HADASSA NGAMBA

DECEMBER 2025

Ngamba’s research-driven practice maps colonial extraction and centres local Congolese pharmaco-knowledge: minerals and pigments (malachite, copper oxidation, and other local materials) that function as both artistic medium and a way to rethink medicine, healing and community expertise in parallel to modern biomedical systems. 

Her work invites conversations about resource justice, care and the right of communities to their own knowledge systems. 

“Hadassa Ngamba grew up between Boma, the prototype of Congolese industrialization, and Lubumbashi, a major mining city in the Haut-Katanga region, which hosted various kingdoms pre-colonization.” Liverpool Biennial

She recently presented work at Tate Liverpool,  Liverpool Biennial where she staged a public performance for the Biennial that explored palm-oil and resource histories. We had the chance to see the performance live, extremely pertinent, strong, it was quite touching to witness how it engaged with random people passing by.