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Karimah Ashadu



Karimah Ashadu

Biography

British-Nigerian artist and director Karimah Ashadu was born in London in 1985 and today lives and works in Ham-burg and Lagos. Her works are about the perception of one-self and one’s surroundings as well as the perception of work and patriarchy within the socio-economic context of Nigeria and West Africa. Ashadu has had exhibitions and screen-ings at MoMA New York and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. She has won the 2020 ars viva award recognising young artists, awarded by the Hamburg Arts Council and the FRISE Artists’ House in Hamburg. She was also awarded jury prizes at Ann Arbor Film Festival, European Media Art Fes-tival and Euro Video. In 2020, Ashadu established her film production company ‘Golddust by Ashadu’, specialising in artists’ films on black culture and African themes. In cologne she is presenting BROWN GOODS and MAKOKO SAWMILL, two outstanding short films. She is a 2021 fellow at the Co-lumbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.