March 2024
Karimah Ashadu invited to show new work at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
The 60th International Art Exhibition will take place from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November, 2024 (pre-opening on April 17, 18 and 19).
January 2023
Schirn Kunsthalle’s well loved program “Double Feature”, invites Ashadu for an evening discussion and public screening of “Plateau”, as well as Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Waiting for Happiness”.
Join us on 25 Jan 2023 at 7.30pm, with Ashadu in conversation with one of the Kunsthalle’s Curators. A video interview filmed at Frankfurts’ “Palmengarten Winterlichter” is also produced by Schirn Kunsthalle.
October 2022
In an interview with one of Germany’s largest culture programs for radio, Ashadu speaks with Axel Schröder, Hamburg’s correspondant for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, about producing works like “Brown Goods’, as well as the recent film “Cowboy”, which is the 2022 winner of the Prize of the Botterstraße in Bremen.
Listen to the broadcast
October 2022
Radio interview with Bremen’s largest broadcaster “Bremen Zwei”, on the occasion of the Kunstprize of the Botterstraße in Bremen.
Listen now.
October 2022
In conversation with Lara Choksey, for UCL’s SPRC podcast series.
Produced by UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.
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September 2022
Presented for the first time in Germany at the Kunsthalle Bremen, my latest film installation “Cowboy”, 2022 has won this year’s edition of the Prize of the Bötterstraße in Bremen.
Read more on Contemporaryand.
[In the video work, Ashadu succeeds in relating the story of the protagonist to colonial structures in a poetic and sensual way, according to the jury’s statement for the award.] “The intimacy between horse and rider, the basis of the film, along with the scenery of beach and sea, suggests a sense of freedom while also pointing to aspects of Black history.”
Exhibition runs until 30 Oct 2022