Solo Exhibitions

• 2026

  • Tendered, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (forthcoming)
  • Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (forthcoming)

• 2025

  • Tendered, Camden Art Center, London, UK
  • Machine Boys, Canal Projects, New York, USA

• 2023

  • Plateau (Interwoven Histories), Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, Germany

• 2021

  • Plateau, Secession, Vienna, Austria
  • Plateau, Produzentengalerie (with Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V), Hamburg, Germany

• 2018

  • Power Man, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group Exhibitions

• 2026

  • Waste. An Exhibition about the Global Routes of Rubbish, Museum Ostwall in the Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany

• 2025

  • The Three-Legged Cat, 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  • The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
  • Shelf Life, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Germany

• 2024

  • The Miraculous Arms, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA
  • Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  • Sous la terre, les dragons, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

• 2023

  • Who Are We if Not Nature, M.Bassy, Hamburg, Germany

• 2022

  • A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  • The Show is Over, South London Gallery, London, UK
  • Identity not proven (new acquisitions of the federal collection) Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, NEUES MUSEUM, Nürnberg & Museum Gunzenhauser Chemnitz, Germany
  • Penumbra, Fondazione in between Art Film, Ospedaletto & Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Venice, Italy

• 2021

  • Rotary Contemporary Art Prize, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
  • Scratching the Surface, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

• 2020

  • Shoreline movements, Taipei Biennial 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ars Viva 2020, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Selected Screenings / Festivals

• 2026

  • 76th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany
  • On View – Power, Film Series, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany

• 2025

  • 42nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany
  • 22nd In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria
  • Karimah Ashadu: Scenes of Labor, E-flux, New York, USA
  • 71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
  • IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Unsettled Grounds, Monangambee​, Lagos, G.A.S. Foundation, Lagos
  • Unsettled Grounds, ICA​, London, UK

• 2024

  • 13th Avant-Garde Film Festival, Greece
  • Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France
  • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
  • VIENNALE, Vienna, Austria
  • IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, France
  • 62nd New York Film Festival, New York, USA
  • Notes on Air, Salt Beyoğlu Forum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, Palermo, Italy
  • Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland

• 2023

  • History is not the past, Wolf Cinema (Palais Populaire, Deutsche Bank), Berlin, Germany
  • Karimah Ashadu: Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• 2022

  • Karimah Ashadu: Plateau – Another Eye series, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Penumbra Expanded, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
  • Karimah Ashadu: Plateau, Tate Modern (Starr Cinema), London, UK
  • Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland

• 2021

  • Black is not a Colour, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• 2020

  • Short Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg Positions: Spheres of the Colonial, MARKK Museum, Hamburg, Germany
  • KunstBewusst x Afrika Film Festival, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  • From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals: Films and Natural Processes, University of Chicago, Film studies center, Chicago, USA

• 2018

  • An Evening with Karimah Ashadu, MoMA, New York, USA
  • 64th Flaherty Seminar, Syracuse, USA
  • MANJAR, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Affinities or The Weight of Cinema, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA