Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro
Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro’s work analyses processes of power & science fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles & colonial memory focusing on queer indigenous and feminist biopolitics. The artist creates immersive performative environments for alternative narratives and future speculations of colonial resistance movements led by African women of the German diaspora and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives of testimonial Black queer experiences of sonic nature archives, revolt, queering ecologies and postcolonial feminist experiences towards new monuments which reacts to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. The work offers complex non-binary readings pushing new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of traditional systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records. She has developed frameworks of rituals and healing in performance work that often reveal the entangled colonial histories of migration at site-specific spaces to dismantle prejudices and organise accessible levels of consciousness through testimonial archives of local communities to build independant emancipatory tools for liberation, education, consciousness, intimacy and healing.
Some of their most prominent exhibitions have been at the Dak’Art Biennale (2012,2018) winning 2 awards as well as in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (2013), MOCCA Cape Town (2019), SCESC Museum Sao Paulo (2017), The Havana Bienal Cuba (2021) and Tate Britain London (2015). They also directed & produced their first theatre production & scenography“Vielleicht” with Cédric Djedje in Geneva (2022).
They were curatorial director of performance programmes at SAVVY Contemporary (2016-2019) on black queer feminist & performance programmes, with Speaking Feminisms (2016), We Who Are Not The Same (2017), and Ecologies Of Darkness (2018-2019) amongst many others. They were previously curator of several performance spaces and festivals including TransitStation (2011) and ArtEvict (2008). From 2009, they became Artistic Director and Founder of Squat Museum in Libreville, now MbaLere introducing new practices, forms and interaction between urban and rural spaces on the role of museum in re-thinking traditions, mental health practices and colonial memory. In 2020, they founded Nyabinghi Lab, a platform for creative research projects in urban public spaces and legal protection and advocacy against institutional racial discrimination in the cultural arts in Germany. They are Artistic Director with projects “Grasping Things At The Root; Red Wedding & the Green Revolt” (2022); “Radical Mutation: On The Ruins of Rising Suns” (2020)„The Roots Of Our Hands As Deep As Revolt; Colonial Entanglements of the Green“ (2023) and „Free State Of Barackia: Landscapes of Liberation“ (2021) at ZKU, Kunstquartier Bethanien and HAU Berlin. They are also Artistic Director of “When The Jackal Leaves The Sun: Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of Repossession”(2022), “OplatzBox; 10 Years of the Berlin Refugee Movement” (2022) with Angela Davis and “We Who Move The World Forward” with ACUD MachtNeu (2024). They are the Fellow recipient of the Berliner Künstlerischerforshung Grant (2022), Curatorial Fellow of TURN2 (2022) and programmes co-artistic curator at Haus Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2022).
Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro
Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro’s work analyses processes of power & science fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles & colonial memory focusing on queer indigenous and feminist biopolitics. The artist creates immersive performative environments for alternative narratives and future speculations of colonial resistance movements led by African women of the German diaspora and indigenous communities. Sedimented in narratives of testimonial Black queer experiences of sonic nature archives, revolt, queering ecologies and postcolonial feminist experiences towards new monuments which reacts to the different tones of societies shared between delusions & ritual. The work offers complex non-binary readings pushing new investigations about the architectures of racisms in cities, the archeologies of urban spaces & economies of traditional systems by exposing the limitations of technologies as functional memory records. She has developed frameworks of rituals and healing in performance work that often reveal the entangled colonial histories of migration at site-specific spaces to dismantle prejudices and organise accessible levels of consciousness through testimonial archives of local communities to build independant emancipatory tools for liberation, education, consciousness, intimacy and healing.
Some of their most prominent exhibitions have been at the Dak’Art Biennale (2012,2018) winning 2 awards as well as in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (2013), MOCCA Cape Town (2019), SCESC Museum Sao Paulo (2017), The Havana Bienal Cuba (2021) and Tate Britain London (2015). They also directed & produced their first theatre production & scenography“Vielleicht” with Cédric Djedje in Geneva (2022).
They were curatorial director of performance programmes at SAVVY Contemporary (2016-2019) on black queer feminist & performance programmes, with Speaking Feminisms (2016), We Who Are Not The Same (2017), and Ecologies Of Darkness (2018-2019) amongst many others. They were previously curator of several performance spaces and festivals including TransitStation (2011) and ArtEvict (2008). From 2009, they became Artistic Director and Founder of Squat Museum in Libreville, now MbaLere introducing new practices, forms and interaction between urban and rural spaces on the role of museum in re-thinking traditions, mental health practices and colonial memory. In 2020, they founded Nyabinghi Lab, a platform for creative research projects in urban public spaces and legal protection and advocacy against institutional racial discrimination in the cultural arts in Germany. They are Artistic Director with projects “Grasping Things At The Root; Red Wedding & the Green Revolt” (2022); “Radical Mutation: On The Ruins of Rising Suns” (2020)„The Roots Of Our Hands As Deep As Revolt; Colonial Entanglements of the Green“ (2023) and „Free State Of Barackia: Landscapes of Liberation“ (2021) at ZKU, Kunstquartier Bethanien and HAU Berlin. They are also Artistic Director of “When The Jackal Leaves The Sun: Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of Repossession”(2022), “OplatzBox; 10 Years of the Berlin Refugee Movement” (2022) with Angela Davis and “We Who Move The World Forward” with ACUD MachtNeu (2024). They are the Fellow recipient of the Berliner Künstlerischerforshung Grant (2022), Curatorial Fellow of TURN2 (2022) and programmes co-artistic curator at Haus Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2022).