ABOUT
David Ụzọchukwu (b. 1998, Austria) is an artist and filmmaker. Raised in Luxembourg and Belgium, Ụzọchukwu now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
CONTACT
EMAIL studio@daviduzochukwu.com
INSTAGRAM @daviduzochukwu
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
marie@galeriegomis.com
ONGOING, UPCOMING
28.03-17.08.25 Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style, the Design Museum, London, UK
27.06.-16.08.25 We Met in Summer | I Might Have Burnt Myself, The Ballery, Berlin, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024-25 New Suns, Galerie Gomis c/o Sheriff Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Liquid Thunder, MONOM, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Marvellous Realism. Fotografiska, Shanghai, China
Human / Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World, Fotografiska, New York, US
Festival Art Souterrain. Montreal, Canada
2023-24
Dancing in the Light, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2022-23
Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali
The New Black Vanguard, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Prix Pictet, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2022
The Upshot of Trans-Affective Solidarity, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, US
But I'm Awake. Kampnagel & Deichtorhallen, Phototriennale Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Prix Pictet, V&A, London, UK
Reframing History, Photo Vogue Festival, Milan, Italy
The New Black Vanguard, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
2019
Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Songes d’Hier, Rêveries du Présent, Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis, Senegal
2016
Rituals and Performance: Inherent Risk, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
Dey Your Lane! Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Wedge Collection
Collection Pictet
Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis
FILMOGRAPHY
Black Fruit (original title: Schwarze Früchte), series, ARD, episodes 5-8, 35' each, 2024. WP Tribeca Film Festival
Civil Dusk, 27’, 2021. WP CPH:DOX
Götterdämmerung, 7’, 2020. WP Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
HONORS
Forbes 30 Under 30 — Europe — Art & Culture, 2025
Nomination: Grimme-Preis (Black Fruit), 2025
Nomination: UK Music Video Award "Best Alternative Video UK" (I Saw), 2023
British Fashion Council NEW WAVE: Creatives, 2021
Shortlist: Prix Pictet, 2021
Futures, 2020
Europa im Film - Jury Award (Götterdämmerung), 2020
Pixels, Bytes & Film - Artist in Residence, 2020
CPH:LAB, 2019
Flickr 20 Under 20, 2015
EyeEm Photographer of the Year, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Eshun, Ekow, In the Black Fantastic, Thames & Hudson, 2022
Prix Pictet, fire, teNeues, 2021
Durant, Mark Alice, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling, Saint Lucy Books, 2020
SELECTED PRESS
2025 arte twist
2024 Atmos
2022 CNN Style
2021 Vogue Italia / Autograph
2020 Artist Decoded / BJP
2019 Indie
2017 It's Nice That / Dazed / Okayafrica
2015 EyeEm
2014 D'Lëtzebuerger Land