Grace Ndiritu. Healing The Museum

01.04.2023 - 10.09.2023

Grace Ndiritu. Healing The Museum

Healing The Museum takes a retrospective look at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years.

This multi-layered exhibition project encompasses performance, film, shamanism, social actions, publications, textile work and collection research. The artist seeks to re-energise the museum space and to make it – and by extension society in general – more ethical. In this remarkable exhibition, Ndiritu will take visitors on a holistic journey through the museum spaces and address themes such as protest, ecology, inclusion and sexuality. The journey ends at an architectural structure designed by the artist, ‘The Temple’. This will house a critical collection display and function as a spiritual space for encounter, transition and healing.

As part of her long-term, on-going project Healing The Museum, Grace Ndiritu is also currently active as an artist-in-residence at S.M.A.K. In the run up to the construction of a new museum, she is working with the staff and members of the public on ‘A Spiritual Inventory of a 21st Century Museum’. The aim is to reflect upon the interpretation of the future organisation. In conjunction with the exhibition and residency, Motto Books will publish the first monograph dedicated to Grace Ndiritu’s oeuvre.

Biography Grace Ndiritu
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Ndiritu has been featured in The Guardian, Artforum, Art Review, TIME and Phaidon’s The 21st Century Art Book. Her work can be found in museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The British Council (London), LACMA (Los Angeles) and The Modern Art Museum (Warsaw). Her experimental art writing and images have been published by Migros Museum, Bergen Kunsthall, Whitechapel Gallery, The Paris Review, MIT Press, the art magazine Metropolis M, and Oxford University Press. Ndiritu’s archive of over forty ‘hand-crafted’ videos, textiles, painting, experimental photography, shamanic performances and films have been widely exhibited, including at The British Art Show (2021 to 2023), Wellcome Collection, London (2022), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022), Kunsthal Gent (2021), Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2021), and at international film festivals such as the 72nd Berlinale, FID Marseilles and BFI London Film Festival (2022). She is winner of The Jarman Film Award 2022, presented in association with Film London.