Installation view: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya: Utopia – Dystopia, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2025; Photo: Antje Sauer
Sunday, 16 November 2025, 4 pm
Finissage
Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya
Utopia – Dystopia
In his multimedia works, Nicholas Mboya addresses socio-political realities in his home country of Kenya alongside experiences of the African diaspora in Germany. In his first institutional solo exhibition, the Hamburg-based artist reflects on the field of tension between idealized notions of belonging and actual experiences of exclusion.
Utopia – Dystopia explores migration, structural invisibility and external as well as self-perceptions in a present shaped by colonial continuities. It places the body at the centre – as a site of political inscription, as an archive of individual and collective memory, as an actor in the midst of social negotiation processes. And it invites us to question existing systems – poetically condensed and politically urgent.
As part of the finissage, we will round off the exhibition together.
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