Godelive Kasangati Kabena (b. 1996) is an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She currently lives and works between Kinshasa and Kumasi, where she continues her studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Kabena’s work is rooted in speculative research, exploring the engagement of different bodies – bodies that open an emancipatory, speculative field of post-humanist analysis while contributing to a discursive arena on reproduction and notions of axiomatic equality.
Since 2019, Kabena has participated in solo and group exhibitions, including How much do you weigh? FCA Ghana, 2024; Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking, an exhibition presented by Ghanaian blaxTARLINES and the art communities of Uganda at Amasaka Gallery, Masaka, 2023; Worldmaking, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, 2023, curated by Gideon Appah and Ylinka Barrotto; JAOU PHOTO, the 6th edition of Jaou Tunis, commissioned by Karim Sultan, and organised by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and the French Institute of Tunisia, 2022; Kinshasa–(N)Tonga: between future and dust, Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts, 2022; Materials and Things, 2021, curated by Exit Frame, as part of the public state’s Un Quartier Généreux in Roubaixby public state, on the occasion of the Africa 2020 season; and Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali, 2019.
Between 2019–2022 Kabena was a participant in the PICHA workshops, as part of the Lubumbashi Biennale. In 2023 the artist was represented by The Efie Gallery at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London.