Christian Nyampeta / Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2020

Christian Nyampeta, by Sara Lofwander

Christian Nyampeta (b.1981, Rwanda-Netherlands) lives and works in London. He grad­u­ated from the MA Industrial Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2009. He is cur­rently a PhD can­di­date at the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Christian Nyampeta’s ongoing activ­i­ties in art, design, and theory include the con­vening of a roaming pro­gramme of exhi­bi­tions, screen­ings and lyrical per­for­mances con­cerned with mon­u­ments and trans­la­tion. Current exhi­bi­tions include École du soir at Sculpture Center in New York, A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art GfZK in Leipzig, co-com­mis­sioned with Contour Biennale 9 in Mechelen, and co-pro­duced with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Perdu Amsterdam, and Wilfried Lentz Gallery in Rotterdam. Other cur­rent exhi­bi­tions include at Bamako Encounters Photography Biennale 12, at 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, at Tensta kon­sthall, and recently at IMA Brisbane, Dakar Biennale, at Camden Arts Centre, and at the 11th Gwangju Biennial. Nyampeta runs Radius, an online and occa­sion­ally inhab­it­able radio sta­tion and was awarded The Art Prize Future of Europe 2019.

Nyampeta’s res­i­dency will be orga­nized through three related com­po­nents. Firstly, a working period in which a scrip­to­rium will sup­port the English trans­la­tion of the writing of con­tem­po­rary Rwandan philoso­pher Isaie Nzeyimana. Secondly, a public pro­gramme organ­ised as an evening school for staging dia­logues, screen­ings, and lis­tening ses­sions. And thirdly, a vis­iting pro­gramme to con­sult archives, trans­la­tors, writers, artists, and the­o­rists.