“I believe in the capacity to do things with the tools we have. But my painting is not about freedom,” artist Libasse Ka told me during a recent conversation. “I think freedom is pretentious in a way.

Libasse Ka's paintings offer inventive solutions to thoroughly painterly problems. Take an untitled canvas from 2025, which features a dark silhouette of an umbrella that Ka painted on a piece of ...

Notes on Shape Shifting is the first institutional solo exhibition by artist Libasse Ka. The exhibition highlights new works that place Ka’s rhythmic, process-driven approach to painting center ...

Libasse Ka is a Senegalese artist who was born in 1998. Numerous key galleries and museums such as S.M.A.K. Ghent have featured Libasse Ka's work in the past.