The project

Hadassa Ngamba will undertake an artist-in-residence program at the HLRS facilities in the week leading up to theGATE. We are excited to see what this collaboration will produce and are looking forward to finding that out during the exhibition along with our visitors.

The artist

Hadassa Ngamba is a visual artist with a postgraduate degree from HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), Ghent, Belgium. Her practice brings art, history, science and ancestral knowledge systems into dialogue. Working across painting, sculpture, photography, performance and digital media, she investigates questions of power, memory and materiality. Drawing on her background in criminology, she examines historical and contemporary networks of power with analytical precision, with particular attention to maps, trade routes and extractive systems. Her current research places two forms of AI — African Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence — in dialogue, creating a framework through which to reconsider technology, knowledge, materiality and sovereignty. In her recent works, Congolese minerals are transformed into pigments, allowing matter itself to carry history, tension and renewal. Her work is held in public and private collections, including S.M.A.K., the Banque Nationale de Belgique, IKOB, Morgan Stanley Bank, the EKARD Collection and Zeno X Gallery.