Ndidi Dike is an internationally renowned British-Nigerian sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist born in London. Rare Earth Rare Justice is her first major solo exhibition at an Austrian institution. Dike works across mixed media, painting, sculpture, collage, photography, video, and installation. Her practice engages with the social, political, and economic conditions shaping the modern world, with a particular focus on the legacies of colonialism, postcolonialism, forced migration, and global capitalism.

At the centre of Rare Earth Rare Justice lies the ongoing exploitation of the African continent’s natural resources, and specifically the extraction of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dike traces how extractive industries fuel ecological devastation, climate change, displacement, and resource-driven conflicts, exposing how global demand for technology is met through systemic violence and dispossession.

The exhibition unfolds as a large-scale installation structured around absence, death, and mourning. Suspended from the ceiling, a monumental sculpture composed of approximately nine hundred autopsy neck rests forms a bullet-like shape facing a large circular mirror. The object evokes both the lethal economies of extraction and historical loading plans of slave ship plans, in which enslaved bodies were densely packed into cargo holds, pointing to the continuities of brutality against and commodification of Black bodies.