Kpingni Maureen (1990, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is a visual artist, writer and curator found between the city center of Abidjan, the outskirts of Paris and other territories that fuel her practice. She draws on her Ivorian heritage and the legacy of black feminist thinkers and artists from Africa and its diaspora to shed light on the past, give birth to alternative narratives, question culture and weave new dialogues.
Through figurative representations block women’s bodies -often her own- Kpingni Maureen seeks to highlight the multiple layers of black femininity across geographies and realities. She understands eroticism and sensuality as spiritual power and a tool for healing, and she explores depiction of the body as a powerful site of resistance, remembrance, pleasure, and transformation. Kpingni-Maureen is a multi-faceted, self-taught cultural practitioner.
She expands her visual narratives into interdisciplinary realms, weaving together stories of collective memory, recovery, and the importance of community. Her practice of storytelling also takes the form of a monthly newsletter and a multilingual collaborative pan-African magazine on arts and culture.
She has exhibited her work and participated in culural mediation programmes in the United States, France, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. She is a recipient of the 2025 Prince Claus Seed award.
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Kpingni Maureen (1990, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is a visual artist, writer and curator found between the city center of Abidjan, the outskirts of Paris and other territories that fuel her practice. She draws on her Ivorian heritage and the legacy of black feminist thinkers and artists from Africa and its diaspora to shed light on the past, give birth to alternative narratives, question culture and weave new dialogues.
Through figurative representations block women’s bodies -often her own- Kpingni Maureen seeks to highlight the multiple layers of black femininity across geographies and realities. She understands eroticism and sensuality as spiritual power and a tool for healing, and she explores depiction of the body as a powerful site of resistance, remembrance, pleasure, and transformation. Kpingni-Maureen is a multi-faceted, self-taught cultural practitioner.
She expands her visual narratives into interdisciplinary realms, weaving together stories of collective memory, recovery, and the importance of community. Her practice of storytelling also takes the form of a monthly newsletter and a multilingual collaborative pan-African magazine on arts and culture.
She has exhibited her work and participated in culural mediation programmes in the United States, France, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. She is a recipient of the 2025 Prince Claus Seed award.
