Episode 11 – Kapwani Kiwanga

Show notes

In the new episode, Enuma Okoro speaks with the artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Kiwanga’s multidisciplinary practice brings together sculpture, installation, film, and performance with anthropological research and a precise examination of historical structures of power, knowledge, and trade. Her works investigate materials as carriers of histories, economic relations, and social narratives, while at the same time opening up poetic spaces of perception and reflection.

Alongside a wide range of international exhibitions, including representing Canada at the 2024 Biennale Kiwanga has increasingly based her production in Berlin, a city that has become central to her working life and exhibition practice. More than just a place of making, Berlin also provides the setting in which her long-standing collaboration with Galerie Tanya Wagner continues to develop. This episode of the Gallery Weekend Podcast traces Kiwanga’s artistic practice primarily through her exhibitions and the specific places in which they are situated.