This major survey exhibition held at the Museum def Moderne, Salzburg, will gather over sixty works by Yinka Shonibare CBE from the past thirty years, celebrating the artist’s multimedia oeuvre and its probing constructions of race, class, and national and cultural identities through a sustained study of the historic interdependencies between Africa and Europe.
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire
Survey Exhibition at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
22 May – 3 October 2021
A self-described “postcolonial hybrid,” Shonibare zooms in on episodes from art and history, primarily from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, employing subversive creative strategies to visualize them in tragicomic scenes of human activity.
Self Portrait (after Warhol) 5, 2013, Screen print, digital print and hand painted linen, 134 × 134.5 × 5.5. cm. © Yinka Shonibare CBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS / Artimage. Photographer: Stephen White & Co.