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Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Explore Otobong Nkanga’s exhibition There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground through our online exhibition guide, a video interview with the artist and a podcast episode.

Otobong Nkanga, We Could Be Allies, 2017/2020

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Exhibition Guide: Otobong Nkanga

Get an insight into Otobong Nkanga’s solo exhibition There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground at the Gropius Bau and learn more about the central topics of her work.

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Otobong Nkanga, Portrait in front of Double Plot, 2020

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Podcast: “My mother told me: I have dreamt of you in colours”

In this NKATA podcast episode, Emeka Okereke and Otobong Nkanga talk about moments that shaped Nkanga’s life during its earlier stages and the notion of visibility.

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Otobong Nkanga, Solid Maneuvers, filmstill, 2020

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Video: Otobong Nkanga – Solid Maneuvers

In this video, the artist presents her work Solid Maneuvers, which deals with the excavation of resources and the wounded landscapes that are left behind.

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To Not Be a Single Being: Otobong Nkanga and Theaster Gates

Robert Maharajh explores in the Gropius Bau Journal how the communal practices of Otobong Nkanga and Theaster Gates re-shape the idea of the artwork, the archive and the institution.

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Video: Pó di Terra – Amílcar Cabral’s Agropoetics of Liberation

Otobong Nkanga’s installation Taste of a Stone has been activated by a so-called movement – Pó di Terra, a lecture by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges and Diana McCarty held in October 2020.

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Otobong Nkanga, Carvet to Flow, workshop room

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Video: “Carved to Flow” with Otobong Nkanga and Nuno Vasconcelos

The artist Otobong Nkanga and the architect Nuno Vasconcelos talk about the conceptual ideas of Nkanga’s work Carved to Flow.

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