Simba Mbili
Ongoing
with: Marian Nur Goni
A podcast/research project about the powerful imaginaries of the lions of Tsavo, the man-eaters who stalled the Kenya-Uganda railway in 1898
Baumbestand
Ongoing
with: SHOPLIFT Design and Dawid Liftinger
A participatory art project that embeds the memory of 105 felled trees in a new school's architecture
NRB DSTRBTD
2024
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An artist book which untangles political narratives of ethnic identity from the way in which identities are experienced in day to day life
Made in Chinafrica
2022
with: David Lalé
An experimental documentary which tells the stories of African migrant traders living and working in Guangzhou
International Inventories Programme
2021
with: The Nest, SHIFT Collective, National Museums of Kenya, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and the Welkulturen Museum
An artistic, research and curatorial project that investigates a corpus of Kenyan cultural objects held in institutions in the Global North
A Topography of Loss
2021
with: Simon Rittmeier
An inquiry into the agency of the Kenyan objects encountered in the storage depot of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne
Die Dauercamperin
2019
with: Jens Mühlhoff
Die Dauercamperin stages a dystopic future to ask how agency and independence of the individual can manifest in a networked world
The Bike Gang
2018
with: John Kamicha
A series of collectively-produced video clips which re-enact anecdotes and to narrate stories of bikes and belonging in Nairobi’s Eastlands
Skiza Sea
2018
with: Sophia Bauer
Marine melodies created from underwater coral reef recordings and recordings of songs about the ocean by people living on the Kenyan coast
The Ministry of Plastic (touring exhibition)
2017
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An installation that stages a future in which there is no more oil and plastic has become a cherished and valuable resource
GZ Calling
2017
with: David Lalé
A video work that explores the labyrinthine world of Guangzhou’s export markets, the nexus of 21st Century global capitalism
Re-imagining Out of Africa
2015
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A project which imagines a future in which Hollywood and Nollywood fuse and cross-fertilise
Mashup the Archive
2015
with: Nadine Siegert
A series of festivals and exhibitions with Africa-based artists in residence dedicated to activating the archive of the Iwalewahaus
Letter to Lagat
2015
with: Simon Rittmeier
A parable about ownership and loss. The book imagines the vanishing of an entire museum collection and asks what would remain behind
Kenya Navy Sick Bay
2015
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An installation based on a vernacular archive of 300 hand-made, “fake” institutional stamps made by a Mombasa-based stamp carver
Once upon a Time
2013
with: Marcel Odenbach
A video installation which explores belief and identity for four Ugandan Rabbinical students from the Abayudaya community in Mbale
Not in the Title too
2013
with: Sophia Bauer
Inquiry into a Nigerian video archive, part 2. We commissioned Robbie Bresson, a Kenyan film director to produce a Nigerian horror film
Dead Insects In My Parents Pool
2013
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A series of quasi scientific photos (light boxes) of dead insects found in my parents swimming pool
A Life in the Day
2013
with: Slum TV
A series of video works which try to understand how ethnicity is experienced in everyday life in present-day Kenya
Not in the Title
2012
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An immersive video and spatial installation that inserts fake Nollywood films into the Iwalewahaus Nollywood film collection
Logos Of Non-profit Organisations Working In Kenya (Some of Which Are Imaginary)
2012
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A series of silk screen prints which mixes real and fake Kenyan NGO logos
Sustainability. A concept I genuinely believe in, but a word I do not trust
2011
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A streamed performance of representatives of real organisations, and actors representing fictional organisations, discussing sustainability
Ochuo’s Funeral
2011
with: Kevo Stero
The retelling and re-enactment of Ochuo’s Funeral, an iconic event in the recent history of Kianda in Kibera (Nairobi)
Iconic
2011
with: Franziska Lukas
The first solo exhibition of Peter Mwangi Irungu, a Nairobi-based itinerant photographer working with photomontage techniques
Grassroots Upgraded
2011
with: Slum TV
A photography book of LOMO photos, unconventional and unexpected images, documenting life in Mathare, a slum in east Nairobi
Sketches
2010
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A solo exhibition (and artist book) showcasing a collection of contextual artworks in different forms and in differing stages of completion
Afropolis (Nairobi section)
2010
with: Christian Hanussek
An exhibition and research project on five African megacities: Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos
Samson’s Dead Stock: A Matrix of Remembering and Forgetting
2009
with: Samson
An installation made of ‘Dead Stock’ - portraits commissioned by visitors to Nairobi’s Nyayo Monument which they then never picked up
It’s a Pity We Only Exist in the Future
2009
with: African Maximalism
An art exhibition and research project about public space in Nairobi
I Love Nairobi
2009
with: Urban Mirror
Upendo Hero. The hero of love. A public space superhero
Slum TV
2007
with: Julius Mwelu, Alex Nikolic, Fred Otieno, Lukas Pusch
A grassroots media collective based in Mathare, Nairobi
The Seduction of Completion
2006
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I numbered the bricks of an exterior prison wall in Leuven for seven hours a day, over a period of 10 days. I counted 15,776 bricks.
The Naked Snail
2006
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A slug moustache moves across my face
Strings
2006
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Sisal string structures built in the forest which try to evoke shafts of light coming through the trees
6 hours for 6 days
2006
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From 06.09.06 until 11.09.06 for 6 hours a day I sat on a bench in Kuznicza Street in Wroclaw