{"id":46217,"date":"2026-05-04T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/utstallningar\/otobong-nkanga\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:28:00","slug":"otobong-nkanga","status":"publish","type":"utstallningar","link":"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/en\/utstallningar\/otobong-nkanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Otobong Nkanga"},"content":{"rendered":"  <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb navigation\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" typeof=\"BreadcrumbList\" vocab=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/\">\n      <ol>\n          <li class=\"home\"><span property=\"itemListElement\" typeof=\"ListItem\"><a property=\"item\" typeof=\"WebPage\" title=\"G\u00e5 till Startsidan\" href=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/en\/\" class=\"home\" aria-current=\"page\"><span property=\"name\">Start<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n      <\/ol>\n  <\/nav>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-Margin-right is-style-margin-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Otobong_Nkanga_Social_Consequences_V_The_Harvest_2022_web-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Work by Otobong Nkanga. Painting of a girl standing in water, or a stone cast holding a tree in its arms.\" class=\"wp-image-46208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Otobong_Nkanga_Social_Consequences_V_The_Harvest_2022_web-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Otobong_Nkanga_Social_Consequences_V_The_Harvest_2022_web-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Otobong_Nkanga_Social_Consequences_V_The_Harvest_2022_web-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Otobong_Nkanga_Social_Consequences_V_The_Harvest_2022_web.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Otobong Nkanga, &#8220;Social Consequences V: The Harvest&#8221;, 2022.<br\/>Acrylic and stickers on paper.<br\/>Wim Waumans Collection. \u00a9 Otobong Nkanga. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-page-margin\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:54px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"h-otobong-nkanga\" class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-heading-article\">Otobong Nkanga<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-i-dreamt-of-you-in-colours-10-10-2026-28-3-2027\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">I dreamt of you in colours, 10.10 2026\u201328.3 2027<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-information-column is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This autumn\u2019s exhibition at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall is devoted to the multidisciplinary practice of Otobong Nkanga. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, &#8220;I dreamt of you in colours&#8221; is the first large-scale presentation of her work in Sweden. It features drawings, paintings, installations, tapestries, photographs, videos, sculptures, ceramics, performances and sound pieces that poetically highlights the links between racialised capitalism and the accelerating climate crisis while at the same time leaning on strategies of resistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otobong Nkanga was born in Kano, Nigeria, in 1974, and is based in Antwerp, Belgium. Since the late 1990s, she has tackled themes of ecology and the relationship between the body and the land, creating powerful works of great visual presence. Following her studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Nkanga explored issues relating to mining and the use of the earth\u2019s resources, as well as the body in its relationship to space and the earth. She examines their complex social, political and material interconnections in a practice that runs through multiple mediums and forms of expression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing both on her personal history and her own research, which reflects transhistorical and multicultural influences, Nkanga creates networks and constellations between humans and landscapes while also looking at natural and relational systems\u2019 restorative capacity. The idea of strata is central to the artist\u2019s work \u2013 both in the materiality of her sculptures, interventions, performances and tapestries, and in her way of thinking about the connections between bodies and lands, connections that involve mutual exchange and transformation. Nkanga explores not only the concept of the circulation of materials and goods, people and their entangled stories and histories, but also the idea of their exploitation, stamped by the remnants of violent colonial histories. Questioning memory, she offers the vision of a possible future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I dreamt of you in colours&#8221; offers a cross-section of Nkanga\u2019s protean body of work, from the start of her career right up to the present, tracing the genealogy of recurring subjects whose visual expression is constantly evolving. For her show, the artist reactivates certain works by introducing new elements added on site in a poetics of entanglement, creating connections between forms, materials and ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art moderne de Paris (MAM), Paris Mus\u00e9es and the Mus\u00e9e cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA). Curators in Paris and Lausanne: Odile Burluraux (MAM) and Nicole Schweizer (MCBA). Curator in Malm\u00f6: Mats Stjernstedt (Malm\u00f6 Konsthall). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-information-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 id=\"h-vernissage-fredag-9-oktober-2026\" class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-body-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malmokonsthall.se\/en\/evenemangs\/vernissage-otobong-nkanga\/\">Opening Friday, 9 October, 2026<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-right-image-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-left-image-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the autumn&#8217;s exhibition at Malm\u00f6 Konsthall, visitors encounter the multidisciplinary artistic practice of Otobong Nkanga in the first large-scale presentation of her work in Sweden. 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