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.
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