Emeka Ogboh - Galerie Imane Farès

B. 1977, Enugu, Nigeria.
Lives and works Berlin and Lagos.
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Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, he explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed, and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how sound and food capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world, and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism.

His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, notably at the São Paulo Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil, 2025), at the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris (Migrations, une odyssée humaine), at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Nationalgalerie: Narrative Wisdom and African Arts), at the Saint Louis Art Museum (The True Size of Africa, 2024), at Völklinger Hütte (ABJ, 2024), at Something Art Space, Abidjan (A Collection for the 21st Century, 2023), at Museum Tinguely, Basel (A bruit secret – Hearing in Art, 2023), at MoMA, New York (Collection 1980s–Present, 2022–2023), at Humboldt Forum, Berlin (Der Kosmos – Things Fall Apart, 2021), at Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille (Stirring the Pot, 2020), at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ámà, the Gathering Place, 2019), at The Power Plant, Toronto (The Song of the Germans, 2018), at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (If Found Please Return to Lagos, 2017), and at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC (Market Symphony, 2016).

In June, the artist will present a solo exhibition at Galerie Imane Farès, titled B(l)ackroom. On this occasion, a performance will take place on 21 June at the gallery, as part of the Fête de la Musique, under the title Fête de la Synesthesia II. He is currently participating in the group exhibition Aux origines at the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration.

Emeka Ogboh is the co-founder of the Video Art Network Lagos. He received the Böttcherstraße Prize in Bremen in 2016 and was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2018. In 2019, he shared the Sharjah Biennial 14 Prize with Otobong Nkanga. In 2026, he was among the laureates of the CHANEL Next Prize.