‘Seasons Within A Season’ A Solo Exhibition by Tabitha Wa Thuku, Jun. 19 – Jul. 20 2024 @ Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road.

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Opening: June 19, 2024
Venue: Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road
Time: 6-8 PM

Exhibition Dates: Until July 20, 2024.

About
Born in the year of Independence, Tabitha Wa Thuku began her creative practice as a young, self-taught artist and one of the only female artists of her generation. With a career of over three decades, Wa Thuku has developed a painterly language unencumbered by convention, her works distinguished by a brooding palette which ranges from subtle browns to rich reds. 

Wa Thuku originally studied Textiles and Clothing Technology at Kenya Polytechnic, then from 1996 to 1999 she attended the Buruburu Institute of Fine Arts. She has undertaken various workshops and residencies to develop a wide range of techniques, demonstrated in her extensive body of work. In addition to her own artistic production, she has also worked as an art educator, teaching and mentoring children and young artists. Wa Thuku has exhibited regularly throughout her career in Kenya and abroad, including in The Netherlands, Italy, Hong Kong and Denmark.

In 2022 her work was featured in a retrospective exhibition alongside Yony Waite and Theresa Musoke at Circle Art Gallery. Her work is included in private and public collections in Kenya, including those of the National Museum of Kenya, the Safaricom collection, PwC and MMC Africa Law.

‘Seasons Within A Season’ A Solo Exhibition by Tabitha Wa Thuku, Jun. 19 – Jul. 20 2024 @ Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road.

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Opening: June 19, 2024
Venue: Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road
Time: 6-8 PM

Exhibition Dates: Until July 20, 2024.

About
Born in the year of Independence, Tabitha Wa Thuku began her creative practice as a young, self-taught artist and one of the only female artists of her generation. With a career of over three decades, Wa Thuku has developed a painterly language unencumbered by convention, her works distinguished by a brooding palette which ranges from subtle browns to rich reds. 

Wa Thuku originally studied Textiles and Clothing Technology at Kenya Polytechnic, then from 1996 to 1999 she attended the Buruburu Institute of Fine Arts. She has undertaken various workshops and residencies to develop a wide range of techniques, demonstrated in her extensive body of work. In addition to her own artistic production, she has also worked as an art educator, teaching and mentoring children and young artists. Wa Thuku has exhibited regularly throughout her career in Kenya and abroad, including in The Netherlands, Italy, Hong Kong and Denmark.

In 2022 her work was featured in a retrospective exhibition alongside Yony Waite and Theresa Musoke at Circle Art Gallery. Her work is included in private and public collections in Kenya, including those of the National Museum of Kenya, the Safaricom collection, PwC and MMC Africa Law.

Exhibition: ‘Bottoming Up’ by Wycliff Opondo, Jun. 4-28 2024 @ Alliance Francaise Nairobi.

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Opening: June 4, 2024

Venue: Alliance Francaise Nairobi

Time: 6.00 pm

Until: June 28, 2024

About

Formerly based in Nairobi at the Masai Mbili Artists Collective and then at the Kuona Art Studio, Wycliffe Opondo ‘Wiki’ now lives and paints in Kisumu, a move brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Alliance Française is happy to be hosting a solo exhibition of his most recent paintings,  bringing street humour and graphic jokes in his signature sign-painting style to the gallery.

As a self-taught artist, Wiki’s art journey started at children’s workshops at the Paa ya Paa Art Gallery back in the 1980s. 

In his youth, Wiki was influenced by popular culture and the proliferation of graffiti and street art, and while still at school he found occasional commercial work as a sign painter and matatu artist. 

Exhibition: ‘Bottoming Up’ by Wycliff Opondo, Jun. 4-28 2024 @ Alliance Francaise Nairobi.

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Opening: June 4, 2024

Venue: Alliance Francaise Nairobi

Time: 6.00 pm

Until: June 28, 2024

About

Formerly based in Nairobi at the Masai Mbili Artists Collective and then at the Kuona Art Studio, Wycliffe Opondo ‘Wiki’ now lives and paints in Kisumu, a move brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Alliance Française is happy to be hosting a solo exhibition of his most recent paintings,  bringing street humour and graphic jokes in his signature sign-painting style to the gallery.

As a self-taught artist, Wiki’s art journey started at children’s workshops at the Paa ya Paa Art Gallery back in the 1980s. 

In his youth, Wiki was influenced by popular culture and the proliferation of graffiti and street art, and while still at school he found occasional commercial work as a sign painter and matatu artist. 

Solo Exhibition: ‘(Un)Contained Turbulence’, by Shabu Mwangi, Apr. 24 – May 5 2024 @ Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road.

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Opening: April 24, 2024

Venue: Circle Art Gallery

Time: 6-8 PM

Exhibition Dates: Until May 5, 2024.

About

Shabu Mwangi‘s practice focuses on the effects of contemporary and historical violence, and other forms of marginalization on individual and collective psyches. Mwangi’s mixed media compositions are an abstracted emotional reflection of societal and cultural fissures. 

His current body of work continues to build on explorations of human interiority when faced with structural violence that affect the individual, community and society at large.

Mwangi has lived and worked in Mukuru, an informal settlement in Nairobi where he co-founded the Wajukuu Art Project in 2003. In 2023, he was a finalist for the Access Art X Prize in the Africa/Diaspora category. In 2022 Mwangi and fellow members of the Wajukuu Art Project participated in Documenta 15 in Kassel, where they went on to win the Arnold Bode prize. He also participated in the 13 Biennial do Mercosul in Brazil, 2022. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Self Addressed, curated by Kehinde Wiley for Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023; Systems to Emptiness, a prelude to Documenta 15, 2022; A Never Ending Longing, Circle Art Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, 2022; The Sources of Our Seas, Circle Art Gallery, 2021; East African Encounters, Cromwell Place, London, 2021.

Other shows include: The Man with Two Shadows, Circle Art Gallery online, 2020; Yawning for Power, Tilleard Projects, 2019; The Stateless, Circle Art Gallery, 2018; Freedom, Flight, Refuge, Circle Art Gallery, 2017; Art Transposition, Nairobi-Kampala-Hamburg, LKB Gallery, Hamburg; Pop-Up Africa, GAFRA, London, 2017; Out of the Slum, Essen, 2012.

Mwangi has participated in residency programs in Kenya, Germany and Italy.

Exhibition: ‘Anectode of Soundness’ by Maggie Otieno, Apr. 16-28 2024 @ Alliance Française.

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Dates: April 16-28, 2024

Venue: Alliance Française

About

Kenyan artist, Maggie Otieno, presents a body of work that speaks of stories from the earth. 

Using old, discarded, and distressed materials, with the primary material being 200 years old railway sleepers sourced from India and Kenya, Maggie’s sculptures carry the burden of untold tales demanding to be understood.

Exhibition: ‘Anectode of Soundness’ by Maggie Otieno, Apr. 16-28 2024 @ Alliance Française.

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Dates: April 16-28, 2024

Venue: Alliance Française

About

Kenyan artist, Maggie Otieno, presents a body of work that speaks of stories from the earth. 

Using old, discarded, and distressed materials, with the primary material being 200 years old railway sleepers sourced from India and Kenya, Maggie’s sculptures carry the burden of untold tales demanding to be understood.

Exhibition: “Olidde Mupipa” – A solo Exhibition by Xenson, Apr. 4 – Jul. 13 2024 @ Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute.

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Opening: 04.04.2024

Venue: Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, 3rd Floor, Suite 307, Rosslyn Riviera Mall

Time: 5 PM (EAT)

Entry: RSVP ~ https://artsvp.com/9f95aa

Exhibition Period: 04.04. 2024 – 13.07.2024

Entry: Free

About

‘Olive Mupipa’, is Xenson’s first-ever solo exhibition in Nairobi and his first institutional exhibition in East Africa.

This exhibition, which focuses on sculpture and installation, will feature six newly created pieces that widen Xenson’s research of items and materials, as well as the stories they tell about the distinct cultural contexts from which they are derived.