Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro

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photo by Yero Adugna Eticha, 2023
Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro                          
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Mba Bikoro (Gabon) is a visual artist, curator, writer, lecturer, holistic practitioner and ancestral healer rooted from their family's heritage in Woleu-Ntem.
Mba Bikoro works at the intersections of law, art, activism, education, therapy and psychology. They practice ancestral de-traumatisation rituals and the decolonisation of embodied archives using somatic processes and botanic knowledge. 
Their work honours queer histories and feminist black indigenous struggles centering Bakongo Cosmology, Obeah, Capoeira and Orixa practices which works on healing inter-generational traumas, empowering communities and sharing resources to create tools of safety towards self-autonomy & transformation in mental health. Anguezomo has developed formats for ritual through ancestral healing that often exposes the interwoven colonial histories of migration in site-specific spaces to dismantle prejudice and create independent emancipatory tools for liberation, education, and reparation. Their works were shown in numerous world Biennales and exhibitions including the Dak’Art Biennale and is author & publisher of "The Yellow Rape Fields: The Silences I Want To Hear From the Poems That Will Throw Me in Prison" (2025), "When The Jackal Leaves The Sun" (2024) and “Obeah: Botany, Ancestry & Grief” (2025).



They are Artistic & Curatorial Director of Nyabinghi Lab g.UG. (a multi-disciplinary decolonial feminist project focusing on creative practice, activism, mental health and ecologies), artistic committee of District School Without Center e.V., writer of numerous book articles and publications including AFRIKADAA (2025), theatre scenographer & set designer of Vielleicht a Black feminist decolonial story on German colonialism (now touring worldwide), Artistic Director of When The Jackal Leaves The Sun (2022-2025) and We Who Move The World Forward (2024). They are a UK Guest Associate Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Philosophy & Fine Art Practice. They were Curatorial Director of performance & black feminism programmes at SAVVY Contemporary between 2016-2019 notably with "We Who Are Not The Same", "Speaking Feminisms" and "Ecologies Of Darkness". 
Anguezomo is a guest university lecturer in Curatorial Studies (MFA), Fine Arts (MFA) and Gender Studies (B.A) and conference speaker in museums and archival collections in the UK, Germany and worldwide. They are newly appointed editorial board of member of "Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance" published by Intellect Books, writer on AFRIKADAA journal (The Politics of Sound), publisher of Black Zines collections NY and When The Jackals Leaves The Sun, curator of Miss Read's Black Feminist and Queer voices discursive programme and book art fair. They also produce regular radio series on Refuge Worldwide. 
Their work in the last 20 years centers on decolonial histories, black queer radical feminism, de-institutionalised education, mental health practices, somatic body work and community refugee activism. 
Their most significant contributions have been shown in Venice Biennale (2018); Dak'art Biennale Senegal (2012 & 2018); Smithsonian Museum of African Art Washington DC (2013); Musée Théodore Monod IFAN Dakar (2023), La Otra Biennale De Bogota Colombia (2013); Tiwani Contemporary London (2012); Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (2022), Museum of African Art Johannesburg (2011); Michael Stevenson Gallery Cape Town (2011); Tate Britain London (2009); Kalao Pan African Galleries Bilbao (2014); 798 Art District Gallery Beijing (2015); Havana Biennale (2019); Oxford Museum UK (2014); Bedfordbury Gallery London (2010), KINDL Gallery (2024) and South London Gallery (2010).
Mba Bikoro is the recipient of several awards including Goethe Institute Artistic Fellowship in Salvador-Bahia (2023), TURN2 Curatorial Fellowship NCAI Nairobi (2022), Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung (2022-23), British Arts Council (2016), PRIMARY Artist Fellowship Award Nottingham (2019), Preis Der National Gallerie Award Nominee Hambuger Bahnoff Berlin (2019), Goethe Institute Bahia Salvador (2023), Fondation Blachère and Afrique Soleil Mali for Best Artist awarded at the 10th Dakar Biennale (2012), Best Discovery Award at New York Cutlog (2013), Ercillas Prize for Best Exhibition Award at FIG Bilbao (2014), HANGAR Research Fellowship Lisbon/Angola (2016). 
Anguezomo is also a trained ancestral healer, decolonial therapist, black-botanical herbalist and somatic body work practitioner which comes as intersectional practice inside her artistic projects for modes of creation, connection, de-traumatisation, coaching and collective community empowerment.  
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Anguezomo's works are also available on the following links:

curatorial projects

photography


​we who move the world forward

when the jackal leaves the sun

refuge worldwide

nyabinghi lab


Awards

2024 Stipendien Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt
2023 Goethe Institut Salvador-Bahia Artistic Research Fellowship, Brazil
2022-23 
Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung / Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme
2022 TURN Curatorial Fellowship Nairobi
2020 Fonds Darstellende Künste | Berlin
2020 HauptKulturFonds | Berlin
2019 PRIMARY Artist Fellowship Research Award | Nottingham, UK
2019 Preis Der National Gallerie Award Nominee | Hambuger Bahnoff Berlin

2017 BBK Artist Recipient Award | Berlin
2017 Artist Research Fellowship | Hebbel Am Huffer | Berlin, Germany
2016 Goethe Institut Curator's Grant Award
2016 Senats Abteilung Kulturelle Angelegenheiten | Berlin Germany
​2016 Arts Council England Artist Award
2016 Guis Sou Me Le Mbao (I Do Not See You at Mbao) | Apexart International Franchise Program Award  ​
2016 HANGAR Research Fellowship Award | Lisbon, Portugal
​2016 Goethe Institut South Africa
2016 Rathaus Schoöneberg Dezentrale  KulturArbeit Bezirksamt Tempelhöf-Shöneberg | Berlin, Germany
2015 Arts Studio Research Grant | District Malzfabrik Berlin | Germany
2015 KunstBildende Award | Germany
2015 Performancear O Morir | Norogachi, Mexico
2014 Ercillas Prize for Best Exhibition Award | FIG Bilbao 
2014 Manière Noire Artist Residency | Berlin Germany
2013 Best Discovery Award | New York Cutlog 
2013 La Otra Biennale Award | curated by Gabriela Salgado | Bogota Colombia
2013 Atelier Sahm Award | Brazzaville DRCongo
2012 Soleil D’Afrique Mali Award | Bamako, Mali
2012 Fondation Blachère Award | Apt, France
2011 Best Performance Art Award in Finland | presented by Presentatiioo 
2011 Perpendicular Casa e Rua Award | Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2011 NSB Best Artist of the Year Award | Norbotten, Sweden 
2009 Doctoral Research Fellowship | Greenwich University | London
2006 Stanley Picker Gallery Research Scholarship Award
 | Kingston, London

*full CV is requested privately
 
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Voyage Au Bout De la Pirogue | Re-imaginer le Passé | KINDL Contemporary Art Berlin
2023 Voyage Au Bout De la Pirogue | Re-imaginer le Passé | Musée IFAN Monod Dakar, Senegal
2022 TRIBUNALS She* Mangrove Archives | The Whole Life Archives & Imaginaries | Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt Berlin
2022 Congotay! Congotay! | Thunder In My Throat | Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin
2021 Sprachlosigkeit: Die Laute Verstummen | Japanische Palais Dresden
2020 Lumières d'Afrique, Light in Times of Growing Uncertainty, Standard Bank Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 Poröse Stadt | Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin
2019 A History On Lateness | Embracing Realities | Theatre of Düsseldorf - Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
2019 A History On Lateness | PRIMARY Gallery | Nottingham UK
2019 Black A(n)thena | Listening As Practice  | Goethe Institut, Mumbai India

2018 Black A(n)thena (Kosmos) | Radiophonic Funkkolleg III: Politics of Hearing Space | HKW Berlin
2018 Our Tools Were Rudimentary Yet We Pressed On (Sonic Technologies of African Godesses) | Minor Cosmopolitanism | HKW Berlin
2018 Madame Tirailleurs | DAK'Art Biennale, Ancien Palais Dakar & Gallerie Au Fil Du Fleuve St Louis, Senegal
2017 
Reframing Worlds – Mobility and Gender in a Postcolonial, Feminist Perspective, Körnerpark Gallery
2017 Republik Repair Right To Mourn Right To Monument | Hydra Plantation Radio | Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
2017 Forschungswerkstatt: Kolonialgeshichte in Tempelhof und Schöneberg | Tempelhof-Shöneberg Museum | Berlin, Germany
2017 Africa Raaontare Un Mondo | After The Independence; Introspection of the Identity; the Body & Politics of Distance | Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea | Milan, Italy
2017 When The Heavens Meet The Earth | Heong Gallery | Cambridge, UK
2017 Unacknowledged Loss | Hebbel Am Huffer | Berlin, Germany
2017 The Parliament Of Bodies; How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? | Documenta14 | Kassel, Germany
2017 Von Zeigen Und Schauen | A History On Lateness | Grassi Museum | Leipzig, Germany
2017 On Rhythmanalysis; That Around Which The Universe Evolves | SAVVY Contemporary | FFT Düsseldorf 
2017 Beyond Binaries | KZNSA Gallery Durban | South Africa

2016 Guis Sou Me Le Mbao (I Do Not See You at Mbao) | Musée Thiaoryé Senegal
2016 Hydra Plantation Radio; Last Barometz Collection | Gallerie Wedding | Berlin Germany
2016 Squat Monument Decolonial Archives | Museen Tempelhof-Schoneberg | Berlin Germany
2016 Trümmerberg Kilimanjaro (We Built The Kilimanjaro) | District Malzfabrik | Berlin Germany
2014
Frieze New York, curated by TURF New York
2014 Armory Arts Week, curated by TURF New York 

2014 Take This Hammer; Actions Towards Freedom | Kalao Pan African Galleries | Bilbao Spain
2013 El Carrusel | La Otra Biennale | Bogota, Colombia
2013 The Uncomfortable Truth | Earth Matters | Smithsonian Museum of African Art | Washington DC USA
2012 The Middle Passage; Re-staging Alice In Wonderland | Tiwani Contemporary | London UK
2012 The Playground | La Biennale de Dak’Art | Dakar Senegal
2012 The Yellow Crossing; The Peoples’ Waltz | La Biennale de Dak’Art OFF | St Louis Senegal
2011 Space: Modern Currencies on Contemporary African Art | National Museum of African Art | Cape Town, South Africa
2011 A Gaze Into Contemporary African Art | South London Gallery | UK
2011 Twist in the Ta(i)le | Savvy Contemporary | Berlin Germany
2010 African Heritage | Bedfordbury Gallery | London UK
2009 Hidden | National Portrait Gallery | London UK