mba bikoro is an international freelance artistic director, curator and visual artist from gabon based between london, senegal and berlin. they have extensively worked over 20 years inside the cultural industry at the intersections of culture, law, education, holo-somatic and mental health.

they combine holisitic practices, collaborations with museums and law firms, womens’ protection services, schools and university faculties, archives and grassroot feminist organisations to respond to the current times of migrant experiences. they curate programmes sensitive to race and discrimination issues using julia wissert’s legal anti-discrimination clauses to protect bipoc and migrant workers working in germany notably and developing decolonial strategies for cultural institutions to create safer & inclusive spaces.

projects include in savvy contemporary berlin (2016), invocations (2016), speaking feminisms (2017), we who are not the same: OUR TOOLS WERE RUDIMENTARY, YET WE PRESSED ON: POLITICS OF BODY TRANSMISSION IN TIMES OF REVOLUTION, PRACTICES OF ALLIANCES & RESISTANCE (2018), ecologies of darkness: building grounds on shifting sands (2019), steven lawrence gallery London (2008), when the jackal leaves the sun: decentering restitution / pedagogies of repossession (2021-24) south africa, cape town, kenya, tanzania, senegal, rwanda, germany, squat museum Gabon (2009), artistic director of nyabinghi lab Berlin (2020), free state of barackia: landscapes of liberation kunstraum bethanien berlin (2021), national portrait gallery london (2009), the roots of our hands deep as revolt dakar (2023), Vielleicht theatre Geneva (2022), histories of womens protests and lgbtq resistance 1970-92 (2022) Nairobi Contemporary art Institute & mohammed lamin foundation kenya, feminist magix: decolonial inlets / exorcising colonialsim. to imagine. sea not bleeding. spilling injury & coalitions of the erotic (2020) zentrum for aktuelle kunst berlin, squat monument district school without centre berlin (2016), transitstation performance festival copenhagen akademie der kunst (2012), performance facilitation ateliers sahm brazzaville (2017), Crossing the mangrove/pa pot kou en kaz ban mwen Haus der kulturen der welt berlin (2022), we who move the world forward: listening to resistance inside germany’s migrant histories at Acud macht neu berlin (2024), radical mutation: on the ruins of rising suns at hebbel am ufer (2020), OBEAH: A Planting Ritual for Transforming Womens' Archives with goethe institute villa sul in salvador-bahia brazil (2023), mexico, la otra bienal bogota columbia (2013), the house of dream at ausland berlin (2024), grasping things at the root: red wedding & the green revolt nyabinghi lab (2023), ]performance space[ london (2010).

they are producer of several podcast radio channels dedicated to reparative narratives, decolonial practices and mental health with we who move the world forward and when the jackal leaves the sun at Refuge Worldwide (2024); radical mutation and free state of barackia: landscapes of liberation at Wearebornfree! empowerment radio (2020-21) and spam radio kinshasa (2020)