Venue: Banana Hill Art Gallery
Exhibition Runs until: February 15, 2013
Tanzanian artist Salum Kambi is a self-taught artist, who learned his first skills in primary school, practising making portraits of a friend. He now uses his skills to express his social engagement.
“I love to paint women as I strongly feel that women in Africa sacrifice a lot for their families. They combine strength and perseverance, and lift their families out of hardship through their never-ending commitments.”
JAN VAN ESCH | CHALK AND WOOD
Opening: February 15, 2013
Time: 6-9 pm
Venue: Le Rustique
Exhibition Dates: Until March 14, 2013
Painting & engraving exhibition by Ermias Ekube
Opening: February 5, 2013 at 6.30 pm
Venue: Alliance Ground Floor Gallery
Exhibition Dates: Until February 25, 2013
In breath of consciousness II, Ermias Ekube presents a series of paintings and engravings that mainly focus on women and children.
Ermias Ekube powerful portraits are really striking. His topics, weather painted or engraved, are dynamic and filled with emotion.
About
Ermias Ekube is a respected artist born and brought up in Ethiopia with Eritrean Nationality. Ekube is a painter, engraver, sculptor and poet. He has studies four years at Addis Ababa college of Fine Arts and Design [DFA in 1990].
Since 1991 he participated in several group exhibitions and exhibited about 20 solo exhibitions in Eriteria, Ethiopia, Djiibuti, Tanzania, Swaziland, Norway, England, Denmark and Italia.
Ermias is now living in Nairobi and currently working on his art at the Kuona Trust.
EAC Arts & Cultural Festival – Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki Utamaduni Festival [JAMAFEST]
Dates: February 11-17, 2013
Venue: Kigali, Rwanda
Theme: Fostering the East African Community Integration through Cultural Industries
For more information: http://jamafest.org/
Date: February 1, 2013
Venue: Goethe Institut
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free
Official Opening: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 6pm.
Venue: Kuona Trust Centre for the Visual Arts
Location: Denis Pritt Rd
Exhibition dates: January 31 – February 14, 2013 between 9am and 5pm
The vision behind ‘Viongozi’ is to re-imagine the image and faces of the presidential candidates in a new and contemporary way. These famous faces and personalities that are constantly influencing and shaping our lives. The portraits are slightly abstracted with an addition of African graphics inspired by Kenyan art.
Our hope is for people to be amused, tickled! and to leave with a sense of unity and pride in our rich culture and diversity as Kenyans.
A call for artistic expressions: painting, sculpture and mixed media, for the annual Manjano Exhibition. Work should aim to present creative expression that explores the human interests aspect of the city of Nairobi – Nairobians in their diverse settings, neighborhoods and lifestyles, at work, at play, etc.
1. A maximum of 2 pieces of work may submitted for selection in the Manjano Exhibition
2. The works should have been executed within the course of last year (i.e. since January 2012 and not any earlier).
3. Works may be submitted under any of the following 2 categories: Student or Practicing Artist.
4. Selected works will hang in the Manjano Exhibition and shall be judged. Cash prizes will be awarded for the top 3 positions in each category.
5. Deadline for submission of works is March 15 2013. Works should be submitted at the GoDown Arts Centre, Dunga Rd, next to Giro Bank.
Please note that work that has been previously submitted to other editions will not be accepted
Manjano is organized under the auspices of the GoDown Arts Centre. For further enquiries contact:
Manjano Committee c/o Lima Mbai 555227, 555770
Date: January 25-28, 2013
Venue: Puniii’s Coffees and Crafts, 17 Ojijo Road, Taarifa Suites, Parklands
Dates: Until February 5, 2013
Venue: Que Pasa Bar and Bistro
Dates: January 19-30, 2013
Venue: Le Rustique Restaurant
