{"id":24721,"date":"2025-04-11T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:01:02","slug":"nicholas-odhiambo-mboya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/nicholas-odhiambo-mboya\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swiper\"><div id=\"swiper-69d58b6ba3389\" class=\" swiper-container\"><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250929_025_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-Kopie-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/250929_002_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250929_035_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250929_009_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250929_023_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250929_011_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250929_013_KH_Mboya_Utopia_DystopiacASauer-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/<![CDATA[\n(function($, window) {\n\t$('#swiper-69d58b6ba3389').swiper({\"pagination\":\".swiper-pagination\",\"paginationClickable\":true,\"nextButton\":\".swiper-button-next\",\"prevButton\":\".swiper-button-prev\",\"scrollbar\":false,\"loop\":true,\"before\":\"<div class=\\\"swiper\\\">\",\"after\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"8000\"});\n})(jQuery, window)\n\/\/]]><\/div><\/script>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Image credits below<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya<em><br \/>\nUtopia &ndash; Dystopia<\/em><br \/>\n27.9.&ndash;16.11.2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The kinetic installation <i>Transit Point <\/i>is the central work of the exhibition. Its motorized doors, which open and close as if by themselves, serve as a metaphor for translocal experiences and social as well as linguistic thresholds. The work transforms the space into a panopticon of controlled freedom of movement, hinting at the internalization of bureaucratic surveillance in the lives of migrants. New, large-scale paintings entitled<\/span><i> <\/i><i>In Trail Pursuit<\/i> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">negotiate waiting as a social choreography &ndash; as a transitional moment, in which hope, exclusion and belonging manifest themselves. They are complemented by self-portraits from the series <\/span><i>Rite of Passage<\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, drawn on copies of official documents, which illustrate the weight of administrative procedures between the registration and attribution of identities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Utopia &ndash; Dystopia<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; poetically condensed and politically urgent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Curated by Anna Nowak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya<\/strong> (*1992, Kisumu, Kenya) studied Fine Arts at the Mwangaza School of Fine Arts Kisumu and at the HFBK Hamburg. His works have been exhibited at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, JO (2025), at ICAT, Hamburg, DE (2024), in the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, DE (2024), as part of the Fluctoplasma Festival, Hamburg, DE (2021), at the MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und K&uuml;nste der Welt, Hamburg, DE (2021), and at the Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, KE (2018). He lives and works in Hamburg.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"videocontainer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya: Utopia&ndash;Dystopia im Kunsthaus Hamburg | Film zur Ausstellung\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_R10M2UrgTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kh-H_Nicholas-Mboya_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exhibition text<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/audioguide-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio guide<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Installation views: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya: <em>Utopia &ndash; Dystopia<\/em>, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2025; Photos: Antje Sauer<br \/>\nImage 1: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, <em>In Trail Pursuit IV<\/em>, 2025, Courtesy the artist<br \/>\nImage 2: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, <em>Transit Point<\/em>, 2023, Courtesy the artist<br \/>\nImage 3: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, <em>Rite of Passage<\/em>, 2020, Courtesy the artist<br \/>\nImage 5: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, <em>In Trail Pursuit III<\/em>, 2025, Courtesy the artist<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Kindly supported by<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22362 alignleft img-fluid pull-left\" src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz.png\" alt=\"Hamburgische Kulturstiftung\" width=\"185\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz.png 2167w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz-900x195.png 900w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz-1536x332.png 1536w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HK_Lockup_RGB_Schwarz-2048x443.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utopia \u2013 Dystopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26166,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions\/26166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}