SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 TRANS-ARCHITECTURE: PERFORMING POWER FIGURES, first solo exhibition, MUZEE & Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, at MUZEE, Belgium (installation, film, Sculptures, limited edition print + talk)
COMMISSIONS
2026 The Social Skin, Museum of the South African Reserve Bank and Gilbert Balinda Architects, South Africa (120m2 aluminium wall relief)
2023 Typhoon: Vermaak Is Verzet, design proposal for site specific public artwork, Westerkwartier project, by KAAP, Klein Verhaal, Theater aan Zee & De Grote Post, Belgium (monument)
2022 Kwanga Tomb Pilar, design proposal for site specific artwork for the Governors Hotel, the National Bank of Bel gium, Brussels (sculpture)
2021 Trans Capital, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (20 min video)
2013 Black Beast VARIATION I, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (6 min video)
COLLECTIONS
2026 South African Reserve Bank, South Africa (120m2 aluminium wall relief)
2023 MUZEE, Belgium (video, mixed media and sculpture)
2023 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (mixed media)
2021 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (20 min video)
2013 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (6 min video)
EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES / PUBLICATIONS
2028
° The Magnitude Of Flesh, KAAP, 404 & the West Front Museum, Belgium (installation - 70 min performance)
2027
° Chariots Of Fire, Coup De Ville, group exhibition, WARP, curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Belgium (installation)
2026
° Tropical Bungalow: Le Devoir De Violence, Krater films, FILMLAB / VAF -Flanders Film Fund-, the Dutch Film Fund (60 min film)
° The Social Skin, commissioned by Museum of the South African Reserve Bank and Gilbert Balinda Architects, South Africa (120m2 aluminium wall relief)
° Free School a project by Bart Seng Wen Long and Kaisa Saarinen, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, Belgium (talk)
° In Frequences We Cannot Name: Language, Sound, Silence, group show, De Brakke Grond in collab with MUZEE, curated by Rita Ouédraogo, The Netherlands (sculpture and mixed media)
° The Principles Of Trans-Mechanics 2.0, B.O.O.S. S.M.A.K. H.O.O.P. festival, S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium (installation)
2024
° Unreasonable Architecture: Roland Gunst: Modernity and trans architecture as a technology of signification, the Architecture Dept of Canergie Mellon University, invited by Dr Tuliza Sindi, Pittsburgh US (90 min lecture)
° Trans-Architecture, VIAD & DoVA Student Seminar, Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre of University of Johannesburg, invited by Dr Ruth Sacks, South Africa (30 min lecture)
° The Principles Of Trans-Mechanics 1.0, group exhibition Questa 24 Actuele Kunst In
Tielt, Belgium (2 installations and 1 soundscape performance)
° Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid, WITS conference,
at WITS-University, South Africa (video and talk) Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid, text contribution by John K Cobra and dramaturg Ester Severi, WITS-University, South Africa (book)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, at Market Theatre, South Africa (70 min performance & group talk)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL: A TRANS ARCHITECTURE, performance workshop to Market Lab students, at Market Theatre, South Africa (1 week workshop)
2020 – 2024
Art BEyond PARTicipation, lecture performances and workshops as part of European
research project aimed at developing a better understanding of the entanglement between power, politics, place and publics in arts practice (artist/researcher of the Critical Network, Art BEyond PARTicipation is a collaboration between L'Art Rue (TN) and Association Festival de Marseille (FR), Santarcangelo dei Teatri (IT), Cork Midsummer Festival (IE), Kansallisgalleria (FI), Artsadmin (London UK), kunstencentrum Vooruit VZW (GHENT-BE), City of Women (Ljubljana- SI), New Theatre Institute of Latvia (LV) and Santarcangelo dei Teatri (IT) and Scottish Sculpture Workshop (UK).
2023
° Behind The Corridor, Malabou in Malibu group exhibition, in collabo with WARP, Modriaan Fonds & MAKE Eindhoven, at De Fabriek, The Netherlands (installation)
° Malabou in Malibu residency, in collaboration with WARP, at MAKE Eindhoven, The Netherlands (installation)
° The Lazy Men’s Refuge: Trans-Architecture on the misogynistic and racist paradigm of the Tropical Bungalow. Bending lines, corners, steel…, MOUSSEM STAGES group exibition, at Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, Brussels (lecture performance)
° TRANS-ARCHITECTURE: PERFORMING POWER FIGURES, first solo exhibition, MUZEE & Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, at MUZEE, Belgium (installation, film, Sculptures, limited edition print + talk)
° Typhoon: Vermaak Is Verzet, commissioned, design site specific public artwork, Westerkwartier project, by KAAP, Klein Verhaal, Theater aan Zee & De Grote Post, Belgium (monument)
° Europa Oxala, group exhibition, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (sculpture, installation and video)
° Côlon_King Leopold II_a Trans-Architecture, project proposal for contextualisation of a statue of Leopold II, collaboration with curator Lara Hene, Art & History Museum, Belgium (installation)
2022
° Europa Oxala, group exhibition, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (sculpture, installation and video)
Kwanga Tomb Pilar, commissioned, design for site specific artwork for the Governors Hotel, the National Bank of Belgium, Brussels (sculpture)
° A Grand Power Figuration, residency and group exhibition, SAFCA art centre, Belgium (installation and sculptures)
° Europa Oxala, group exhibition, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (sculpture, installation and video)
° Trans-Architecture, Residency and presentation, FOR ONCE-program, Centre for the Less Good Idea, South Africa (25 min performance)
° Residency, Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, Belgium (research)
2021
° Europa Oxala, group exhibition, Mucem, France (sculpture, installation and video)
° Trans Capital, commissioned by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (20 min video)
° Ons Licht: The Arrival Of Meritocracy, TOESTANDEN; KUNST + ONDERWIJS = GELIJKE KANSEN festival, 404/Vooruit, Belgium (14 min video installation)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, Kaaitheater, Belgium (60 min performance + talk)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, Vooruit/NTGENT, Belgium (60 min performance)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, Arsenaal/Lazarus, Belgium (60 min performance)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, DeSingel, Belgium (60 min performance + talk)
° SPIRIT CAPITAL, production residencies, Kaaitheater, 404/Vooruit, DeSingel, Belgium (60 min performance)
° Not Another Hair Show, group exhibition, North-West University Gallery, South Africa (mixed media)
° August House/Cape Town Collab, duo exhibition, NELL gallery, South Africa (sculptures)
° TRANS ARCHITECT, residency and presentation, School of Contamination-program, KunstenFestivalDesArts & Kaaitheater, Belgium (30 min lecture performance)
° TROPICAL BUNGALOW a site of rehabilitation, Conference: In whose place? Confronting vestiges of the colonial landscape in Africa, WITS University & Johannesburg Art Gallery & Flemish Government, South Africa (20 min video installation)
2020
° Latitudes Art Fair, curated Lucy MacGarry, South Africa (online intervention)
° An exhibition in several acts / a lexigram in ideas, group exhibition, curated by Maria Fidel Regueros & the Meta foundation, South Africa (installation and mixed media)
2019
° COLOUR BAR, Congo Aan Zee festival, Belgium (58 min documentary)
° Journée déplacé du Festival de Marseille, group residency and presentation, 404/Vooruit & Festival de Marseille, France (performance & intervention program)
° Flandria, De Singel, Belgium (90 min lecture opera performance)
° Flandria, Theatre Molière, Belgium (90 min lecture opera performance)
° Flandria, De Grote Post, Belgium (90 min lecture opera performance)
° Flandria, BOZAR, Belgium (90 min lecture opera performance)
° Flandria: conceiving and visualising the Afropean identity, LUCA School of Arts, Belgium (60 min lecture)
° Flandria, World Premiere, LOD Muziektheater studio & 404/VOORUIT, Belgium (90 min
lecture opera performance)
° Flandria, creation residencies, LOD Muziektheater studio, 404/VOORUIT, De Grote Post, Belgium (90 min lecture opera performance)
2018
° EXIST… an Ode to Ballet, group show, curated by Ramón Rik Singley, One Art Space gallery, US (photograpy)
° The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0, 30CC LEUVEN, Belgium (70 min lecture performance)
° The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0, City Land festival, KAAITHEATER, Belgium (70 min lecture performance)
° The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0, Love at First Sight festival, DE Studio, Belgium (70 min lecture performance)
° The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0, the May Events-program, 404/, Belgium (70 min lecture performance)
° The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0, A conversation between collections from Kinshasa and Ostend exhibition, Mu.ZEE, Belgium (70 min lecture performance)
° Festival of Ideas : making the city together #2 Artistic practices co-created with urban stakeholders, residency 404/Vooruit & Festival de Marseille, France (research and lecture performance)
° De Heerschappij van het Afropeanisme, Tumult Gent 6 festival of arts, KROOK library, Belgium (video installation)
° Conceiving and visualising the Afropean identity, LUCA School of Arts, Belgium (60 min lecture)
° Colour Bar, Africa In Motion filmfestival, Scotland (58 min documentary)
2017
° Flandria, Work In Progress WIPCOOP-Mestizo Art Festival, Victoria Deluxe, Belgium (30 min lecture performance)
° Afropeanism: subverting history at Saout Africa(s) - Part of SAVVY Funk, documenta 14 radio program, SAVVY Contemporary, Germany (30' radio show)
° Afropeanism: subverting history, Christoph Büchel's 'Uit de Collectie | Verlust der mitte' exhibition, SMAK museum (30' audio installation)
° The Reign of Afropeanism, AFROPOLITAN festival, BOZAR, Belgium (60 min lecture performance)
° Black Beast VARIATION II, AFROPOLITAN festival + ARTTALK with Matthias De Groof, BOZAR, Brussel ( 6 min video installation and talk)
2016
° Afropean narratives, OPEN FORUM DAY by the Minderheden Forum, DeSingale, Belgium (10 min keynote performance)
° Colour Bar, AFROPEAN festival, BOZAR in collab with Royal Museum for Central Africa
, Belgium (58 min documentary)
2015
° LION I the Black Lion of Flanders, ONRUST & 11.11.11 exhibition, Belgium (video installation)
° LION Delhaize Promotional Campaign, Flamingrantendag, festival in public space, Belgium (performance)
° LION I of Flanders, Demosdate: Intergrationstop conference, SMAK museum, Belgium (20 min lecture performance)
° LION I & the Flemish Integration Monster, Karel de Grote University College, Belgium (lecture + workshop, in Antwerp BE)
2014
° Black Beast VARIATION II, online exhibition ( 6 min video installation)
° Karfour, group exhibition, Jan Colle Gallery, Belgium (mixed media and video installation)
° John k cobra on citizenship, art & activism, in Momenten #12 magazine, Demos vzw, Belgium (article publication)
° LION I & the Flemish Integration Monster, Karel de Grote University College, Belgium (lecture + workshop)
2013
° John K Cobra on Citizenship, Art & Activism, LINT symposium, Dossin museum, Belgium (lecture performance)
° Black Beast VARIATION I, commissioned by the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium (6 min video)
° LION: LOVBOX, CANVAS Collection group exhibition, BOZAR, Belgium (10 min video installation & performance)
° Colour Bar, wereld-maand festival, Belgium (58 min documentary + talk)
° Colour Bar, Gemeenschapscentrum Elzenhof, Belgium (58 min documentary + talk)
° Colour Bar, Foyer culturel de Jupille-Wandre, Belgium (58 min documentary + talk)
2012
° Colour Bar, centre culturel de Bertrix, Belgium (58 min documentary + talk)
2011
° VELLER, Art Cinema Off Off, Belgium (60 min lecture performance)
° Colour Bar, Art Cinema Off Off, Belgium (58 min documentary + 60 min lecture performance)
° Colour Bar, Afropean festival, BOZAR, Belgium (58 min documentary)
° Colour Bar, MIXED 2010 group exhibition, curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Belgium (58’ documentary)
° Colour Bar, LICHTPUNT TV, CANVAS & EEN TV-network, Belgium (58 min documentary)
° Colour Bar, Awarded best documentary and best director, Zimbabwe documentary film festival, Zimbabwe (58 min documentary)
° Colour Bar, Zimbabwe documentary film festival, Zimbabwe (58 min documentary)
2010
° Necro Negro, online exhibition by the CANVAS Collection, CANVAS and EEN TV-network (10 min performance)
2007
° N-ID The Stigma of the Negro-Identity, Africa Film Festival, Brussels (15 min documentary)