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Kapwani Kiwanga

Born in 1978 in Hamilton, Ontario
Lives and works in Paris

Kapwani Kiwanga (b. Hamilton, Canada) is French and Canadian, she lives and works between Paris and Berlin. Kiwanga studied Anthropology and Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal and Art at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Kiwanga has been shortlisted for the 2025 Joan Miró Prize. In 2022, she received the Zurich Art Prize (CH). She was also the winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (FR) in 2020, Frieze Artist Award (USA) and the annual Sobey Art Award (CA) in 2018. She represented Canada at the 60th International Venice Art Biennale in 2024.

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Solo exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK); Serralves Foundation, Porto (PT); Bozar, Brussels (BE); Remai Modern, Saskatoon(CA); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (DE); Capc, Bordeaux (FR); MOCA, Toronto (CA); Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (CH) ; New Museum, New York (USA); State of Concept, Athens (GR); Moody Center for the Arts, Austin (USA); Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE); Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (CH); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA); Albertinum museum, Dresden (DE); Esker Foundation, Calgary (CA); Power Plant, Toronto (CA); Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago (USA); South London Gallery, London (UK) and Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) among others.

She is represented by Galerie Poggi, Paris; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town and London and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin.

Kiwanga’s work traces the pervasive impact of power asymmetries by placing historic narratives in dialogue with contemporary realities, the archive, and tomorrow’s possibilities. Her work is research-driven, instigated by marginalised or forgotten histories, and articulated across a range of materials and mediums including sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance. Kiwanga co-opts the canon; she turns systems of power back on themselves, in art and in parsing broader histories.

In this manner Kiwanga has developed an aesthetic vocabulary that she described as “exit strategies,” works that invite one to see things from multiple perspectives so as to look differently at existing structures and find ways to navigate the future differently.

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Gallery Contact

Agathe Schneider
a.schneider@galeriepoggi.com

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News & Press

” KIWANGA’S PRACTICE IS SUCH THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT WHAT SHE WILL DO NEXT “

 

Jan Dalley, September 16th, 2020, Financial Times

Exhibitions at the Gallery

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The Last Museum

Group Show

May 16 - August 2, 2025

The First Stone

Group Show

October 13 - December 2, 2023

Ecce Homo

Group Show

02 Jul. – 13 Aug. 2022

L’Obscur vient au Jour, Group Show

Group Show

24 Jun. – 30 Jul. 2022

Kapwani Kiwanga, Nations

Solo Show

Oct. 10 - Nov. 20, 2020

Rainbow Gravity

Group Show

June 20 – July 18, 2020

La Peur au Ventre

Group Show

Jan. 25 – March 14, 2020

The Border is a State of Mind

Group Show

October 13 – November 16, 2018

Kapwani Kiwanga, Surface Tensions

Solo Show

June 16 - July 28, 2018

Witness

Group Show

February 4 – March 4, 2017

Kapwani Kiwanga, Continental Shift

Solo Show

October 22 - November 28, 2015

Matérialisme Hystérique

Group Show

October 18 - November 29, 2014

Fairs

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ARCO Madrid 2025

Group Show

March 5 – 9, 2025

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2024

Group Show

4 – 8 Dec. 2024

ART BASEL PARIS 2024

Group Show

October 18 – 20, 2024

ARCO Madrid 2024

Group Show

March 6 – 10, 2024

PARIS + PAR ART BASEL 2023

Group Show

Oct. 20 – 22, 2023

EXPO CHICAGO 2023

Group Show

April 13 – 16, 2023

ARCO Madrid 2023

Group Show

22 – 26 Feb. 2023

PARIS + PAR ART BASEL 2022

Group Show

20 – 23 Oct. 2022

THE ARMORY SHOW 2022

Group Show

8 – 11 Sept. 2022

FRIEZE No.9 CORK STREET 2022

Group Show

03 – 23 May 2022

ARCO Madrid 2022

Group Show

23 – 27 Feb. 2022

FIAC 2021

Group Show

21 Oct. – 24 Oct. 2021

ART BASEL, BASEL, 2021

Kapwani Kiwanga

21 Sep – 26 Sep. 2021

FRIEZE OVR 2020

Solo Show

6 May – 15 May 2020

ART BASEL UNLIMITED 2019

Solo Show

13 Jun. – 16 Jun. 2019

The Armory Show 2019

Kapwani Kiwanga

7 Mar. – 10 Mar. 2019

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2018

Solo Show

6 – 9 Dec. 2018

THE ARMORY SHOW 2018

Group Show

8 – 11 Mar. 2018

THE ARMORY SHOW 2016

Solo Show

3 – 6 Mar. 2016

FIAC 2015

Solo Show

22 – 25 Oct. 2015

Publications

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Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga, Off-Grid

2022

30€

Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga

2023

40€

Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwang

2020

35 €