Manjahi Njoroge (b. 1986, Kenya) works across photography, installation, and multimedia to create immersive works that layer research, memory, poetics, and spatial storytelling. His practice moves between documentary and abstraction, weaving together personal histories, archival inquiry, and speculative reflection to examine colonial legacies, urban realities, and the shifting boundaries between the physical and imagined. Through his work, Njoroge engages in an ongoing process of self-reflection and discovery, using art as a means to navigate complex perspectives and uncover layered meanings that emerge through his encounters with people, histories, and place.
Njoroge is a contributing artist to The Atlas of Uncertainty (2026), an international platform bringing together interdisciplinary practitioners exploring contemporary conditions, knowledge systems, and the instability of meaning. His recent projects extend into questions of ancestry and historical continuity. In Ngomi Masks (2023– ), he reflects on the re-emergence of indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral presence within contemporary African life. His multimedia project Coffee and Colonialism – A Bitter Taste (2022–2023), developed between Kenya and Cologne, draws from personal and public archives to trace the entanglements of labour, land, and inherited colonial histories.
His earlier works, including Palm Portal (2018–2019) and Liminal Vistas (2015–2019), explore the elasticity of perception and the shifting boundaries between physical and digital space, using the body, shadow, and image as sites of transition. These concerns can be traced further back to Whirlpools (2012–2013) and Flame Trees (2010), where cyclical time, transformation, and the tension between growth and erasure emerge as recurring threads in his practice.
Alongside his individual work, Njoroge engages in collaborative, socially driven, and educational initiatives, facilitating workshops and knowledge-sharing processes that extend his practice into community and learning contexts. His work has been exhibited and presented across local and international platforms, and continues to expand into spatial and virtual environments as part of an ongoing interest in how images can be experienced beyond the frame.
Photo by Dad, Peter Njoroge.