MANJA McCADE
Artist | Witness | Truth-Teller
“I paint what cannot be said. Not as decoration,
but as a way to hold what resists language.”My work moves between abstraction, material memory, and political reality.It is shaped by tension — between silence and voice, fragility and resistance.I do not aim to explain. I aim to make things visible.
I am not interested in neutrality.My work exists in response to the world — not apart from it.Political not as statement, but as condition.I live and work independently.My practice is not built around institutions, but around direct encounter.Each piece is created to exist in real space — not behind glass, but in the world.
✨ Exhibitions
My exhibition journey began in 2016 in London, when my work “Nowhere To Go” was selected as one of the five best pieces in the ArtRoom exhibition at Le Dame Gallery — out of more than 800 applicants. Since then, my paintings and installations have been shown across Europe and the U.S., including digital exhibitions in Miami, New York, and Barcelona.
A deeply formative moment came in 2019, when Yoko Ono selected my conceptual work “Let’s Heal the World with Love” to be included in her major retrospective Peace is Power at MdBK Leipzig. This was my first experience showing work in a museum context — and to have it shown alongside Ono’s own was a milestone I carry with gratitude.
From 2018 to 2024, I participated in and curated multiple exhibitions at Salonrouge Leipzig, creating intimate, evolving dialogues between my work and others.
In 2022, my installation “Belmarsh Live” was presented at Projektraum 145 as part of the Noisy Leaks exhibition, alongside pieces by Ai Weiwei, Daniel Richter, Sarah Lucas, and others — a space for political and poetic resistance. From 2022 to 2024 this installation was on the road with me.
Looking ahead, solo and group shows are already in motion for 2025 and 2026.
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Behind The Work
The place where I share what moves me, haunts me, angers me, or refuses to leave. The part of the work you don’t see on the canvas.