Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany.  Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States. At its core, her work asks: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Centering Afrodiasporic voices, her practice revolves around processes of collective re-membering: putting the past together limb by limb. A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to understand how, amidst all of this, we practice care and repair for each other. Her work has shown at the Galerie im Turm, the Galerie im Körnerpark, the Kunstverein Hamburg, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery among others. And she has published chapters in: “Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography,” “Censored? Conflicting Concepts of Cultural Heritage,”and “Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island.” She has also been awarded a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow, a 2023 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and the 2023 Amadeu Antonio Foundation Prize. Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam. She is also a recipient of the 2024-5 Harvard Center for European Studies’ Krupps Dissertation Fellowship.