Some places have never existed, and yet hold everything.

Roxane Mbanga is a multidisciplinary artist of Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and French heritage, based between Paris and the world. Working across installation, fashion, film, photography, writing, and performance, she takes the body as her starting point — the lived, felt, seen, political body — to build spaces where other ways of knowing become possible.

Since 2021, NOIRES has been her central work. Room by room, she reconstructs an imagined home in exhibition spaces across continents, gathering the voices, gestures, and memories of women navigating multiple inheritances — between Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. Each room holds a premise. Together, they form a place of transmission, where collective memory becomes livable.

Studio Mbanga extends this vision into art direction, cultural strategy, and collaboration across fashion, film, and contemporary art. 

Graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Lichting and Rietveld Reviewed prizes, 2021. TEDx speaker, Wearing Your Nudity, 2022.