The IN SITU programme at M HKA is a new programme of medium-scale monographic exhibitions by some of the most significant early- and mid-career artists from around the world working today.
It will focus exclusively on the commissioning of new artworks, as well as foregrounding experimental practices in response to M HKA’s largest and most atypical exhibition space.
The IN SITU programme has been developed by Nav Haq, curator at M HKA.
Otobong Nkanga is the inaugural artist invited to participate in the new IN SITU programme. Through having developed a highly multifaceted artistic practice over the last decade, Antwerp-based artist Otobong Nkanga offers us active proposals for thinking about some of the most urgent issues of the present time. One of her central and ongoing concerns is with the world’s natural resources, particularly the intensity of which the stripping of minerals from the Earth is profoundly connected to the conditions of late capitalism. She makes artworks about the relations between the natural landscape, people and labour, and their exploitation. Nkanga comes to these issues possessing a more composed human tempo, in contrast to the blinding accelerationism of the global capitalist machine. Read more.
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