Taqwa Bn. Ali
Taqwa Bn. Ali born Sudan, 1997. Is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands.
In her work she employs various media ranging between painting, sculpture, and performative interventions to engage with themes of translocation and integration through materialization.
Her research based practice lies in understanding the symbolism of materials and their capacity to stitch gaps caused by translocation experiences, focusing on labor to engage the body and mind to revive lost relations between the individual and the collective, particularly within the diaspora space.
Exhibitions:
2023 Solo: Residue of the liminal space. Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL. Curated: Taqwa Ali & Remco Beckers
2022 Group: Extracted realities (mapping the city Genk). C-mine, Genk, Belgium. Facilitated: Elias Ghekiere
2022 Group: The Dutch Indies - Stories of De-coloniality. Guided performance exposition. Maastricht institute of arts, The Netherlands. Curated: Ties van de werff, Nina Willems
2021 Group: Project Lepidoptarium. Guided group exposition. Castle Vaeshartelt, Maastricht. The Netherlands. Facilitated: Stefan Cools, Sandra van de Beuken
2021 Group:Imagine the brain, Imagining human. Dr. Guislain Museum,Curated: Juul Sadee
Residencies:
2023 The OR Foundation. Sender Receiver online residency, Fashion & Colonialism.Amsterdam,The Netherlands. Ref: Linda Walkman
2022 Vonk Alteliers. Artistic research on Mapping the city Genk, Belgium. Ref: Lies Serdons
2021 The butterfly house Foundation. Project Lepidoptarium, artistic research Arts & Nature. Maastricht, Limburg. Ref: Stefan cools
2021 Dear Hunter, research institute. Artistic research in Mapping the Hoog Cruts Monastery. Hoog Cruts, Noordbeek. Limburg,The Netherlands. Ref: Juul Sadee
Awards:
2023 - Henriette Hustinx Prize of Stichting Edmond Hustinx, awarded to best art work at Maastricht institute of Arts
Education
2023 - 2025 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen / Masters in Arts, Cognition and Criticism
2023 - Maastricht Institute of Arts / Bachelor in interdisciplinary Arts
2016 - United World College Maastricht / International Bachelorette (IB)