Conversations at the Edge | An Evening with Karimah Ashadu
@ Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
British Nigerian artist Karimah Ashadu, winner of the 2024 Venice Biennale’s Silver Lion, presents a selection of bold and formally inventive films that plunge viewers into the tactile realities of labor, migration, and colonial extraction across Nigeria and Germany.
Followed by a conversation between Karimah Ashadu and Giampaolo Bianconi, Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and audience Q&A. Presented in partnership with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with Karimah Ashadu: Tendered, and the Art Institute of Chicago’s presentation of Karimah Ashadu: Machine Boys.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karimah Ashadu is a British-born Nigerian artist and film director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been presented internationally at the Venice Biennale, Camden Art Centre, Canal Projects, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, Secession, Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. She received the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant at the 2024 Venice Biennale, as well as the 2025 Lichtwark-Förderpreis, the 2022 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, and the 2020 ars viva prize. In 2020, she founded the production company Golddust by Ashadu, specializing in artists’ films engaging Black culture and African discourses.
CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE
For 25 years, SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge (CATE) series has welcomed landmark and emerging artists to Chicago for adventurous screenings, performances, and conversation. Bringing together different forms, traditions, and histories, CATE explores—and expands—our sense of what moving images can do.
CATE is made possible through an ongoing collaboration between SAIC’s Siskel Film Center and the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation.
TICKETS
Free for SAIC students
$14 General admission
$9 Students, seniors (65+)
$8 SAIC faculty & staff / Art Institute staff
$8 Siskel Film Center members
All CATE programs are free for SAIC students. Unless otherwise noted, SAIC student tickets are released five days before showtime. Tickets must be picked up in person from the Siskel Film Center box office. A valid student ID is required.
ACCESSIBILITY
All CATE events include real-time captioning (CART). The Siskel Film Center is ADA accessible and equipped with hearing loops. For additional accessibility requests, visit saic.edu/access or contact cate@saic.edu.
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