Education
Kitoko Diva
born Diva Muanza, France
Lives and works in London
BFA Art History & Archeology
Université Pantheon Sorbonne Paris I - Humanities & Fine Arts Department, France
Theatre Performance - Baroque Theatre & Drama
Montaigne - Isabelle Grellet Class, France
High School Diploma
Indian River High School, United States
Biography
Through a transdisciplinary practice at the intersection of film, photography, sound and installation, Kitoko Diva is a French artist exploring interactions of identity and race social structure with surrealism, technoculture, dream-like symbolism and cyberspaces utopies. Kitoko Diva mostly address afrodiasporic experiences among black europeans and afro-american southern communities by building alternatives landscapes and substitutes realities with new experimental forms of documentary practices blurring the line between fiction, facts and poetry.
Kitoko Diva studied Theatre Performance before exploring video art and experimental filmmaking. After graduating with a BFA in Art History and Archeology, Diva further developed her research and practice in video installation, sound design and deejaying to create three-dimensional audiovisual live performances harmonizing images with sounds, voices and music. Her works have been recently screened at the Tate Modern for Southwark Untold Pempeople and was selected for the 70th edition of Jeune Création’s performance program. Kitoko Diva also hosts an experimental one hour long format show on NTS Radio, presenting archives, music production and audio essay pieces on black bodies tales and cosmology imagery.
Born in France, Diva has lived in the United States and Belgium before settling down in the United Kingdom.
Residencies & Scholarships
Exhibitions
2021
Sometimes it was beautiful
Guggenheim Museum
New York City, USA
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition - York Art Gallery
York, UK
Salts
Basel, Switzerland
York, UK
Salts
Basel, Switzerland
Festival International du Film sur l’Art (39e édition)
Montréal, Canada
Festival Arts Souterrain
Montréal, Canada
Spill Festival
London, UK
2020
Artis Planetarium of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherland
𝗱𝗼 {𝗻𝗼𝘁} 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 doc lab - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherland
BlackStar Festival
Philadelphia, USA
Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
On Ancient Earth - Artist Expedition Society & Lumen
Alice Spring, Australia
Video Art Festival Turku
Turku, Finland
we may seek cosmic marronage but let’s remember our terrestrial obligations - 18th Streets Arts
Los Angeles, USA
Yebo Contemporary Art Gallery
Ezulwini, Eswatini
Kin Art Studio
Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo
Nubuke Fondation
Accra, Ghana
Raw Material Company
Dakar, Sénégal
Vansa
Johanesbourg, Afrique du Sud
Centre d’Art Waza
Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo
Mahal Art Space
Tanger, Maroc
Straight Through The Wall
New York, USA
2019
Jeunes Créations, Programme Performance
Silencio, Paris, France
Pempeople Southwark Untold 2.0
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Black South
Livesey Exchange Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Can’t be what you can’t see
College Art Space, London,United Kingdom
2018
Havana Cultura ¡Subelo Cuba! Gilles Peterson
Rich Mix, London, United Kingdom
Les statues Baroques
Clermont Ferrand Interl Short Film Festival, Clermont, France
Contacts
Kitoko Diva aka Diva Muanza
divam.promo[at]gmail.com
soundcloud