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.
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October 2022
Radio interview with Bremen’s largest broadcaster “Bremen Zwei”, on the occasion of the Kunstprize of the Botterstraße in Bremen.
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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
July 2022
Nominated for this year’s edition of the “Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen” which takes place for the 48th time at Kunsthalle Bremen in August. The “Prize of the Böttcherstraße” is among the leading and highest awards in the field of contemporary art in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The culminating group exhibition also features work by nine other nominated artists.
I’m excited to show a new two channel film currently in progress.
Exhibition runs – 27 Aug – 30 Oct 2022