Karina Griffith

Karina Griffith is an artist and researcher who uses moving image, performance and installations to question archives and conditions of spectatorship. Griffith’s films and installations have been shown at international galleries and festivals, including SINNE Gallery, the Helsinki International Arts Programme, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Arsenal Gallery Poznan, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Galerie Mytris, Hebbel Am Ufer, alpha nova & galerie futura, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Ara Pacis Museum, SAW Gallery, Foundry Art Centre, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, among others. She has curated film and interdisciplinary programmes for the Goethe-Institut, Berlinale Forum, Oberhausen Film Festival, alpha nova & galerie futura and VTape. Griffith joined the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum Expanded in 2021. She lectures at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of Art and is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute, where her research on Black authorship in German cinema interacts with theories of affect and intersectionality.

Karina Griffith
Karina Griffith, We Call It Love, (flipbooks) 2018. Courtesy of the artist

From the Archives

  • 2023 / core / exhibition

    Group Exhibition
    Black(Cite): Conversations on Black Artistic References

    Gallery TPW
    Too often Black art is understood solely through the lenses of identity, representation, and belonging—the works in Black(Cite) exceed these readings through citation, formalism, and abstraction. Exemplifying Black aesthetic traditions, the featured Canadian artists employ modes of working including poetic meditation on the sea, documentation of Black life, performance of Black living, and commentary on sexuality and gender, in dialogue with broader diasporic conversations.
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