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Hidd Al Saadiyat Promenade
Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-based practice draws on overlooked histories to examine systems of power, movement, and belonging through sculpture and installation. Plotting Rest (2026) takes the form of a pavilion whose interlocking triangular roof filters light, wind, and rain, creating shifting patterns of shadow. Its design references the ‘Flying Geese’ quilt pattern, associated with oral histories of the Underground Railroad, a nineteenth-century network of routes and safe houses used by freedom-seekers escaping enslavement in the American South. According to these histories, quilts were believed to serve as coded signs guiding journeys towards freedom. Supported by stone columns and woven palm leaves, the pavilion brings together permanence and fragility, creating a sheltered space for rest and reflection on migration, displacement, and freedom.
Berlin, Germany and Paris, France
Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-based practice examines the enduring impact of power asymmetries across history, disciplines, and places. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance, she draws on marginalised and overlooked histories to challenge dominant narratives and imagine alternative futures. Through extensive archival and field research, she considers how social, political, and environmental systems shape lived experience. Her recent solo exhibitions include Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; CAPC, Bordeaux; MOCA Toronto; the New Museum, New York; and Haus der Kunst, Munich. She represented Canada at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) with Trinket and has also participated in the Venice, São Paulo, Singapore, and Sydney biennials, alongside major site-specific and public commissions across Europe and North America. Kiwanga received the Joan Miró Prize (2025), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), the Zurich Art Prize (2022), the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2020), and both the Frieze Artist Award and the Sobey Art Award (2018).
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Hidd Al Saadiyat Promenade
Jean-Marie Appriou
