Grada Kilomba

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The Desire Project

2016 Three-channel video installation, HD, in black and white, sound, 2' 46", looped, with environment: printed impressions and a shrine installation. Available on Request Add to My Selection

Table of Goods

2017 Installation with soil, sugar, coffee beans, ground coffee, cocoa, dark chocolate and candles Available on Request Add to My Selection

Plantation Memories

2018 Single-channel video installation of staged reading, HD, colour, sound, 14’14", looped. Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Chorus

2017 Wall Installation, a poem printed in vinyl on the wall. Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Dictionary

2019 Five-channel black and white video installation, HD, black and white, sound,10', looped. Available on Request Add to My Selection

Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo

2017 Two-channel video installation, HD, colour, sound. Available on Request Add to My Selection

Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus

2018 Two-channel video, HD, colour, sound Available on Request Add to My Selection

A World of Illusions

2019 Six-channel video installation Available on Request Add to My Selection

Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon Act I

2020 Archival pigment print on cotton paper mounted on aluDibond Available on Request Add to My Selection

Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon Act III

2020 Archival pigment print on cotton paper mounted on aluDibond Available on Request Add to My Selection

Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon and Haemon

2020 Archival pigment print on cotton paper mounted on aluDibond Available on Request Add to My Selection

Illusions Vol. III, Antigone

2019 Two channel video installation, sound, 54’ 35”, in loop. Available on Request Add to My Selection

Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Sphinx Act I

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About

Grada Kilomba (b. 1968, Lisbon, Portugal) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work draws on memory, trauma, gender and post-colonialism, interrogating concepts of knowledge, power and violence. “What stories are told? How are they told? And told by whom?” are constant questions in Kilomba’s body of work, to revise post-colonial narratives.

Kilomba subversively translates text into image, movement and installation, by giving body, voice and form to her own critical writing. Performance, staged reading, video, photography, publications and installation are a platform for Kilomba’s unique practice of storytelling, which intentionally disrupts the proverbial ‘white cube’ through a new and urgent decolonial language and imagery.

Her work has been presented in major international events such as: La Biennale de Lubumbashi VI; 10. Berlin Biennale; Documenta 14, Kassel; 32. Bienal de São Paulo. Selected solo and group exhibitions include the Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Bildmuseet, Umeå; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; The Power Plant, Toronto; Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin; MAAT-Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; Secession Museum, Vienna; Bozar Museum, Brussels; PAC-Pavillion Art Contemporanea, Milan, among others. Kilomba’s work features in public and private collections worldwide.

Strongly influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon, Kilomba studied Freundian Psychoanalysis in Lisbon – at ISPA, and there she worked with war survivors from Angola and Mozambique. Early on she started writing and publishing stories, before extending her interests into staging, image, sound and movement.

Kilomba holds a distinguished Doctorate in Philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin. She has lectured at several international universities, such as the University of Ghana and the Vienna University of Arts, and was a Guest Professor at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, Department of Gender Studies. For several years, she was a guest artist at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, in Berlin, developing Kosmos 2, a political intervention with refugee artists. She is the author of the acclaimed “Plantation Memories” (Unrast, 2008) a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. Her book has been translated into several languages, and was listed as the most important non-fiction literature in Brazil, 2019. In 2021 she unveiled O Barco / The Boat, a large scale installation with an accompanying performace at MAAT – Musuem of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, Portugal.

The artist lives and works in Berlin.

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Exhibitions

'the moon is not the sun at night'

05 January - 30 January 2022

Group Show || Living Just Enough

06 October - 19 November 2020

I've grown roses in this garden of mine / 2019

03 October - 30 October 2019

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Grada Kilomba | O Barco/ The Boat | The Courtyard, Somerset House

Posted 14 July 2022

Kudzanai Chiurai, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Grada Kilomba & Tabita Rezaire | Group Exhibition | Palais de Tokyo, France

Posted 10 November 2021

Grada Kilomba | Public Installation | MAAT Lisbon, Portugal

Posted 29 September 2021

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NATAAL - Grada Kilomba discusses her monumental installation at Somerset House

Grada Kilomba’s World of Illusions flips white-dominated story conventions on their head

Grada Kilomba in BBC - The slave ship in a London courtyard

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