Silver Lion Award for a Promising Young Participant – 60th Venice Biennale

GDBA Founder Karimah Ashadu is awarded the “Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant” at the International Art Exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale, with her film installation ‘Machine Boys’ (2024).  She extends much gratitude to the Jury who explains: “With a searing intimacy, she captures the vulnerability of young men from the agrarian north of Nigeria…

Cowboy – Winner of the Prize of the Böttcherstrasse in Bremen

Presented for the first time in Germany at the Kunsthalle Bremen, our latest production “Cowboy”, 2022 has won this year’s edition of the Prize of the Bötterstraße in Bremen. Read more on Contemporaryand. [In the video work, Ashadu succeeds in relating the story of the protagonist to colonial structures in a poetic and sensual way, according to the…

Plateau, “Penumbra” Exhibition, Venice. On the occasion of the Venice Biennale

Commissioned by Fondazione In Between Art Film for the forthcoming exhibition “Penumbra”,  “Plateau”, will show in Venice, opening on 20th April. “Penumbra” features a series of new video and filmic productions commissioned to 8 artists and is the first exhibition from Fondazione In Between Art Film – an initiative founded by Beatrice Bulgari. Curated by Alessandro Rabottini, Artistic Director and Leonardo Bigazzi, Curator at the Fondazione, “Penumbra” opens to the…