Emeka Ogboh

Global Thinking, Local Grounding

Emeka Ogboh (*1977, Nigeria) operates at the intersection of conceptual art, social sculpture, and cultural archaeology. His works employ multisensory media—including sound, taste, and installations—to renegotiate cultural narratives. Rather than fixed categories of identity, Ogboh is interested in the fluid interplay of memory, migration, and belonging.

Ogboh‘s works have been featured in documenta 14 (2017), the Münster Skulptur Project (2017), and the Biennale di Venezia (2015). His inclusion in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and Tate Modern in London underscores his significance in contemporary discourse on transcultural identities.

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Emeka Ogboh engages with places by using all five human senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. His art installations and culinary creations incorporate sensory elements to explore how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed, and encoded into different sensorial experiences. Ogboh’s works delve into how sensory perceptions capture our connections to the world, shape our comprehension of reality, and offer a backdrop for examining critical issues such as migration, globalization, and post- colonialism.

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