Draft:Mallam Mudi Yahaya

Mudi Yahaya (* 1968 in Kano) is a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, archivist, afromusicophile, writer and curator. Mudi Yahaya lives and works in Lagos.

Work
Mallam Mudi Yahaya is a visual artist whose work explores interpretations of African hybrid identities and their varied visual dialects, currencies, and vocabularies. With the massive digitization of media data, Mallam Mudi Yahaya investigates aesthetics that connect postcolonial African identities mediated by still photography and cinema. Mallam Mudi Yahaya’s work further focuses on the relationship and tension between images as they interact with notions and strategies of post-colonial deconstruction of African identities in syncretic African spaces and non-spaces. His interest in identity construction extends to photography archives, where he conceptually explores counter-narratives of photographic representation.

Exhibitions (selection)
2023: ECOAR - Refletindo A Sombra Africana Da Memória, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife, Brazil.

2023: Al'umma - Society Celebrating Life, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany.

2022: Things Fall Apart - Film Stills By Stephen Goldblatt,.Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.

2022: The Respectful Gaze - From The Estate Of Nina Fischer-Stephan, Tinubu Square, Lagos, Nigeria.

2016: Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa.

2015: Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali.

2015: Conrad's Circus - For Crown and Country, RomAfrica Film Festival RAFF, Cinema Extention, Rom, Italy.

2015: Sights & Sounds Of Nigeria, Jewish Museum, New York, USA.

2014: Innovate – Heritage, ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany.

2013: Time To Pretend - Constructions Of Heritage, Memory & Belonging, First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.

2013: MOP5 - The Cape Town Month Of Photography, South African Centre for Photography, Cape Town, South Africa.

2012: How To Tame Ghosts, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.

2012: Conrad's Circus - For Crown and Country, Goethe-Institut Lagos, Nigeria.

2012: Fresh Vernacular, Lagos, Nigeria.

2011: The Ruptured Landscape, Centre For Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, Nigeria.

2011: Summer Show, Brundyn + Gonsalves Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

2011: FAX - Independent Curators International, South London Gallery, Great Britain.

2011: VAN Video Art Network Lagos, Media Art Screening, Lagos, Nigeria.

2011: VAN Video Art Network Lagos, IN-SHORT, International Short Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria.

2011: Crosscurrents, Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.

2010: Reconstruction In Reverse, Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.

2009: A Perspective on Contemporary Nigerian Photography, Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.

Curated exhibitions
2013: National Pop-Up Theater, Goethe-Institut Lagos in der Federal Government Press, Lagos, Nigeria.

2012: Fresh Vernacular, Lagos, Nigeria.

2011: O, Lagos, Nigeria.

Filmography (selection)
2022: Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze, Director, Documentary, 40 min.

2018: Skin, Documentary, 76 min

2014–2016: Ogas At The Top, Screenplay, TV series

2014: A Place In The Stars, Still Photographer, Thriller, 1:52 min

Nominations
2015: Prix Pictet Prize (Nomination), Switzerland

2014: Prix Pictet Prize (Nomination), Switzerland

Publications
TEN CITIES: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon 1960 – March 2020, Published by Johannes Hossfeld Etyang, Joyce Nyairo, Florian Sievers, Spector Books, Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-944669-79-3, Mudi Yahaya: TEN CITIES - REsearch Participants - Mudi Yahaya. 29. October 2014

The National War Museum, Umuahia, Development Alternatives and Resource Center, Carolina Academic Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1611638806, cap-press.com

Reconstruction In Reverse : A Photographic Exhibition, Deconstructing The Displaced And Misinterpreted Nigerian Identity, Revilo Company Limited, Lagos, Nigeria, 2010, ISBN 9789789113699

Literature
Artists Of Nigeria, by Onyema Offoedu-Okeke, USA 2019, ISBN 978-88-7439-547-7

Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas), Duke University Press, UK 2019, ISBN 978-1-4780-0236-9

Telling Time, RENCONTRES DE BAMAKO BIENNALE AFRICAINE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Published by Bisi Silva, Antawan I. Byrd, Yves Chatap, Kehrer Verlag, Germany 2015, ISBN 978-3-86828-669-4

New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa, Published by Kerstin Pinther, Berit Fischer, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Lit-Verlag, Germany 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-90626-7

Lagos - A City At Work, by Olakunle Tejuoso, Nigeria 2007, ISBN 978-056-606-6