About the
Artist
Karimah Ashadu (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian Artist living and working between Hamburg and Lagos.
Exhibitions and screenings include the 60th Venice Biennale, Kunsthalle Bremen, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein in Hamburg, South London Gallery, London and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Recipient of awards such as the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant, Venice Biennale (2024); Prize of the Botterstrasse in Bremen (2022) and the ars viva prize (2020). Public collections include MoMA and the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany read more
Latest
News
PASSAGE Public Art Commission in Munich – October 2025
For the PASSAGE commission, Karimah Ashadu’s Plateau work (2021-2022) will be adapted for the vitrines in Munich’s historic passage at Marienplatz read more
Forthcoming Solo Show at Camden Art Centre, London – October 2025
Karimah Ashadu’s first institutional solo show in the UK will include a major new moving image commission, produced with Fondazione In Between Art Film, and presented within a site-specific installation read more
Silver Lion Award, 60th Venice Biennale
Karimah Ashadu wins the “Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant” at the International Art Exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale read more