We are very happy to welcome artist Dilomprizulike (Nigeria) invited by Stockholm based Gülbeden Kulbay to NKF's guest studio during June. This residency duration will facilitate the collaborative work between Dilomprizulike and Kulbay that have been cooking for the past 15 years; since they met during his first artists exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary art, Botkyrka Konsthall and workshops in Sweden in 2006-2008.
During the residency period they will use the studio as a space for daily artists practice, development of performance pieces, lectures and entertain public visits. Period 29/5-26/6
Dates and time for public programme:
Saturday 7 June at 14:00
Sunday 22 June at 14:00
Look out for their social media account @creative_entanglement for the outcomes from their creative activities during residency period.
The project and residency is supported by @swedish_arts_grants_committee
Dilomprizulike is listed among the first 50 most influential artists in the African continent by the London Independent. He holds a BA (Nigeria), and an MFA (UK) in Fine and Applied arts; was formerly a Lecturer in the University of Benin, Nigeria (1989—1995). Has been in Studio practice since 1995. He has featured as guest lecturer in many universities, as well as speaker in conferences and symposiums in various parts of the globe. He has performed on important platforms in various parts of the world in both conceptual performance art and musical exploits. Some major exhibitions in which he has participated held in museums and biennales such as Centre Pompidou; Paris, Hayward; London, Moderna Museet; Stockholm, CCCB; Barcelona, Mira Art Museum; Tokyo, Herzliya Museum; Telaviv, JAG; Johannesburg, Tate Modern; London, as well as Dakar, Havanna and Guangzhou Biennales. He is the initiator of the famous Junkmania creative concepts, and the Founder and Director of the Junkyard Museum Of Awkward Things, Lagos, Nigeria.
Gülbeden Kulbay is an interdisciplinary artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. With a prolific career spanning 19 years, her varied artistic practice includes performance, community-engaged art, and culinary actions. At the core of her work lie questions and explorations of the body; of presence and sensual experience; of connecting with other bodies, be they human or non-human. Connection, collaboration and negotiation in particular are fundamental to her practice, as she endeavors to illuminate the network of interrelations and interdependencies we are all enmeshed in – to show how we all need each other. In this sense, her works offer a critique of the capitalist mode of living and the sense of alienation from self and others it engenders. Kulbay’s work has been shown in Sweden, across Europe, and the USA, with pieces currently in the collections of Falun Kommun and Botkyrka Kommun. Notable performances include: Polyrit, Stockholm Fringe festival (2022), In case of shatter, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2021), PowerPerformance, Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY (2018), Open my heart, Venice International Performance Art Week (2017). She received the prize for arts by Stockholm city, 2025.