Onyeka Igwe
Onyeka Igwe (born 1986) is a British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker. Her works have been screened at MoMA, Open City Documentary Festival in 2021 and 2022, Rotterdam International in the Netherlands from 2018 to 2020, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Smithsonian African American film festival in 2018, among others.
Onyeka Igwe
- Name
- Onyeka Igwe
- Born
- 1986
- Birthplace
- London, UK
- Occupation
- * Artist
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · Nigeria
- Languages
- English
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Onyeka Igwe (born 1986) is a British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker. Her works have been screened at MoMA, Open City Documentary Festival in 2021 and 2022, Rotterdam International in the Netherlands from 2018 to 2020, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Smithsonian African American film festival in 2018, among others.
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• Name — Onyeka Igwe • Born — 1986 • Birthplace — London, UK • Occupation — * Artist • filmmaker • photographer • Website — https: onyekaigwe.com/
No Dance, No Palaver
No Dance, No Palaver
No Dance, No Palaver is a short documentary shown in 2017 and 2018. The work received critical review as it told The Aba Women's Riots of 1929 and the "visual trauma of the colonial archive" and attempted "to transform the way in which we know the people it contains".
Solo
Solo
• A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver), MoMA PS1, New York (2023) • The Miracle on George Green, The High Line, New York, USA (2022) • A so-called archive, LUX, London, UK • THE REAL STORY IS WHAT'S IN THAT ROOM, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (2021) • There Were Two Brothers, Jerwood Foundation (2019) • Corrections, with Aliya Pabani, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada (2018).
Group
Group
• Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes, South London Gallery (2023) • Echoes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2022) • Reconfigured, Timothy Taylor New York, USA (2021) • Archives of Resistance, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria (2021) • KW Production Series, Berlin, Germany (2020) • New Labor Movements, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA • POST Colonial Bodies II, CC Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019) • There's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), London, UK (2018) • World Cup!, Montreal, Canada (2018)
Filmography
Filmography
• The Names Have Changed, Including My Own And Truths Have Been Altered (2019) • Ungentle (directed in 2022) • The Miracle on George Green • A So-Called Archive (2020) • Specialised Technique (2018) • Her Name in My Mouth (2017) • Sitting on a Man (2018) • We Need New Names (2015) • A Radical Duet (2023) • No Archive Can Restore You (2020) • Congregations (2013) • No Dance, No Palaver
Recent works, 2019
The names have been changed, including my own and truths have been altered was a short story documented by Onyeka in 2019. It was a story about her grandfather told in four different ways. It was centered on African diaspora. In 2023, The Museum of West African Art headed Nigeria Pavilion which was curated at the 2024 Venice Biennale where Onyeka participated alongside Yinka Shonibare, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Fatimah Tuggar, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Precious Okoyomon and Abraham Oghobase.
Publications
* * • Being Close To, With or Amongst, The Feminist Review (2020) • Hiraeth, or Queering Time in Archives Otherwise (with JD Stokely), Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media (2019) • Feature Interview with June Givanni • Migrating Bodies
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- “Onyeka Igwe”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and nominations
In 2022, Onyeka Igwe was nominated for the Jarman Award and Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In 2021, she won the Foundwork Artist Prize and the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film. In 2019, Onyeka won the Berwick New Cinema Awards at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. Alongside Seán Elder, Rebecca Moss and AJ Stockwell, she was listed by The Guardian as Also showing Exhibition of the week for Jerwood staging series.
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- 1.Goldsmiths Press. Black film British cinema. II. 2021. 978-1-912685-63-9.
- 2.Larry Humber. Toronto's Contact Photography Festival expands its takeover of public spaces. The Art Newspaper. 10 April 2021.
- 3.Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival opens 25th anniversary edition. ArtDaily-The First Art Newspaper on the Net.
- 4.Onyeka Igwe. Film London.
- 5.ARTIST ONYEKA IGWE BRINGS THE NIGERIAN ABA WOMEN'S WAR OF 1929 TO LIGHT. Ebony Magazine. 14 April 2023.
- 6.Mark Westall. AINDREA EMELIFE TALKS TO FAD ABOUT MOWAA COLLABORATION WITH CHRISTIE'S FOR FRIEZE WEEK. fad magazine. 11 October 2023.
- 7.ONYEKA IGWE, A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) March 16 – August 21, 2023. momaos1.org.
- 8.Onyeka Igwe: The Real Story Is What's In That Room. mutualart.com.
- 9.There Were Two Brothers. Jerwood Arts.
- 10.South London presents 'Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimige to the Lakes'. artafricamagazine.com. 29 June 2023.
- 11.Echoes.
- 12.Reconfigured. timothytaylor.com.
- 13.Archives of Resistance and Repair – kuveti – artists association tyrol.
- 14.Donation Outset: KW Production Series at Museum Abteiberg. mutualart.com.
- 15.Muntref.
- 16.The Showroom there's something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (A title). The Showroom.
- 17.World Cup!. articule.org.
- 18.Onyeka Igwe, the Artist Exploring England's Social Histories. An Other Magazine. 23 May 2022.
- 19.HIGH LINE ART PRESENTS ONYEKA IGWE'S FILM THE MIRACLE ON GEORGE GREEN. thecitylife.org. 5 May 2022.
- 20.MIRAJ Vol.6, Spring 2018
- 21.NON Periodical Vol. 1, Spring 2016 Rearviews, C Magazine, 2015
- 22.The Jarman Award 2022. film London.
- 23.Roman Lugassy. SHORTLIST OF ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2022-2024 MAX MARA ART PRIZE FOR WOMEN. 27 October 2022.
- 24.Onyeka Igwe Interview by Rianna Jade Parker. Foundwork Artist Prize.
- 25.Onyeka Igwe Fellow in 2020 for Experimental Short Film. artsfoundation.co.uk.
- 26.Jonathan Jones. Bowling ball necklaces and legless ladies – the week in art. The Guardian. 30 August 2019.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art. Onyeka Igwe: The Real Story is What's in that Room. 2022. 9781926627571.
- Baschiera, Stefano. Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif. 2020. 9781474428941.
- Gau, Sønke. Museum und Ausstellung als gesellschaftlicher Raum: Praktiken, Positionen, Perspektiven. 2023. 9783839466681.
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