(Left) Otobong Nkanga.
Courtesy of the artist. (Right top) Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone, 2010/19; Kolanut Tales–Dismembered, 2016. Installation view of Acts at the Crossroads at MOCAA–Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. Photo: Dillon Marsh; (right bottom) Otobong Nkanga, In Pursuit of Bling, 2014. Installation view of Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2018.

News 

Otobong Nkanga Receives 2025 Nasher Prize

The Nasher Sculpture Center has awarded artist Otobong Nkanga its Nasher Prize, which is endowed with $100,000 ...

Otobong Nkanga, Solid Maneuvers, 2015. Various metals, Forex, acrylic, tar, salt, make-up, vermiculite, Dimensions variable
Installation view Crumbling Through Powdery Air, Portikus, 2015, Photo: Helena Schlichting, courtesy: Portikus

Exhibition 

Otobong Nkanga – Solo Show

Otobong Nkanga’s interest lies in the complex relationship between humans and land. In her works, she explor ...

Portrait of Otobong Nkanga. Photo by Wim van Dongen

Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award 

Otobong Nkanga Receives Inaugural Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award

Nigerian-Belgian Otobong Nkanga, whose first UK show opened last week at Tate St Ives, is the winner of the in ...

Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh, Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past, 2019. Multi channel sound installation, sculpture and light installation, poetry. Dimensions variable. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Courtesy the artists. Photo: C&

Sharjah Biennial 14 Prize 

Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh have been Awarded for their Collaborative Project

For their collaborative project « Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past (2019)  ...

Otobong Nkanga, 2018. Foto: Yannick Sas. Courtesy of Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau.

Gropius Bau Berlin Programme 2019 

Otobong Nkanga is New Artist in Residence

The 2019 programme sees the Gropius Bau bring together local and international artists who push forward some o ...

Otobong Nkanga wins prestigious art prize

Yanghyun Foundation 

Otobong Nkanga wins prestigious art prize

The Yanghyun Foundation announced the Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga as the recipient of the 2015 Yanghyun Pri ...

El Hadji Sy and Otobong Nkanga at 31st Bienal de São Paulo

El Hadji Sy and Otobong Nkanga at 31st Bienal de São Paulo

El Hadji Sy  and  Otobong Nkanga are part of this years 31st Bienal de São Paulo. Opening on 6 Septemb ...

Art Basel Conversations and Salon: C& in conversation with Meschac Gaba and Otobong Nkanga

Discussions / Ateliers 

Art Basel Conversations and Salon: C& in conversation with Meschac Gaba and Otobong Nkanga

Yvette Mutumba, Co-initiator of Contemporary And (C&) and Curator for Africa at the Weltkulturen Museum, F ...

Politics of representation: performances of Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito

Manifestations 

Politics of representation: performances of Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito

The first event of the series  Across the board  features the performances of artists Otobong Nkanga and Ná ...

Otobong Nkanga, Anamnesis, 2015. Plywood, gauze, coffee, tea, spices, cacao, raw tobacco, peat, 204 3/5 x 451 1/5 inches. Installation view, Streamline. Oceans, Global Trade and Migration, the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 2015.

Appel à papiers 

Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium: Otobong Nkanga

Keynote speaker Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons will cap off three days of scholarly presentations and discussions ...

Otobong Nkanga, Craving for Southern Light, installation view, 2023. Courtesy of Institut València d'Art Modern (IVAM)

Exhibition 

Otobong Nkanga: Craving for Southern Light

The Institut València d’Art Modern IVAM presents the first exhibition in Spain of the Nigerian artist O ...

Scuola di San Pasquale, Foto: Fulvio Orsenigo

Exhibition 

Anna Boghiguian and Otobong Nkanga

Kunsthaus Bregenz will be celebrating its 25th year in 2022. For the anniversary KUB is planning an ambitious ...