senakirfa A.

senakirfa A. is an artist & poet(ic learner), from and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A.’s work across installation, sculpture, writing, sound, and zine-making, is an extension of A.’s poetry practice, through which she centres what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic worldmaking ushers in. A. has exhibited, performed, and read at Raven Row, Felix Meritis, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, OSCAM, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Baby Reni Foundation, and more. She has organized collective reading and poetry gatherings, including (syntax) to Become: an ongoing Reading exercise <> Collective Read, at Metro54, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A. deeply fosters the thinking that she has been able to share, and simultaneously the continuous making that unfolds together with Bobbie Müller, Jung Yeon Kim, Phantom Wizard, and S*an D. Henry-Smith.

contact: senakirfa[at]tuta[.]com

Solo Exhibitions

2022 - Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,) - OSCAM Amsterdam, NL

2021 - Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), at KLAUW Collective Project Space - Rotterdam, NL

Selected Exhibitions, Performances & Artist-talks

2026 - Nomenclature for the Time Being, Raven Row - London, UK

2026 -  Attentive Listening with Pressing Private Buttons, Well Read - Lisbon, PT 

2026 - Come Together (11), Frascati Theater - Amsterdam, NL 

2025 - International Art Talent Festival, Felix Meritis - Amsterdam, NL

2025 - ft. with S*an D. Henry-Smith, PuntWG - Amsterdam, NL 

2025 - a poetic B2B at rea(l)m by S*an D. Henry-Smith, Metro54 - Amsterdam, NL

2024 - Vocal Opacities: Continuing Fold, Heesterveld Creative Community - Amsterdam, NL

2024 - Baby Reni: @ HOME #2, the Baby Reni Foundation - Amsterdam, NL

2023 - Manifestation #1 Listening Session Buro Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, NL

2023 - Ik Zie Je exhibition, Amsterdam Museum - Amsterdam, NL

2023 - Unpacking Boijmans Museumnacht, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum - Rotterdam, NL

2023 - END END AND, Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam, NL

2022 - On Honouring Joy and Sorrow, Gemaal op Zuid - Rotterdam, NL

2022 - Anything is Possible, Even Nothing is a Possibility(,), Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, NL

2022 - I Am Because You Are, Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam, NL

2022 - Routes & Roots, SALWA foundation & Goethe Institute - Amsterdam, NL

2019 - New Perspectives, Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut Library - Amsterdam, NL

Fellowships & Residencies

2025 - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst 3Package Deal 

2022 - Artist-In-Residence, Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam, NL

Awards

2022  - The First Sun, Awarded with Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards, Rietveld Review(ed)

2022 - Anything is Possible, even Nothing is a Possibility(,) Awarded with Gerrit Rietveld Academie Awards, Rietveld Review(ed)


Teaching 

2024 - Poetic Zine Workshop teacher - Nowhere Foundation, Amsterdam



Written works / Self-published work

2025 - you built your drum with lids of reciprocity 

2022 - The First Sun, Amsterdam

2021 - Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), Amsterdam

Collective Poetry and Reading Gatherings 

2024 - (syntax) to Become: an ongoing Reading exercise <> Collective Read - Amsterdam, NL

2024 - Black Collective Reading~Gathering: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - Amsterdam, NL, and online

2023 - the monthly exchange of/between poetic endeavors - Amsterdam, NL

Education

2018 - 2022 - BA Text, Textile and Context (TXT) Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, NL

2017 - 2018 - Preparatory course, Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Amsterdam, NL