Photographic Presentation: Ananias Léki Dago, Oct 7 2011 @ Goethe-Institut

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GOETHE-INSTITUT, Friday 7th October 2011 – 6 PM, Free Entry
Maendeleo House , Monrovia Street
+254-20-2224640 – prog@nairobi.goethe.org

Ananias Léki Dago: Mabati
Photographic Presentation

Ananias Léki Dago is a photographer from Côte d’Ivoire, based in Paris since 2002. After his studies in Abidjan, Ananias began to travel the world, which since then became an essential source of his work. He calls himself a product of urban life and his photographic approach focuses on everyday life within an urban context. Using a personal and free thought process documentary, he offers a different view on the little things in life.

Working on shebeens (illicit bar or club) in South African townships in 2009, Ananias now addresses another urban phenomenon in Kenya: Mabati, the corrugated iron sheets that not only shape the city but also play an important social, economic, and cultural role in the life of Kenyans.
Ananias is going to show us the first pictures of his ongoing project.

Exhibition: Tableau I, Sept. 30-Oct. 8 2011 @ Kuona Trust

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Kuona Trust Centre for Visual Arts Invites you to: Tableau I
An art exhibition and environmental programme by Mbuthia Maina & Anthony Wanjau

Dates: September 30-October 8, 2011
Venue: Kuona Trust

This exhibition explores by way of travel documentation, sculpture, painting and multimedia installation, the present state of Kenya’s largest water towers and is also a recognition of the power of contemporary art initiatives to make a difference in our day-to-day lives.

Finissage: Saturday 8th October
Time: From 2:00pm

Exhibition: Kanga Stories, Jul. 13-Nov. 31 2011 @ Nairobi Gallery

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The kanga exhibition has been extended till end of November, thanks their partners.

New Exhibition Dates: July 13-November 31, 2011
Venue: Nairobi Gallery
Location: Next to Nyayo House
Time: 9am-6pm Daily
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

Kanga stories, the cloth that reveals is an exhibition on the kanga cloth, an essential aspect of the Kenya’s cultural heritage. The Kanga is an effective way to chronicle history and convey both literal and social cultural messages which sets it apart from other cloths used by our communities.

Discover the Colourful dynamic world of the kanga!

Exhibit: On Red Ground – by Roy Pickering, Oct 1 – 30 2011 @ National Museum

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“On Red Ground’ 1st – 30th October
Roy Pickering is based in the English midlands and has been a frequent visitor to Kenya for over twenty five years. His paintings of his native Nottinghamshire emerge out of a close connection with the landscape and how it has been shaped by human intervention. In 2010 Roy Pickering spent several weeks in Kenya creating this exciting new series of mixed media paintings on aluminium and paper. Using rags and sticks to paint with as well as paint brushes these works also incorporate the red oxide soil of the land being depicted. The layered accumulation of marks simultaneously reveal and conceal in an archaeology of time and place. Often the resulting works capture a sense of moving through the landscape; a succession of passing glimpses and differing viewpoints.
Roy Pickering has exhibited widely, most recently at the ‘Gallery in Cork Street’, London in 2010, and as a contributor to the innovative mixed exhibition ‘Earth Critical’ at Alba la Romaine’ in France earlier this year.
This is his first exhibition in Kenya.
For more information contact : Nairobi National  Museum. www.museums.or.ke
Gallery opening times : 8.30am to 5.30pm

Conceptual Art Exhibition, Sept. 30 2011 @ National Museum

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The Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Nairobi National Museum, is happy to invite you to the Conceptual Art Exhibition

“The Proud, the Shy and the Angry: many (Hi)Stories, one Museum”.
This event will exhibit the works of the twelve Kenyan artists who have been taking part in the conceptual art workshop by Spanish artist Irene Izquierdo during the last two weeks. This showcase will present a collection of installation and performances specifically designed for this occasion, as the result of an innovative research on contemporary art, museums, collective memory and national identity, among other ideas.

In this event we will discover the original work of Gilbert Ouma, Susan Ngure, Abdilatif Hussein, Noor Jefwa, Zihan Kassam, Paul Mutuku, Anne Mwiti, William S. Ndwiga, Esther Mukuhi, Aggrey Agwata, Alacoque Ntome and Dennis Ruigu Kabucho.

WHEN: 30th September 2011, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
WHERE: Nairobi National Museum, Museum Hill
Free entrance.

Exhibition: “Our Bodies, Our Stories” with Xavier Verhoest, Oct 1-30 2011 @ Nairobi National Museum

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Our bodies tell our stories – Opening Sat 1st, 3-6pm
Since 2005, the German Development Cooperation through GIZ, Art2Be (a group of Kenyan and international psychologists and artists) and TICAH (Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health) work together on innovative approaches of self-expression that improve communication in HIV-affected families and improve resilience and acceptance. Body Map involves painting a life-size representation of one’s body onto canvas and using pictures, symbols and words to represent the path that one has taken through life.
This exhibition brings together a selection of Body Maps made by Kenyans.
All of the paintings in this exhibition are self portraits telling each Kenyan’s story about happiness, rights, health, illness, stigma and strength as they journey through their life in the age of HIV/AIDS.

****KARIBUNI****

Creativity Gallery
Nairobi National Museum
Museum Hill
Tel +254 3742131/61/62/63
PO Box 40658 00100 Nairobi
art@museums.or.ke
www.museums.or.ke

Exhibition: Paul Onditi, Sept. 9-Oct. 6 2011 @ Le Rustique Restaurant

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Dates: September 9-October 6, 2011
Venue: Le Rustique Restaurant
Location: General Mathenge Drive, Westlands
Contacts: 0721 842 231/3753081

Paul Onditi was born and grew up in Kenya but left after college for Germany where he joined the Offenbach University of Arts. He sees his ways of expression as a combination of African nature and a European acquired knowledge in Arts.

His paintings take us to strange places. They would almost look scary, but in fact, an odd quietness hangs over them, a kind of dead calm that disturbs and attracts. For a long time, he has sought a way to express the human condition and its inherent conflict, deeply affected by the tragedy of the soul in the Christian tradition.

His use of black and white refers to good and evil, the confrontation between light and dark, our inner conflict: “That is the reason I paint and sculpt. I do that to capture moments and happenings in my own life, my own self”.

Uncertainty is at the core of his practice, the loss of control is an integral part of his work, his mental maelstrom does not have any grip on the rational, are we in a dream or in the lab of a crazy alchemist trying to alter our mind with his hallucinogenic vision ? These dreams are like fantasies; these nightmarish visions show that painting can still be mysterious in Kenya.