The MAN Museum of Art Province of Nuoro presents, from Friday 31 January to Sunday 1 March 2020 , the first major solo exhibition in a European museum dedicated to Kiluanji Kia Henda (Luanda, Angola, 1979), one of the most significant artists and activists of African origin in the contemporary art scene.
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven it is an exhibition curated by Luigi Fassi , director of MAN, produced ad hoc for the Nuoro museum which, in collaboration with the Sardinia Film Commission Foundation, invited the artist to stay on the island and offer his own aesthetic gaze on Sardinia. The project proposes an invitation-residency method already activated last year with the Franco-Ivorian artist François-Xavier Gbré and continues a line of research started by MAN on the contemporary African art scene.

Something Happened on the Way to Heaven presents a series of sculptural and installation works created from scratch from Kiluanji Kia Henda during her stay on the island, alongside previously produced photographic works. In the newly produced works, the scenic beauty of the Sardinian land merges with the architectural traces of the Cold War and the military bases still present on the island.

The exhibition project will then be presented by MAN within the exhibition spaces of the Galerias Municipais in Lisbon in October 2020.