Lamin Fofana
Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician currently located in New York. His music contrasts the reality of our world with what’s beyond, and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging. Fofana’s overlapping interests in history and the present, and his practice of transmuting text into the aective medium of sound, manifests in multisensory live performances and installations featuring original music compositions, eld recordings and archival material. His latest releases include Ballad Air & Fire, Shafts of Sunlight, and The Open Boat an album trilogy. Recent exhibitions include JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters (2022) at Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England; Preis der Nationalgalerie (2021) at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; a call to disorder (2021) at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Life and Death by Water (2021) at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England; BLUES (2020) at Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York; Refracted GazesFugitive Dreams (2019) at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; WITNESS (2017) at 57th Venice Biennale, Italy; and performances at Documenta 14 (2017), Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece. In 2021, Fofana was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists and was nominated for the National Gallery Prize in Germany. Fofana hosts a monthly radio show on NTS Radio, an online station based in London.
EXHIBITIONS
2022
JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters, London, United Kingdom
2021
Ballad Air & Fire, Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
a call to disorder, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Life and Death by Water, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2020
BLUES, Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
PERFORMANCES
2022
Shafts of Sunlight | Live, Hellerau, Dresden
Ballad Air & Fire | Live 0, CARA, New York
Rewire Festival | Live, The Hague
2021
Shafts of Sunlight | Live, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart
Ode to Impurity | Live, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Live with Nicolas Premier, E-Werk Luckenwalde
2020
SoS Assembly | Live, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
REST ASSURED BODI NO BE FAYAWOOD| Live, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Radical Mutation: On the Ruins of Rising Suns | Live, HAU1, Berlin
Festival of Endless Gratitude | Live, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
Space for Listening w Lyra Pramuk, Lamin Fofana, Hüma Utku and Ramsha - Open Air Concert | Live, Berlin Latitude On Air: Unsettling Power Relations” | DJ, rebootfm and Radio Netzwerk, Berlin | Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air Exhibition Opening | DJ, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2019
“Rajkamal Kahlon: Are my hands clean?” Exhibition Opening | DJ, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
PAD WEEK Germany 2019 | DJ, Atelier Prinzenstr 84, Berlin
“Black Metamorphosis” Album Launch with Jim C Nedd | Installation / Live, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Homage to Binyavanga – ISUSU 2019 | DJ, be’kech, Berlin
“Blue Skies Bodies in Trouble” with knowbotiq | Live, PACT Zollverein, Essen
Each One Teach One – Afrolution 2019 | Live, aptm Berlin, Berlin
Creamcake: Paradise Found | Live, Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche, Berlin
Membrane Festival | Live, Literaturhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
DJ, Climax Institutes,Stuttgart
Live (+ Sarah Davachi), Roter Salon Volksbühne, Berlin
Profound Sound 2019 | Live, Quarterhouse Auditorium, Folkestone, Kent
Cobalt Studios | DJ, Newcastle
Hundebiss Night | DJ, Cox18, Milan
manYdancing the molecular ornaments | Live, HKW, Berlin
Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design | Live, Wohnmaschine, Dessau
2018
Berlin @ Studio 1 at Kunstquartier Bethanien – 3hd Festival Berlin | Live
The Allure of Gold and Other Solidarity Stories by Keleketla Library at 10th Berlin Biennale | Live, YAAM, Berlin
No Tek No Caribbean Soli Party, Benet for Puerto Rico, Dominica, St Croix | DJ, Panke, Berlin
2017
Jeannette Ehlers: Into the Dark | Soundtrack / Live, FAAR302, Copenhagen
Wiener Festwochen: Performeum – Big Opening | DJ, Performeum, Vienna
Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion: University of Disaster| Installation / Live, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice
S A V V Y • Every Time A Ear di Soun” at Documenta 14 | DJ, KulturBahnhof, Kassel
S A V V Y • Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am, at Documenta 14 | DJ, six dogs, Athens
The Ocean After Nature” | Live / Discussion, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston
2016
Doubleworld Album Launch w Binyavanga Wainaina and Lisa Blanning | Listening, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin An Age of Our Own Making | DJ, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse | DJ, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
BCRShamelessLimitless | DJ, OHM, Berlin
Negus – Celebration | Live, Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna
Vie Garantie | Live, La Java, Paris
