»Zum Einstieg hier ein Zitat. Sant sita vellest optas volorenat quibus alutiam.«
— Kapwani Kiwanga
»Zum Einstieg hier ein Zitat. Sant sita vellest optas volorenat quibus alutiam.«
— Kapwani Kiwanga
Kapwani Kiwanga’s work often manifests as installations, sound, video, and performance. She intentionally confuses truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives and create spaces in which marginal discourse can flourish. As a trained anthropologist and social scientist, she occupies the role of a researcher in her projects.
Her methodology includes fashioning systems and establishing protocols as in scientific experimentation to delineate lenses through which one can observe culture and it’s characteristic propensity toward mutation.
Born in Hamilton, Canada
Lives and works in Paris
2009
Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France
2005–2007
Research program at L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris
1998–2002
Study of anthropology and religions at Université McGill, Montréal
2023
Guggenheim Fellowship
Resident at Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Italy
2022
Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard University
Winner of the Zurich Art Prize
2020
Winner of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2020
2019
Winner of Inaugural Étant Donnés Prize
Winner of Golden Cube – 36. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
2018
Winner of 2018 Sobey Art Award
Short-listed for 2018 Sobey Art Award
Frieze Artist Award, New York
Artpace residency San Antonio, Texas
2017
Prix Meurice 2017, Paris
Finis terrae Residency Sémaphore du Créac’h, Ouessant
2015
Research grant for the project Afrotunnel
Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap)
2012
Louis Lumière grant: development grant for the documentary Maji Maji
Institut Français
2011
Writing grant for the documentary Maji Maji
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)
2009
Special jury mention for the film Bon Voyage
CinéRail International Festival, Paris
2008
Project grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Production grant, Paris municipality
2006
Best Documentary prize for Bon Voyage
Filmets international short film festival, Badalona
2004
Two nominations for Rooted: Best first film and Best new director, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
Professional development grant, Scottish Arts Council
2024
Screening
Pavillon de verre, Louvre-Lens
The Worlds We Tell: Nammu, Ki and An
Louvre-Lens Park
Canada Pavilion
60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The Length of the Horizon
Copenhagen Contemporary
2023
KAPWANI KIWANGA: WHERE SALT AND FRESHWATER MEET AND CROOKED TREES FILTER THE SUN
Serralves Museum, Porto
Rootwork
Bozar, Brussels
Kapwani Kiwanga: REMEDIATION
Remai Modern, Saskatoon
The Length of the Horizon
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Kapwani Kiwanga
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Kapwani Kiwanga
CAPC, Bordeaux Frankreich
Raw
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Remediation
MOCA, Toronto
On Growth
High Line, New York
2022
Off-Grid
New Museum, New York
Kapwani Kiwanga. Zurich Art Prize
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
2021
The sand recalls the moon’s shadow
Moody Center for the Arts Rice University, Houston
Cache
Goodman Gallery, London
Cima-cima
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Deposits
State of Concept, Athens
Potomitans
Art Basel – Feature, Basel
2020
Plot
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Nations
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
Kapwani Kiwanga, new work
FKA Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Kapwani Kiwanga
Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel
2019
Under the cover of darkness
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Sunlight by Fireside: The Ash Annals
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Safe passage
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambrigde, Massachusetts
Proximity
1-54 London, London
2018
ENCLOSURE
LE PARVIS – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ibos
Surface Tensions
Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris
Sunlight by Fireplace
Museé d’art de Joliette, Joliette
Shady
Frieze Artist Award, Frieze Art Fair, New York
ring the bells that still can ring…there is a crack in everything
Artpace, San Antonio
Soft Measures
Tramway | Glasgow International 2018
A wall is just a wall (and nothing more at all)
Esker Foundation, Calgary
Strata
CLARK, Centre d’art et de diffusion, Montreal
Clearing
Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
2017
The Sun Never Sets
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Kapwani Kiwanga: Flowers for Africa
Or Gallery, Vancouver
Linear
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Afrogalactica
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
A wall is just a wall
Power Plant, Toronto
The sum and its parts
Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
2016
Armory Show
New York, Commissioned artist 2016
Ujamaa
La Ferme du Buisson
Noisiel
Rumours Maji was a lie
Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
Subduction Zones
Le Granit
, Belfort
2015
Mediated Measures
Viafarini, Milan
Kijeketile Suite
South London Gallery, London
A Memory Palace
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Trace Evidence
École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Valence
Continental Shift
Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris
2014
Maji Maji
Jeu de Paume, Paris
Falible Witnesses
Galerie Karima Celestin, Marseille
2019
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Black.Art.Empowerment: I see, I speak, I am movement, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montreal
2018
Afrogalactica III: The deep space scrolls
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
EMPAC, Troy, New York
Afrogalactica III: Deep Space Scrolls
Bienal de São Paulo
Afrogalactica II: The Black Star Chronicles
TRANSFORM! festival, Marseille
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
Afrogalactica II: The Black Star Chronicles
Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève – Médiathèque, Geneva
Afrogalactica III: The deep space scrolls
Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève – Médiathèque, Geneva
Afrogalactica II: The Black Star Chronicles
Gaîté lyrique, Paris
2017
A Conservator’s Tale
La Ferme de Buisson, Noisiel, France
Afrogalactica II: The Black Stars Chronicles
MOMENTUM 9, Oslo
Afrogalactica II: The Black Stars Chronicles
KIOSK and KASK School of Arts
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
La Colonie, Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève – Médiathèque, Genève
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Konsthall C, Farsta
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Images Festival, Toronto
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Documenta 14, Athen
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Momentum Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sweden
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2016
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Cycle Music and Art Festival
Kópavogur
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
2015
A Memory Palace
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
A Conservator’s tale
Bétonsalon, Paris
To Speak of Things You Have
Not Seen
South London Gallery, London
Collecting the invisible
Laboratoire d’Aubervilliers
The deep space scrolls
African Futures, Goethe Institut, Johannesburg
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Lille Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Maison Rouge, Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
FRAC, Champagne-Ardenne
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Le Phénix, National theatre of Valenciennes
The Black Star Chronicles
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Kunstcentrum Gent
2014
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Exodus International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Lubijana
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Tate Modern, London
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Art 14, London
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Tate in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Maji Maji: Fragments of a screenplay
Stadtmuseum, Karlsruhe
The Deep Space Scrolls
Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin
The Deep Space Scrolls
Home Cinema, Lausanne
The Deep Space Scrolls
Fondation Ricard, Paris
The Black Star Chronicles
Fondation Ricard, Paris
The Black Star Chronicles
FRAC Loraine, Metz
The Black Star Chronicles
Belluard Bollwerk international, Fribourg
A Spell to Bound the Limitless
Grand Palais, Paris
Telepathic Relay
Hebel am Ufer, Berlin
Museum of the Blind
Ethnographic Museum, Berlin
A Conservator’s Tale
Jeu de Paume, Paris
2013
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Fondation Ricard, Nice
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
2012
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Arts Catalyst, London
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Fondation Ricard, Paris
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
La Villa Arson, Nice
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Contrechamp, Nantes
Afrogalactica: A brief history of the future
Grand Palais, Paris
2024
BIO – The Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Double Agent
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Mode d’emploi
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
Dear Mazie
ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia
Flowers Forever. Flowers in art and culture
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
Dig Where You Stand
Multiple locations in the Republic of Benin
Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde et Toni Morrison
CRÉDAC, Ivry sur Seine Paris
Future Is Now : 50 ans / 50 artistes
Le Parvis, Ibos
Tia più voci
Villa Médicis, Rome
Expodemic
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
The Insubric Line
Kunst Meran, Merano
Stories Written
Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich, Zürich
UTOPIA. Keep on Moving
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Les forces du sommeil. Cohabitations des vivants
Manif d’art 11 – La biennale de Québec
Sortir le travail de sa nuit
CCC OD Tour
Undoing Earthwriting
OPTICA, Montreal
The View
The Loft, Servais Family Collection exhibition space, Brussels
2023
Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
The Other. Re-Imagine the Future
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02, Graz
All That We Have in Common
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Between the Lines
Galerie Tanja Wagner
Fabric of Community
Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
The World’s Library Conversation Piece | Part IX
Fondazione Memmo, Rome
Fancy ! Pagnes africains, imprimer l’histoire
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Choreographies of the impossible
35 Bienal de São Paulo , São Paulo
SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa
Bard Graduate Center, New York
Histoire des Pierres
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome
Soundshapes – In Between Frequencies
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Fields of Forces
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Hort(us Concl)usus – Eine poetische Momentaufnahme am Abgrund
Kunstverein Meißen, Meissen
Chasm
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
The Butterfly Affect
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Rozdział 1: geografie współzależności / Chapter 1: geographies of interdependence
Goyki 3 Art Inkubator , Sopot
I’ve got a feeling
Musée des Beaux – Arts, Angers
The Power of My Hands
Museu Nacional de História Natural, Luanda
FLOWERS FOREVER
Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny
Public Matters
Contemporary Art in the Belvedere Garden, Vienna
Float
Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle
To See Oneself at a Distance
MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA
Un art en apesanteur
Galerie – Cité internationale des arts , Paris
Ecologies of Elsewhere
The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati
FLOWERS FOREVER
Kunsthalle der Hypo, Munich
Eye Evil. The parallel history of optics and ballistics
Tabakalera, San Sebastian
De leur temps (7) – Un regard sur les collections privées françaises
Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque
Auf den Spuren der Familie Diek – Geschichten Schwarzer Menschen in Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Museen Tempelhof – Schöneberg, Berlin
Vidéothèque
Galerie Tanja Wagner
2022
Curated By 2022 – Peripheral Sun
Vin Vin Gallery, Vienna
The Milk of Dreams
59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Farbe ist Programm
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Belonging
Hunt Museum, Limerick
À mains nues
MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
fragilités
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Cosmogonies II. Devenir fleur
MAMAC, Nice
The Power of My Hands
SOMETHING, Abidjan
The little bird must be caught
Latvian Centra for Contemporary Art – Survival Kit 13, Riga
Transmissions
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
Customs
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town
Jaimes
Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Power Flower
Le 109, Nice
This We Believe
21c Museum Hotel, Durham
Incurables
Galerie Artemisia de l’ENS, Lyon
Pionnières
Zoo galerie, Nantes
Moving a Mountain in Six Acts
Trafó, Budapest
Belonging
Hunt Museum, Limerick
Did you ever think there would come a time?
Norval Foundation, Cape Town
Le fil du temps
Manifesta, Lyon
Goodman Gallery x Marianne Boesky Gallery: Fragile Crossings
Goodman Gallery, London
Ecce Homo
Hôtel Puyricard d’Agar, Cavaillon
Marianne Boesky Gallery x Goodman Gallery: Fragile Crossings
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
18 May 2022
3 + 1 Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Earth as a Bodily Matter
Galerie Poggi, Paris
2021
Works on Paper
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Sarah Maldoror: cinéma tri continental
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
13th Kaunas Biennial
Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas City
Unseeable
Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Monitor: Surveillance, Data, and the New Panoptic
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art.
Moscow. Berlin. Paris.
New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Monts Analogues
Fra Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Flowers in Art
Arken, Ishøj
ROHKUNSTBAU XXVI – I am Nature_On Vulnerability. Survival in a society at risk
Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose
Un.e air.e de famille
Musée d’art et d’histoire Paul Eduard
Portals
NEON & the Hellenic Parliament, Athens
The Gate
Imagine the city, Hamburg
Hiding in Plain Sight
Pace Gallery, New York
ROYGBIV
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Congoville
Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen
The Secret Life of Plants
Casa da Cerca – Centro de Arte Contemporânea
Napoléon? Encore!
Musée de l’Armée – Hôtel national des Invalides, Paris
Liminal Identities in the Global South
JCAF – Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation
Prélude
Fondation LUMA, Arles
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art.
Moscow. Berlin. Paris.
Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin
A I S T I T / coming to our senses
Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne
Ways of Seeing Abstraction – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection
Palais Populaire, Berlin
UFA – L’Université des futurs Africains
Lieu Unique
Angespannte Zustände – Tense condition
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Le Déracinement
Z33 Huis voor Actuele Kunst, Design en Architectuur, Hasselt
Structures of Radical Will
Fondation CAB, Brussels
An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance
Remai Modern, Saskatoon
This is Not Africa – You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
The Power of My Hand
MAMVP – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
So wie wir sind 3.0
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
2020
HOW TO HUMAN
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Soft Architectures
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Woven Songs
Luleå Art BIennial, Luleå
1 Million Roses for Angela Davis
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
La vie des Tables
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur- Seine
Nine Lives
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Spring of 2020
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Women in Photography – Lay of the Land
Informality, Henley on Thames
Things Entangling
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Frank Walter: A retrospective
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
La vie des tables
Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project
outdoor art commission, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver
Constelaciones
Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires
HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech
So wie wir sind 2.0
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Chronique d’une collection
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts de France, Dunkerque
Seismic Movements
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhak
Made of Honey, Gold, and Marigold
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
Cinco itinerarios y un punto de vista
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
La Peur au Ventre
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
Shift Key
MOCA, Toronto
Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart as a guest in Kunsthaus Baselland
Kunsthaus Baselland
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University/Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford
Did you ever think there could come a time?
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
L’arc-en-ciel de la gravité
Galerie Poggi, Paris
RESTONS UNIS : Sous le soleil exactement
Perrotin, Paris
La Peur au Ventre
Galerie Poggi, Paris
2019
Leave No Stone Unturned
Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat
Monitoring
36. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
Open your eyes
Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester
Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca, Bordeaux
Trésors de l’islam en Afrique. De Tombouctou à Zanzibar
Musée Mohammed VI d’art moderne et contemporain, Rabat
Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto
The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn
The Contemporary, Austin
MOMENTA 2019 | The Life of Things
MOMENTA Biennale De L’Image, Montreal
Le fil d’alerte, Prix Ricard 2019
Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris
Material Tells
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens & at Centennial Square, Oakville
Some of Us – an overview on the French Art Scene – NordArt 2019
Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
Undefined Territories: Reflections on Colonial Legacies
MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Mosaïque des Lexiques #4: Traduire mais…
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers
Demonstrationsräume
Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Is This Tomorrow?
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Selection of works from the collection
Arsenal – Contemporary Art Contemporain, Montreal
Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams
Serpentine Galleries , London
De leur temps (6) Si une accumulation, reflète une vie…
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Oh les femmes!
Cité scolaire – Collège Joseph d’Arbaud & Lycée Stéphane Hessel, Vaison-la-Romaine
Icons and Mythologies: The Desire of Changes
Fotograf Festival, Prague
Soft Architectures
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Le Troisième Paradis – Nuit Blanche 2019
Cité des sciences et de I’industrie, Paris
Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts
Mead Art Museum, Amherst
Traits libres, Présentation des acquisition récentes du Frac PACA
Montévidéo, Marseille
I’ve grown roses in this garden of mine
Goodman Gallery, London
Acts of Reading
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
A Golden Spike
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2018
De fils ou de fibres
Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac
Soft Power
Transpalette – Centre d’art contemporain, Bourges
Extra states: Nations in Liquidation
Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
The Artist Is Present
Yuz Museum Shanghai
The Boarder is a State of Mind
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
Sobey Art Award
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Zeitspuren – The Power of Now
Pasquart Kunsthaus – Centre d’Art, Biel
Absolu Incertain
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the American Justice System
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Do You See What I Hear?
Dazibao, Montreal
Chapter 3: Variations on Time
ACUD Galerie, Berlin
Poussières d’etoiles
Laiterie du Domaine des Etangs, Massignac
Chapter Thirteen
The Landis Museum, Londonderry | Glasgow International 2018, Glasgow
The Blue Hour
The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Stories for Almost Everyone
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Soft South / Between Land and Sea: I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I know what you mean.
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2017
Ressources Humaines
Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz
Momentum
Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
House of Commons
Portikus, Frankfurt
Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent
Power Plant Gallery, Durham
Tous, des sangs-mêlés
Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine
Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico
Fórum de Antropologia e Cinema, Belo Horizonte
SANS TAMBOUR NI TROMPETTE – Cents ans de guerres [Chap.4]
LE PARVIS – Centre d’art contemporain
Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund
Lucy’s Iris
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno – CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Pattern
Maison des arts de Laval, Quebec
Nouveau parcours et nouvelle présentation des collections contemporaines
Centre Pompidou, Paris
LES GRANDS VOYAGEURS
diagonale, Montreal
Faits Alternatifs
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
botánica
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
In Eyedenia, A City of the Future
Yermilov Center, Kharkiv
Flowers are Documents – Arrangement I & II
ar/ge kunst, Kunstverein di Bolzano
What is one to do with such a clairvoyant image?
Trinity Square Video, Toronto
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who Is In Power
KIOSK and KASK School of Arts, Gent
LEARNING FROM BIG MISTAKES
Galerie Tanja Wagner, New York
Horses on Rollerblades
Konsthall C, Hökarängen
Almost There
Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Unravelings
Meter Art Space, Copenhagen
Témoin
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
(Un)mediated Nature
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Memories of the Future
Tate, Liverpool
2016
Uriel Orlow: Mafavuke’s Trial and Other Plant Stories
The Showroom, London
Between One Time and Another
Temporary Gallery, Köln
Social Fabric: African Textiles Today
Galerie William Morris, London
Parlons-en. Œuvres de la collection
Musée départemental d’art contemporain, Rochechouart
Still (the) Barbarians
EVA International Biennale, Limerick
Botany under the Influence
ApexArt, New York
Change of Heart
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Cycle Festival, Kopavagur
Run Run Run
Villa Arson, Nice
Hors Sol
FRAC Poitou-Chartenes, Angoulême
Lucy’s Iris
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León
2015
The big Other
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi
What we call love
IMMA Dublin
Atopolis
Manège de Sury, Mons
A Century of Centuries
SALT Galata, Istanbul
Post African Futures
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Mythophoeia
Tiwani Contemporary, London
Kontrollmodus Feedback
Halle 14, Leipzig
Edge of Silence
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Does not Equal
W139, Amsterdam
La vérité des apparences – histoires de symboles, de motifs et de langage
La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand
La vérité des apparences – histoires de symboles, de motifs et de langage
Galerie de Roussan, Paris
Cosmogonies
Galerie Arnaud Lebfevre, Paris
2014
Outside
The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
Appropriations
Ethnographic Museum, Berlin
Oracular Vernacular
MAMO, Marseille
Matérialisme Histérique
Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
2013
Tamis et le sable
Maison Populaire, Montreuil
Cyclicités
Galerie Le Manège, Dakar
ChinAfrique
Galerie du Buisson, Paris
Backstory: Creative Ruminations
Paris College of Art
2012
Synchronicity II
Tiwani Contemporary, London
Houille Blanche, Terre Froide
Treignac Project, Treignac
2011
Synchronicity
Photoquai et Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
Kaleidoscope Arena
4th Road to Contemporary Art, Rome
Carte Blanche AfricAmerica
Anis Gras, Arcueil
Filmer la Musique
Point Ephémère, Paris
2009
Panorama 11
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Alt-W: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture
Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2008
Panorama 9-10
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Double Take
Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul
2007
In the Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2006
DepART
Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur Tour et Retour
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2005
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Almería
Ricochet
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Kapwani Kiwanga: Structural Adjustments, The Power Plant, Toronto 2018
Maji Maji. Livre d’artiste, Jeu de Paume (Ed.), Paris 2014
THE GAGARIN BOX – 2000-2016: Analog Shuffle, Kapwani Kiwanga, Gagarin, Antwerp 2017
PRŌTOCOLLUM: Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary, Safia Dickersbach, Dickersbach Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016
Le Chercheur et ses doubles, Sandra Delacourt, Katia Schneller, Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Paris 2016
WTNOTN – What’s The Name of This Nation, Le Cube, Rabat 2015
What We Call Love. From Surrealism to now, Christine Macel, Rachael Thomas (Eds.), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2015
All Aliens, Catalogue d’exposition Cosmogonies, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris 2015
Le Tamis et le sable, Maison populaire, Montreuil 2013
Panorama 11, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing 2009
Panorama 9-10, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing 2008
Double Take, La Seine en Corée, La Corée en Scène, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris 2007
Kuala Lumpur, tour et retour, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris 2006
In the Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2006
Albiac: Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Almería 2006
Sculptures confront the brutal history of radicalized surveillance in the US, by Hyperallergic, March 2019
At ‚MIT‘, Minimalism meets Meaning, Boston Globe, March 2019
Kapwani Kiwanga Wins 2018 Sobey Art Award, by Artforum, November 2018
Deconstructing in light and colour: Kapwani Kiwanga in the 2018 Sobey Art Award by National Gallery of Canada, September 2018
À l’heure de l’afrocyberféminisme by Maxime Delcourt, by Video Art, June 2018
Alien Nation by Ana Teixeira Pinto, by Mousse Magazine, June 2018
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism, The Art Newspaper, May 2018
Kapwani Kiwanga: shades of Mondrian at Frieze, Financial Times, May 2018
On the Hunt for Artistic Gems at Frieze, New York Times, May 2018
Frieze New York: how this year’s art fair got political, The Guardian, May 20M1a8y 3, 2018
What To See at Frieze New York, L’Officiel, May 2018
Those Cracks Which Allow Things to Grow out of Them Are Interesting to Me, Frieze, May 2018
Throwing Shade, Sleek, March 2018
Kapwani Kiwanga Brings ’Shade’ to Frieze New York, Frieze, February 2018
Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Inaugural Frieze Artist Award, Artforum, February 2018
Kapwani Kiwanga Named Winner of the Frieze Artist Award, artnews, February 2018
Inside the culturally loaded works of Kapwani Kiwanga, Interview Magazine, December 2017
Kapwani Kiwanga, Artforum International Magazine, May 2017
Kapwani Kiwanga, Frieze, April 2017
Two Erie Installations, From One Buzzy Artist, New York Times, March 2016
Up and Coming: Armory Artist Kapwani Kiwanga, Artsy, February 2016
Commissioned Artist Named for Armory Show, The New York Times, October 2015
“I am no longer a purist…” Kapwani Kiwanga in conversation with Magnus Rosengarten, Contemporary And – Platform for International Art from African Perspectives, March 2015
Review: Kapwani Kiwanga, Maji Maji at Jeu de Paume, Paris by Vanessa Morisset, ESSE arts + opinions 2014
Maji-Maji de Kapwani Kiwanga. La relecture intime d’un chapitre de la lutte anticoloniale en Tanzanie by Erika Nimis, Africultures, July 28, 2014
Tour d’horizon des nouvelles expositions du Jeu de Paume: Oscar Muñoz, Kati Horna et Kapwani Kiwanga by Capucine Michelet, Actuphoto, June 3, 2014
Cyclicités by Cathryn Drake, ArtForum, Summer 2013
Kapwani Kiwanga: une artiste stellaire by Carole Diop, Afrikadaa, June 2013
A Quite Place in the Universe by Raphael Brunel, Volume Magazine №5, October 2012 – April 2013
Kapwani Kiwanga: Space is the Place by Caroline Hancock, Savvy Journal №4, Winter 2012
Kapwani Kiwanga: Sun Ra dans l’Espace, Afrofuturisme, et Afrogalactica by Juliette Soulez, Blouartinfo, December 27, 2012
Kapwani Kiwanga: Space is the Place by Caroline Hancock, Zerodeux Magazine №62, Summer 2012
We’re Spartacus! by Mitch Miller, Rough Cuts, August – September 2006
Profile: Kapwani Kiwanga, Scottish Arts Council, March 2005
City’s French film reigns in Spain, The Edinburgh News, November 14, 2005
Visual Arts Review, Ricochet Stills by Anne-Marie Watson, Edinburgh Issue 535, November 2005
Paris: Bon Voyage, Film Review by Amber Wilkinson, Eye For Film, October 3, 2004
Whatever happened to saving things because they are beautiful? by Ian Bell, The Herald, July 28, 2004