The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar)

*1967,1968 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

A Hand of Light Caressed My Eyelids

greengrassi, London (GB)
4 Jun 2026 – 25 Jul 2026
A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
26 Sep 2024 – 30 Mar 2025
A Massive Concentration of Black Experiential Energy

Neubauer Collegium, Chicago (US)
27 Sep 2024 – 10 Jan 2025
Xenogenesis

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
7 Jul 2022 – 12 Feb 2023
What the Owl Knows

Wiener Secession, Wien (AT)
19 Nov 2022 – 5 Feb 2023
O Horizon

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
23 Jun 2022 – 9 Oct 2022
Xenogenesis

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
9 Oct 2020 – 17 Jan 2021
Xenogenesis

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (CA)
26 Sep 2020 – 15 Nov 2020
Xenogenesis

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
25 May 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
Novaya Zemlya (New Earth)

Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
1 Nov 2014 – 11 Jan 2015
In the Year of the Quiet Sun

The Delfina Foundation, London (GB)
14 Oct 2014 – 8 Nov 2014
In the Year of the Quiet Sun

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
17 Jan 2014 – 9 Mar 2014
Thoughtform

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti, Roma (IT)
7 Oct 2011 – 5 Feb 2012
Thoughtform

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
4 Feb 2011 – 29 May 2011
A long time between suns

The Showroom, London (GB)
9 Sep 2009 – 24 Oct 2009
A Long Time Between Suns

Gasworks, London (GB)
15 Feb 2009 – 5 Apr 2009
A Long Time Between Suns

Gasworks, London (GB)
15 Feb 2009 – 5 Apr 2009
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Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
27 Mar 2007 – 26 May 2007

Group

Genossin Sonne

Kunsthalle Dortmund, Dortmund (DE)
13 Sep 2025 – 18 Jan 2026

with Sonia Leimer, Maha Maamoun, Otto Piene, Marina Pinsky, Agnieszka Polska, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Katharina Sieverding, Suzanne Treister, Anton Vidokle, Gwenola Wagon, Zhiyuan Yang
Genossin Sonne

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
16 May 2024 – 1 Sep 2024

with Sonia Leimer, Maha Maamoun, Marina Pinsky, Katharina Sieverding, Huda Takriti, Suzanne Treister, Anton Vidokle, Gwenola Wagon, Hajra Waheed
TECHNO WORLDS

Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (DE)
5 May 2024 – 28 Jul 2024

with Tony Cokes, Aleksandra Domanovic, Loretta Fahrenholz, Ryoji Ikeda, Maryam Jafri, Robert Lippok, M+M (Marc Weis + Martin De Mattia), Vinca Petersen, Daniel Pflumm, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Jeremy Shaw, Tobias Zielony
TECHNO WORLDS / THE PULSE OF TECHNO

Techno Culture in two exhibitions at Photobastei

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
11 Jan 2024 – 31 Mar 2024

with Tony Cokes, Ryoji Ikeda, Tom Kawara, Robert Lippok, Hitori Ni, Carsten Nicolai, Rita Palanikumar, Vinca Petersen, Daniel Pflumm, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Jeremy Shaw, Jules Spinatsch …
Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment

Curated by Jessica Edwards

Alexander Levy Galerie , Berlin (DE)
27 Jan 2024 – 28 Mar 2024

with Stephanie Comilang, Ayesha Hameed, Fabian Knecht, Mischa Leinkauf, Nik Nowak, Julius von Bismarck
Drum Listens to Heart

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (US)
1 Sep 2022 – 4 Mar 2023

with Francis Alys, Trisha Donnelly, Em'Kal Eyongakpa, Marcos Avila Forero, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Rose Lowder, Lee Lozano, Harold Mendez, Lucy Raven, Michael E. Smith, Haegue Yang …
This language that is every stone

IMA - Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
12 Feb 2022 – 16 Apr 2022

with Megan Cope, Manthia Diawara, Taloi Havini, Koo Jeong-A, Vernon Ah Kee, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Philippe Parreno, Raqs Media Collective, Khaled Sabsabi, Anri Sala
Not Without Joy

Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha (CZ)
20 Nov 2021 – 20 Feb 2022

with Ufuoma Essi, Frida Orupabo, Kara Walker
hybrID

Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
3 Sep 2019 – 17 Nov 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Taysir Batniji, James Bridle, Aleksandra Domanovic, Raqs Media Collective, Guan Xiao
Undefined Territories. Reflections on Postcolonialism

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
17 May 2019 – 20 Oct 2019

with Maria Thereza Alves, Lothar Baumgarten, Sandra Gamarra, Maryam Jafri, Kapwani Kiwanga, Naeem Mohaiemen, Daniela Ortiz, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Munem Wasif
bauhaus imaginista

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
15 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

with Kader Attia, Zvi Efrat, Kenneth Josephson, Gyoergy Kepes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lygia Pape, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Andy Warhol, Iwao Yamawaki
SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
23 Feb 2019 – 2 Jun 2019

with Sofia Crespo, Natalie Czech, Shawne Michaelain Holloway, Stefan Karrer, Gene Kogan, Clare Strand, Maddie Varner
A Lost Future

Rubin Museum of Art, New York (US)
5 Oct 2018 – 4 Feb 2019

with Matti Braun, Shezad Dawood
An Oceanic Feeling

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (NZ)
4 Aug 2018 – 18 Nov 2018

with Peggy Ahwesh, Filipa Cesar, Louis Henderson, Allan Sekula
Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention

Kunsthalle Dortmund, Dortmund (DE)
21 Oct 2017 – 22 Apr 2018

with John Akomfrah, Neil Beloufa, Cristina De Middel, Louis Henderson, Wanuri Kahiu, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kapwani Kiwanga, Fabrice Monteiro, Wangechi Mutu, Tabita Rezaire, Soda_Jerk
13. Forum Expanded / 13th Forum Expanded

Berlin International Film Festival

Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
15 Feb 2018 – 26 Feb 2018

with James Benning, Laura Horelli, Jane Jin Kaisen, Nesrine Khodr, Jen Liu
Sharjah Biennial 13 Act I

Tamawuj

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
10 Mar 2017 – 12 Jun 2017

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Abbas Akhavan, Kader Attia, Ismail Bahri, Yto Barrada, Abdelkader Benchamma, Ursula Biemann, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Mariana Castillo Deball, Jonathas de Andrade, Koo Donghee, Inci Eviner …
11th Gwangju Biennale 2016

The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
2 Sep 2016 – 6 Nov 2016

with Ahmet Oeguet, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ruth Buchanan, Tania Pérez Córdova, Matias Faldbakken, Dora Garcia, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg , Ane Hjort Guttu, Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Rhil Jewyo, Gunilla Klingberg, Christopher Kulendran Thomas …
10th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography

TELLING TIME

Maison Africaine Photo, Bamako (ML)
31 Oct 2015 – 31 Dec 2015

with Hela Ammar, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Ismail Bahri, Steeve Bauras, Khalfa Besma Djemila, Filipe Branquinho, Seydou Camara, Mimi Cherono Ng Ok, Emmanuel Bakary Daou, Monica de Miranda, Bakary Diallo, Em'Kal Eyongakpa …
Time / Image

Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (US)
28 Sep 2015 – 29 Dec 2015

with John Akomfrah, Matthew Buckingham, Andrea Geyer, Leslie Hewitt, Isaac Julien, Chris Marker, Trevor Paglen, Raqs Media Collective, Semiconductor, Gary Simmons, Hito Steyerl, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cut to Swipe

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
11 Oct 2014 – 22 Mar 2015

with Dara Birnbaum, Chris Marker, Ken Okiishi, James Richards, Hito Steyerl, George Woodman
Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013

Screenings Sun 15h + Mon 19h

Tate Britain, London (GB)
23 Nov 2013 – 15 Mar 2014

with John Akomfrah, Jananne Al-Ani, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Ed Atkins, Clio Barnard, Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Phil Collins, Shezad Dawood, Tacita Dean, Luke Fowler, Gail Pickering …
The Shadows Took Shape

Studio Museum Harlem, New York (US)
14 Nov 2013 – 11 Mar 2014

with John Akomfrah, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, William Cordova, Cristina De Middel, Khaled Hafez, Wangechi Mutu, Larissa Sansour
Doppelte Ökonomien - Vom Lesen eines Fotoarchivs aus der DDR (1967-1990)

Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (DE)
22 Jun 2013 – 3 Aug 2013

with Seiichi Furuya, Reinhard Mende, Allan Sekula
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
22 Feb 2013 – 22 May 2013

with Bani Abidi, Poklong Anading, Amar Kanwar, Moataz M. Nasr
The Taipei Biennial 2012

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (TW)
29 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013

with Adam Avikainen, Eric Baudelaire, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Hanne Darboven, Juan Downey, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Ken Jacobs, Maryam Jafri …
The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
15 Oct 2011 – 29 Jan 2012

with Ayisha Abraham, Nikhil Chopra, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Dhruv Malhotra, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Bharat Sikka, Anup Mathew Thomas
11th Biennale de Lyon, A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Biennale de Lyon , Lyon (FR)
15 Sep 2011 – 31 Dec 2011

with Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Zbynek Baladran, Ernesto Ballesteros, Francois Bucher, Aurelien Froment, Guillaume Leblon, Laurent Montaron, Edgar Morin, Jose Alejandro Restrepo, Tracey Rose, Javier Tellez
Videonale 13 - Festival für zeitgenössische Videokunst

Videonale, Bonn (DE)
14 Apr 2011 – 29 May 2011

with Shimon Attie, Anna Baumgart, Janet Biggs, Ascan Breuer, Daya Cahen, Keren Cytter, Shezad Dawood, John di Stefano, Sam Easterson, Peter Freund, Christoph Girardet, Nate Harrison …
Turner Prize 10

Tate Britain, London (GB)
5 Oct 2010 – 3 Jan 2011

with Susan Philipsz
29th Bienal de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
25 Sep 2010 – 12 Dec 2010

with Albano Afonso, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Miguel Angel Rojas, Qiu Anxiong, Kutluğ Ataman, Pedro Barateiro, Yto Barrada, Artur Barrio, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji …
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Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di, Trento (IT)
19 Mar 2010 – 6 Jun 2010

with Robert Kusmirowski
Anomalies: From Nature to the Future

Rossi & Rossi Ltd, London (GB)
17 Jun 2009 – 31 Jul 2009

with Hamra Abbas, Jaishri Abichandani, Maria Benjamin, Chitra Ganesh, Neeta Madahar, Mithu Sen
Just in Time

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
1 Dec 2006 – 11 Mar 2007

with Adam Avikainen, Germaine Kruip
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS 2)

BIACS Biennial Foundation of Contemporar, Sevilla (ES)
26 Oct 2006 – 8 Jan 2007

with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lara Almarcegui, Tete Álvarez, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Julie Becker, Ursula Biemann, James Casebere, Jacobo Castellano, Nose Chan, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Hannah Collins …
Ecotopia : the Second ICP Triennal of Photography and Video

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
14 Sep 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Wout Berger, Patrick Brown, Catherine Chalmers, Stéphane Couturier, Yannick Demmerle, Goran Devic, Sam Easterson, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta …
Subcontingente // Sub-contingent

The South Asian Subcontinent in Contemporary art

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
29 Jun 2006 – 8 Oct 2006

with Shilpa Gupta, Runa Islam, Amar Kanwar, Sonia Khurana, Raqs Media Collective, Sharmila Samant, Dayanita Singh, Kiran Subbaiah
Dreams of Space

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
19 Mar 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Evgeni Nesterov, Carey Young
10th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women

Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana (SI)
1 Oct 2004 – 22 Oct 2004

with Peggy Ahwesh, Dara Birnbaum, Shilpa Gupta, Olga Kisselva, Ruth Mader, Nirmal Puwar, Suzanne Treister, Alicja Zebrowska
OUR HOUSE IS A HOUSE THAT MOVES

Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (SI)
7 May 2004 – 11 Jun 2004

with Aydan Murtezaoglu, Tobias Putrih, Sislej Xhafa
Fly Utopia . transmediale 04

transmediale, Berlin (DE)
31 Jan 2004 – 4 Feb 2004

with Yael Bartana, Robert Cahen, Seoungho Cho, Anouk De Clercq, Harun Farocki, Frank Westermeyer & Sylvie Boisseau, Christoph Girardet, Niklas Goldbach, Jean Francois Guiton, Shilpa Gupta, ZHOU Hongxiang, Bjoern Melhus …

Events

EXPOSED. Torino Foto Festival

New Landscapes - Turin’s New International Festival of Photography

EXPOSED, Torino (IT)
2 May 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Shahidul Alam, Graeme Arnfield, Marwa Arsanios, Mathieu Asselin, Fabio Barile, Botto & Bruno, James Bridle, Robert Capa, Lorenzo Castore, Laura Cinti, Monica de Miranda, Paolo Pellion di Persano …
Miart 2024

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
12 Apr 2024 – 14 Apr 2024

with Marina Abramovic, Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Jennifer Bornstein, Fatma Bucak, Moyra Davey, Haris Epaminonda, Christian Fogarolli, Regina Jose Galindo, Silvia Giambrone, Dan Graham …
The 12th African Biennale of Photography

Bamako Encounters - Streams of Consciousness

Maison Africaine Photo, Bamako (ML)
30 Nov 2019 – 31 Jan 2020

with Felicia Abban, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Jodi Bieber, Katia Bourdarel, Adji Dieye, Theaster Gates, Eric Gyamfi, Francoise Huguier, Adama Jalloh, Uchechukwa James Iroha, Liz Johnson Artur …
Sharjah Biennial 14

Leaving the Echo Chamber

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sophia Al-Maria, Marwa Arsanios, Leo Asemota, Ursula Biemann, Hannah Black, Mohamed Bourouissa, Candice Breitz, Adriana Bustos, Ian Cheng, Christopher Cozier, Shezad Dawood …
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018

Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN)
12 Dec 2018 – 29 Mar 2019

with Brook Andrew, Tania Bruguera, Nathan Coley, SONG Dong, Valie Export, Chitra Ganesh, Chandan Gomes, Guerrilla Girls, Shilpa Gupta, Sunil Gupta, Rula Halawani, Sunil Janah …
11th Gwangju Biennale 2016

The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
2 Sep 2016 – 6 Nov 2016

with Ahmet Oeguet, Dora Garcia, Ann Lislegaard, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl
e-flux video rental

e-flux, New York (US)
15 Sep 2004 – 15 Mar 2005

with Nevin Aladag, Tiong Ang, Michel Auder, Miriam Baeckstroem, Loulou Cherinet, Olga Chernysheva, Jeremy Deller, Trisha Donnelly, Alicia Framis, Gilbert & George, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Teresa Margolles …
Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013

Questions Of Progress I

Tate Britain, London (GB)

with Jane & Louise Wilson