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22/1/2015

Otobong Nkanga

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Where do the objects in the museum come from? What stories do they tell? Which identities do they carry with them, and which identities do they shape? With these questions in mind, the artist Otobong Nkanga will create a two-part project for the Museum Folkwang, making use of objects from the collection.

The artist Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974) has realized a two-part project for Museum Folkwang, based on its collection. As part of the Kunststiftung NRW’s Project 25/25/25, she first invited employees of the museum to be photographed with selected objects from the museum’s collection. One of these photographs has been printed in poster form and distributed throughout the city—allowing the museum to connect with local residents in their everyday lives. The posters are on view from 23 January to 12 February in public areas across the city of Essen.

In the second part of her work, Nkanga is constructing a complex installation containing drawings, textile prints, furniture exhibits, and objects in the Folkwang Collection. The Nigerian artist’s work uncovers the array of stories that lie hidden in a single museum object. After researching the collections at Museum Folkwang, Otobong Nkanga has whittled down her selection to a single object for her show. A pedestal at the heart of the installation Tracing Confessions holds a marble hand scarred with scorch marks. Hands play a pivotal role in Nkanga’s art. In her drawings they often appear as fragments or are substituted by rods that link the human figures with objects.
In the European cultural tradition, the sense of touch is an undervalued means of perception, especially when compared with sight, but for the artist it provides an emotional connection to the world. In four large-scale drawings, several smaller drawings, texts, and textile prints, Nkanga allows stories to unfurl, arising from this single stone fragment.

In cooperation with Kunststiftung NRW as part of Projekt 25/25/25.

Image: Whose Crisis Is This?, 2013. Courtesy of the Artist and Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam

Press officer:
Anna Littmann T +49 201 8845160 F +49 201 889145000 anna.littmann@museum-folkwang.essen.de presse@museum-folkwang.essen.de

Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1 45128 Essen
Hours:
Tue, Wed 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thur, Fri 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sat, Sun 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Mon closed
Admission:
Standard 5.00 €
Concessions 3.50 €
Family Pass Folkwang 1: 10.50 €
Family Pass Folkwang 2: 5.50 €
Entrance free for children under 6 years

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