Ima-Abasi Okon
Visual Arts recipient 2025
Ima-Abasi Okon works across sculpture, sound, and video to create multilayered installations. In 2025, Okon presented a solo exhibition spanning all ten galleries of the Van Abbemuseum’s old building in Eindhoven, and developed a new commission with Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, responding to the practice of Beverly Buchanan. Previous projects include a Avg Pace: S %~E ~L%~A%~ H%~s%~peri£meno£pau£sal~P%~S%~A %~L ~M%~’S km —(t!h!a!tyes‑t!!hhat incumbent experiential plane to reorganise a c,a,p,a,c,i,t,y of never having enough— Not as a whole but as aprecise h!e!a!p of digni-fide agility) & S.t.a.n.d.a.r.d. P.r.a.c.t.i.c.e, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg.I K,A,R,A,O,K,E, — O.O.P.S: Insubordinate Rhythms, i. Grace, ii. Labour, iii. Psalm, iv, v, Against the conditions of the Day, her second self published project was released at the end of 2023.
“Thank you to the nominators and judges for supporting what I do, and the way I do it. I’m allowing my body to catch up with what this truly means. Intellectually, I understand — but I want to physically register the lightness of this award. That may take some time.”
Examples of work
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Animation. Photo credit: Studio Lennarts & De Bruijn. -
Animation. Photo credit: Studio Lennarts & De Bruijn. -
S.t.a.n.d.a.r.d. P.r.a.c.t.i.c.e. Photo credit: © Ima-Abasi Okon. -
S.t.a.n.d.a.r.d. P.r.a.c.t.i.c.e. Photo credit: © Ima-Abasi Okon.
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