MONILOLA OLAYEMI  ILUPEJU


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EDUCATION


2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2018 BFA with distinction New York University, New York, USA  
          Studio Art (Honours Studio), Social and Cultural Analysis

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2024  BloodLetter, PSM, Berlin, Germany
2023  Saint V., Tarte Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2023  Gymnasia, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2020  Hands Full of Air, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
2020  Eve of Intuition, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2024  Twilight is a Place of Promise, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
2024  INVERSION-CONVERSION, BPA// Raum, Berlin, Germany
2024  Double Take, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2023  OPEN, MaHalla, Berlin, Germany
2022  non playable character, The Farest X The School for Curatorial Studies, Venice, Italy
2021    Let experiments become attitude, The Fairest x Direkte Auktion, Berlin, Germany
2021   my whole body transformed into something else, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 
2020  WEITERTRAGEN, HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020  where will i be buried?, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2019   ENTF, Bark K Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019   Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
2019   Migrant Mothers, Cunsthaus-Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
2018   From the Cradle to the Boat, C24 Gallery, New York City, USA
2018   Dia: B acon, Commons Gallery, New York, USA
2018   Do you begin where I end?, Two Person Exhibition,  80WSE Gallery, New York City, USA
2017   tuck me in, Commons Gallery, New York, USA
2017   Panning to Public, 80WSE Gallery, New York, USA
2017   Juxtapositions, Commons Gallery, New York, USA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


2023   Sibyl’s Mouth: A Pure Fiction Publication, Rosa Aiello, Ellen Yeon kim, Erika Landström, Luzie Meyer, Mark Von Schlegell (Eds.), Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
2022  The Art of Critique, edited by Melanie Bühler, Lenz Press & Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2022  Earnestly, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju,  Archive Books, Milan, Italy 


SELECTED PERFORMANCES


2024 Poetics of Encryption Reading Performance: “Secret Words and Related Stories with Jonna Kina, Shade Théret and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2022  “Milli’s Ghost” in collaboration with Natasha A. Kelly at I AM MILLI,  Hase29, Osnabrück,Germany
2020  “Wayward Dust” at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin x Decolonize Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2020  “PACER” at SPACED OUT x PSM Gallery, Brandenburg, Germany
2019   “PACER” at Why Do You Fly From Me? Listenings in the Echo Chamber, SAVVY  Contemporary, Berlin Germany
2019   “My Mourning Routine 2019” at Innocence, PS120 Berlin, Germany
2019  “Eat Your Calf” at Affect/Effect: Performance Prosthesis, transmediale & CTM 2019 x SomoS, Berlin, Germany

PANELS, READINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND LECTURES



Guest Tutor, Art & Ideas: Art World Today – Berlin & Beyond, New York University Berlin, Berlin Germany  
2023 Reading, Earnestly, HopscotchReading Room, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, Art of the Global South in German Exhibition Spaces: Development, conditions, hope, Berlin Global Village, Berlin, Germany
2023 Panel, Ugly as Sin: Beauty, Morality, and the Politics of Prettiness, Creamcake, Berlin, Germany 
2023  Conversation, JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN WITH JULIANA HUXTABLE, Fotografiska Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2023  Panel, The Restorative Power of Documentation, A Wa Nibi, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2023  Guest Tutor, Art & Ideas: Art World Today – Berlin & Beyond, New York University Berlin, Berlin Germany  
2022  Reading, Earnestly, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany
2022  Workshop, Resonant Limbs: Radiophonic Writing Workshop, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany
2023  Panel, The Art of Critique Book Launch, CCA Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Artistic Talk, A Day in Ha(a)rlem, The Art of Critique Series, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NE
2022 Panel, The Impact of Social Practice, The British Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2022 Book Presentation, Earnestly, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2022 Tour, Special Tour with Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju of the exhibition “Zanele Muholi”, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2021  Workshop, Reading the Body: A Performative Writing Workshop, Somatic Charting, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER), Berlin, Germany
2021  Workshop, Transatlantic Synergies: Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance (DAICOR), Cultural Vistas x  Dekoloniale, Berlin, Germany
2020 Workshop, COOP study group: Performing the Living ))((Living the Performing w/ Akinbode Akinbiyi & Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Dutch Art Institute x Sonsbeek 2020, Arnhem, Netherlands
2019  LectureUntold (Hi)stories, M. Embassy x HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2019  Artist Talk & Class Visit, New York University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019  Collectivity, Collaboration, Cooperation, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
2019  Reading: The more I study my Body, the less I care for nature, Assembly Room, NYC
2019  Panel, Politics of Love #5: Accountability / Verantwortung, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany

RESIDENCIES



2024 - 2025 Berlin Program for Artists (BPA), Berlin, Germany
2022 Cashmere Radio, Cashmere Radio Basisförderung Residency, Berlin, Germany
2019  Performance Intensive, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
2017  Currents Residency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

HONOURS & AWARDS


2021  BBK Berlin Studio Grant
2018  Skowhegan Fellowship Full Grant
2018  New York University Artistic Practice Award
2017  New York University Artistic Practice Award
2017  New York University Senior Honors Studio, Exhibition and Thesis
2017  Dina Wind Grant for Artists Working in Video, Sculpture or Assemblage
2014  Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship
2014  Harry Redlich Essay Scholarship, 1st Place

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


2022 Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

CURATORIAL


2024 Curator, Siren Songs, Is it cold in the water?, Creamcake, Berlin, Germany
2022 The Impact of Social Practice, Venice Art Biennale, British Council x Therme Art, Venice Italy
2021 From Non-Extractive to Regenerative Architectures: Growing a Symbiotic City, Venice Architecture Biennale, VAC Foundation x Therme Art, Venice, Italy
2019 I am not on the Blacklist with Hyoung-Min Kim and Gabriel Galindez Cruz, SAVVY Contemporary x Tanzfabrik Open Studios, Berlin, Germany