Grada Kilomba

Eventos

O Barco / The Boat

13 April 2024 — 14 April 2024
Inhotim, Brumadinho (Brasil)

GRADA KILOMBA

From 13 April, Galeria Galpão of Inhotim Institute will host O Barco / The Boat by Grada Kilomba, a sculptural, performative and poetic work commissioned by BoCA 2021 and presented for the first time in Brazil.

+

BoCA goes to Vale da Amoreira | O Barco / The Boat

05 May 2023 — 06 May 2023
CEA - Centro de Experimentação Artística do Vale da Amoreira

GRADA KILOMBA

Screening of the mini-documentary on "O Barco / The Boat", installation and performance by Grada Kilomba presented at MAAT, in Lisbon, as part of BoCA 2021.

+

O Barco / The Boat

29 September 2022 — 19 October 2022
Somerset House, London

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to London, at Somerset House. Consisting of 140 burnt wood blocks, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memory, in which poems rest on burnt wood blocks, recalling forgotten stories and identities. What stories are told? Where are they counted? How are they counted? And told by whom? These are questions that arise when entering this installation.

+

O Barco / The Boat

08 July 2022 — 30 July 2022
Khunstalle Baden Baden

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to Khunstalle Baden Baden, in Germany. Consisting of 140 burnt wood blocks, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memory, in which poems rest on burnt wood blocks, recalling forgotten stories and identities. What stories are told? Where are they counted? How are they counted? And told by whom? These are questions that arise when entering this installation.

+

O Barco / The Boat

16 January 2022 — 30 January 2022
Teatro Lliure, Barcelona

GRADA KILOMBA

Grada Kilomba's first large-scale installation travels to Margarida Xirgu Square, in front of Teatro Lliure, in Barcelona. Consisting of 140 burnt wood blocks, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memory, in which poems rest on burnt wood blocks, recalling forgotten stories and identities. What stories are told? Where are they counted? How are they counted? And told by whom? These are questions that arise when entering this installation.

+

O Barco/The Boat

03 September 2021 — 17 October 2021
MAAT (Lisbon)

GRADA KILOMBA

“O Barco/The Boat” is an installation by the artist Grada Kilomba, comprised of 140 blocks forming the shape of the bottom of a ship, a detailed drawing of the space that was created to accommodate the bodies of millions of Africans enslaved by European empires. Extended along 32 meters of the river, it invites the audience to enter a garden of memories, where poems rest over blocks of burnt wood. Three performance acts are expected during the biennial.

+