Mia Ntenta is a visual artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. With a background in philosophy, psychology, and education, she began making art as a tactile and imaginative way to continue her philosophical inquiry. Her practice is rooted in an ongoing exploration of existential questions—freedom, meaning, and the structures that shape subjectivity.

 

All of Ntenta’s work unfolds within a fictional universe she has been developing since 2017. At the heart of this world is The Omegans Project, a series of 10,890 hand-cut cartoon-like “faces” that populate her immersive installations. Playful at first glance, their simplicity is intentional—a carefully crafted visual language designed to invite viewers into deeper dialogue. Beneath the surface of bright forms lies a persistent tension: a confrontation with the self, the Other, and the fragile scaffolding of meaning.

 

Her work features a set of recurring symbols—repeated across media—that form a visual system unique to this universe. These symbols offer another layer of depth: to fully decode the meaning of each work, viewers must engage with the symbolic language she has constructed over time.

 

Alongside painting, Ntenta works with concrete blocks and experimental materials to build symbolic, often dystopian environments.

 

Ntenta divides her practice into two realms: the work for the adult, and the work for the child.  She is currently developing a smart preschool system that merges philosophy, cognitive science, and AI to reimagine early education as a space for freedom, inquiry, and transformation.