M HKA Ensembles

° 1981

Born in Luanda (AO), lives in Ghent (BE), works in Ghent (BE).

Nástio Mosquito, started out in musical training, and moved from this to film production. He has worked in various capacities for television in his native Angola for some time, but his deviations from entertainment formats formed the basis for what was to become his future life. Mosquito is first of all a performer, translating this into audio-visual representations and installations. 

Nástio Mosquito lives and works in Ghent. He has realised projects with institutions including: MoMA, New York; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Portikus, Frankfurt; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; and Tate Modern, London. Amongst the many group exhibitions, he has participated in Documenta 14 (2017); 29^th São Paulo Bienal (2010); and the 9^th Gwangju Biennial (2012). In 2014 he was recipient of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv; and in 2015 he received the Cedric Willemen Award, Belgium. He was also nominated for the Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff, in 2016.

In 2014, works by Mosquito were included in Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics, an important research exhibition in the recent history of M HKA in defining a new reading of contemporary art that considers questions of human diversity through new aesthetic and philosophical investigations by artists.