Oumou Aidara (*1996, Dakar) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and athlete from Senegal.
Their interdisciplinary practice moves across photography, installation, performance, text, and research-based publishing.
Aidara works through embodiment as method. Drawing from diasporic memory, athletic training, and sociological analysis, they examine how language, movement, and belonging circulate within systems of power.
Their thinking is shaped by endurance: repetition, pacing, breath, and terrain becoming tools for reading institutions, communities, and cultural economies.
Their projects, including Sport Is For Everyone, Sovereign Rage and RAGAL MA, investigate emotional translation and the conditions under which people are asked to move, adapt, or make themselves legible. Aidara builds situations where bodies think aloud, reorganize space, and refuse erasure.
Their practice centers Black, queer, diasporic, and neurodivergent ways of knowing. Aidara treats lived experience as analytic force. Embodiment operates as infrastructure: movement becomes language, endurance becomes method, and research unfolds as ritual.
Contact
Email: hi@oumou.de
Phone: +49 30 23984956
You can also read reflections, drafts, and raw fragments on Substack.
EXHIBITIONS & Film Screening
2024, Group Exhibition, Hasi 54 Gallery. “NOW”, Berlin
2024, Film Screening, “Radical Creativity”, London (Feel the ground)
2023, Film Screening, Berlin Short Film Festival (Ahu : Meet the Artist)
2023, Film Screening + Talk, Black Flinta Perspectives Vol 1: Identity, Vierte Welt, Berlin (Feel the ground)
2023, Group Exhibition, Praise Studio, “Empower to Express”, Berlin (Supported by Plan International DE)
2022, Group Exhibition, Floating University, “Embodied Entanglements”, Installation and Workshop “The PALAVER TREE”, Berlin
2020, Group Exhibition, Gallery 1313, “A Brave New World” with Connection Earth Collective, Toronto, Canada
2020, Group Exhibition, Gallery 1313, “ECO Art 2020” with Connection Earth Collective, Toronto, Canada
2020, Group Exhibition, Producer’s Gallery, “Beyond Appearances”, Berlin, Germany
2020, Group Exhibition, 20square7, “100 Photos Vol2”, Berlin, Germany.
2020, Group Exhibition, 1st Virtual Art, Music and Media International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences, “See the Silence, Hear The Invisible”, Tampere. Finland
2019 - Institut für Alles Mögliche “Take Place, 210 artists in a white cube” Berlin, Germany.
ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS & PERFORMANCES
2022, Martin Gropius Bau , Live Act + Performer for Art Film “GABAN” directed by Brook Andrew
2022, Voice Performer for Audio Art Film “REASONS TO SCREAM” by Juli Saragosa
2019, Martin Gropius Bau, Performer within “There’s no such things as solid ground’’ by Otobong Nkanga, Berlin
FUNDING
2023, Pinterest Creator’s Inclusion Fund
2021, Creative Matterz Fund, by Sustainable Fashion Matterz, “feel the ground” project.
FELLOWSHIP
2023, Afro-European Research Fellowship Program Soul of Nations Foundation x U.S. Embassy Luxembourg
2021, Indigenous Advocacy and Research Program at Soul of Nations Foundation x U.S. Embassy Germany
MENTORSHIP
2022, Talent and Talent Mentorship Program with Creative Producer Sebastian Wirsching
FEATURES
Work Featured in TAGESSPIEGEL - SIEGESSAEULE - Libertine Magazin - Kaltblut Magazine - Lampoon Magazine
Artist Spotlight Interview ‘Feel the ground’ - The Stitch
Magazine Cover for Voll:Kunst Magazine (Cover+Interview) - L-Mag
MODELING
Moderat, Garmin, Buttz, Xbionic, Adidas, Nike, Zalando, On-Running, Salomon, About You, Wuplo, Gorillas, Flaconi, Melisa Minca & more
PROJECTS
Founder, Creator & Host of Terranga’s “Ride & Shine” Cyling Mentorship Program (2025)
Writer/Content Creation Anna Nackt
Social Platform that stands against image abuse and cyber violence against Women and TIN*
My work focuses on creating content/sharing resources and interacting with our network on social media.
Impressum
Oumou Aidara
Herrfurthplatz 2
12049 Berlin
Steuernummer 16/203/08808