Kapwani Kiwanga
Kapwani Kiwanga
Sunlight by Fireside: The Ash Annals
Solo exhibition curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre and Kristy Trinier
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
Jun 23 – Sep 8, 2019

“The complex issues of current and historical colonization processes are at the core of Kapwani Kiwanga’s artistic practice. Kiwanga, who studied anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University, continues this querying of decolonial gestures with her exhibition Sunlight by Fireside: The Ash Annals.

As part of Sunlight by Fireside: The Ash Annals, Kiwanga chose to create opportunities for dialogue and sharing, inviting viewers to engage with her installation by handling the works in the gallery. By digging a hole on the grounds of the SAAG and moving the displaced soil into the gallery, Kiwanga asks visitors to repatriate the dirt, one bucket at a time.
The ultimate aim of Kiwanga’s work is to help people reflect on the colonial experience as a whole, to explore the gesture of giving and returning in contrast to the dominant learned gesture of taking and seizing. Through the use of materials such as soil, ceramics, cloth, and light and shade, the artist addresses economic and social issues in relation to colonial acts of extraction and the exploitation of natural resources.”
Kapwani Kiwanga
Symposium festival: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
Co-curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos in collaboration with Schering Stiftung
E-WERK Luckenwalde
May 31, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Winner of the Joan Miró Prize 2025
Fundació Joan Miró
May 08, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Pollen
Group exhibition curated by Cédric Fauq, Anne Cadenet, Alice Cavender, Stéphanie Cottin, Milena Páez-Barbat
CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
Mar 28, 2025 – Jan 1, 2027
Kapwani Kiwanga
The Gorgeous Nothings
Group exhibition curated by Allegra Pesenti
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Mar 15 – Oct 25, 2025