Emeka UDEMBA
Born in 1968 in Nigeria. Lives and works in Kirchzarten, Germany.
Education
1987 – 1991 Lagos University in collaboration with the Lagos State College of Education, Nigeria
Residencies and fellowships
2008 Villa Merkel/Esslingerbahnwärter Stipendium, Germany
2006 Iaab Stipendium, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2005 Le pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, French Ambassador Fellowship, Dakar, Senegal
2001 Schleswig Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Germany
Awards
2007 Best art practices, Special mention award for young curators, for the project Lagos Open, Nigeria
2002 Ambassador of France Award, Dakar biennale, Senegal
2000 The public Prize, project Queich Landu, Germany
Main exhibitions
2015
Emeka Udemba, Tools of Conflict, Arthouse - The Space, Renault Showroom, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria (solo)
Hacking Conflict, Biennale Jogja XIII, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
2014
Emeka Udemba, WITNESS, MMMoCA – Molue Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria (solo)
2013
Wahala, with Katrin Ströbel, Galerie Barnoud – Entrepôt 9, Quetigny, France
Habitus, Galerie Barnoud – Entrepôt 9, Quetigny, France
2012
BE.BOP 2012- Black Europe Body Politics, National Arts Gallery of Namibia, Namibia
2011
Closed space, Neu-kölln-Berlin/ Hillbrow-Johannesburg, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Kunsthaus I6 Freiburg, Germany (solo)
Wide angle, Photo project, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 Days, video project, Berlin, Germany
Retour de Paris 75, French cultural center, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Just One, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Small is beautiful, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
2010
Africa. Objetos y Sujetos, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijon, and Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
Artist talk - Closed space/Open space, 49 Pretoria street, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
FESMA, Dakar, Senegal
Walking the city, Drillhall , Johannesburg, South Africa
Exchanging space, Project Space, Badore, Lagos, Nigeria
Fine Art 2010, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
2009
Urban Scenographies project, Johannesburg, South Africa
Signs, Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart, Germany
Joburg Art Fair, Germany
Multiple art, ARTCO Galerie, Herzogenrath, Germany
Linked at random, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Slick09, with galerie Barnoud, 104, Paris, France
Fine Art 2009, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
2008
Off Limits 2008, Dak'Art Off, Dakar, Africa
real spaces, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (solo)
Waiting for Y., galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
2007
Alphabetical, galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France (solo)
Welde Photo Kuunnstpreis, Heidelberg, Germany
Black Paris, Museum of world cultures, Frankfurt, Germany
Africa 3x3 plural, Casa Africa Las Palmas, Spain
Regional 8, Kulture Fabrik, Hegenheim, Germany
2006
3 Contemporary Video Artists from Africa, Athens, Greece
Here and there, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France
Espacio C, Camago, Spain
Iaab Choices, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
Black Paris, Iwalewa-haus, Bayreuth, Germany
Out of Africa, Cité des Arts, Paris
In den Raum gestellt, Künsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
2005
Final cut (performance), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Photography, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
Über Schönheit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Installation, Förderkreis zeitgenössischer Kunst, Euskirchen, Germany
Pitfalls, Galerie im Wiehrebahnhof, Freiburg, Germany
4 Photographers from Africa, Niavaran Cultural Center, Teheran, Iran
Project Home sweet home, Baden-Baden, Germany
Project Lagos Open, Nigeria
2004
Espacio C, Camago, Spain
Photographie, Kornhaus Forum, Bern, Switzerland
Rendez-Vous, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Photographie, Scène Nationale de Nantes, France
World Meeting of Artists and intellectuals, Caracas, Venezuela
Les Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali
2003
Used Spaces Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
2nd Video Recycling Festival, Berlin, Germany
Visa oder die Verhinderung des Reisens, ifa-Galerie Bonn und ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
L’Europe fantôme, Brussels, Belgium
Africa for Africa, Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Off the Wall, Künstlerhaus Mehlwaage, Freiburg, Germany
Love zones, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
Havana Bienale, Cuba
2002
Lost Dreams, National Museum Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria
World White Walls – DakArt Biennale – Dakar, Senegal
World White Walls – Ars electronica, Linz, Austria
2001
World White Walls, Genetic Room – Nature, Utopias and Realties, Osorio, Spain
Consultations Kunstverein Rottenburg – Stuttgart, Germany
Consultations Kunstverein Basel – Kunsthalle Gündlingen, Switzerland
2000
Katolisch-Soziales Institut, Bad Honnef, Germany
Galerie Hilt, Basel, Switzerland
Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Landau, Installation in the Queich, Germany
Heimat Kunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Monographic catalogue
2011
Retour de Paris 76, eyes in my head, text by UKA, ed. Institut français Stuttgart, Allemagne
Education
1987 – 1991 Lagos University in collaboration with the Lagos State College of Education, Nigeria
Residencies and fellowships
2008 Villa Merkel/Esslingerbahnwärter Stipendium, Germany
2006 Iaab Stipendium, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2005 Le pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, French Ambassador Fellowship, Dakar, Senegal
2001 Schleswig Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Germany
Awards
2007 Best art practices, Special mention award for young curators, for the project Lagos Open, Nigeria
2002 Ambassador of France Award, Dakar biennale, Senegal
2000 The public Prize, project Queich Landu, Germany
Main exhibitions
2015
Emeka Udemba, Tools of Conflict, Arthouse - The Space, Renault Showroom, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria (solo)
Hacking Conflict, Biennale Jogja XIII, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
2014
Emeka Udemba, WITNESS, MMMoCA – Molue Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria (solo)
2013
Wahala, with Katrin Ströbel, Galerie Barnoud – Entrepôt 9, Quetigny, France
Habitus, Galerie Barnoud – Entrepôt 9, Quetigny, France
2012
BE.BOP 2012- Black Europe Body Politics, National Arts Gallery of Namibia, Namibia
2011
Closed space, Neu-kölln-Berlin/ Hillbrow-Johannesburg, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Kunsthaus I6 Freiburg, Germany (solo)
Wide angle, Photo project, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 Days, video project, Berlin, Germany
Retour de Paris 75, French cultural center, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Just One, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Small is beautiful, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
2010
Africa. Objetos y Sujetos, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijon, and Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
Artist talk - Closed space/Open space, 49 Pretoria street, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
FESMA, Dakar, Senegal
Walking the city, Drillhall , Johannesburg, South Africa
Exchanging space, Project Space, Badore, Lagos, Nigeria
Fine Art 2010, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
2009
Urban Scenographies project, Johannesburg, South Africa
Signs, Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart, Germany
Joburg Art Fair, Germany
Multiple art, ARTCO Galerie, Herzogenrath, Germany
Linked at random, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Slick09, with galerie Barnoud, 104, Paris, France
Fine Art 2009, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
2008
Off Limits 2008, Dak'Art Off, Dakar, Africa
real spaces, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (solo)
Waiting for Y., galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
2007
Alphabetical, galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France (solo)
Welde Photo Kuunnstpreis, Heidelberg, Germany
Black Paris, Museum of world cultures, Frankfurt, Germany
Africa 3x3 plural, Casa Africa Las Palmas, Spain
Regional 8, Kulture Fabrik, Hegenheim, Germany
2006
3 Contemporary Video Artists from Africa, Athens, Greece
Here and there, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France
Espacio C, Camago, Spain
Iaab Choices, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
Black Paris, Iwalewa-haus, Bayreuth, Germany
Out of Africa, Cité des Arts, Paris
In den Raum gestellt, Künsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
2005
Final cut (performance), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Photography, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
Über Schönheit, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Installation, Förderkreis zeitgenössischer Kunst, Euskirchen, Germany
Pitfalls, Galerie im Wiehrebahnhof, Freiburg, Germany
4 Photographers from Africa, Niavaran Cultural Center, Teheran, Iran
Project Home sweet home, Baden-Baden, Germany
Project Lagos Open, Nigeria
2004
Espacio C, Camago, Spain
Photographie, Kornhaus Forum, Bern, Switzerland
Rendez-Vous, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Photographie, Scène Nationale de Nantes, France
World Meeting of Artists and intellectuals, Caracas, Venezuela
Les Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali
2003
Used Spaces Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
2nd Video Recycling Festival, Berlin, Germany
Visa oder die Verhinderung des Reisens, ifa-Galerie Bonn und ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
L’Europe fantôme, Brussels, Belgium
Africa for Africa, Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Off the Wall, Künstlerhaus Mehlwaage, Freiburg, Germany
Love zones, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
Havana Bienale, Cuba
2002
Lost Dreams, National Museum Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria
World White Walls – DakArt Biennale – Dakar, Senegal
World White Walls – Ars electronica, Linz, Austria
2001
World White Walls, Genetic Room – Nature, Utopias and Realties, Osorio, Spain
Consultations Kunstverein Rottenburg – Stuttgart, Germany
Consultations Kunstverein Basel – Kunsthalle Gündlingen, Switzerland
2000
Katolisch-Soziales Institut, Bad Honnef, Germany
Galerie Hilt, Basel, Switzerland
Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Landau, Installation in the Queich, Germany
Heimat Kunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Monographic catalogue
2011
Retour de Paris 76, eyes in my head, text by UKA, ed. Institut français Stuttgart, Allemagne