Kapwani Kiwanga - Flowers for Africa
Kapwani Kiwanga
Undoing Earthwriting
Group exhibition curated by Ella den Elzen
OPTICA, Montreal
Jan 20 – Mar 23, 2024

Undoing Earthwriting attends to the themes of plants and land, through an Afro-diasporic lens, specifically because of the charged history that Black subjectivity has with these materials. To write upon the earth is to extract, to dispossess, to inscribe violence onto land’s surface through the displacement of soil, rocks, plants, and people.1 Botanic and geologic materials have been cultivated and extracted on a massive scale to create the apparatuses of the plantation and the mine, co-constituted with the disciplining of forced or exploitative human labour as racial capitalism.2 Because of the ways in which soil and plants are imbued with these histories, while simultaneously, at times, have resisted colonial forms of knowing or capturing, the exhibition looks to position these materials, alongside blackness, as a set of material vectors that create ruptures in geographies in space and time.

Kapwani Kiwanga
Seeds: Containers of a World to Come
Group exhibition curated by Meredith Malone & Svea Braeunert
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint-Louis
Feb 21 – Jul 28, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes
Group exhibition curated by Mistura Allison
Hangar Center for Artistic Research, Lisbon
Nov 22, 2024 – Jan 11, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
BIO – The Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Double Agent
Group exhibition curated by Alexandra Midal
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana
Nov 21, 2024 – Apr 6, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy
Group exhibition curated by Yuko Hasegawa
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Nov 2, 2024 – Mar 16, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Flowers Forever. Flowers in art and culture
Group exhibition curated by Kathrin Baumstark
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
Oct 12, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy
Group exhibition curated by Key Jo Lee
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco
Oct 2, 2024 – Mar 2, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Dig Where You Stand — From Coast to Coast
Group exhibition curated by Delali Ayivi
Foundation Zinsou, Cotonou and Ouida & Les Ateliers Coffi Galerie, Cotonou, Republic of Benin, West Africa
Sep 27 – Dec 27, 2024
Frieze London 2024
With works by Annabel Daou, Elisa Giardina Papa, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Grit Richter, Anna Steinert & Angelika J. Trojnarski
Booth: D22
The Regent's Park
Oct 9 – 13, 2024