bio ~ ongoing


senakirfa A. is an artist, poet, writer, and learner born and based in Amsterdam. A.’s practice is grounded in the poetics of African Diasporic world-making in Amsterdam, rejecting and illuminating Dutch(ness) ocularcentrism, and attuning to the audibility of ‘post-’colonial grief.

A.’s work across sculpture, screen printing, and writing is an extension of A.’s poetry practice, through which A. explores poetic in(ter)ventions — described in A.’s own words as “an amalgam that signifies what African Diasporic world-making ushers” 



~ A. likes receiving emails: senakirfa@hotmail.com :-)




CV

solo shows


2022

Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,)  

initiated by Young OSCAM Art Kitchen at OSCAM

Amsterdam



2021

Gazing Through the Distance (sequel)

initated by Mijntje van der Linden for KLAUW collective

Rotterdam



group shows  & reading performances

2024

Group show

Baby Reni: @ HOME #2

at the Baby Reni Foundation, Amsterdam




2023

Reading performance

Manifestation #1 Listening Session Buro Stedelijk

at Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam



2023

Group show

Ik Zie Je exhibition

at Amsterdam Museum - Amsterdam




2023
Group show

Airmax Day 2023 Give Fresh Air - NIKE x Maha exhibtion

at Looiersgracht 60 - Amsterdam




2023

Reading performance

Unpacking Boijmans Museumnacht

at Boijmans Museum - Rotterdam




2023

Group show

END END AND

at Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam




2022

Reading performance

Vocal Opacities

at Rietveld/Sandberg Library - Amsterdam




2022

Reading performance

On Honouring Joy and Sorrow  

at Gemaal op Zuid - Rotterdam
 



2022

BA Graduation show

Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,)

at Gerrit Rietveld Academmie - Amsterdam

Nominated and selected for Rietveld Review(ed)




2022

Group show

I Am Because You Are

curated and initiatedby Iriée Zamble & Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam




2022

Group show

Routes & Roots  

organised by SALWA foundation & Goethe Institute - Amsterdam







published works


2022

Collecting as a Means of

published in Tabili of Contents - Amsterdam




2022


The First Sun -

designed by Jung Yeon Kim - Amsterdam



2022

From Roots We Grow, An Ode To Where We Converge

published in Vogue magazine NL - Amsterdam




2022

Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), publication

designed by Jung Yeon Kim - Amsterdam



2021


Extending the twisted unit (the figure of speech and the

tangible),

published in Uniform by Sadie Pinn - London



2020

Extending the twisted unit (the figure of speech and the

tangible)

published in the Rietveld Journal - Amsterdam



ongoing projects 


the monthly exchange of/between poetic endeavors,

Amsterdam


(syntax) to Become: an ongoing Reading exercise <>

Collective Read, Amsterdam


awards

2022 

The First Sun

Awarded for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards 


2022

Anything is Possible, even Nothing is a Possibility(,)

Awarded for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards



residencies

2022 - 2023

Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam


education

2018 - 2022

TXT (Text, Textile and Context) Department

Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam


teaching

2024

Poetic Zine workshop, teacher

Nowhere Foundation -  Amsterdam