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 Camden Arts Center, London, 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 Lichtwark Förderung Prize (2025); 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 The Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA and the German Federal Collection of Contemporary Art read more
Latest
News
Lichtwark Förderung Prize, Hamburg
Karimah Ashadu receives the Lichtwark Förderpreis from the City of Hamburg, presented by Senator of Culture and Media Dr. Carsten Brosda.
PASSAGE Public Art Commission in Munich
For the PASSAGE commission, Karimah Ashadu’s Plateau work (2021-2022) is adapted for the vitrines in Munich’s historic passage at Marienplatz read more
“Tendered” at Camden Art Centre, London
Karimah Ashadu’s first institutional solo show in the UK includes a major new moving image commission MUSCLE, 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