Oscar Ngu Atanga

Oscar Atanga is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and farmer working through sound, material, and spatial practice. Born in Manchester, UK to Cameroonian parents, his work moves between sonic composition, performance, field recording, textile and garment design, installation, curation, and regenerative agriculture.

Rooted in land, memory, and embodied knowledge, his practice is shaped by extensive travel and exchange across West Africa, Europe, and Asia, alongside an artistic career forged in Berlin. He draws on African architectural intelligence, diasporic sonic traditions, and textile technologies, while time spent in India, Nepal, Japan — and within Berlin’s experimental communities — has refined his approach to material, movement, and site-responsive thinking.

For Oscar, farming is both material source and metaphysical grounding — cultivating soil and threading continuity.

His work is guided by research, instinct, and lived experience, drawing deeply from the emotional expressiveness of the blues, the radical freedom of diasporic improvisation, and the experimental spirit of sound system culture.

Oscar’s work has been supported and presented across galleries, cultural institutions, and experimental performance contexts.

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