2026
ADP: Hey Godelive, what art world advice would you give to your younger self?
KKG: Hi,Um... get enough rest or take a vacation when necessary. The art world can sometimes operate like a hurricane, which is why timing is so important.
Biography
Godelive Kasangati Kabena is an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She currently lives and works between Kinshasa and Kumasi, where she continues her studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Her work is rooted in speculative research, exploring the engagement of different bodies—bodies that open an emancipatory field while contributing to a discursive arena on reproduction, how it can be manufactured through archival pictures and notions of axiomatic equality.
Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as 2026: solo exhibition Mbwa Now Mine, Redclay Studio, Curated by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh,Tamale, 2025: Space and Time: Dynamics ofExtractivism co-curated by Prisca Tankwey and Paulvie Ngimbi, Forum Startpark,Graz Austria, 2025:Toxic Lands,Living Narratives co-curated by Sammy Baloji,Gallery Imane Farès, Paris, 2025: Open studio Mbwa, Studio Voltaire, London, 2025: the Stellenbosch Triennale curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, 2024: How much do you weigh? FCA - Ghana, 2023: represented by The Efie Gallery at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 2023, 2023: Worldmaking, Mitchell- Innes,New York curated by Gideon Appah and Ylinka Barrotto, 2022: JAOU PHOTO , Commissioner Karim Sultan, The 6th edition of Jaou Tunis, organized by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF) and the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT), 2022: Kinshasa–(N)Tonga exhibition: between future and dust, the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts misses the start of the “Living Traces” project between Kinshasa and Brussels, 2021: Collective exhibition “Materials and Things” Curator: Exit Frame, the season “ un Quartier Généreux “ by public state, on the occasion of the Africa 2020 season.2019–2022: Participated in the PICHA workshops as part of the Lubumbashi Biennale, 2019: Exhibition and participation in the 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography.
https://kasangatigodelivekabena.onfotomat.com/