Serge Alain Nitegeka

Serge Alain Nitegeka (born 1983, Bujumbura, Burundi) is a contemporary artist whose sculptural and installation-based practice explores migration, memory, architecture, and the spatial politics of displacement. Now based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nitegeka is known for his use of industrial materials—particularly black-painted steel—that reference scaffolding, fences, gates, and architectural fragments. His works evoke both protection and restriction, reflecting lived experiences of exile and the psychological residue of movement across borders. Through abstraction and modular construction, Nitegeka examines how space is shaped by power, history, and survival, transforming minimal forms into charged metaphors for belonging, instability, and resilience.