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I was thrilled to see our very own Museum – Benin City Museum MOWAA starts its first exhibition in November- Restitution Part1-engl_deutsch
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) continues building its physical campus. Soon, its mission of preserving, highlighting, and fostering art on the continent will be grounded in Benin City, Nigeria. Once finished, the 15-acre campus will house a “rainforest gallery,” a guesthouse for short-term residencies, green spaces, and more. The main building, The Institute, will be a hub of displayed artwork, research, public programming, and thought-provoking conversations. The museum’s website also promises a 180-seat auditorium, conference rooms, a library, and an archaeological science lab. The digital lab, also inside The Institute, will be dedicated to making African cultural content more accessible via digital catalogs. The whole campus is expected to cost around $100m, including construction and an endowment…
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Casablanca Art School: Progressive African Post-Colonialism in Art //Exhibition in Frankfurt/Germany_deutsch/english
Big Art show in Frankfurt/Germany: Schirn Kunsthalle shows art works from an influential art movement in Morocco: The Casablanca Art School. History is often made when the right people end up in the right place at the right time. That fateful alchemy defines the story of the trailblazing artists who revolutionised modern art in post-colonial Morocco. The locus of this movement was the Casablanca Art School (CAS), which underwent radical changes after artist Farid Belkahia took on the school's directorship in 1962 at age 28, six years after Morocco gained independence from French rule.
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Is there Anybody Out There? Nairobi Space Station – Kairos Futura Artist Project Starts this March_deutsch/englisch
They look like the futuristic Space Guerilla. From 18 March, they will make Kanairo unsafe. That is the Sheng name for Kenya's capital Nairobi. The venerable MacMillian Library in the centre will kick off the launch. It becomes a space station. They have camels with them with Massai blankets. The olive overalls are well tailored, the steel masks make them look martial. With this project, the Kairos Futura artists' group puts a big exclamation mark on Nairobi's Design Week. But it is not only about spectacle. The artists' collective, consisting of artists, designers, scientists and environmentalists, wants more: visions and proposals for an environmentally friendly Nairobi. It is about reclaiming urban space, about the "rewilding" of inner-city areas. They…
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Bringing Art to the Masses – Interview with Patrick Mukabi – engl_ger
Patrick Mukabi is a Kenyan Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, Dad and Mentor, best known for his appreciation of the African female form. In this interview with Lorna Likiza and Hans Hofele, he talks about his journey as an artist and why the middle class in Kenya are yet to fully appreciate art.
