International Symposium on Photography & Visual Culture
International Symposium on Photography & Visual Culture
ARCHIVO LAB | Visual Artist 2023
NNENNA ONUOHA
Visual artist
↘ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian scholar and moving-image artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States. At its core, her work asks: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Centering Afrodiasporic voices, her practice revolves around processes of collective re-membering: putting the past together limb by limb. A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to understand how, amidst all of this, we practice care and repair for each other. Nnenna’s work has shown at alpha nova & galerie futura, Galerie im Turm, the Brücke-museum, and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. She is currently a doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University, and Global History at the University of Potsdam.
Research Interests
Public history, memorial cultures, decolonisation, sensory ethnography, Black + queer cinema, experimental nonfiction cinema
Recent work & publications
Forthcoming (Summer 2023) “Striking Against Empire: Ariella Azoulay in Conversation with Nnenna Onuoha.” A Map to Possession Island. K-Verlag. Berlin, DE.
2022 “Beyond Compare: Juxtaposition, Enunciation and African Art in Berlin Museums” Doing Difference in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography. Ed. Sharon Macdonald. Transcript Verlag.
Forthcoming “Censorship and Public Spaces in Times of Monument Removal. Kristina Lekko, Nnenna Onuoha and Niloufar Tajeri in Conversation with Jochen Kibel.” CensorshipandHeritage. University of Weimar.
2022Baby Picture. (2-channel video with sound. 12min)
