Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Period:September 13 to November 30, 2025, 79 days, Venues: Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto CityAichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Period:September 13 to November 30, 2025, 79 days, Venues: Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto City

What’s On

Wangechi Mutu

  • Contemporary Art
  • Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum

Exhibition

  • Right)
  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2025
  • Wangechi Mutu, The End of Carrying All, 2015
  • ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
  • Photo: Ito Tetsuo
  • Left)
  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2025
  • Wangechi Mutu, The End of Carrying All
  • A site specific intervention for Aichi Triennial 2025, 2025
  • ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
  • Photo: Ito Tetsuo
  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2025
  • Wangechi Mutu, Sleeping Serpent, 2014-2025
  • ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
  • Photo: Ito Tetsuo
  • Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2025
  • Wangechi Mutu, Kobe, 2022
  • ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee
  • Photo: Ito Tetsuo

You can find artwork descriptions on the digital map.

Venue

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Main Gallery, ALawn Square

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Profile

  • Born 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. Based in Nairobi, Kenya and New York, USA.

Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we perceive and reproduce images of what we believe we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, what her work looks at our value systems in Art and beyond, that either obscure or elevate our image and reflections. Internationally renowned for a practice that encompasses various techniques and mediums including sculpture, painting, film, installation and collages, Wangechi Mutu’s work features female hybrid creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes.

Selected exhibitions
2023–24
Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, New Museum (New York, USA)/New Orleans Museum of Art (USA)
2023
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (UAE)
2022
Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu, Storm King Art Center (New York, USA)
2021
Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening? , Legion of Honor Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (USA)
2019–20
Solo exhibition, The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
  • “Sleeping Serpent” 2014
  • Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro London.