Artist talk: Revisiting the Canons

With Lubaina Himid. Moderated by Florence Ostende.

In the framework of the exhibition: Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day

In English

Participation fee: 10€

Free for students and Kulturpass

Booking required:

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In this special event, artist Lubaina Himid CBE RA discusses how visual art offers a distinct mode of storytelling – one that affords insights into hidden historical narratives. For over four decades, Lubaina Himid’s art has sought to create conversations with audiences. In this illuminating talk, the artist discusses this approach of storytelling as well as her inspiration – from her grandmother MaShulan’s kangas, British pattern and textile, her affinity for opera, through to her inspired engagement with the work of artists such as late English painters, William Hogarth and James Tissot, sketching out her own strategies of response and interpolation.

Biography

Lubaina Himid CBE RA was born in Zanzibar in 1954 and now lives and works in the UK. She is an artist who for over four decades has explored and expanded the possibilities of painting and storytelling to depict contemporary everyday life and to fill gaps in art history. Self-described as a painter, cultural activist, witness, storyteller, and historian, Himid is an influential figure within the British Black arts movement in the 1980s and has been a champion of women artists in her role as a teacher, curator, critic and organizer. In 2017, she won the Turner Prize, in 2023 the Maria Lassnig Art Prize, and the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize. Himid has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions globally including a major 2021 survey at Tate Modern, as well as monographic presentations at UCCA, Beijing; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne; New Museum; Modern Art Oxford; Spike Island, Bristol; Tate Britain, London, and has featured in the 14th and 15th Sharjah Biennials, the 12th Liverpool Biennial; the 10th Berlin Biennale and the 10th Gwangju Biennale. She is Professor Emeritus at The University of Central Lancashire. In 2026, Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale.