Sandra Mujinga
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Education
2013 – 2015
Malmö Art Academy (Lund University), Master
2014
Textual Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2010 – 2013
Malmö Art Academy (Lund University), Bachelor
2008 – 2010
Einar Granum School of Art, 3‑Dimensional Techniques, Oslo
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (upcoming)
2024
Time as a Shield, Kunsthalle Basel
2023
Fleeting Home, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Love Language, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
2022
IBMSWR: I Build My Skin With Rocks, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Closed Space, Open World, Malmö Konsthall
Lack, Sandefjord Kunstforening, Sandefjord
Solo Oslo, MUNCH, Oslo
2021
Sandra Mujinga, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg
Worldview, Swiss Institute, New York
Spectral Keepers, The Approach, London
2020
Midnight, Vleeshal, Middelburg
2019
SONW – Shadow Of New Worlds, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
AMNESIA? AMNESIA?, Noplace, Oslo
Seasonal Pulses, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
2018
Hoarse Globules, UKS, Oslo
Calluses, Tranen, Copenhagen
2016
Lovely Hosts, MAVRA, Berlin
Real Friends, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2015
Rare Darlings, master graduate show at KHM gallery, Malmö
2014
Lime/Bodybuilding/Hype/Discipline, Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
2013
Make Me Like You, with Linda Spjut, CEO Gallery, Malmö
2012
Reflection and Reflective Practice, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Almost Like To Flog a Dead Horse, Podium, Oslo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Post Scriptum: a museum forgotten by heart, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome
Black Ancient Futures, MAAT, Lisbon
Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiew
Artificial Optimism, Den Frie Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Forms of the Surrounding Futures, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
Wild Grass: Our Lives, 8th Yokahama Triennale, Yokohama
Soft Power, Das Minsk Kunsthaus, Potsdam
Loving the Alien, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2023
Forms of the Surrounding Future, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Gothenburg
Poetry for Revolutions: A Group Show with Manifestos and Proposals, Instituto Svizzero, Rome
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Collection 1970s–Present, MoMA, New York (ongoing)
Antéfutur, CAPC, Bordeaux
Human Is, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Signals: How Video Transformed the World, MoMA, New York
2022
TWILIGHT LAND, Moderna Museet, Malmö
EUROPA, Oxalá, Musée Royale de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren
Pervasive Light: Works from MoMA’s Media and Performance Collection, MoMa, Seoul
Angst, Tønder Art Museum, Tønder
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
EUROPA, Oxalá, Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisbon
2021
Safe House, Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Our Silver City, 2094, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Soft Water Hard Stone, The New Museum Triennial, New York
Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
TECHNO, Fondazione Museion, Bolzano
Sensing Nature, MOMENTA, Biennale de l’image, Montréal
Liquid Life, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
Sandefjord Kunstforening Art Prize 2021, Sandefjord Kunstforening, Sandefjord
EUROPA, Oxalá, MUCEM, Marseille
The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, LA
Symbiotic Agencies, 3hd Festival, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
2020
Who Are We Are Who, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne
Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
STUDIO BERLIN, Boros Foundation / Berghain, Berlin
Beyond the Black Atlantic, Kunstverein Hannover
2019
Encounters-Nordic Photography Beyond Borders, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
Tempo Tempo Tempo, Kistefosmuseet, Jevnaker
Shapeshifters, The Approach, London
OpenArt, Örebro
Encounters-Nordic Photography Beyond Borders,Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
2018
KlubRå, Roskilde festival, Denmark
Face of Another, Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
Voyage,Tropez, Berlin
Vibrant Matter, SAK – Svendborg Amts Kunstbygning, Svendborg
Coronation, Horse & Pony, Berlin
2017
Subjektiv, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Hverdagen, Kristiansand Kunsthall
Skip Zone, Magenta Plains, New York
APPARATUS–Technologies of Persuasion, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Subjektiv, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland-museet, Oslo
2016
EKPGO, Tegnebiennalen, Oslo
Missed Connections, JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Düsseldorf
Dog.Piss.Protection.Attachments., L‑Project Space, Beijing
Fredrik Roos, Moderna Museum, Malmö
EN KOLLEKTIV PSYKOGEOGRAFISK GUIDE TIL OSLO, Drawing biennalen 2016, Oslo
F‑holes (Humble Habits Domestic Monuments pt. 2), HHDM, New York
Intersections, (w/the Girls of the Internet Museum), Tensquared gallery
2015
Swimminal Poolitics, dis Magazine (Online)
NeverWinter: BorderLands, organised by Agatha Valkyrie Ice and Daniel Iinatti, Dragon’s Lair, Stockholm
Kenosis, Halmlagret, Copenhagen
Bomber, Gallery Loyal, Stockholm
We will push the ship ashore and let it drift towards the darkest of oceans, Malmö Art Museum
The Examples, Arts & Globalization Conference, Copenhagen
The Hot Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2014
Phenomenal, Kunstschlager Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
Lumba Kuda, Window, Auckland, New Zealand
FIGHT#7, Center, Berlin
2013
DNB Bank Art Grant foundation, Oslo Kunstforening/Art association
Bachelor exhibition, KHM gallery, Malmö
Places of Bourn, Tiril Hasselknippe feat. Emelie Sandström & Sandra Mujinga, Toves Galleri, Copenhagen
2012
Garden Show, Penang, Malaysia
Ann Cathrin November Høibo: It’s Not the Title Because it Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore, Oslo Kunstforening/Art association
Prøverommet, Gallery Knipsu, Bergen
July, CEO gallery, Malmö
Dear Gertrud, Gallery Pleasant, Copenhagen
2011
Destroy, She Said; Inter Arts Discourse and Production, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Edge of Glory, CEO, Gallery, Malmö
PANG AEA, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Selected performances
2018
Live soundtrack: NaEE RoBErts x The place of Dead Roads, a film by Joachim Koester, Bergen Kunsthall
Nocturnal Kinship, Grüner Salon (Volksbühne), invited by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, Berlin
2017
NaEE RoBErts, Thora Dolven Balke, Alt Som Puster, Konspirerer, (UKS), Kunstnernes Hus
Opaque Poetics, curated by NKISI, Wysing Arts Center, Cambridge
CAROLINE, with Linda Spjut, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
Performance event with: Hot Pocket-Tori Wrånes, National Museum of Art, Oslo
2016
Simulation 2. AUTO FLT AP OFF, X AND BEYOND, Copenhagen
Safety First, Total Institution, SMK Friday, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2015
When I Stopped Playing Hard to Get, Soft City, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
EMELIE, Sommarscen Malmö, in collaboration with Linda Spjut
The Polyphonic Host, Signal, Malmö
General Booty Of Work, Toves Reports from Venice, Venice
Pillow, Future Legends, Palladium, Malmö
YOU ARE INVITED, Center of Contemporary Art, Lagos
SOPHIEwith Linda Spjut, Sikås Art Center, Sikås
2014
Space Is Transience, PLX Kirseberg Kontemporära Kunsthall, Malmö
ANNA, with Linda Spjut, Inkonst, Malmö
KAH BEE with Linda Spjut, Phenomenal, The Icelandic Sculpture Society, Reykjavík
I can delete it, it is not happening now, Soft City, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
NaEE RoBErts/Sandra Mujinga, Ve.sch, Vienna
SHOWROOM, with Linda Spjut, Showroom, Malmö
2013
Jacob Wren, BAND NIGHT, Skånes Konstforening, Malmö with Linda Spjut
Relay Logics, Claudia del Fierro,Critical and Pedagogical Studies, Inkonst, Malmö
Live Screening, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen
Embassy/Friday/Casuals/CEO/Sandra Mujinga, Inkonst, Malmö
2012
NaEE RoBErts, Skrammel, Inkonst, Malmö
Somebody that I used to know, book launch for “Kollektivet” by Ingrid Furre, Oslo
Support for HYPE WILLIAMS, collaboration with Ken Ood, Inkonst, Malmö
Zobah, radio gallery, Neu, radio Nova, Oslo
4 Love Songs, Konsthall Passagen, Linköping
Madots, La liberté fantasmaticque, exhibition by Karen Gimle, Rummet/Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö
A Week Before The Frantz Reichelt Thing, TIMES Bar, Berlin
2011
Hair Food, Malmö Festival
Ska vi plocka körsbär i min trädgård… Skånes konstforening, Malmö
Zobah, Theaterens Natt, Kontrapunkt, Malmö
Zobah, ANY LANGUAGE FOR A COMMON EXPERIENCE, exhibition by Karen Gimle, KHM Gallery Malmö
2010
Strange Age art festival, Podium, Oslo
Grants
2020
National Gallery Prize, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2018
Working grant, Kulturrådet
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet
2017
Cultiva Ekspress
International exchange, Iaspis– Konstnärsnämnden
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet
Exhibition grant, Vederlagsfondet
2016
International exchange, Iaspis– Konstnärsnämnden
Exhibition grant, Kulturrådet
Exhibition grant, Vederlagsfondet
Fredrik Roos Stipendiet
2015
Diversestipend for Nyutdannede Kunstnere, Kulturrådet
Travel grant, OCA (CCA, Lagos)
2013
DNB Bank Art Grant foundation
Artist Talks
2018
Art World Talk | Sexism in the Art World with Hannah Weinberger, Julieta Aranda and Elvia Wilk, Art Basel
Conversation with Donna Kukama, Amanda Umuhire, Mayowa and Maggie Coker, invited by Lavender Wolf, Weissensee academy of art , Berlin
2017
Malmö Fotobiennal: The Society of the Spectacle, Malmö Konsthall
2016
Superslick Surfaces, Overgaden Lecture series, Overgaden, Copenhagen
Why Do We Need Idols, When We Have Eachother?, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2015
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
2014
Sikås Art Center, Sikås
Publications
2024
Loving the Alien, exhibition catalogue, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2023
Signals: How Video Transformed the World, exhibition catalogue, MoMA, New York
IBMSWR: I Build My Skin With Rocks, exhibition catalogue, Distanz Verlag, Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2022
Europa Oxalá, exhibition catalogue, Edições Afrontamento, Mucem
2020
SONW – Shadow of New Worlds, texts by Sandra Mujinga, Wong Bing Hao, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Olamiju Fajemisin, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor. Co-published by Bergen Kunsthall and Vleeshal
2019
TEMPO TEMPO TEMPO, ed. by Rhea Dall, Kistefos
2017
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Image Spread, Identity Politics Now, September 2017, Berlin
2014
Grafters’ Quarterly, ‘Improvising Logics’ (first issue), Bergen
Ve.Sch Heft, Nr.19 & 20, Vienna
SSTLT-115919758, coeval.gen.in, Berlin
Back to Basics, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
2013
Writing and Indifference, edited by Philip Gurrey and Johnny Herberted
I Love You 100% Yes I Do, Grafters’ Quarterly
A present in print, If I can’t dance workshop, Copenhagen Art Festival
Selected press
2024
Mutambu, Tendai John, “Sandra Mujinga: ‘I felt a very urgent need to gather people’ ”, Ocula, November
José de Souza, Bernardo, “Of Shadows”, Flash Art, September
2023
Goldstein, Andrew, Review, “10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2023”, Artnet, June
Hardt, Oliver “Xenogenesis”, Texte zur Kunst, Juni
Isyukov, Anton“In the Studio: Sandra Mujinga”, Collectors Agenda, April
Geymüller, Maximilian, “Five Star Review: Sandra Mujinga”, Spike, March
Rosengarten, Magnus Elias,“Sandra Mujinga”, Artforum, March
Buhr, Elke, “Die Künstlerin Sandra Mujinga. Portale in eine andere Welt”, Monopol, January
2022
Kirszenbaum, Martha,“Sandra Mujinga”, Cura 38, May
Brown, Kate, “How Sandra Mujinga Navigates the Mixed Emotions of Being a Black Artist on the Rise”, ArtNet, April
Vermeulen, Timotheus, “Sandra Mujinga, Munch Museet”, Artforum, March
2021
Sumba, Eric Otieno, “Sandra Mujinga”, Frieze, April
Mak, Geoffrey, “Sandra Mujinga, Alien Bodies”, Kaleidoscope
2020
Chan, Hera, “Sandra Mujinga Sheds a Light on a Troubled Dutch Past”, Frieze, November
Franchini, Attilia Fattori, “Transforming Darkness Into a Space of Agency: Sandra Mujinga”, Mousse, June
2019
Bernhoft-Sjødin, Lisa, “On the Edge of Isolation”, objektiv.no, January
2018
Hao, Wong Bing, “Strategies for Survival: Wong Bing Hao examines the unconditional life & perishable presence of Sandra Mujinga’s Hoarse Globules”, AQNB, August
Yazdani, Sara R., “Critics’ Picks”, Artforum, August
“Retter blikket mot de usynlige”, Dagsavisen, July
Ugelvig, Jeppe, “Portrait: Sandra Mujinga”, Spike, July
Helsvig, Simen Joachim, “Kroppen er hudens fôr”, Kunstkritikk.no, June
Flatø, Emil, “Sandra Mujinga sender postkort fra fremtiden”, Morgenbladet, June
Jensen, Martine Hoff, “Det blir som en konstant kuratering av eget liv”, D2, May
Handberg, Kristian, “Samtidsliv gemt bag en kunstig læderhud, Kunsten.nu, May
2017
Enge, Mariann, “Svart er det nye kvit”, Kunstkritikk.no, June
“Subjektiv på Malmö Konsthall”, Sveriges Radio, June
Bøhler, Ragbhild, “Vi er på samme planet”, NATT&DAG, Oslo, April/May p. 42–43
Simpson, Ryan, “Gambletron/NaEE RoBErts/Wren Turco”, Tiny Mixtapes, March
Dunton, Creaig, “Transparens: Gambletron/Wren Turco/NaEE RoBErts”, Brainwashed, March
“Special Feature: Sandra Mujinga”, Artviewer, February
Mazzucchilli, Kiki, “Future Greats”, ArtReview, January
2016
Weber, Eleanor Ivory, “Review: Sandra Mujinga – Oslo Kunstforening”, Frieze, November
Joung, Nora, “Who Are Your Real Friends”, Kunstkritikk.no, October
Jakobsen, Olé Bak, “internet-æstetik og solcreme på særmen”, kunsten.nu, October
Skylstad, Kristian, “Jeg er Sandra Mujinga”, Kunstkritikk.no, October
Gillberg, Jonas, “Malmökonstnär tilldelas ett av Sveriges största konststipendier”, Sydsvenskan, March
Stierna, Joakim, “Tre lika goda artister fick dela på proset”, Skånska Dagbladet, March
2015
Millroth, Thomas, “Dubbel Laddning”, Sydsvenskan, February
2014
Albrethsen, Pernille, “21. december”, Kunstkritikk.no, December
Heilmann, Hannah, “19. december”, Kunstkritikk.no, December
2013
“Sparebenkstiftelsen DNBs pris delt ut”, Kunstforum.as, November
Bergquist, Madeleine, “Things May Change But I’m Still The Same”, NaEE RoBErts, hymn.se, July
Music Releases
2016
NaEE RoBErts- Summer Care, (50 ex. Kassetter) Idle Chatter, New York
2012
Remix of “Dark Motion” by Mmm…( 7” vinyl)
Charly Orange, Dear Janelle(50 cassettes, 300AD)
NaEE Roberts, “You Can’t Tickle Yourself”, Ambient Acid Vol 1. (digital)