Emeka Okereke

Transdisciplinary Artist, Philosopher and Systems Designer

A selected institutional record. The fuller movement of the work is on the pages themselves, and the trajectory is on About.

Education

2005–2008

National Superior School of Fine Arts of Paris, France. Master’s degree in multimedia, photography, video and sound.

2009–present

Founder and Artistic Director, Invisible Borders Trans-African Project
On this site
2019–present

Founder and Host, NKATA Podcast Station; initiated in 2019 and formally established in 2020
On this site
2025–present

Creator and Artistic Director, Footprints — Parable of the Sojourner, a living poetry anthology conceived as a mobile digital artwork
On this site
2025–present

Initiating Steward, SEAD — The School of Ethics & Aesthetics of Difference
On this site
2008–present

Founder, Writer and Editor, Borderbeing
On this site
2020–present

Founder, Kupesonic Sound Project
2022–present

Co-founder, Ala-Ila Collective, with Mathangi Krishnamurthy

2024

Nkata Podcast: Art & Processes — An Exhibition of Five Conversations, within A Home for Something Unknown, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
On this site
2023

Tracing Presence(s)… of place, body and time, photographic-performative intervention; sound design by David Felix Esser; within the special exhibition Schlösser. Preußen. Kolonial. Biografien und Sammlungen im Fokus, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG), Charlottenburg Palace — New Wing, Berlin, 4 July–31 October 2023
2020

I Wonder as I Wander: On Akinbode Akinbiyi, Gropius Bau, Berlin
On this site
2020

Trans-Bangladeshi Project, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
2019

12th Bamako Encounters, Mali
On this site
2019

13th Cairo Biennale, Egypt
2018

Exploring a Void, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg — solo
On this site
2018

Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2017

Collective Intelligence, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2017

A Trans-African Worldspace, FOAM, Amsterdam
2015

A Trans-African Worldspace, 56th Venice Biennale — All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor
On this site
2012

The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New York
On this site
2008

Bagamoyo — Photography and the Useful Space, Catembe/Maputo — solo
2006

Snap Judgments, International Center of Photography, New York
2003

5th Bamako Encounters, Mali

2022–2024

Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice and Theory, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin); Exploring a Void
On this site
2022

Visiting Scholar, African Studies Program, Indiana University Bloomington
On this site
2017–2025

Guest lecturer and critic, Hartford Art School MFA in Photography, University of Hartford; engagements in Berlin, San Francisco and Hartford, and Guest Lecturer in June 2025
2019

MFA examiner, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2019

Masterclass facilitator, 12th Bamako Encounters, Mali
2019

Masterclass facilitator, N’Gola Biennial of Arts, São Tomé and Príncipe
2018

Lecturer, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts; Eine Leere erforschen / Exploring a Void
On this site

2025

Transcending the Illusion of Borders and Separation, TEDxPorto, Porto
On this site
2024

A Glimpse of Process: an Exhibition of FiVE Conversations, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
On this site
2022

Presentation on artistic practice and Invisible Borders, African Studies Program, Indiana University Bloomington
On this site
2022

Artist talk, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington
On this site
2020

I Wonder as I Wander: On Akinbode Akinbiyi, screenings and conversations at IL Kino, Lichtblick Kino and Living the City, Berlin
On this site
2019

Light Writing — The Photographic Image Reloaded, Chennai Photo Biennale, India
On this site
2018

Cosmocides: Art(s), Violence, 21st Century, KADIST, Paris
On this site
2017

Biafra’s Children, documenta 14 public programme, Athens
2016

Lecture, Promised Land symposium, Central Saint Martins, London

2026

“A Roadside Philosophy,” words and artworks, in Emisferi / Hemispheres, no. 2/2026, Rivista La Biennale di Venezia
On this site
2024

“Photography and Trans-Africanism: A Story of Journeys,” in The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies, edited by Lucy Soutter and Duncan Wooldridge, Routledge
On this site
2021

“A Volatile Negotiation Between the Past and Present: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project,” FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Issue 17
On this site

2023

Visual Arts Work Stipend, Berlin Senate Department for Culture
2022

National Geographic Society Explorer
2020–2022

Jane Lombard Fellow, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School — for Invisible Borders
2019

Visual Arts Research Grant, Berlin Senate Department for Culture
2018

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Ministry of Culture
2017

Nominee, Prix Elysée (2016–2018 cycle)
2016

Long list nominee, Prix Pictet
2008

Visa pour la Création, for Bagamoyo, Maputo
2003

Best Young Photographer, Bamako Encounters, Mali