


Mimi Ọnụọha
29.11.2025 – 22.2.2026
The Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha’s works grapple with promises of technology-driven progress and the logics of data accumulation. Fascinated by the compilation of fine-grained data on humans in industrialized societies, which aims to categorize the population and ultimately make people calculable, the artist turns the spotlight on the gaps, on phenomena that are hard to read or blanks.
In her multimedia practice, Ọnụọha lets us grasp how available as well as fragmentary data engenders reality. For information not only represents facets of our history, present, and future, it also creates a world that conforms to it. With her works in the form of code, prints, installations, and videos, the artist explores how power dynamics arise and consolidate, drawing attention to cultural, historical, ecological, and digital contexts and exposing the close entanglements between racism and power. The deliberate suppression of socioeconomic data by government agencies, for instance, is arguably a subtle form of racist violence, as is the allocation of humans to specific groups by algorithms in the service of tech giants.
By probing the contradictions of technological progress, Mimi Ọnụọha foregrounds the false division between nature, culture, and technology. Drawing on powerful narratives, she thus opens up a space that suggests what contemporary technological infrastructures might look like if their implementation were guided not only by the Western logic of commercial exploitation, but also by the philosophical and cultural values of communities that have been marginalized.
geboren 1989 in Italien, lebt in New York.