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KARIMAH ASHADU: TENDERED<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The solo show of artist Karimah Ashadu launched under Unison, a biennial initiative created by the Fondazione to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions together with Italian and international institutions.<\/p>\n

10 October 2025 \u2014 22 March 2026<\/strong>
\nCamden Art Centre, London<\/p>\n

Autumn 2026<\/strong>
\nThe Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago<\/p>\n

curated by<\/strong>
\nAlessandro Rabottini, artistic director, Fondazione In Between Art Film
\nLeonardo Bigazzi, curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film<\/p>\n

International media inquiries<\/strong>
\nSAM TALBOT
\nMatthew Brown, matthew@sam-talbot.com<\/a>, +44 (0) 7989 446557<\/p>\n

Italian media inquiries<\/strong>
\nLARA FACCO P&C
\nLara Facco, lara@larafacco.com<\/a>, +39 349 2529989
\nMarianita Santarossa, marianita@larafacco.com<\/a>, +39 333 4224032[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1687″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” el_class=”img-penumbra imgcstmpenumbra” css=”.vc_custom_1759298771255{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”dida-penumbra”]Karimah Ashadu,\u00a0MUSCLE<\/i>\u00a0(still), 2025. Courtesy of the artist, Camden Art Centre, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Sadie Coles HQ and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”colonne-2″]Fondazione In Between Art Film and Camden Art Centre are delighted to announce Tendered<\/strong>, the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by artist and filmmaker Karimah Ashadu (UK\/Nigeria, b. 1985), winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist in the Venice Biennale 2024.<\/p>\n

Tendered<\/strong> is the second project launched under Unison<\/em>, a biennial initiative promoted by Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image\u2013based exhibitions in partnership with international public institutions. The show follows Ali Cherri\u2019s solo exhibition Dreamless Night<\/em> which was held at GAMeC, Bergamo, and Frac Bretagne in 2022-23.<\/p>\n

Curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi of Fondazione In Between Art Film, the exhibition includes the premiere of MUSCLE<\/strong> \u2013 a newly commissioned moving-image installation \u2013 as well as a series of new sculptures conceived especially for the show that reference objects and environments within the film.<\/p>\n

MUSCLE<\/strong> (2025) is an intimate portrait of body builders in the heart of Lagos\u2019 slums striving to attain a hyper-masculine ideal, continuing the artist\u2019s research into issues of socio-economic independence and patriarchy within the context of West African culture and society. MUSCLE<\/strong> is commissioned and produced by Camden Art Centre, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, where it will be presented in autumn 2026.<\/p>\n

In addition, the exhibition features a selection of earlier moving image works also set in Lagos \u2013 King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko)<\/em> (2015), a window into the inner workings of the Makoko abattoir, and Cowboy<\/em> (2022), a two-channel film that follows a man who has dedicated his life to the care of horses \u2013 configured within discrete environments that extend aspects of the films into the viewing space.<\/p>\n

The show takes visitors on a journey through the range of Ashadu\u2019s practice, from the intimate to the expansive, featuring works that form a cinematic narrative of bodies and land \u2013 an undulating scenario of urban subcultures, quotidian labour, and our relationship to nature.<\/p>\n

Ashadu\u2019s practice looks at the contemporary manifestations of Nigerian history as they are borne by its people and landscape. Having grown up between the United Kingdom and Nigeria, the artist situates her point of view within a constant negotiation of distance, one that pertains to diasporic existences. It is through a sympathetic proximity \u2013 as opposed to a documentary approach \u2013 that Ashadu observes the struggles, and gathers the stories, of working men \u2013 from the motorcycle taxi riders in Machine Boys<\/em> (2024) to the tin miners in Plateau<\/em> (2022) or the palm oil farmers in Red Gold<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n

Her background in painting carries through to the visual language of her films, combining a strong sense of colour, composition and form, with the fugitive kinetics of her camera lens. This unique approach to the handling of the camera, and the framing of its gaze, defies the tendency towards spectacle in colonial ethnographic documentation. Ashadu\u2019s nuanced and intimate portraits, whether of individuals or communities, probe multifaceted reflections onto the notions of masculinity and patriarchal systems within the cultural context of West Africa, as they are inextricably related to the conditions of economic independence and exploitation in the aftermath of British colonial rule.<\/p>\n

Tendered<\/strong> is accompanied by the first reference monograph dedicated to the artist, edited by Bianca Stoppani, editor at Fondazione In Between Art Film, with Rabottini and Bigazzi. Published by Mousse, the monograph features contributions from Karimah Ashadu; Myriam Ben Salah, director and chief curator at The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Leonardo Bigazzi, curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Gina Buenfeld-Murley, curator at Camden Art Centre, London; Martin Clark, director at Camden Art Centre, London; Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, associate professor in film, culture and society, UCL, London; Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Bettina Steinbr\u00fcgge, director at Mudam Luxembourg; and Arese Uwuoruya, assistant curator at Camden Art Centre.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1737121238955{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”]<\/p>\n

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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Karimah Ashadu (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian Artist and Film Director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Ashadu\u2019s practice is concerned with labour, patriarchy and notions of independence pertaining to the socio-economic and socio-cultural context of Nigeria and its diaspora.<\/p>\n

Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Upcoming exhibitions include Camden Art Centre, London. Her work has been shown at Canal Projects and MoMA PS1, New York, Kunsthalle Bremen, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein, Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain Gen\u00e8ve, and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin.<\/p>\n

Ashadu is the recipient of other awards such as the Prize of the B\u00f6ttcherstra\u00dfe in Bremen (2022) and the ars viva prize (2020). Public collections include MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the City of Geneva Contemporary Art Collection, the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany. Fellowships include the Abigail R. Cohen fellowship at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Ashadu established her film production company Golddust by Ashadu, specialising in Artists\u2019 films on black culture and African discourses.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1689″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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