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Kara Walker

Kara Walker, To the Mountaintop, 2025, Watercolor and ink on paper, 56.5 × 76.8 cm | 22 1/4 × 30 1/4 inches, 63.5 × 83.8 cm | 25 × 33 inches (framed), © Kara Walker, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery

ART CITIES: Berlin-Kara Walker

In an era where, as Kara Walker observes, “Fantasy rules our world now. Conjecture, myth, storytelling, tall tales, hearsay, heresies, nobody to be believed and repercussions galore,” her art serves as both scalpel and mirror, dissecting the myths that sustain American violence while compelling viewers to confront their own implication …

Kara Walker

TRACES: Kara Walker

Today is the occasion to bear in mind one of the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Kara Walker …

Installation view: Kara Walker, THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION, Camden Arts Centre-London, 2013-14, © Kara Walker. Courtesy Camden Arts Centre, Sprüth Magers and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Photo: Marcus J. Leith

ART CITIES:Berlin-Kara Walker

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. She has gained national and international recognition for …

Kara Walker, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005, Video, black & white, audio; 15 min 57 sec, © Kara Walker. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

ART CITIES:London-Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s instantly recognizable cut-paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the Black …