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Kiluanji Kia Henda

  • Skill Category: Art Legend
  • Present Address: Luanda, Angola
  • Country: Angola
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Biography

Kiluanji Kia Henda is an Angolan artist. He was born in Angola’s capital city Luanda in 1979, four years after the country gained independence from Portugal. This struggle for independence was followed by a long and bloody civil war that ended in 2002 when Kia Henda was in his twenties. History, politics, war and the impact of colonialism feature in Kia Henda’s work. But alongside this, there is also excitement and hope for the future. By interweaving facts and documentary images with storytelling and humour, he explores possible new identities for Angola and its people. In the visual arts, all medias can live together so nothing is lost. In creating his artworks Kiluanji Kia Henda uses range of media, including performance, installation and photography. He refers to himself as a conceptual artist. Conceptual art, developed in the 1960s, emphasises the idea behind an artwork over how it is made or what it is made from. Kia Henda uses whatever medium he feels will be most effective in putting across a particular idea.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

2012, Kia Henda won the National Prize for Culture and Arts, awarded by the Angolan Ministry of Culture, and in 2014 he was selected among 100 Leading Global Thinkers by the prestigious US magazine Foreign Politics. In 2017, he won the Frieze Artist Award and in 2019 he was selected for the Unlimited Basel project.

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