Cosmogony of (Racial) Capitalism, 2020 Group exhibition — Empathy Revisited, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial
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Licor-Mãe, 2023 Solo exhibition — Sismógrafo, Porto
Residues of the Sweet Purge, 2023. Solo exhibition and residency — Capela da Boa Viagem, Funchal.
A Dance of the Mangroves, 2023 Group exhibition — The Laboratory of the Future, 18th Venice Architecture Biennale
Wey Dey Move: we go shayo 4 dis pati, 2023 Group exhibition — Radical Souls, Format International Photography Festival.
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Wey Dey Move: Imagining New Worlds through Dance and Masquerade, 2022 Solo exhibition — Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Wey Dey Move film stills, 2022 Solo exhibition — Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
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Bio Dele Adeyemo is a Scottish / Nigerian artist, architect, and critical urban theorist based in London and Lagos. Dele’s research and creative practice address the architectures of racial capitalism and the contemporary lifeworlds that exist in their midst. Paying tribute to the radical acts of everyday Black life in Africa and the diaspora through drawing, film, sculpture and installation design, Dele’s projects trace the contours of Black socialities from their embodied cultures of movement to their circulation to mobilise an immanent—Black radical spatial imaginary. Dele’s works have been exhibited at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), the 13th International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paulo (2022), the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), and the 2nd Edition of the Lagos Biennial (2019). Most recently he has presented the solo exhibitions, Licor-Mãe (2023) at Sismógrafo, Porto; Residues of the Sweet Purge (2023) at Capel da Boa Viagem Funchal; and Wey Dey Move (2022) at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
Awards Dele is the recipient of the inaugural JAE Fellowship, the Canadian Centre for Architecture & Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Fellowship. Dele was awarded a CHASE-AHRC scholarship for his PhD doctorate titled, ‘Last Dark Continent’, which he is completing currently at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Interviews & features E-Flux, MoMA Material Worlds, New Currency, Architects Journal, Metropolis M, Elle Decor Book contributions Borders Human Itineraries and All of Our Relation, Knopf; Non-Extractive Architecture, SternbergPress; This Too Is A Map, Seoul Museum of Art; Fugitive Archives, CCA/ Jap Sam Books
