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

Forthcoming show at Camden Art Centre Announced – Autumn 2025

Karimah Ashadu’s first institutional solo show in the UK at Camden Art Center, produced with Fondazione In Between Art Film read more

Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant, 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