Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
25th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
14 March - 14 June 2026
Founded in 1973, the Biennale of Sydney is one of the world’s leading festivals for international contemporary art. Since its inception, the Biennale has commissioned more than 2,400 artists, transforming the city’s museums, galleries and public spaces into platforms for experimentation and cultural exchange. The 25th edition, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, is titled Rememory. This curatorial framework revisits repressed histories, exploring how acts of recollection can reclaim such narratives.
For the 25th Sydney Biennale, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński will present her 2017 installation Unearthing. In Conversation, alongside related works exploring how colonial histories persist within contemporary knowledge systems. Drawing from Black feminist theory, the installation reanimates archival materials connected to Congo, exposing silences within European institutions. Through layered video, text and image, Kazeem-Kamiński invites viewers to reflect on memory as an active process of reimagining, rereading and unearthing the past.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (born 1980 in Vienna) is an artist, writer and researcher who lives and works in Vienna. Working across photography, installation and performance, she investigates the ongoing effects of colonialism in European contexts. Her research-driven approach, grounded in Black feminist theory, explores the politics of representation and the presence of absence in public archives. Her work creates speculative spaces for counter-narratives and collective memory.
After her participation at the 12th Liverpool Biennale in 2023 and a donation of her work Respire (Liverpool) (2023) to the Belvedere in Vienna in 2024, this is the artist’s third collaboration with Phileas.
This project was aided by a research trip to Vienna by the curator Hoor Al Qasimi, organised by Phileas in January 2025.
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25th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
