YLA
delali amegah
Exhibited in: Young Luxembourgish Artists, Vol.5
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Born 1998 in Saint Martin, Antilles.
Lives and works in Berlin and Luxembourg.
EDUCATION
2024 Master of Arts (Creative Production, Film) – Catalyst, Institute for
Creative Arts and Technology, Berlin, Germany, 2024
2021 Bachelor of Laws – University of Leicester, England, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2025 BlueLobsterArt x Soho House Art Market - Berlin Art Week 2025
2024 AFROPEAN GIRL/L’AFROPÉENNE – Photography exhibition,
funded by pfdfhainxberg, Berlin, DE


Blend in a little more, 2024
60 × 80 cm | Unique work
Pigment print on Hahnemühle, framed with museum glass, Black alu frame
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PRIZES AND PUBLICATIONS
2025 Nuits Fauves - Novel - in development, Luxembourg
2025 Poetry Meets x Archive Books – Togetherness -Poetry
Anthology, Berlin
2023 Black Fountain Press (maison d’édition) – Life - A Series of (Un)Eventful Events (Poetry) - Luxembourg
2020 Black Fountain Press (maison d’édition) – Young Voices -
Short fiction by Young Writers from Luxembourg,
2016 Anthology Prix Laurence – Poetry, Luxembourg
2016 Prix Laurence – 1er Prize, Poetry, Luxembourg - 2016
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FILMS
2025 YOVODEVI - short film, Togo, Bénin - post-production
2025 BLACK JOY - short film, Berlin
2022 ÉTÉ 22 - AT THE VINYL STORE - short film, Luxembourg
2022 ÉTÉ 22 - À LA LIBRARIE - short film, Luxembourg
2022 ÉTÉ 22 - À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE - short film, Luxembourg.
2022 ÉTÉ 22 - BLACK GIRL JOY - short film, Luxembourg
2022 Lost Weekend Festival – short film, Luxembourg
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​STATEMENT
Delali Amegah is a French artist based in Luxembourg. A poet, artistic director, photographer, and filmmaker, she develops amultidisciplinary practice where writing and visual arts intersect. A graduate of a Master’s in Creative Production (Catalyst, Berlin, 2024) and a Bachelor of Law (University of Leicester, 2021), she explores themes of Afropean identity, postcolonial memory, and the representation of Black identities and bodies in Europe. Her photographic project Afropean Girl, presented in 2024 at the Zimmer48 gallery and funded by the PFD Kreuzberg (Berlin), marked an important step in her artistic research by questioning injunctions related to beauty, assimilation, and the search for belonging. Her artistic work has also been published by Black Fountain Press and recognized with the Prix Laurence (2016). Amegah continues to pursue an artistic approach that places creativity and storytelling at the center of a reflection on identity and emancipation.
« My artistic practice is rooted in a research on Afropean identity and the place of Black women within the European space. I use visual arts and writing as tools of expression and liberation, placing visual storytelling at the core of my work. My project Afropean Girl, which emerged from my Master’s thesis in Berlin, questions how Black women are represented, perceived, and at times compelled to erase their cultural singularity. Through the staging of the body and the integration of textual fragments into the image, I seek to create a tension between the intimate and the political. My works raise questions about beauty, assimilation, and identity, while revealing the invisible mechanisms of oppression and resistance. This approach is both autobiographical and collective: it arises from my own experience, yet it is anchored in a memory shared by many women of the African diaspora. I conceive art as a therapeutic and transmissive space, capable of opening dialogues where words alone sometimes fall short. »
exhibited works

Is my beauty in your eyes beholder?, 2024
42 x 59,4 cm | Unique work
Pigment print on Hahnemühle, framed with museum glass, Black alu frame
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Only human enough when we win, 2024
59 × 84 cm | Unique work
Pigment print on Hahnemühle, framed with museum glass, Black alu frame

He said therapy is for white people,2024
42 x 59,4 cm | Unique work
Pigment print on Hahnemühle, framed with museum glass, Black alu frame

I wish the god I worshipped looked like me, 2024
42 x 59 cm | Unique work
Pigment print on Hahnemühle, framed with museum glass, Black alu frame