Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro

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Anguezomo Nzé
​Mboulou Mba Bikoro

 Migrational Botanical Stories | Decolonial Plant-cestries | Un-Archiving Sonic Traces
Obeah Ancestral Healing | Transformative Justice | Historical Restitutions
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Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro (Gabon) creates immersive installations & environments merging sonic radio, archival and botanical acoustics, ritual & live art performances, de-colonial urban archaeologies, mixed media sculpture, textiles, text, AI photography & collage, lithography, film & archives.
Their work complicates linear readings and representations of histories contextualising para-fictions & black fabulation as radical black queer feminist strategy to disrupt the notion of a single authorial voice. Their work analyses processes of power & fictions in historical sonic, film and image archives critically engaging in migrational struggles and creating decolonial ancestral psycho-therapeutic, holistic and trauma-informed methods for generational de-traumatisation. They create environments on untold narratives of resistance movements by feminist African and indigenous communities at the intersections of law, psychology, education, somatic therapy and herbalism. Through research archives of historical criminal court cases from Black women in colonial history, the artist sediments narratives where testimonies of sonic botanical archives model a form of queer ecology in a post-colonial black radical feminist imaginary, bringing life experiences of injustice to build practices of transformational justice as mobile monuments which react to the different tones of societies. They research colonial urban architectures to create exit pathways, soil archeologies to expose memory records through embodied archives. 

Through ancestral healing soma-holistic body work & herbalist practices, their critical process turns historical violence into empowering strategies and collective modes of transformational justice focusing on discourses of histories, archives and theories on post-colonialist culture, diasporic migrations, identities, afro & alter modernism. Their work reveals and creates moments of synthesis and harmony between seemingly disparate, bodies of knowledge, cultural traditions and value systems. An exploration of creolised identity, heritage, memory and homeland, Mba Bikoro investigates systems of colonial past & present, tyranny, the breaking of gender binaries, traditions and mythologies.  


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STATES OF UNCERTAIN DOMESTICITIES
A mobile performative exhibition
Kunst Haus Mitte Berlin / January 18 – March 14, 2025
Opening: Friday, January 17, 2025

April 2025 - House of Art in Brno (Czechia) 
2026 - Museo Bilotti (Rome) 
Based on the original work concept by Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro for "Women House" exhibition in 1972, States of Uncertain Domesticities, is designed through performative and installation interventions to remind people of their original function as living spaces. Central themes are care work, domestic violence, ancestry, homelessness, gentrification, migration and physical integrity. The themes of 'house and living' are linked culturally, socially, psychologically and spatially to the former residential building and its surroundings. Haus Kunst Mitte offers a space to reflect on this history through artistic contributions by international artists who approach the topic in a multifaceted way using painting, film, video, audio, photography, installations, performances and sculptures. The project is planned as a traveling exhibition, continuing to the House of Art in Brno (Czechia) in April 2025 and the Museo Bilotti (Rome) in 2026. The extensive discursive program includes performative interventions in the rooms and the outdoor neighbourhoods that change the exhibition over time.
Exhibiting artists: Adidal Abou-Chamat, Liz Bachhuber, Ina Bierstedt, Frauke Boggasch, Christian Borchert, Benhard Bormann, Bella Bram, Nakeya Brow, Libia Castro/Ólafur Ólafsson, Kathryn Cornelius, Alba D'Urbano/Tina Bara, Johanna Demetrakas, Milena Dopitová, Judith Miriam Escherlor, Maria Ezcurra, Kerstin Flake, Clara Freund, Gluklya, Markéta Hlinovská, Stefan Hurtig, Fumi Kato, Daniela Krajčová, Elli KURUŞ, Via Lewandowsky, Loredana Longo, Susanne Lorenz, Tina Mamczur, Melina Matzanke, Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro, Isa Melsheimer, Cornelia Friederike Müller, Jill Luise Muessig, Linda Perthen, Cesare Pietroiusti, Chloé Piot, Ping Qiu, Nika Radic/Georg Spehr, Inken Reinert, Dana Sahánková, Corinna Schnitt, Selma Selman, Jakub Šimčik, Barbora Šimková, Molly Soda, Nanae Suzuki, Fede Taus, Petra Trenkel, Andreas Ullrich, Anna Witt
Curation: Alba D'Urbano ,Tina Mamczur, Ina Bierstedt

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​When The Jackals Leaves The Sun:
Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of Repossession


in partnership with Refuge Worldwide Radio 
September 2024-March 2025


Curation and Artistic Direction: Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Memory Biwa, Jennifer Kamau, Rehema Chachage, Suza Husse

Funded by Bertha Impact Fund (2021)
and TURN2 KulturStiftungdesBundes (2022-24)