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= Grada Kilomba = Grada Kilomba (born in 1968 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese author, psychologist, theoretician and interdisciplinary artist, whose work critically deals with memory, trauma, gender, racism and post-colonialism. She works with different formats, from text to scenic reading and performance, and combines academic and lyrical narrative. In 2012 she was guest professor for Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Life
With roots in the West African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe and in Angola, Grada Kilomba was born in Lisbon. There she studied Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA ). While working as a psychologist in Portugal she worked in psychiatry with war traumatized people from Angola and Mozambique and initiated various artistic and therapeutic projects on the subject of trauma and memory, influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon. As a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Grada Kilomba earned her doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2008, where she worked as a guest lecturer.

From 2009 to 2010 she was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. In the following years she taught postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis and the work of Frantz Fanon at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Universität Bielefeld and the University of Ghana in Accra. Most recently, she was Professor of Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. There she researched on the topic of African diaspora and taught on the topics 'Decolonial Feminism', 'Decolonizing Knowledge' and 'Performing Knowledge'. She gives lectures in Europe.

Work
Grada Kilomba became known for her book Plantation Memories, a collection of everyday racist experiences in the form of psychoanalytical short stories, which first appeared in 2008 at the International Festival of Literature at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. She is co-editor of Mythen, Subjekt, Masken (2005), an interdisciplinary anthology on critical whiteness research.

In 2010, as part of her Performing Knowledge series, Kilomba started bringing theoretical and political texts into stage, exploring the visualisation of ‘silenced voices’ and ‘uncomfortable knowledge’, with a fixed ensemble of actors, and presented her work at various international theatre venues. More recently, she extended her work into visual arts and installation, and started experimenting with film, video, and sound, introducing another performative element to her writings.

Since 2015, she was invited by the Maxim Gorki Theatre, in Berlin, to develop the artist talk series ‘Kosmos’, a political intervention in the contemporary arts in collaboration with refugee artists. Kilomba performs and exhibits her artworks internationally and is represented by Goodman Gallery in South Africa.

Her work has been described to have the powerful beauty of touching ‘the colonial wound’ with a surgical precision and simultaneously of creating an inspiring and refreshing poetry of formats, ’bringing a new, experimental and compelling voice to contemporary art and discourse’ (ARTEBrasileiros 2016).

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Speaking the Unspeakable, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017-2018 The Most Beautiful Language, Avenida da India Gallery, at the Municipal Galleries of Lisbon, Portugal

2017-2018 Secrets to Tell, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions
2018 Frameworks, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2017 Live Uncertainty: An Exhibition After the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

2017 Incerteza Viva – Live Uncertainty, selected artist to represent the 32. Bienal de São Paulo, at the Palace of Arts, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2017 South-South:Let Me Begin Again, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 O futuro será uma réplica – The future will be a replica, Consul of Portugal in São Paulo, Brazil 2016 Incerteza Viva – Live Uncertainty, 32. Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2016 Vulnerability, Rauma Biennial Balticum, Rauma, Finnland

2016 Knowledge Unbounded, Department of Arts and Aesthetics Exhibition, University of Stockholm,Stockholm, Sweden

2016 Banquete Antropofágico – Anthropophagic Banquet, Department of Contemporary Arts Exhibition,University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Publications
Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism. 3. Aufl. Münster, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89771-485-4.

Grada Kilomba-Ferreira: Die Farbe unseres Geschlechts. Gedanken über „Rasse“, Transgender und Marginalisierung. In: polymorph (Hrsg.): (K)ein Geschlecht oder viele? : Transgender in politischer Perspektive, Quer Verlag, Berlin, 2002. ISBN 978-3-89656-084-1.

Grada Kilomba-Ferreira: Die Kolonisierung des Selbst – der Platz des Schwarzen. In: Hito Steyerl/Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Hrsg.): Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Migration und postkoloniale Kritik, Unrast Verlag, Münster, 2003. ISBN 978-3-89771-425-0.

Grada Kilomba-Ferreira: „Don't You Call Me Neger!“ – Das N-Wort, Trauma und Rassismus. In: ADB & cyberNomads (Hrsg.): TheBlackBook. Deutschlands Häutungen. IKO Verlag, Frankfurt am Main & London, 2004. ISBN 978-3-88939-745-4.

Grada Kilomba-Ferreira: Rewriting the Black Body. in: Gudrun Perko und Leah C. Czollek (Hrsg.) Lust am Denken: Queeres jenseits kultureller Verortungen. Papyrossa Verlag, Köln, 2004. ISBN 978-3-89438-294-0.

Maureen Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche und Susan Arndt (Hrsg.), Mythen, Masken und Subjekte – Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland. Unrast Verlag, Münster, 2005. ISBN 978-3-89771-440-3.

Grada Kilomba: Who can speak? Decolonizing Knowledge. in: The Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies (Hrsg.), Utopia of Alliances, Conditions of Impossibilities and the Vocabulary of Decoloniality, Löcker Verlag, Wien, 2013. ISBN 978-3-85409-589-7.

in: Corinne Kumar (Hg.), Asking, We Walk: The South As New Political Imaginary, Streelekha Publications, Bangalore, 2013. ISBN 81-904677-4-3.

Filmography
2011 White Charity by Carolin Philipp and Timo Kiesel

2013 Conakry with Diana McCarty and Filipa César