Adama Keïta
Adama Keïta, is an Indo-Guadeloupean, Martinican, and Senegalese curator, writer, and researcher raised in Martinique. She graduated with a MA from the Critical Studies Department at Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam) where her thesis explored Martinican (her Nation’s language) as a tool for liberation, focusing on sonic/somatic practices, and linguistic cannibalism. She is the founder and artistic director of Nianiba, a Martinique-rooted (im)material space, functioning as an artistic and cultural-research lab. Nianiba’s itinerant approach extends across borders with cultural-research projects in the Caribbean, Latin America and the African continent.
From a curatorial paradigm, she specializes in sound, sculpture, installation, performance art, and grounded political methods of pedagogy. Her written and spoken word practice blends Caribbean surrealism, vegetative poetry and responsiveness.
Since April 2024, Adama Keïta has been a guest teacher at the Fine Art School of Paris, and more specifically for Julien Creuzet’s students. Since April 2025, she’s part of the international committee of the Black Civilizations Museum in Dakar ( Senegal ) .