Some places have never existed, and yet hold everything.

Roxane Mbanga is a multidisciplinary artist of Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and French heritage. 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. Her work repairs what cannot be seen. The invisible traces left in bodies by displacement, migration, and colonial rupture. The memories that have no institutional home. Since 2021, NOIRES has been her central work — an imagined home reconstructed room by room in exhibition spaces across continents, gathering the voices and gestures of women navigating multiple inheritances between Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. 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. Roxane Mbanga is represented by 193 Gallery (Paris, Venice). Graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Lichting Award and Rietveld Reviewed Prize, 2021. TEDx speaker, Wearing Your Nudity, 2022.