TANKA FONTA – COMPOSER, VISUAL ARTIST & PHILOSOPHER
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Below is a selection of public features, essays, and press coverage highlighting the evolving body of work by Tanka Fonta across exhibitions, sound, and philosophical inquiry.
Berliner Zeitung
“Farben, Formen, Klänge – der Berliner Künstler Tanka Fonta im Haus der Kulturen”
An in-depth feature exploring your creative language through color, sound, and form.
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Financial Times
“ A Tapestry of Radical Thought”
Coverage of HKW Berlin. The article features Tanka Fonta’s Picto Sonic mural and recognizes his role in reshaping the sensory and philosophical environment at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
“Soon after he took over HKW, he had several of its exhibition rooms painted with a wildly colourful Picto Sonic mural by the Berlin-based Cameroonian artist and composer Tanka Fonta.”
— Financial Times
e-flux Criticism
“O Quilombismo”
A critical reflection on recent exhibitions exploring philosophical and historical legacies of resistance, collectivity, and perception across the Global South.
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Radio Future Africa
“Music: The Emergence Of A New Sonic Language”
An essay by Tanka Fonta exploring African sound traditions and modern musical innovation.
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Radio France – France Culture
“Esprit des lieux: De la guerre froide à l’éloge du multiculturalisme”
“A building reimagined through sound and symbol—HKW’s recent transformation includes a large mural by Tanka Fonta, replacing institutional austerity with chromatic philosophy.”
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e-flux
“I Hope This Finds You Well” – Exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover
This series invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with shifting states of perception and symbolic renderings of both visible and invisible realities. Rooted in organic systems and molecular languages, the works explore the universality of Being, the arising of thought and emotion, and the biological and psychological circuitries that bind all forms of life. Through layered compositions and poetic imagery, the series reflects on the cosmogonic, the lyrical, and the ineffable—offering pathways back to the organic intelligence of existence beyond the limits of language and naming.
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SAVVY Contemporary
“SOUNDING LABO*R” and 2024 Annual Program
Featured contributions in this sound-based collective exhibition and broader institutional program.
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Schott Music Magazine
Article by Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Discussion of your musical language and compositional philosophy. Although the specific article isn’t currently online, it was featured in a printed Schott Music journal.
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Kerber Verlag – The Space Between Us
Edited by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet
This publication includes commentary by Dietrich Heißenbüttel contextualizing your work within the broader field of African art in Germany.
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