Hügel-Marshall, Ika

Ika Hügel-Marshall (1947-2022) was an Afro-German activist, author, artist, and educator, who helped establish the Afro-Deutsch Movement in the 1980s and 1990s. Her written works engage with issues of racism and feminism; her autobiography centers on her search for family and self-identity. Much of her visual art embraces the medium of collage and features bright colors and recurring abstracted motifs with an emphasis on natural imagery and organic objects in her earlier works, and a shift to include more human-made objects in her later works.