Country
Angola
Kiluanji Kia Henda (b. 1979, Luanda, Angola) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based between Luanda and Lisbon. Working across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance, he uses humour, irony and speculative fiction to examine colonial history, post-independence Angola, political power and collective memory. He often starts from monuments, architecture and public space. His work has been shown at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), the 12th Gwangju Biennale, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum Triennial in New York, Tate Modern and the Serpentine Galleries in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He received Angola’s National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2012 and the Frieze Artist Award in 2017.
Country
Angola
Kiluanji Kia Henda (b. 1979, Luanda, Angola) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based between Luanda and Lisbon. Working across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance, he uses humour, irony and speculative fiction to examine colonial history, post-independence Angola, political power and collective memory. He often starts from monuments, architecture and public space. His work has been shown at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), the 12th Gwangju Biennale, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum Triennial in New York, Tate Modern and the Serpentine Galleries in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He received Angola’s National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2012 and the Frieze Artist Award in 2017.
Kiluanji Kia Henda (b. 1979, Luanda, Angola) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based between Luanda and Lisbon. Working across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance, he uses humour, irony and speculative fiction to examine colonial history, post-independence Angola, political power and collective memory. He often starts from monuments, architecture and public space. His work has been shown at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), the 12th Gwangju Biennale, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the New Museum Triennial in New York, Tate Modern and the Serpentine Galleries in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He received Angola’s National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2012 and the Frieze Artist Award in 2017.