around the world, amongst others including the National Museum in Kinshasa, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art in Tamale, African Artists’ Foundation in Lagos, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, MPavilion in Melbourne, and Museum MACAN in Jakarta. About the film, Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times:"In short, the project, de-exoticizing and re-exoticizing, is politically problematic on almost every level, and it’s fascinating for that reason. It raises questions about imbalances of power based on race and class that are at the very foundation of modern Western culture, but that our big museums have resolutely refused to address, never mind tried to answer." Awards 2021: 18th Seoul Eco Film Festival (Audience’s Choice) 2021: “Tutta un’altra storia” Award at Biografilm Festival 2021 2017: Visible Award (shortlisted, with the Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise) 2015: Witteveen+Bos-prijs voor Kunst+Techniek 2015: Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst (category "Best Performance") 2013: Yale World Fellow 2013: Culture Documentary Stipend 2010: Flanders cultural award for Film 2010: Incentive Price of Dutch Film Fund Criticism In 2017 art collective Keeping It Real Art Critics published the critical movie 'Kirac 6' about Martens' approach to make art. In the movie they question the moral and motives of Martens related to the subject of poor African people he chooses for his projects. Solo exhibitions and screenings White Cube and Episode III: Enjoy Poverty screening, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, 2022 White Cube screening, Points communs, Paris, France, 2022 BALOT (in collaboration with CATPC), KOW, Berlin, Germany, 2022 Global Launch White Cube (2021): White Cube debate, with Renzo Martens, Ibrahim Mahama and Kari Kacha Seidou, SCCA, Tamale, Ghana Online White Cube debate, with Nurhady Sirimorok and Halim HD moderated by Asri Winata, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia White Cube dialogue between curator Kirill Adibekov, Cedart Tamasala and Renzo Martens, VAC, Moscow, Russia Screening of White Cube and debate, with Henry Bundjoko, Franklin Mubwabu Mbobe, Pala Kamango, René Ngongo, Cedart Tamasala, Matthieu Kasiama, Mbuku Kimpala and Eléonore Hellio, moderated by Charles Tumba, National Museum, Kinshasa, DRC Screening of White Cube and online debate, with Renzo Martens, Mami Kataoka, Cedart Tamasala, Eleonore Hellio and Hikaru Fujii, Mori Art, Tokyo, Japan Screening of White Cube and an online discussion, with Renzo Martens, Surafel Wondimu and Cedart Tamasala, Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Screening of White Cube