Kapwani Kiwanga
Solo exhibition curated by Stefanie Gschwend
PASQUART - Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel
Feb 02 - Apr 05, 2020

“Kapwani Kiwanga’s (*1978, CA / FR) working method is practice-based, initiated by marginalised or forgotten stories and historical events, which are articulated formally in her sculptures, installations, photographs and videos. The artist contrasts the research with the expressive materiality of her work, with which she refers to socio-political phenomena, syncretism or the global effects of power structures. She questions how the writing of history, authoritarian systems and the generation of knowledge function and undermines the offical understanding of truth by expanding history with popular belief and spirituality. The alternative reading of past and present includes a multiplicity of perspectives, in which the inveterate social and political moments are inherent. Kiwanga consciously mixes truth and fiction in order to unhinge hegemonic narratives and create spaces in which discourses on the margins can thrive.

In another strand of narration Kiwanga is concerned with the power dynamics of architecture and public buildings, including disciplinary buildings which, with her design elements create a decidedly physical and psychological quality of the built environment in question. The body is subjected there to a process of seeing and being seen and has to follow pre-determined lines of movement and spatial structures.”

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