Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories of colonialism across West Africa, Western Europe and the United States and their afterlives, asking “How do we remember?” And “Which pasts do we choose to perform, and why?” Her work has been shown at Museum Folkwang Essen, Modern Art Museum Shanghai and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, among other venues. She has published book chapters in Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography (2023), Censored? Conflicting Concepts of Cultural Heritage (2023) and Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island (2024). Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, as well as a research associate in the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg.