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.

The finissage will bring the exhibition to a festive close. At 3 pm, visitors are invited to join a guided tour with the curator. Afterwards, the ReferenceLibrary on Public Art will be opened at the foyer.