About Born in 1986 in West Berlin, Germany, Lawil Karama’s work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience, often drawing from her family history as a starting point.
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Collage made for The “Black Visual Grammar” project, designed and curated by Isiah Lopaz, will be part of the Archive Exhibited as part of The Racial Imaginary Institutes III biennial, at the DAAD Galerie in Berlin.

A Conversation (2020) is a sculptural installation exploring the emotional terrain of memory, care, and anticipatory grief. It was created during a time when the artist’s mother was living with dementia and as the world was fractured by the isolating constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. The work captures a moment of suspended dialogue between a mother and daughter.

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Tannhäuser (2022-2025)This exploratory installation investigates classical music theory's material and physical dimensions through the materiality, deconstruction, and reconstruction of the first act of Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845).
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I wiiyi In Memoriam (2024)
How do you represent victims of a regime, war, conflict, and other atrocities that we have witnessed in this world? How do numbers, often repeated in news headlines and historical reports, communicate the scale of human loss? Can they ever truly reflect the complexity of lived lives, or the silence left behind?

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