senakirfa A.

senakirfa A. (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and poet(ic learner), born and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A.’s work across sculpture, writing, sound, and zine-making and is an extension of A.’s poetry practice,
through which she explores what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what
African-Diasporic worldmaking ushers in. She organizes collective readings and poetry gatherings that facilitate Black and POC writers, poets, and readers. A. has exhibited, given readings and artist talks at Amsterdam Museum, Stedelijk Museum, OSCAM, Metro54, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Gemaal op Zuid, and more. A. is currently awarded the 3Package Deal Fellowship by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

contact: senakirfa@hotmail.com

Solo Exhibitions

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

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

Selected Exhibitions, Artist-talks & Poetic offerings

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

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

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

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

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

2023 - Ik Zie Je exhibition, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam

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

2023 - END END AND, Artwell Residencies, Amsterdam

2022 - Vocal Opacities, Rietveld&Sandberg Library, Amsterdam

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

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

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

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

2019 - New Perspectives, Rietveld&Sandberg Library, Amsterdam

Fellowships & Residencies

2025 - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst 3Package Deal 

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

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 - Workshop teacher, Nowhere Foundation, Amsterdam



Published Works & Publications

2022 - The First Sun, Amsterdam

2021 - Gazing Through the Distance (sequel), Amsterdam

Poetry and (Collective) Reading Projects

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

2024 - ongoing - Black transnational collective read(((ing))) of Parable of the Sower, Amsterdam, and online

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

Education

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

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