Christian Nyampeta (b.1981, Kigali, Rwanda) is an artist based in New York, where he develops programs, exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications conceived as spaces for collective feeling, cooperative thinking, and mutual action. His practice explores the ways shared cultural and philosophical frameworks can foster alternative forms of knowledge and social engagement. He convenes the Nyanza Working Group of ARAC – Another Roadmap School, which took part in documenta 15, and currently leads Boda Boda Lounge 2022-2024, a trans-African film and video art festival. Nyampeta’s recent and ongoing projects include contributions to the 14th Shanghai Biennale (in collaboration with filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu), the 58th Carnegie International, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, and the 17th Istanbul Biennial. In 2019, he was awarded the European Union Prize at the 12th Bamako Encounters – African Biennial of Photography. In New York, he convenes the African Film Institute at e-flux in Brooklyn and serves on the Board of Directors at Storefront for Art and Architecture, as well as on the editorial board of November magazine.

A înțelege și a se exprima / Comprendre et s’exprimer, 2022
Cerneală diluată pe hârtie asamblată / Diluted ink on assembled paper, 3m x 2m
Courtesy of the artist