Mwangi Hutter’s performance “Oneness”
@humboldtforum , Berlin, Given or Chosen? - Festival of Kinship
Fri, 1 May – Sat, 2 May 2026
“Oneness” engages with questions of visibility, belonging, and familial relationships. At its center is a throne built by the artists from reclaimed wood, offering a shared space where participants wearing full-body costumes cut these open in a self-determined act of mutual visibility and care.
✨Performed by ✨
Kenyatta Mwangi Hutter & Mukabu Mwangi Hutter
Carolina Pretell & Estanislao Gonzalez
Hyesu Kim & Jisu Kim
Ana Kavalis & Yael Alena
Valerie Renay & Andrius Nekrasoff
Marisa Benjamim & Andrés Galeano
Enya Hutter & Gerald Mwangi
Jeferson d’Andrade
daphne brunet & Rashida Kyei-Mensah
+++ Als Nächstes möchten wir das Duo Mwangi Hutter vorstellen.
„Mwangi Hutter ist ein Künstlerduo, dessen Arbeit Performance, Fotografie, Video und Installation umfasst und sich kritisch mit Fragen der Identität, des Geschlechts und der Politik der Repräsentation auseinandersetzt. Durch ihre langjährige Zusammenarbeit erforschen sie Prozesse des Werdens und Verlernens und hinterfragen dabei oft festgefahrene Vorstellungen von Zugehörigkeit im postkolonialen und europäischen Kontext.“
„Mwangi Hutter is an artist duo whose work spans performance, photography, video, and installation, critically engaging with questions of identity, gender, and the politics of representation. Through long-term collaborative practice, they explore processes of becoming and unlearning, often challenging fixed notions of belonging within postcolonial and European contexts.“
website: mwangihutter.com
@mwangihutter
Thank you very much for your great submission to the ideas competition!
Bild: Mwangi Hutter, What Must Matter, photo work 2020
Mwangi Hutter’s photo work “Static Drift” presented at MACBA Barcelona in “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” curated by director Elvira Dyangani Ose, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky.
“It is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present, developed jointly by MACBA with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has made the magnitude of the exhibition possible, with nearly 500 pieces by 100 artists touring the four institutions until spring 2027.”
Recap 26.09.2025: Against the Grain - Vernissage + Performance
@mwangihutter
Die Installation ist noch bis zum 05.10. im @heidelberger_kunstverein zu sehen.
Fotos @lys_y_seng
Im Rahmen von Wunder der Prärie 2025 - Theaters of War(s)
Internationales Live-Art Festival
zeitraumexit, Mannheim
25.9. - 05.10.2025
Gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Mannheim.
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Gefördert von dem Beauftragten der
Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
@kulturstiftungdesbundes
#kulturstiftungdesbundes
“Against The Grain” Vernissage with Performance by Mwangi Hutter on Friday, 26 September, 17:30 - 20:30
Exhibition from 26 September - 05 October, Heidelberger KunstvereinIn Kooperation mit @zeitraumexit
Im Rahmen von Wunder der Prärie 2025 - Theaters of War(s)
Internationales Live-Art Festival
zeitraumexit, Mannheim
25.9. - 05.10.2025
#Heidelberg #exhibition
“You Begin to See the Signs“ is Mwangi Hutter’s third solo exhibition with Mariane Ibrahim. March 4 - April 16, 2025, the show coincides with Panafrica Across Chicago, a citywide initiative organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, celebrating the depth and range of artistic practices from across the African continent and its diasporas.
With an oeuvre that spans performance, video, sound, photography and installation, “You Begin to See the Signs“ marks a return to wood and stonework in Mwangi Hutter’s practice, and includes video and painting.
CHICAGO I Now On View
Mwangi Hutter, You Begin to See the Signs
Through April 16, 2025
“You Begin to See the Signs” marks a return to wood and stonework in Mwangi Hutter’s practice. Their current use of different types of wood, limestone and granite reflects a focus on the cohesion of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air – whose varied interactions birth distinct natural forms, each shaped by time and force.
The exhibition centers the notion of rupture and transformation. A gilded wooden exterior splits in half, to reveal a white and black interior, establishing a physical and metaphorical break. As such, this division generates two individual entities, bound in intimate relation to one another, evoking broader themes of individuality, collectively, separation, and the search for unity within society––a recurrent theme in the work of the artists. Through their sculptural interventions, Mwangi Hutter invites viewers to reconsider how environments, identity, and time shape our collective experiences.
[Instalation Images of You Begin to See the Signs, 2025. Photos by Evan Jenkins. All Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.]
#marianeibrahim #marianeibrahimgallery #mwangihutter #youbegintoseethesigns #chicago
CHICAGO I Opening Next Week
Mwangi Hutter, You Begin to See the Signs
March 4 – April 16, 2025
We are pleased to present “You Begin to See the Signs”, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with artist duo Mwangi Hutter. Opening March 4, 2025, the show coincides with Panafrica Across Chicago, a citywide initiative organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, celebrating the depth and range of artistic practices from across the African continent and its diasporas.
With an oeuvre that spans performance, video, sound, photography and installation, You Begin to See the Signs marks a return to wood and stonework in Mwangi Hutter’s practice. Their current use of different types of wood, limestone and granite reflects a focus on the cohesion of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air – whose varied interactions birth distinct natural forms, each shaped by time and force. Attuned to these inherent rhythms and constraints of indigenous material, they approach creation as an act of listening and response, engaging both the body and the mind as they test the limits of strength and tension.
[Mwangi Hutter, You Begin to See the Signs, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.]
#marianeibrahim #marianeibrahimgallery #mwangihutter #youbegintoseethesigns #chicago
Art exhibition, SAP SE, Building 5, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
69190 Walldorf
Germany
Till 13th September 2024
In the group exhibition “The New Us-Togetherness” Mwangi Hutter presents painting,“Just a concept”, 2015 and photo work „Dual Twinning“, 2020. It’s the images and ideas in our minds that create our reality; let’s change the way we think, then our reality will be different as well!
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