Grada

Kilomba’s

'Opera

to

a

Black

Venus'

at

Staatliche

Kunsthalle

Baden-Baden

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents the first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany by the internationally renowned artist, author, and thinker Grada Kilomba with an engrossing question: “What would the bottom of the ocean tell us tomorrow if emptied of water today?” Her work has been described as a new postcolonial minimalism, in which form, image and movement blur the boundaries between disciplines. Borrowing the title from the new commission, Opera to a Black Venus, the exhibition revisits the Black history of resistance to examine the entanglement between ecological collapse and colonial injustice.