Expositions personnelles
2025
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, FR
Nasher Prize Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, USA
2024
Cadence, site-specific commission, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
We Come from Fire and Return to Fire, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2023
Otobong Nkanga. Craving for Southern Light. IVAM,Valencia, ES
Gently Basking in Debris, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, US
2022
Togethering, featuring Oroma Elewa, Bill Kouélany, Obi Okigbo, Adeola Olagunju, Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
Underneath the Shade We Lay Grounded, Sint-Janshospiltaal, Bruges, BE
2021
When Looking Across the Sea, Do You Dream?, La Villa Arson, Nice, FR
Of Cords Curling around Mountains, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT
Unearthed, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, AT
Otobong Nkanga solo, Gallery Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, BZ
Lingering on the Rim, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Uncertain Where the Next Wind Blows, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, NO
There's No Such Thing as Solid Ground, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE
From Where I Stand, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, UK
2019
From Where I Stand, Tate St. Ives, Saint Ives, UK
Acts at the Crossroads, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town, SA
2018
A Lapse, A Stain, A Fall, AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano, IT
Artes Mundi 8, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, RU
Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again, MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2017
The Breath From Fertile Grounds, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IR
The Encounter that took a part of me, Kunstal Aarhus, DK
Wetin You Go Do?, The Tanks at Tate Modern, Blavatnik Building, London, UK
2016
Cracks Around The Corner, In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Paris, FR
Landversation Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, LB
Transhistory, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
MATRIX 260, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, USA
The Encounter That Took a Part of Me, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2015
Comot Your eyes make a borrow you mine, Fondation Kadist, Paris, FR
Crumbling Through Powdery Air, Portikus, Francfort, DE
Unisono 28 : Otobong Nkanga - Taste of a stone, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL
Bruises and Lustre, M HKA, Anvers Museum, Anvers, BE
Tracing confessions, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
Fragments, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Glimmer: Fragments in Landings: Confrontation and Confession, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Hollande, NL
Diaspore, Live performance at 14 Rooms, Bâle, CH
2012
Across the Board: Politics of Representation, performance and installation piece Contained Measures of Shifting States, Tate Modern, The Tanks, Londres, UK
However Long the Night, The Dawn Will Break, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Contained Measures of Tangible Memories: Indigo Regina, L'appartement 22, Rabat, MA
2011
The Western Syndrome, (with Pirkle Jones), La Bank Gallery, Paris, FR
2010
No Be Today Story O!, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
L'edition Populaire #1, Vitrine Gallery, Anvers, BE
2009
Pointe Noire Fragments, Centre Culturel Français, Pointe-Noire, CG
Diagonal Views, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL
2004
Smokescreen, Fokus 2, (avec Jens Haaning), Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, DE
On Fragile Grounds, Window Gallery and Objectif_exhibitions "CLOSE READING #3", Anvers, BE
2002
Classicism & Beyond, Fotofest 2002, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, US
Expositions collectives (selection)
2026
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Barbican, Londres, UK
2025
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, MACBA, Barcelone, Espagne
Apocalypse. Hier et demain, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand, Paris, FR
2024
Arte Povera, Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection, Paris, FR
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water, 17e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR
My world, Singer Laren, Laren, NL
From Ukraine: Dare to Dream, PinchukArtCentre, Venise, IT
Crude Gratitude, Bienvenu Steinberg & J, New-York, USA
Soft Power, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Potsdam, GE
Regenerative Futures, Fondation Thalie, Bruxelles, BE
2023
The Mind's Eye. Images of Nature from Claude Monet to Otobong Nkanga, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, SU
L'île intérieure, Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, FR
In the footsteps of the Diek family - Stories of Black People in Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Schöneberg Museum, Berlin, GE
Beyond a Certain Point There is No Return, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, PB
Prendre corps au monde, Passerelle - Centre d'art contemporain d'intérêt national, Brest, FR
Deep Horizons, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, UK
1,5 Grad - 1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, GE
Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery, Londres, UK
Mers, Terres & Corps traversées, La Traverse, Marseille, FR
Dear Earth - Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery, Londres, UK
Screen Time - Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, USA
2022
Nature humaine, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, FR
Finis Terrae, Gallery Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
Cosmogonies 2: Devenir fleur, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France
Territories of Waste, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH
Busan Biennale 2022 - We, on the Rising Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, KR
Globalisto - Une philosophie en mouvement - A philosophy in flux, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMC), Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, FR
Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
Temporary Atlas - Mapping the Self in the Art of Today, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK
Progetto Genesi - Art and Human Rights, Museo Archeologico Regionale "Pietro Griffo" / Biblioteca Lucchesiana, Agrigento AG, IT
Botanischer Wahnsinn - Vegetaal denken in hedendaagse kunst, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Currency: Photography Beyond Capture - 8. Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, GE
In/stasis - Whitney's Independent Study program, Artists Space / icw Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Novacène - Lille 3000 / Utopia, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, FR
Screen Time - Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, Art on Hulfish, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, US
KUB in Venice, Scuola di San Pasquale, Castello, Venice, IT
Progetto Genesi - Art and Human Rights, Museo Nazionale di Matera - Palazzo Lanfranchi / Casa Noha, Matera MT, IT
Moving Stories, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL
The Art of Teaching and Learning. A School for Creators, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FR
Temporary Atlas - Mapping the Self in the Art of Today, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, IT
AkzoNobel Art Foundation: All Eyes, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
Delinking and Relinking, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, NL
The Botanical Revolution - On the Necessity of Art and Gardening, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Reclaiming Places, La Loge, Bruxelles, BE
2021
Experiences of Oil, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, NO
We Are History, Somerset House, London, UK
Nothing is lost, GAMeC Bergamo, Bergamo, IT
Witch Hunt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
The World As We Don't Know It, Droog, Amsterdam, NL
Frequently the woods are pink, Be-Part, Waregem, BE
Monts Analogues, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
Is it Possible to Be a Revolutionary and Like Flowers?, Nest, The Hague, NL
Into Nature, Stichting Kunst & Cultuur, Assen, NL
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Secrets of Making, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, NL
Un.e Air.e de Famille, Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Eluard, Saint-Denis, FR
Van Coo naar Kunst, Mu.ZEE, Ostende, BE
Black Refractions, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, US
Reclaiming Places, La Loge, Brussels, BE
Hearts and Minds, Carriage Trade gallery, New York, US
Lipstick and Gas Masks, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), Antwerp, BE
Memoria: récits d'une autre Histoire, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR
Black Refractions, Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), Salt Lake City,US
Collector's Item: the contemporary art collection of Pieter and Marieke Sanders, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
2016
Kaleidoscope: Its Me to the World, Modern Art Oxford, UK
Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockolm, SE
Gwangju Bienniale, KR
EVA International, Ireland's Biennial, IR
ON/OFF, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Biennale de Sydney, AU
Streamlines, Oceans, Global Trades and Migration, Kulturstiftung-des-bundes, Hambourg, DE
El Iris de Lucy, MUSAC MUSEUM, Castilla y Léon, ES
2015
La vie moderne, 13e Biennale de Lyon, FR
Take me (I am Yours) La Monnaie de Paris, FR
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum - Michigan State University, US
2014
Biennale de São Paulo, Bresil, BR
Diaspore, 14 Rooms, Bâle, CH
8th Berlin Biennale, DE
Animism, Ashkal Alwan/Home Workspace, Beyrouth, LB
Foreign Exchange/Ware & Wissen (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger), Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, DE
2010
Sentences on the Banks and Other Activities, Darat al Funun, Amman, JD
World Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Dakar, SG
Body Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The Production of Space, The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, US
Unfixed, CBK (Center for Contemporary Arts Dordrecht), Dordrecht, NL
There Is Always A Cup Of Sea To Sail In, 29th Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR
Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen, DK
Africa, Objects and Subjects, Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, ES
A Proposal For Articulating Works and Places (Part 2), Riso Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, IT
Whose Map Is It? INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, Londres, UK
Common Ground, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
Animism, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
Une Aiguille dans une Botte de Foin, Printemps des Poètes, Museé du Quai Branly, Paris, FR
Animism, Extra City Kunsthal and M HKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Anvers, BE
2009
A Delicate Touch, Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, US
AIM International Biennale 3rd Edition, Marrakech, MA
Autres Mesures, Curator Cécile Bourne-Farrell, Centre Photographique Ile de France, Pontault-Combault, FR
This is Now 2, L'Appartement 22, Rabat, MR
2007
Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA
Simmels Gelijk, Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam, NL
Allan Kaprow, Kunst Als Leben, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
Snap Judgments, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
Snap Judgments, Tamayo Museum, Mexico city, MX
2006
1st Architecture, Art & Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands, ES
Snap Judgments, Miami Art Central, Miami, US
De Grote Oversteek, Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle, NL
Shared History/Decolonising the Image, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Generique, Galerie 14, Paris, FR
There & Back, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
One Game - Many Worlds, Football in inter-cultural comparison, Münchner Stadtmuseum. Munich, DE
Snap Judgments, International Center of Photography, New York, US
Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
2005
Belonging, Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, AE
North /South Lab, Tanzquartier, Vienna, AT
Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents, Hayward Gallery, Londres, UK
2004
Flying Circus Project, TheatreWorks Ltd, Singapore, CN
Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Biennial, TW
Free Territory, 26th Sao Paulo biennial, Sao Paulo, BR
Flash Right, Turn Left, Artwalk, Amsterdam, NL
Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, DE
Women Artist, No 4, Peter Hermann Gallery, Berlin, DE
Epifyten, De Klassieke Hortus als Voedingsbodem voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, NL
2003
El Arte Con La Vida, VIII Biennale de la Habana, Havana, CU
MIP, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
Shift and Wait, Collaborative work with Le Petit Jaunais Edition House. Maison de la Loire, Paris, FR
2002
Awaiting Pleasures, Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Classicism & Beyond, Fotofest, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, US
Observatorio # 3, Casa Camouflage, Bruxelles, BE
Dak-Art, 5th Biennale of African Contemporary Art, Dakar, SG
Rond Point, La Halle de Gombe, Kinshasa, CG
Observatorio # 1, Casa Camouflage, Brussels, BE
Made In Africa Fotografia, Biennale di Fotografia Africana/ Sparzio Oberdan, Milan, IT
En Direct De Bamako, Galerie Photo Fnac Etoile, Paris, FR
Dessins XXL, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
2001
Memoires Intimes D'un Nouveau Millenaire, IV Biennale de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, ML
Infamous Labels No 10, Bateau Phare collaborating with The Research program, ENSBA, Paris, FR
Performances
2015
Diaoptasia, BMW Tate Live : Performance Room, Tate Modern, Londres, UK
Take Me I'm Yours, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, FR
2014
Diaspore, 14 Rooms, Art Basel, Bâle, CH
Glimmer: Fragments, Landing Symposium: Confrontation and Confessions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2013
Glimmer: Aurum. Das Jubiläumsfestival, 50 years of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1963 - 2013, Berlin, DE
Glimmer, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE
Face me, I Face you, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE
Where Gist you, (avec Eunhye Hwang), Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE
When all things flow, the bird sings, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, DE
Taste of a Stone: Itiat Esa Ufok, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, AE
2012
Contained Measures of Shifting States, Across the Board: Politics of Representation, Tate Modern, The Tanks, Londres, UK
Sing, I will tell you who we be, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL
Contained Measures of a Kolanut, Tropicomania: The Social Life of Plants, Betonsalon, Center of Art and Research. Associated venue of La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity. Paris, FR
Baggage 1972 - 2007-08, Allan Kaprow/Otobong Nkanga, Partitions (Performances), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
2011
A Song for the Moment, Brussels living room Festival, Bruxelles, BR
2010
Baggage 1972 - 2007-08, Allan Kaprow/Otobong Nkanga, Festival Theatreformen, Braunschweig, DE
Tropicology, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
Things, Carla Mittersteig, Vienna, AT
2009
Baggage 1972 - 2007-08, Allan Kaprow/Otobong Nkanga, Arco Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2008
Baggage 1972 - 2007-08, Allan Kaprow/Otobong Nkanga, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
Baggage 1972 - 2007-08, Allan Kaprow/Otobong Nkanga, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2006
Arrested Moment before the State of Amnesia Crops in, 1st Architecture, Art & Landscape Biennial of the Canaries.
Unravelling, Arti et Amicitiae and the Muiderpoort Theatre, Amsterdam, NL
2005
Dream in One Meter Square, Belonging, Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, AE
Surgical Hits #03, (The Needle), Tanzquartier, Vienna, AT
2004
Surgical Hits #02, (The Needle), Theatre Works Ltd, Singapore, CN
Surgical Hits #01, (The Needle), Kunst Palast Museum, Düsseldorf, DE
On fragile grounds, Window Gallery and Objectif_Exhibitions as part of "Close Reading #3", Anvers, BG
2003
Fractured Gaps, Group performance involving 6 dancers, Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Shift and Wait, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
State of Amnesia, International Performance Manifestation, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
Perfect Measures, Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, BG
2002
Sustained Suture, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, NL
The new acquisition of Jennifer McBright, Classicism & Beyond, Fotofest 2002, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, US
Bomboyi, Ecole des Beaux-Arts Kinshasa, Chooseone Organisation, Paris, Rond Point, La Halle de Gombe, Kinshasa, CG
1999
The Dual Match, (Footpitch), TOXIC, Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron, FR
Prix
AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, ZEITZ MOCAA, 2025
Nasher Prize Award, 2025
Inaugural Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, 2019
Peter Weiss, 2019
Special Mention, 58th Venice Biennal, 2019
Sharjah Biennial 14 Prize, 2019
Ultimas Prize, 2018
BelgianArtPrize, 2017
Yanghyun Prize, 2015
Collections
Studio Museum Harlem
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Nevada Museum of Art (NMA)
Rabo Art Collection (Rabobank)
Weltkulturen Museum
FRAC Lorraine
FRAC Pays de la Loire
Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art
Kadist Art Foundation
Mu.ZEE
Museum Folkwang
AkzoNobel Collection
Société Genérale Art Collection
Centre National des Arts Plastiques - CNAP
Centre Pompidou
FRAC Corse
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)
Robeco Art Collection
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
Fondation Sindika Dokolo
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Zwolle
Stedelijk Museum Arnhem
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Tate Modern
Sharjah Art Foundation
Conférences
2018
Otobong Nkanga with Omar Kholeif, MCA Chicago, US
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Otobong Nkanga, Harvard School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Otobong Nkanga in conversation with Caroline Hancock, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IR
2014
Shifting States- Platforms for Experimentation, Dutch Art Institute, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL
Voice - Creature of Transition, Lecture performance, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2013
Hans Ulrich Obrist in converstion with Otobong Nkanga, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK
Facing the Opponen, Fieldwork at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt, DE Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institut, Florence, IT
Artist Talk: with Otobong Nkanga, Institut für Raumexperimente, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, DE
Art Basel Salon, The Global Artworld, Focus Africa, Basel, CH
Think-Tank II: Persecuted, Mourned, Pitied, Admired/Collected and Photographed, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE
Art as a meeting point, with Andrea Buddensieg, Otobong Nkanga and Joanna Warsza, discussion organized by Antje Majewski, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, DE
Sharjah Biennial 11 panel discussion with Hoor-Al-Qasimi, Yuko Hasegawa and Otobong Nkanga, Sharjah, UAE.
Think-Tank I: The administration of people and goods, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE
The Impossible Aesthetic: Situating Research in Arts and Social Sciences/Humanities, Artistic Research and Museum, Collections, Lessons from the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, DE
2012
Otobong Nkanga with Catherine Wood, Part of the series The Tanks: Art in Action, London, UK
Permeabilities, Presentation of works and workshop with participants at CEIA, 8th international event, Belo Horizonte, BR
When the stage hits you, workshop with the Dutch Art Institute students, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL
2011
Art-iculate: A performative lecture by Otobong Nkanga, CCA, Lagos, NG
Tracks and traces of violences conferences, Lecture Performance by Otobong Nkanga, The University of Bayreuth, (BIGSAS), DE
Clark-Mellon Workshop: International Initiatives and Regional Collaboration, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, US
6000 Collectors, Experimental Talks with Objects, Lecture by Otobong Nkanga, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Presentation of project at Outre Mesures et Programmes Radio (Maps, Timelines,Radio Programmes), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec, FR
2010
Workshop and project, Intituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency Program, Curacao, NL
Workshop Unfixed, Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, CBK Dordrecht, NL
Memory as a photographic process, presentation at Unfixed Symposium, CBK Dordrecht, NL
Otobong Nkanga's works on Land and Mapping, presentation at Crossing Boundaries Symposium, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
Presentation of works in Whose Map Is It?, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK
Artist talk at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Workshop and project with the students of Haute École d'Art et de Design, Geneva, CH
2008
Lecture and Workshop State of Bodies/ Suffering, Mieke van de Voort, Generale Staten and Game/Performance. Utrecht, NL
Discussion and round table at Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Studio Visits, Masters Programme, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede, NL
2006
Seminar on African literature, Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
Bibliographie
Catalogues
2014
Foreign Exchange/Ware & Wissen (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger). exhibition catalogue. Diaphanes publishers. Clementine Deliss et Yvette Mutumba, 2014 p. 101 - 102, 118, 133, 140, 150, 162 - 163, 290.
2013
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian, 2013. p. 178 - 180.
Ja Natuurlijk/Yes Naturally : How art saves the world, Neit Normaal Foundation, Nai010 publishers, 2013. p. 88 -91
Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination, Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2013. p. 90 - 91.
Sharjah Biennial 11. Re: Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 2013. p. 436 - 439.
Anselm Franke. Animism, 2013. p. 120 - 121.
2012
Tropicomania, La vie sociale des plantes. Centre d'Art et de Recherche, 2012. p. 15.
Clementine Deliss, Object Atlas-Fieldwork in the Museum, Weltkulturen Museum, Kerber Forum, p. 153-197.
2010
29th Biennial of Sao Paulo, 2010. p. 194-195.
Kunsthal Charlottenbourg Make Yourself at Home. 2010. p. 54-58, 98-99.
Africa. Objetos y Sujeto. Cajastur, 2010. p. 286-287.
Africa, Objects and Subjects. Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, Spain, 2010. p. 286-287.
Flow, The Studio Museum Harlem, 2008. p. 94-95.
2005
MIP, International performance manifestation CEIA, p. 132-133, 164-165.
Belonging, 7th Sharjah Biennial, p. 354-357.
2004
Território Livre, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, national representations, 2004. p. 238-239.
2003
Transferts, Brussels, 2003. page 138-143,
El arte con la vida. 8th Bienal de la Habana, 2003. p. 168, 329.
2002
Classicism & Beyond, Fotofest, 9th International Biennal of Photography, p. 176-179.
Dak'Art, V Biennale of African Contemporary Art, p. 50.
Michela Manservisi (curator).Made in Africa_fotografia. Epicentro, Italy, 2002. p. 78-79.
Dessins XXL. Filigranes, 2002.
2001
Akinbode Akinbiyi. Memoires Intimes d'un Nouveau Millenaire. IV Biennale de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali, 2001 p. 140-149.
Presse & Livres
2013
Zur Kunst. Susanne Leeb . Asynchronous Objects, Globalismus Globalism, Sep. 2013. p. 48, 52 - 53, 56.
Elvira Dyangani Ose." Across the Board: Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito". Atlántica #53. Journal of Art and Though, 2013. p. 142-149.
Jan-Philipp Possmann, "Jenseits der Vitrine/Beyond the Vitrine", Spike Art Magazine No 35, 2013. p. 50, 53.
2012
Dorina Hecht. "Mich interessiert das wo, was und warum". Artmap Antwerpen, Winter 2012/13. p. 28-29.
Dagmar Mundhenke. "Object Atlas - Feldforshung im Frankfurter Weltkulturen-Museum". Africa Positive N° 45, 2012. p. 42.
Catherine Wood. "Re-make, Re-model" Frieze Masters, No 1, 2012. p. 38-39.
Sara Blokland and Asmara Pelupessy. Unfixed, Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art. Unfixed projects Japsam books, 2013. p. 48-53 et p. 202-204.
MärklinWorld : A model of the world by 40 artists, exhibition catalogue, KA Series 14, Kunsthal KAdE, p.123.
Altered Landscape : Photographs of a changing environment. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, ed. Ann M. Wolfe, Skira Rizzoli publications Inc., p. 56-57.
2010
Social Consequences, de Philippe Pirotte, in: Art South Africa, Volume 09, Issue 01, Spring 2010, p. 66-69.
Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu.Contemporary African Art since 1980. 2010. p. 280, 327.
Animism. Anselm Franke Volume I, 2010. p. 211-212.
2009
An intervention of Allan Kaprow for the moment, documentation of all Re-Interventions and Re-enactments of Happenings and Environments, Kunsthalle Bern.
Foam Album 08, 2nd Edition, p. 184.
Kunstbeeld.nl Magazine, Het tijdschrift voor beeldende kunst, Nr 9 2009, p. 16-17.
2008
Sean O'Toole. Frieze Magazine, Issue 116, Jun-Aug. 2008.
Le Monde Diplomatique,: 55e année - N° 653, Aug 2008 , p. 25.
Vincent Solomon. "Seeing Africa through African eyes". Amsterdam Weekly, 17-30th Jul. 2008. p. 10.
ZAM Magazine, Africa Magazine, no. 2, Summer 2008. p. 20-21.
"New Talents". Blend NL Magazine n°31, July. 2008. p. 55.
2006
1st Architecture, Art & Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Island, 2006. p. 256-257.
Okwui Enwezor. Snap Judgements, New positions in contemporary African Photography. 2006. p. 34, 160-165, 367.
2004
Zonder internationale uitwisseling geen kunst; De Stelling, een gesprek met Otobong Nkanga, by Saskia Monshouwer, in: Kunstbeeld, no. 9, p. 48-49.
Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische kunst eines kontinents, Museum Kunst Palast, p. 214-215.
Shifting Map, Artists' platform and strategies for cultural diversity, RAIN Artists' Initiatives Network, Nai publishers Rotterdam, p. 46.
Epifyten, de klassieke hortus als voedingsbodem voor hedendaagse kunst!, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, p. 19-21.
2003
Flash Art, Nov - Dec. 2003. p. 88.
Christine Vuegen. "Mondiale Maalstroom". Kunstbeeld, n° 6, 2003. p. 10-11.
Walter Sebastiao. "No Palco, Vitoria de Visibilade". Estada de Minas - Sexta Fiera, Brasil, 2003.
Lars Kwakkenbos. "Kunst met Afrikaanse roots". De Standard, Belgium, 2003.
2002
Flash Art International, Vol. XXXIV no. 225,July - Sep 2002. p. 49, 59.
Simon Njami. Blink, 100 Photographers 10 Curators 10 Writers. Phaidon Press, London, 2002, p. 276-279.
Robbert Roos. "PF fotographie (BLINK)" . Magazine voor fotographie en imaging, n° 6, 2002. p. 16-18.
2001
N'gone Fall. "Anthologie de l'Art African du vingtieme siècle". Revue Noire, 2001 , p. 396-397.
Telerama. n° 2702, 2001 p. 68-69.
Jean Loup Pivin. "Nigeria". Revue Noire. n° 30, Paris, 2001 . p. 38-39