Otobong Nkanga

Otobong Nkanga
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Country wey e be citizenNigeria Edit
Ein date of birth13 September 1974 Edit
Place dem born amKano Edit
Educate forObafemi Awolowo University, Beaux-Arts de Paris Edit
ResidenceAntwerp Edit
Work locationAmsterdam Edit
Floruit2021, 2016, 2014 Edit
Participant insyddocumenta 14 Edit
Award e receiveYanghyun Prize, Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Edit
Dema official websitehttp://www.otobongnkanga.com/, https://www.otobong-nkanga.com/ Edit
Copyright status as creatorworks protected by copyrights Edit
Personal pronounL484 Edit

Otobong Nkanga (born 1974) be Nigerian-born visual artist, tapestry maker den performance artist, wey dey Antwerp, Belgium. Insyd 2015, she win de Yanghyun Prize.[1][2]

Insyd ein work she dey explore de social den topographical changes of ein environment, she dey observe demma inherent complexities wey she dey bab how resources such as soil den earth, den demma potential values, be subject give regional den cultural analysis. Dem feature ein work for chaw institutions wey dey include de Tate Modern de KW Institute (Berlin), de Stedelijk Museum den de biennale of Sharjah.[3] She sana take part insyd de 20th Biennale of Sydney.[4]

Ein Early life den education

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Dem born Otobong Nkanga for Kano, Nigeria, insyd 1974 wey she spend chaw of ein childhood for Lagos.[5] Ein interest insyd art den environment develop from ein childhood as she go collect minerals den draw images plus mica for de pavements of Lagos top. Na ein mummie be polytechnic teacher. Ein poppie die as na she be seven years. Ein mummy then for provide give Nkanga den ein three siblings.[6] For ein teenage years insyd, ein family relocate go Paris, France, secof ein mummie ein work.[7] Nkanga study art for Obafemi Awolowo University wey dey Ile-Ife wey she continue ein studies for Ecole des Beaux-Arts wey dey Paris.[7] Ein mummie die for car accident insyd just as she start ein university studies.[6] She sana get ein master's degree insyd Performing Arts for Dasarts, Amsterdam, wey dey Netherlands insyd 2008.[8] She currently dey stay den work for Antwerp, Belgium.[9]

Ein Work den career

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Ein Themes den materials

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Throughout ein work, Nkanga explore themes of neocolonialism, ecological violence, den environmental protection. For example, The Weight of Scars she dey depict de scars of mineral extraction.[10] Nkanga ein first US survey exhibition, To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again, dey send cautionary message about de world wey get insatiable hunger for material resources den say ego do anything den obtain dem.[11] In Pursuit of Bling dey relay de same message by say ego draw attention to extractivism den de world ein desire say ego obtain rare minerals den metals.[12] Insyd dese ways, sam site specificity dey for ein work, as she dey state: "My work be interconnect plus de places live for. Wat dey happen for one dey affect anoda. Dis be true for nature too."[13]

Ein Career

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Ein first personal exhibition, Classicism & Beyond, happen insyd 2002 for non-profit organization, Project Row Houses wey dey Houston. Insyd 2007 go 2008, in response to de work Baggage (1972 – 2007/2008) by American artist Allan Kaprow,[14] Nkanga design sam performance for de Kunsthalle Bern.[15] De initial work wey na edey base for issues of movement of goods from one point of de planet go anoda, Nkanga dey introduce post-colonial dimension. As evidence, de artist for sam interview insyd,[16] de concepts of identity, cultural specificities sana dey de centre of ein artistic gesture of re-appropriation.

Insyd 2008, de project Contained measures of Land use soil both as sam symbol of de territory den competition den conflict. Year later, for ein residence at Pointe-Noire, wey dey Congo, she collect eight different colours of Earth. Portuguese den de French wey colonize Pointe-Noire. Art critic Philippe Pirotte rep say Nkanga cam say she go create sam kind of vehicle for de presentation den de transportation wey no dey define de use value for sam era wey everybro be obsessed plus de transformation of natural tools resources wey serve humanity.[17]

Ein project, Contained Measures of Tangible Memories wey start insyd 2010, from ein first trip go Morocco, she explore de practices of dyeing. She essentially transform objects insyd circulation go objects d'art.[15]

Ein Oda activities

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Na Nkanga be part of de jury wey select Gaëlle Choisne as winner of de Marcel Duchamp Prize insyd 2024.[18]

Ein Exhibitions

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  • 2010: Taste of a Stone. Ikǫ, Charlottenborg Copenhagen
  • 2012: Contained Measures of Shifting States. Tate Modern[19]
  • 2015: Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
  • 2016: De Encounter That Took a Part of Me. Nottingham Contemporary[20]
  • 2017: documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
  • 2018: To Dig A Hole That Collapses Again, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[21][22]
  • 2019: From Where I Stand, Tate St. Ives[23]
  • 2020: There's No Such Thing as Solid Ground, Gropius Bau[24]
  • 2021: Of Cords Curling Into Mountains, Castello di Rivoli[25]
  • 2022: Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded, Sint-Janshospitaal Brugge[26]
  • 2024: Cadence, MOMA New York

References

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  1. ↑ Woo-young, Lee (12 November 2015). "Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga wins Yanghyun art prize". The Korea Herald (in English). Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  2. ↑ Okakwu, Evelyn (13 November 2015). "Nigerian artist emerges first African winner of Korean award". Premium Times. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga". Contemporary And (in French). Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "20th Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks". The Guardian. 14 January 2016. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  5. ↑ Clarke, Chris (February 2018). "Otobong Nkanga: The Breath from Fertile Grounds". Art Monthly (413): 35. ProQuest 2043673657.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gipson, Ferren (2022). Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art (in English). London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-6465-6. OCLC 1329421960.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Pahl, Katrin (2021). "Improbable Intimacy: Otobong Nkanga's Grafts and Aggregates". Theory & Event. 24 (1): 240–267. doi:10.1353/tae.2021.0009. ISSN 1092-311X. S2CID 234243538.
  8. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga". In Situ - fabienne leclerc (in English). Archived from the original on 30 May 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga | Visual Artist". Otobong Nkanga (in English). Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  10. ↑ Samudzi, Zoé (January–February 2021). "The Paradox of Plenty". Art in America. 109 (1): 18–20. Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  11. ↑ DeLand, Lauren (October 2018). "Otobong Nkanga". Art in America. 106 (9): 118–119. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  12. ↑ Davis, Heather (1 July 2019). "Blue, Bling: On Extractivism". Afterall (in English). Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  13. ↑ Bailey, Stephanie (1 June 2018). "Otobong Nkanga". Ocula.com (in English). Archived from the original on 25 May 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  14. ↑ Meyer-Hermann, Eva; Perchuk, Andrew; Rosenthal, Stephanie, eds. (2008). Allan Kaprow: Art as Life (in English). Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. p. 225. ISBN 9780892368907. OCLC 157022738.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Szewczyk, Monika (2014). "Exchange and Some Change: The Imaginative Economies of Otobong Nkanga". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry (37): 42. doi:10.1086/679375. ISSN 1465-4253. JSTOR 10.1086/679375.
  16. ↑ Elderton, Louisa (October 2014). "Interview with Otobong Nkanga". The White Review. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  17. ↑ Bobin, Virginie (2007). "Participation: A Legacy of Allan Kaprow, P. Pirotte". An Invention of Allan Kaprow for the Present Moment (in English). Bern: Kunsthalle Bern. pp. 9–17. ISBN 978-3857801501. OCLC 646305186.
  18. ↑ Le jury de la 24ème édition du Prix Marcel Duchamp Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (ADIAF), press release of 14 October 2024.
  19. ↑ Bosah, Chukwuemeka (2017). The Art of Nigerian Women (in English). Okediji, Moyosore B. (Moyosore Benjamin). New Albany, Ohio: Ben Bosah Books. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-9969084-5-0. OCLC 965603634.
  20. ↑ "The Encounter That Took a Part of Me | Otobong Nkanga". Gallery Viewer (in English). 2016. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  21. ↑ Foumberg, Jason (2 August 2018). "Otobong Nkanga's To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again". BOMB Magazine (in English). Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  22. ↑ Whitehead, Anna Martine (26 March 2018). "Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again". Frieze (in English). Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  23. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga". Tate (in British English). 2019. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  24. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga: There's No Such Thing as Solid Ground". Berliner Festspiele. 2020. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023.
  25. ↑ "Otobong Nkanga. Of Cords Curling around Mountains". Castello di Rivoli (in English). 2021. Archived from the original on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  26. ↑ "Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded. Otobong Nkanga". Musea Brugge (in English). 2022. Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
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