies of Otobong Nkanga', Afterall, issue 37, Autumn/Winter 2014, pp.40–51.
>This article first appeared as Yvette Mutumba, ‘Otobong Nkanga: Nothing Is Like It Seems, Everything Is Evidence', Afterall, issue 37, Autumn/Winter 2014, pp.52–59.
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences I: Crisis, 2009.Drawing, round stickers, acrylic on paper, 29 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences II: The Overload - Projectiles - Piercing Pressure - Hostage - Wastescape - The Overflow, 2009.Drawing, stickers, acrylic on paper, § x (29 x 42 cm).
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences II: The Choice We Make, 2009.Drawing, stickers, acrylic on paper, 2 x (29 x 42 cm).
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences III: Without you Everything Falls Apart - Engaged - Body Builder – The Overload - Waiting for X - Fractured , 2010.Drawing, acrylic, sticker, paper, 29,7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Filtered Memories 1990 - 1992: Survival, 1990 - 91, F.G.C. Shagamu., 2010.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Contained Extensions, 2011-2012.Painting.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Squeeze, 2011.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Bigger Plan, 2011.Drawing, acrylic on paper, collage, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Flow Will Not Stop!, 2011.Drawing, stickers, acrylic on paper, 80 x 109.5 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Whose Crisis is This?, 2013.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Dream We Could Have, 2013.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences IV: The Mapping - The Pile - Emptied Pit - Ruin , 2013.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 4 x (29 x 42 cm).
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences IV: The Takeover, 2013.Drawing, stickers, acrylic on paper, 2 x (29 x 42 cm).
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences IV: The Dreamer, 2014.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, Social Consequences IV: Avaritia, 2014.Drawing, acrylic on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, In Pursuit of Bling, 2014.Installation, inkjet prints, lightbox, metal modulated structure, minerals, objects, texts, videos with sound, woven textile pieces, variable dimensions.
>Otobong Nkanga, Tsumeb Fragments, 2015.Installation, Variable.
>Otobong Nkanga, Wetin You Go Do!, 2015.Audio and visual equipment, lp.
>Otobong Nkanga, Backstage, 2015.Installation.
>Otobong Nkanga, Infinite Yield, 2015.Mixed Media, textile.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Weight of Scars, 2015.Other, textile.
>Otobong Nkanga, Solid Maneuvers, 2015.Sculpture, various metals, forex, acrylic, tar, salt, make-up, vermiculite, variable dimensions.
>Otobong Nkanga, From Where I Stand, 2015.Installation, textile, 11.18 x 6.23 m.
>Otobong Nkanga, O8 black stone soap, 2017.Multiple, 4 x 6 x 6 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Accumulator, 2021.Painting, acryl on paper, 64 x 50.5 cm.
>Otobong Nkanga, The Connector, 2022.Painting, acrylverf, stickers en potlood op papier, 42 x 29.7 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: ENCLOSED. 21 May 2021 - 03 October 2021.
> Exhibition: From Where I Stand: Glimmer. 15 October 2015 21:00 - 15 October 2015 21:30.
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> Exhibition: From Where I Stand: Glimmer Unfold. 28 November 2015 14:00 - 28 November 2015 18:00.
> Exhibition: From Where I Stand: Where Gist You (with Eunhye Hwang). 07 January 2016 18:00 - 07 January 2016 19:00.
> Exhibition: IN SITU: Otobong Nkanga – Bruises and Lustre. 14 October 2015 19:00 - 17 January 2016 18:00.
> Exhibition: Lipstick and Gas Masks – The City Collection Antwerp. 13 February 2021 - 18 April 2021.
> Exhibition: Museum in Motion. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Otobong Nkanga. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
> Exhibition: Salon de Peinture. 17 January 2019 - 31 March 2019.
> Exhibition: Solid Maneuvers. 17 December 2015 14:00 - 17 December 2015 18:00.
> Exhibition: The City Collection: IN/SIGHT. 16 May 2024 - 06 January 2025.
> Exhibition: The Collection. 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
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> Exhibition: This Is Us. 01 October 2023 - 18 February 2024.
> Exhibition: When Faith Moves Mountains. 17 July 2022 - 09 October 2022.
> Exhibition: Worth Fighting For. 14 November 2022 - 14 December 2022.
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> Ensemble: 2020.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2016 [Acquisitions 2016].
> Ensemble: Audiodescriptie - De Collectie.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Space of World Making .
> Ensemble: The City Collection / De Stadscollectie / La collection municipale.
> Ensemble: Worth Fighting For.