Shows and installations

Own exhibitions

• 2010

  Agony of the Beloved

  Six bronze-toned busts, gathered like a family portrait outdoors.

  
• 2009

  Olokun

  A wire and beadwork figure of a mother and child, bound together by a single carried line.

  
• 2011

  Seized Opportunity

  Figures caught mid-gesture, arms raised — the moment before a chance is taken or lost.

  

Agony of the Beloved — further stops

• 2011–12

  Forum Kloster, Gleisdorf

  Presentation of the project as part of its Styria tour — also shown at the Stadtmuseum Graz. See Agony of the Beloved.

  

Iyagbon's Mirror — tour stops with Cie Onyrikon

Every stop of the touring performance built around the Iyagbon Mask. Full project story, timeline and more photographs: Iyagbon's Mirror.

• May 2024 – Jan 2025 Exhibition "Mémoires" — SE‑YA‑MA capsule
  Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG). In Edo, se-ya-ma means "to remember": a capsule dedicated to Ogiamien's sculptural and performative work, in dialogue with Benin Kingdom objects looted in 1897. Co-produced with MEG director Abba Tijani.

  "And the Moon Says It's in Vienna" — a film by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll & Samson Ogiamien, following the Iyagbon mask into Vienna's Weltmuseum.

• 10–11 May 2022 Geneva Dance Festival, MEG
  The European tour of Iyagbon's Mirror begins in Geneva, Switzerland, co-produced with the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève. Photo © Alberto Marchesi.
  
• 6–7 Aug 2021 Premiere, La Strada Graz
  With the Neue Galerie Graz / Joanneum. The French body-and-mask theatre Onyrikon and Samson Ogiamien stage the piece's premiere.
  
• 9–13 Jun 2021 Exclusive preview, Cave di Arzo, Switzerland
  A site-specific, modular staging developed for the Cave di Arzo, with Juri Cainero, Beatriz Navarro and Samson Ogiamien.
  
• 28 Aug 2020 Pop-ups "The Echo of Iyagbon"
  Graz city centre, La Strada 2020. New masks made during a Benin City residency get their first public appearance, with Juri Cainero.
• 3 Aug 2018 "Iyagbon Below" (tryout)
  La Strada Graz. An early tryout of the collaboration, with public rehearsal walks and the Edo Cultural Art Forum. Photo © Augustin Legall.
  
• 2021 Iyagbon's Mirror teaser
  An early teaser film documenting the project's development, filmed in Austria.

Akugbe — the exhibition this association is named for with Universalmuseum Joanneum

• 5 May – 2 Jun 2016 "Yaruya — The sculptor Samson Ogiamien between African tradition and European reality"
  Kunsthaus Graz, as part of "Akugbe — Together: Yaruya, here we are", an artistic exchange with Austria and Benin City, in cooperation with the Universalmuseum Joanneum. More at ogiamien.at ↗
  

Sri Lanka & Colombo with Stefanie Öttl / Ceylon African Manja

• Nov–Dec 2015 Sri Lanka Residency — "Moving Through"
  Sura Medura, Hikkaduwa, with Stefanie Öttl: a collective, site-responsive performance with the fishing community of Dodanduwa and the music group Ceylon African Manja.

  Making of "The Past is Present" — music by Ceylon African Manja. More at ogiamien.at ↗

• 2 Dec 2016 Colombo Art Biennale — "Re: Encounters"
  ZMAX Fairway Hotel, Colombo. A collaborative music and dance performance with Ceylon African Manja, accompanying "The Past is Present" and "Freedom of Choice". More at ogiamien.at ↗
  

Joint & group shows with Stefanie Öttl and others

• 22 Jul – 20 Aug 2019 Artists in Love
  QL-Galerie, Graz. A group show by and about "mixed couples" in Graz, with Samson and Stefanie Ogiamien among five artist pairs.
  
• 2015 "Fragen der Zeit" (Questions of Our Time)
  Galerie Sarto, Waidhofen an der Ybbs — with Stefanie Öttl.
  
• 2015 Exhibition "Stranded"
  Galerie Carmen Pratschke, Deining, Germany — with Stefanie Öttl; covered by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Münchner Merkur.
  
• 2009 "Togetherness … Art knows no boundaries"
  European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, Graz — with Stefanie Öttl.
  
• 2007 "Eye Food"
  Weltcafé Graz — with Julia Obermayr and Stefanie Öttl.
  
• 2006 "Ebony and Ivory"
  Baodo Kunstverein, Graz — with Stefanie Öttl.