ABOUT
Ngingo is a Burundian-born, Amsterdam-based visual artist and photographer.
Her work moves between observation and intimacy, presence and memory. Often quiet, but always full. Raised between worlds, Nella uses photography to ask where we belong, how we remember, and what remains when things are gone.
Growing up without many family photos, photography became her way to hold onto something before it disappears. A way to say: we were here.
Nella began by photographing herself. Slowly, her practice grew to include documentary and conceptual work across East and West Africa, Europe, and the diaspora. Her visual language is rooted in light, silence, tone, and the body. It invites reflection. Whether she’s shooting in the streets of Bujumbura or in intimate interior spaces, her images trace questions of identity, gender, home, and ancestral memory.
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Exhibition Pakhuis de Zwijger
’Redefining Legacy’
2023
Exhibition at Van Gogh Museum Depot
Vogue’s ‘Down The Rabbit hole’
2024
2024
Exhibition at Unseen Art Fair
’Errant Black Girlhoods’
Thami Mnyele Award
Artist in residence
2023
2023
Exhibition at Melkweg
’Siblings of the soil’
Exhibition at Motormond
’Amaso y’ inyana’
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Calvin klein, Bimba y Lola, Samsoe Samsoe, Levis, Elle magazine, Vogue NL, Le Mile..