MARK is a group exhibition dedicated to drawing as a central mode of expression. Featuring 25 artists, the show celebrates drawing in its many forms – from traditional mark-making to experimental, expanded approaches. Each piece exemplifies drawing as both practice and possibility.
My work Beautiful Decay (2015) is showing in the cross-collection exhibition Plants and People.
“Plants and People brings into dialogue works from the respective collections of the Frac des Pays de la Loire and the Musée d’arts de Nantes—photographs, drawings, sculptures, and paintings—created by artists from different periods. This cross-perspective explores the notions of conservation and preservation, which are fundamental to museums, through the metaphor of plant life. A poetic and peaceful plea, Plants and People brings together works that capture the relationship between plants and people, revealing invisible tensions, the resilience of fragility, the precarious balance of living systems, and the desire to preserve what may be destined to disappear.”
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The exhibition at the Frac des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou runs from January 30 to April 26, 2026.
My sound piece, Obirin (2017), is featured in the exhibition “Ex Africa semper aliquid novi” at the YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Azerbaijan.
Presented under the title “Nigerian Languages,” the installation is part of a group exhibition that “celebrates Africa’s extraordinary diversity of artistic expression while exploring its cultural, political, and aesthetic narratives.”
Curator: Alfons Hug
Opening: 27 November, 19:00
Meet the Artists: 18:00
📍 YARAT Contemporary Art Space
🗓 Exhibition dates: 27.11.2025 – 05.04.2026
🎟 Free admission
My textile work Rhizome, 2025 and Video Installation Pilgrimage, 2018 are showing as part of the Rhizomatic Portals: Ways of Knowing exhibition at the 18th International Triennial of Textile in Central Textile Museum in Łódź, Poland.
“Rhizomatic Portals: Ways of Knowing emerges from a laudable desire to close gaps with a distant other, not as a starting point but as a continuity of previously established relations. It is a web of non-linear narratives and varied artistic forms integrating textile elements, textile production processes and new media. The constellation of works by women artists of different generations emphasises the importance of self-stories and emotions, lost practices of land regeneration, spiritual and cosmic philosophies, women’s labour, heritage, contemporary imagination oftraditional cultural practices and textile techniques, an examination of textile motifs, local histories and the essence of textile to personhood and cultural belongingness…”
Curated by Bukola Oyebode-Westerhuis
Exhibition opens from October 11, 2025 – April 12, 2026.
My work is showing as part of the “worlds un/making” exhibition in Bayreuth.
The Exhibition focuses on social, political, economic, and ecological transformation processes and the resulting practical challenges in the 21st century. The topic of “worlds un/making” relates to creating/imagining/building futures central to thinking about the world “from the vantage point of Africa” (Membe 2023) and not to see Africa as a world apart.
Exhibition opens Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 3:00 pm
May 15 – July 11, 2025
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10 am-6 pm
I am delighted to a part of ways of existing (becoming-ongoing) exhibition.
Vernissage: 10. August, 18h
Finissage: 19. August, 18h
Duration: 10.08 – 20.08
Location:
KunstWerk e.V. Deutz
Mülheimer Straße 115
51063 Köln
About the Exhibition:
ways of existing (becoming-ongoing) begins with processes of writing as an embodied practice, where to write-in-time is to also re-member the breaths of grandmothers, aunts, heroines, reptiles, …, and blood relatives as active participants in the writing of history. It is a gesture of resistance and a celebratory dance that allows us to imagine, plant, project, mould, map, narrate, sing, draw, dream and carve out our own future histories.
In a world where systems of knowledge production continue to focus on individualised progress, the process of creating this exhibition has demanded and required a continuous negotiating of where the “self” begins or ends, how shared experiences of marginalisation echo across geographies, and how systems of power continue to inform ways in which each of these echoes reverberates.
The works on the exhibition go beyond recollections of past and present. They merge to imagine future landscapes built out of diary entries, hauntings, historical archives, wishes, and memories that are as fragile as they are certain. To embody the process of becoming-ongoing, the artists employed uncertainty, opacity, play, and fragility as strategies to counter and de-link from forceful and often oppressive political systems brought on by coloniality, racism, imperialism, and existing forms of exploitation. These strategies and gestures also mirror and emphasise the everyday existence of those affected, including human and non-human forms, both living and no longer with us.
To evoke ways of existing as an ongoing state of becoming is to simultaneously break linearity while interrupting the notion of a clear centre and margin. It is to oscillate between various selves in order to multiply resistances while escaping predictability. It is, most importantly, to insist on healing in order to continue to survive.
Prof. donna Kukama
Participating artists:
Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú
Cate Lartey
Dilara Raika
Hojin Lee
Ivonne Sheen Mogollón
Jazmin Rojas Forero
Johanna Schütt
Mary Mikaelyan
Sebastian Jaimes Marin
Tania Licheuskaya
This exhibition concludes the four-part series “Beings & Creatures”.
It started in March 2022 with endangered species “On Damaged Earth”,
among others. Chapter 4 is dedicated to the sphere of the
intangible, the transcendental and the spiritual.
The works of the participating artists trace the forces that
influence the course of the world, situate deities of past times in
the present, reproduce mythological figures, lend ritual practices
a contemporary face or expose figures in free-flowing forms.
Participating artists:
Vero Córdoba & Marina Stiegler • Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz
Nina Markart • Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú • Mariel R. Rodríguez • Ádám Ulbert
Arnold Reinisch • Susanne Wenger • Dardan Zhegrova
Opening: Friday, 10. March, 2023, 18:00 to 24:00
Opening ceremony: 20:00
Performance by: Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz
More info: https://www.rotor.mur.at/frameset_aktuell-eng.html
I am delighted to be part of the 2022 JAOU PHOTO festival!
This year, along with 15 photography and moving image exhibitions in eclectic and historic sites around Tunis, Jaou Photo expands to the streets to reach the soul of the capital.
‘Our Time, Even in Dreams’ brings together sixty artists and photographers from around the world, who look at the embodied human experience.
Their images will appear in two forms native to the city – scattered on advertising billboards, and as a whole on the Avenue Habib Bourguiba, in the heart of Tunis.
JAOU PHOTO – OCTOBER 6 TO 20
Curated by Karim Sultan
The 6th edition of Jaou is organized by Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF) and the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT).
RHIZOME IS A MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION CONSISTING OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSEMBLAGES, VIDEO INSTALLATIONS AND SOUND. IT DEALS WITH PERSONAL ARTISTIC ARCHIVES.
THE INSTALLATION EXPLORES THE POSSIBLE NEW MEANINGS THAT ARISE WHEN PLACING THEM IN DIFFERENT CONSTELLATIONS. FOR THIS PROJECT, ADÉOLÁ OLÁGÚNJÚ TAKES UP HER OWN PRIMARY ARTISTIC MATERIAL WITH NEW QUESTIONS AND ADDS TO THE EXISTING ARCHIVE FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE THAT AIMS TO CREATE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN AND EXPERIENCED. ADÉỌLÁ ỌLÁGÚNJÚ WORKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, SOUND AND INSTALLATIONS. A LARGE PART OF HER ARTISTIC WORK DEALS WITH THE SELF, MEMORY, SPIRITUALITY, HEALING AND THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE.
HER WORK HAS BEEN SHOWN AT FESTIVALS, MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN MANY COUNTRIES. SHE HAS RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS.
MORE AT: https://www.neuer-kunstverein-wuppertal.de
We invite photographers, video artists, filmmakers and writers to submit an application for Mapping New Bodies: A Workshop with Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú.
Date: March 8-10, 2022
Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm WAT
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lagos
You will be expected to be fully available for all three days of the workshop.
The application deadline is on February 9th.
For more information on how to apply, please visit our website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/ng/en/kul/sup/mnb.html
This workshop is limited to a maximum number of 15 participants & intended for and open to women/females only.
