Badischer Kunstverein is delighted to present the first survey exhibition by British artist Lubaina Himid in Germany. As an artist, writer, and professor, Himid has dedicated her work to the discourse on migration, race, slavery and the representation of the
This exhibition addresses how Europe’s moneyed classes spent their money and flaunted their power and wealth by using enslaved African men, women and children. Lubaina Himid’s major artwork Naming the Money is the central installation to this exhibition and it
Artist Lubaina Himid has spent the past three decades or so creating a significant body of work that’s as powerful in its activism statements as in its arresting visual qualities. Born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Himid’s paintings, sculptural pieces and installations
Lubaina Himid: Warp and Weft, Firstsite, Colchester 2017 Turner Prize nominee Lubaina Himid, a key figure in the British Black Arts Movement, first came to prominence in the 1980s when she began organising exhibitions of work by her peers who
Warp and Weft is a survey of works by 2017 Turner Prize nominee, Lubaina Himid. Opening 30th June at Firstsite, Colchester, the exhibition runs from 1st July-1st October 10am-5pm Warp and Weft is comprised of three bodies of work in
Lubaina Himid discusses work from her three 2017 exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary and Spike Island, Bristol.
This exhibition run by the Flag Foundation from June 1 – August 11, 2017 on its 9th floor gallery, uses The New York Times as its point of departure and features over 80 artists, artist duos, and collectives who use
As Lubaina Himid prepares for a retrospective across three UK venues, she tells Apollo about how black British art has evolved over the past three decades. Read the interview of 17 January 2017 by Imelda Barnard here
Invisible Strategies brings together a wide range of Himid’s paintings from the 1980s to the present day, as well as sculptures, ceramics and works on paper. The exhibition opens with Himid’s monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms
The term “immersive installation” gets a lot of airplay these days, but walking amongst Lubaina Himid’s 100-strong crowd of life sized cut-out painted figures who stride, cavort and play a variety of instruments throughout the Spike Island space in Bristol