Heiko-Thandeka Ncube (born 1991, Harare) is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in Berlin. His practice investigates how cultures derive meaning through suffering and how narratives, drawn out of collective memories, coincide with acts of violence. Thereby Ncube’s work unfolds along the intersections of political oppression, the Abrahamic religions and Bantu mythology, in particular the lines along his Ndebele ancestry.
Education 2017 University of Arts Berlin
Fine Arts, class of Hito Steyerl
2012 Free University Berlin
Art History and Philosophy
Exhibitions 2023 An Atypical Orbit, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin
Between Trenches, OPENing, London
2022 Reconstructions, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
A Sense of Belonging, Schauspiel Hannover
Kein Schlaraffenland, PSR Uferstudios, Berlin
2021 Soft Encounters, Floating University, Berlin
Schools of Tomorrow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Conditions of a Necessary, Kunsthalle Baden Baden
SEEN BY #16, Helmut Newton Museum, Berlin
2020 Splintered Subjects, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin
Freie Republik, Kunsthalle Toggenburg
Home sweet home, Shitamachi Projects, Tokyo
FUTURE FORMS FICTION, Schau Fenster Berlin
Lecture 2022 REBETIKO Festival, WestGermany, Berlin
Performances 2021 Kein Schlussstrich!, GWA St. Pauli, Hamburg
Festival Avant-Garten, Kampnagel, Hamburg
Readings 2022 Kein Schlaraffenland, PSR Uferstudios, Berlin
Edna, Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin
2021 KO Shebeen, Cabuwazi, Berlin
drift.line, _d_r_i_f_t, Online
Publications 2022 Grievous and Golisopod, Ad hoc, issue 1
Night Falls, Project Etna 2022
2020 Ruhe in Stücken, Gallery.net
2019 Alektorophobia, New Curriculum 2019
Interviews 2021 TiG-02 / “Biodeutsch", This is Germany
& Press 2020 Mixtape Menage w/ Heiko-Thandeka Ncube