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Anawana Haloba
Anawana Haloba explores the positions of different societies within varied political, social, economic and cultural contexts, rooted in the ideological and post-independence framework of her home country of Zambia. Haloba’s artworks often begin as drafts of poetry which she uses as the basis to create sound works within performative installations.
Anawana Haloba (b. 1978) is an artist based in Oslo and Livingstone, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Bergen. Haloba has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of African Arts (Smithsonian), la Biennale di Venezia, 2009, and the Sharjah Biennial 08, 11 and 14th editions. She is an associate professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a guest advisor at Rijksakademie van beeldendekunsten, Amsterdam and co-founder of the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA), a platform for exploring colonial and political histories in relation to language and contemporary art. Her work was included in the Berlin Biennale (2025) and she has a forthcoming major solo exhibition at the National Museum, Oslo.
Anawana Haloba
Biography
Anawana Haloba explores the positions of different societies within varied political, social, economic and cultural contexts, rooted in the ideological and post-independence framework of her home country of Zambia. Haloba’s artworks often begin as drafts of poetry which she uses as the basis to create sound works within performative installations.
Anawana Haloba (b. 1978) is an artist based in Oslo and Livingstone, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Bergen. Haloba has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of African Arts (Smithsonian), la Biennale di Venezia, 2009, and the Sharjah Biennial 08, 11 and 14th editions. She is an associate professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a guest advisor at Rijksakademie van beeldendekunsten, Amsterdam and co-founder of the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA), a platform for exploring colonial and political histories in relation to language and contemporary art. Her work was included in the Berlin Biennale (2025) and she has a forthcoming major solo exhibition at the National Museum, Oslo.
