Hadassa Ngamba Studio

She is a visual artist with a postgraduate degree from HISK, Ghent, Belgium. Her practice brings art, history, science and ancestral knowledge systems into dialogue. Working across painting, sculpture, photography, performance and digital media, she investigates questions of power, memory and materiality. Drawing on her background in criminology, she examines historical and contemporary networks of power with analytical precision, with particular attention to maps, trade routes and extractive systems. Her current research places two forms of AI — African Intelligence — in dialogue, creating a framework through which to reconsider technology, knowledge, materiality and sovereignty. In her recent works, Congolese minerals are transformed into pigments, allowing matter itself to carry history, tension and renewal. Her work is held in public and private collections, including S.M.A.K., the Banque Nationale de Belgique, IKOB, Morgan Stanley Bank, the EKARD Collection and Zeno X Gallery.