Dates: Until August 31st, 2021
Location: Lifestyle Gigiri
Solo Art Exhibition: Dedications – the Freedom Series by Sebawali Sio, Aug. 31 2022 @ Lifestyle – Gigiri
Dates: Until August 31st, 2021
Location: Lifestyle Gigiri
20th Pop Up & Chill Handmaker’s Market, Aug. 8 2021 @ Mövenpick Hotel – Mkungu Close, Westlands
Date: Sunday – August 8th, 2021
Venue: Mövenpick Hotel – Mkungu Close, Westlands
Time: 10 am to 6 pm
Entry: Free
About
Find the best in locally hand-made goods from East Africa’s top designers & makers on Sunday, August 8th from 10am to 6pm at Mövenpick Hotel, Westlands.
Our market brings together a selection of lovingly handmade clothing, leather goods, jewellery, furniture, home decor, art prints, apothecary goods, healthy food, baked goods and much more. There will be plenty of kids activities among them, a designated play area and of course, swimming.
Our market is free to the public and will strictly adhere to the Ministry of Health regulations and guidelines. It will be outdoors, maintain soicial-distance, have temperature checks, hand sanitizer and will have monitored capacity.
20th Pop Up & Chill Handmaker’s Market, Aug. 8 2021 @ Mövenpick Hotel – Mkungu Close, Westlands
Date: Sunday – August 8th, 2021
Venue: Mövenpick Hotel – Mkungu Close, Westlands
Time: 10 am to 6 pm
Entry: Free
About
Find the best in locally hand-made goods from East Africa’s top designers & makers on Sunday, August 8th from 10am to 6pm at Mövenpick Hotel, Westlands.
Our market brings together a selection of lovingly handmade clothing, leather goods, jewellery, furniture, home decor, art prints, apothecary goods, healthy food, baked goods and much more. There will be plenty of kids activities among them, a designated play area and of course, swimming.
Our market is free to the public and will strictly adhere to the Ministry of Health regulations and guidelines. It will be outdoors, maintain soicial-distance, have temperature checks, hand sanitizer and will have monitored capacity.
Moving in Nairobi: Stories of Urban Mobility, Until Jul. 31 2021 @ Alliance Française Nairobi
Dates: Until July 31, 2021
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
About
Explore Nairobi through he eyes of four commuters as they walk, bicycle, ride boda bodas, take matatus, and hire Ubers around Nairobi. Will we ever see the end of the Nairobi traffic gridlock? Did you know that peak-hour commuters in Nairobi spend an average of 320 hours a year in traffic? The equivalent of more than 13 days.
The exhibition has been produced by the Civic Data Design Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) which works with data to understand it for public good. The Lab seeks to develop alternative practices which can make the work they do with data and images richer, smarter, more relevant, and more responsive to the needs and interests of citizens traditionally on the margins of policy development.
Moving in Nairobi: Stories of Urban Mobility, Until Jul. 31 2021 @ Alliance Française Nairobi
Dates: Until July 31, 2021
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
About
Explore Nairobi through he eyes of four commuters as they walk, bicycle, ride boda bodas, take matatus, and hire Ubers around Nairobi. Will we ever see the end of the Nairobi traffic gridlock? Did you know that peak-hour commuters in Nairobi spend an average of 320 hours a year in traffic? The equivalent of more than 13 days.
The exhibition has been produced by the Civic Data Design Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) which works with data to understand it for public good. The Lab seeks to develop alternative practices which can make the work they do with data and images richer, smarter, more relevant, and more responsive to the needs and interests of citizens traditionally on the margins of policy development.
Exhibition: Rise and Fall Photographic Exhibition by Tobin Jones, May 17-31 2021 @ Alliance Française
Dates: May 17-31, 2021
Venue: Alliance Française
About
To many of Kenya’s youth in the mtaa, ‘the hoods’, boxing provides an essential outlet from everyday struggles of life. A possibility to secure a better future.
Through this series of photos, Tobin Jones exposes the fragile state of the sport in Kenya since its heady days of the 1980s and 1990s when Kenya produced gold medalists in the All-Africa Games, the Commonwealth Games, and the Olympics.
Exhibition: There is a Time and a Place, May 12 – Jun. 11 2021 @ Circle Art Gallery
There is a Time and a Place: A solo exhibition by Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser.
Dates: Until 11 June 2021
Venue: Circle Art Gallery
About
Circle is pleased to present There Is a Time and a Place, the first ever solo exhibition for emerging Kenyan artist Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser (b. 1995).
Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser is a multidisciplinary artist working across various media living and working in Nairobi. Fraser studied Fine Art at Kenyatta University. Previous exhibitions include I Will See What I Want to See, 2019 at Circle Art Gallery; If Not Now, 2018 at Cave Bureau, Nairobi; Line: The Basic Element, 2018 at One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi; Stranger Times, 2017 at Circle Art Gallery; Anatomy of Me, 2017 at The Art Space, Nairobi.
Fraser uses drawing as a means to engage with the world around him through a varied approach that includes observational sketching, plant pressing, digital image collection and writing. This multifarious set of activities presents a unique opportunity to activate his interaction with his environment. This interactivity with the world strives towards a more internal and intuitive “knowing”, a knowing born less of experience and learning and more of dreaming.
In his first solo exhibition, Fraser works through drawing to complicate meaning as well as create new relationships between objects and ideas by utilizing slowness, bodily awareness and careful observation. Elements in the drawing field are allowed to take up the same quality of space, eschewing the various contexts they would typically exist in. The composition of the drawing field itself is broken down so that one’s conventional approach to looking at and understanding it is revised. The drawings are energetic and enigmatic and in this way encourage the viewer to participate actively in the processes the artist himself uses.
Fraser invites the viewer to consider the transformation, big or small, brought on by even the slightest shift in the conditions under which we encounter, or are presented with an object. This process of de-contextualization – sometimes subtle, other times abrupt – is aided by repetition of certain motifs and objects within and across several compositions. This gesture extends them across space and time. The reiteration and multiplication stretches the distance between the initial and final encounter with an object within the work. In doing so, it engenders a slowing down and increased attentiveness to these groups of interactive symbols and how they function according to the illogic of Fraser’s environments. In these works, the artist emphasizes the contingent nature of meaning, highlighting how our reading of objects is dependent on their relationships with other objects, with space, and with time.
The works in this exhibition combine drawing as description and analysis with drawing as an act of conjuring. Fraser performs a visual alchemy, his mystifying mises en scene inviting the viewer to follow along as he traverses a dreamlike space where meaning, while unstable, is always lurking just around the bend.
In line with social-distancing rules Covid-19 safety restrictions, viewing of the exhibition is by appointment only. Please use the link below to book a time slot.
Jonathan Fraser’s solo exhibition, book appointment on ARTSVP