Grada Kilomba

*1968 / Portugal

Works

Solo exhibitions

Opera to a Black Venus

What would the bottom of the ocean tell us tomorrow, if emptied of water today?

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
20 Nov 2024 – 31 Mar 2025
Opera to a Black Venus

Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden (DE)
21 Jun 2024 – 20 Oct 2024
A World of Illusions

Norval Foundation, Cape Town (ZA)
8 Sep 2022 – 9 Jan 2023
The Words That Were Missing

MCLAUGHLIN Galerie, Berlin (DE)
1 May 2021 – 12 Jun 2021
Illusions

BildMuseet, Umea (SE)
11 Oct 2019 – 8 Mar 2020
Tandem

Grada Kilomba and Mounira Al Solh

Alexander and Bonin, New York (US)
3 May 2019 – 22 Jun 2019
SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (ZA)
17 Mar 2018 – 12 Apr 2018

Group

REVOLTING TIMES

Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
25 Jun 2022 – 23 Oct 2022

with Eglė Budvytytė, Jonathas de Andrade, Silvia Martes
ARS22

Kiasma Museum, Helsinki (FI)
8 Apr 2022 – 16 Oct 2022

with Farah Al Qasimi, Lewis Baltz, Jimmie Durham, Annika Eriksson, Cyprien Gaillard, Tehching Hsieh, Arthur Jafa, Samson Kambalu, Eva Kotatkova, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Frida Orupabo …
The same space three times

Goodman Gallery Cape Town, Cape Town (ZA)
18 Dec 2021 – 26 Jan 2022

with Kudzanai Chiurai, Nicholas Hlobo, William Kentridge
RESIST!

Die Kunst des Widerstands

Rautenstrauch-J.-Museum, Köln (DE)
1 Apr 2021 – 5 Sep 2021

with Kader Attia, Omar Victor Diop, Peter Magubane, Semira Selman
I've grown roses in this garden of mine

INAUGURAL EXHIBITION

Goodman London, London (GB)
3 Oct 2019 – 2 Nov 2019

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Ghada Amer, Kudzanai Chiurai, Gabrielle Goliath, Haroon Gunn-Salie, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Kapwani Kiwanga, Shirin Neshat, Tabita Rezaire, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Mikhael Subotzky …
Acts of Reading

Goodman Gallery Cape Town, Cape Town (ZA)
25 May 2019 – 13 Jul 2019

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mounir Fatmi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, William Kentridge, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kapwani Kiwanga, Shirin Neshat, Tabita Rezaire
In Context / this past was waiting for me / 2018

Goodman Gallery Cape Town, Cape Town (ZA)
30 Aug 2018 – 29 Sep 2018

with Ghada Amer, Yto Barrada, Regina Jose Galindo, Shirin Neshat, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems
32nd Bienal de São Paulo - Incerteza Viva

LIVE UNCERTAINTY

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
10 Sep 2016 – 11 Dec 2016

with Gabriel Abrantes, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Rosa Barba, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Jordan Belson, José Bento, Ursula Biemann, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carolina Caycedo, Jonathas de Andrade …

Events

Kommunikation und Haltung

Fotofestival Berlin, Chemnitz, Basel

HdP Haus des Papiers , Berlin (DE)
3 Jul 2025 – 7 Sep 2025

with Yael Bartana, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Billhardt, Monica Bonvicini, Dominik Butzmann, Christiane Feser, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Olaf Heine, Anne Imhof, Gisoo Kim, Dario J Laganà, Armin Linke …
PHotoEspaña 2021

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
2 Jun 2021 – 30 Sep 2021

with Larry Achiampong, Alfonso, Liza Ambrossio, Paula Anta, Heli Blåfield, Bill Brandt, Candice Breitz, Monica de Miranda, Pia Elizondo, David Goldblatt, Katia Kameli, Kiluanji Kia Henda …
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
7 Feb 2020 – 23 Feb 2020

with Meriem Bennani, Stan Douglas, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ernie Gehr, Paolo Gioli, Yuki Kimura, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Yuki Tawada, Ana Vaz …
Frieze Art Fair 2018

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
5 Oct 2018 – 7 Oct 2018

with Marina Abramovic, Jane Alexander, Vanessa Beecroft, Helen Chadwick, Natalie Czech, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, William Eggleston, Michel Francois, Nilbar Gueres, Luigi Ghirri, Andy Goldsworthy …
The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

We don't need another hero / Mediation / (Ver-)Mittlung

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
9 Jun 2018 – 9 Sep 2018

with Heba Y. Amin, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Mimi Cherono Ng Ok, Tony Cokes, Sara Haq, Liz Johnson Artur, Basir Mahmood, Cinthia Marcelle, Ana Mendieta, Sondra Perry, Mario Pfeifer …
Opera to a Black Venus

Distanz Verlag, Berlin (DE)