Mo Edoga (1952 - 2014)

Mo Edoga

Mo Edoga is a Nigerian-born physician and installation artist who has worked as a doctor in South Africa and as an artist in Germany.

He studied medicine in Heidelberg and first worked as a neurosurgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 1982 he lived in Mannheim and had a studio. He became famous in 1988 when, after a flood on the Rhine, he collected driftwood and garbage and created his first tower out of them, calling it the "Heavenly Sphere." In fact, his art installations have always been a place where communication has to take place. Mo Edoga liked to talk to people not only about his art, but also about many other topics during the course of his work.