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2024

° Feb 29 - March 2 , SPIRIT CAPITAL, performance / workshop / talk  at Market Theater (60' performance, in Johannesburg SA) 

° 2020 - 2024, Art BEyond PARTicipation, a 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).

IN DEVELOPMENT

° LION Phase 3 Act II: TROPICAL BUNGALOW the seat of oppression ' (50’ experimental film essay, a Polar Bear TV production in collaboration with  the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, in development)

° In residency at Moussen Nomadic Arts Centre (Brussels, in Belgium BE)  

2023

° November 11 - 30, Malabou in Malibu, a group exhibition at  De Fabriek in collar with WARP and MAKE Eindhoven  (in Eindhoven The Netherlands)

° APRIL 29 - AUGUST 30 , Solo exhibition TRANS-ARCHITECTURE; PERFORMING POWER FIGURES (at MUZEE, in Oostende BE)

° January - November, Residency with 4 artists at Make Eindhoven in collaboration with WARP and De Fabriek (in Eindhoven NE)

2022

° Oct 6 - March 5 , Europa-exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (in Brussels BE)

° Sept  - Oct 30 , SAFCA Residency (at Abbey de la Cambre, in Brussels BE)

° March 3 '22 - May 30 , Europa-exhibition at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (in Lisbon Portugal)

° Jan - Feb 18, Trans-architecture Residency FOR ONCE-program at the Centre for the Less Good Idea (in Johannesburg SA)

2021

° Oct 20 - Jan 2, Europa-exhibition at Mucem (in Marseille FR) 

​° Sept 29 & 30, SPIRIT CAPITAL at Kaaitheater (60' performance, in Belgium BE) 

​° Sept 23 & 24, SPIRIT CAPITAL at Vooruit/NTGENT (60' performance, in Belgium BE) 

​° Sept 22 , SPIRIT CAPITAL at Arsenaal/Lazarus (60' performance, in Belgium BE) 

​° 17 & 18 September, SPIRIT CAPITAL at DeSingel (60' performance, in Belgium BE) 

° Aug 9 - Sept 17, Not Another Hair Show at the North-West University Gallery (in Potchefstroom SA) 

° August, August House/Cape Town Collab exhibition at NELL gallery (in Cape Town SA)

° May 20 - 30, TRANS ARCHITECT - Residency School of Contamination-program at KunstenFestivalDesArts Bru.X.SS.EL.S (30' lecture performance at Kaaitheater, in Brussels BE)

° May 20 - 21, TROPICAL BUNGALOW a site of rehabilitation at Conference: In whose place? Confronting vestiges of the colonial landscape in  Africa at WITS University&Johannesburg Art Gallery (20'  lecture performance, in Johannesburg SA)

2020 

° July 15 - December, Latitudes Art Fair 2020 by curator Lucy MacGarry (in Johannesburg South Africa)

° November - December, An exhibition in several acts / a lexigram in ideas by curator Maria Fidel Regueros and the Metafoundation  (at the Metafoundation / August House, in Johannesburg South Africa)

2019

° Sept 8, COLOUR BAR at Congo Aan Zee festival (58’ documentary, Sjiekong Documentaries production in collaboration with the Flanders  Audiovisual Fund, in Oostende BE)

° June, Residency VOORUIT at Festival de Marseille (a collaboration between Vooruit centre of Arts / Ghent - Festival de Marseille / Marseille - Dream  City / Tunis, at Festival de Marseille - performance art festival, in Marseille FR)

° May 15, Flandria at De Singel centre of performing arts (90’ lecture opera performance, in Antwerp BE )

° May 5, Flandria at Theatre Molière (90’ lecture opera performance, in Brussels BE )

° April 27, Flandria at De Grote Post center of performing arts (90’ lecture opera performance,  in Oostende BE )

° March 4, Flandria at BOZAR centre of fine arts (90’ lecture opera performance, in Brussels BE )

° March 4, Flandria: conceiving and visualising the Afropean identity at LUCA School of Arts (60’ lecture, in Ghent BE)

° February 28, March 1 & 2, Flandria World Premiere at LOD Muziektheater studio (lecture opera performance, in Ghent BE)

2018

° 15 December,  EXIST… an Ode to Ballet– A Group Show – Curated by Ramón Rik Singley II at One Art Space gallery (in New York US)

° 6 December, The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0 at 30CC LEUVEN centre of arts (70’ lecture performance, in Leuven BE)

° 12 October, The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0 City Land festival, at KAAITHEATER center of performing arts (70’ lecture performance, in  Brussels BE)

° 22 September, The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0 at Love at First Sight festival at DE Studio center of performing arts (70’ lecture  performance, in Antwerp BE)

° 24 September, The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0 at the May Events-program at VOORUIT center of arts (70’ lecture performance, in Ghent BE)

° 18 March, The Reign of Afropeanism 2.0 at A conversation between collections from Kinshasa and Ostend exhibition, at  Mu.ZEE museum of contemporary arts (70’ lecture performance, in Oostende BE)

° June, Residency VOORUIT, Festival of Ideas : making the city together #2 Artistic practices co-created with urban stakeholders at  Festival de Marseille (encounters en exploration residency, a collaboration between Vooruit centre of Arts / Ghent - Festival de Marseille / Marseille -  Dream City / Tunis, at Festival de Marseille - performance art festival, in Marseille F

° 2 May, De Heerschappij van het Afropeanisme at Tumult Gent 6 festival of arts (video installation, at KROOK library in Ghent BE)

° 28 February, Conceiving and visualising the Afropean identity at LUCA School of Arts (60’ lecture, in Ghent BE)

2017 

° Flandria at Work In Progress WIPCOOP-Mestizo Art Festival (30’ lecture performance, at Victoria Deluxe theater production company, in Ghent BE)

° Afropeanism: subverting history at Saout Africa(s) - Part of SAVVY Funk, documenta 14 radio program (30' radio show, in Berlin GR)

° Afropeanism: subverting history at Christoph Büchel's 'Uit de Collectie | Verlust der mitte' exhibition at SMAK museum of  contemporary art (30' radio show,  in Ghent BE)  

° The Reign of Afropeanism at AFROPOLITAN festival, at BOZAR center of fine arts (60’ lecture performance, in Brussels BE)

° Black Beast VARIATION II at AFROPOLITAN festival ARTTALK with Matthias De Groof at BOZAR center of fine arts ( 6’16’’ video  installation, in Brussels BE)

2016 

° Afropean narratives at OPEN FORUM DAY of the Minderheden Forum (10' keynote_ performance, at DeSingel center of arts, in Antwerp BE)

° Colour Bar at AFROPEAN festival BOZAR center of fine arts in collaboration with Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (58’  documentary, Sjiekong Documentaries production in collaboration with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, in Brussels BE)

2015 

° LION I the Black Lion of Flanders at ONRUST & 11.11.11 exhibition (installation_video, in Bruges BE)

° LION Delhaize Promotional Campaign (public performance, Flamingrantendag, in Ghent BE)

° LION I of Flanders at Demosdate: Intergrationstop conference at SMAK museum of contemporary art (20’ performance, in Ghent BE)

° LION I & the Flemish Integration Monster at Karel de Grote University College (lecture + workshop, in Antwerp BE)

2014  

° Black Beast VARIATION II ( 6’16’’ video installation)

° Karfour exhibition, at Jan Colle Gallery (mixed media, in Ghent BE)

° John k cobra on citizenship & art & activism (article in Momenten #12 magazine BE )

° LION I & the Flemish Integration Monster at Karel de Grote University College (lecture + workshop, in Antwerp BE)

2013

° John K Cobra on Citizenship & Art & Activism at LINT symposium, in Dossin museum (lecture performance, in Malines BE)

° VELLER Final Solution to the Negro Monster (45’’ promotional video, social media campaign)

° Black Beast VARIATION I at the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (6’ video installation, in Brussels BE)

° LION: LOVBOX (10’ installation_performance, CANVAS Collection exhibition, at BOZAR center of fine arts, in Brussels BE) 

2011 

° VELLER at Art Cinema Off Off (60’ performance, in Ghent BE)

° Colour Bar appeared on CANVAS and EEN TV-network, film festivals, Afropean festival at BOZAR center of fine arts in Brussels,  the MIXED 2010 exhibition in Ghent curated by Stef Van Bellingen (58’ documentary, Sjiekong Documentaries production in collaboration with the  Flanders Audiovisual Fund, in Ghent BE) 

2010  

° Necro Negro (15’ performance_video, presented on the website of CANVAS Collection, CANVAS and EEN TV-network, Flemish national tv network )

2007

 

° N-ID The Stigma of the Negro-Identity at the Africa Film Festival (15’ documentary, in Brussels BE)

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