Dates: Until June 30, 2023
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Artworks by Morris Foit, Beatrice Wanjiku, Peterson Kamwathi, Shabu Mwangi,
Justus Kyalo, Salah Elmur, Abushariaa Ahmed, El Tayeb Dawalbeit,
Michael Musyoka, Samuel Ashanti Githinji, Antony Mega and Denis Muraguri.
This Exhibition is on view until 30th June 2023
Also, on View is ‘A Trajectory of Etchings – 1980’s to 2000’ by Rashid Diab – Sudan.
Opening: May 27, 2023
Venue: One Off Contemporary Art Gallery
Time: Noon – 4 PM
Until June 18, 2023.
About
One Off Contemporary Art Gallery is delighted to be hosting Mika Obanda’s first solo show featuring a narrative in the form of a letter to his Mother, depicted in painstaking eggshell mosaic. The works offer a charming record of everyday life, in and around his home area. An early distinction for Obanda was having one of his works chosen by the GoDown Art Centre team for presentation to Dr. Jill Biden on her recent visit to Nairobi.
In the Loft Gallery, we will host another exhibition of impressive wood sculptures by Baldy Osborne. The workmanship and finish on these pieces is extraordinary and this exhibition offers collectors a chance to pick up some beautiful three dimensional pieces at a very fair price.
Opening: May 27, 2023
Venue: One Off Contemporary Art Gallery
Time: Noon – 4 PM
Until June 18, 2023.
About
One Off Contemporary Art Gallery is delighted to be hosting Mika Obanda’s first solo show featuring a narrative in the form of a letter to his Mother, depicted in painstaking eggshell mosaic. The works offer a charming record of everyday life, in and around his home area. An early distinction for Obanda was having one of his works chosen by the GoDown Art Centre team for presentation to Dr. Jill Biden on her recent visit to Nairobi.
In the Loft Gallery, we will host another exhibition of impressive wood sculptures by Baldy Osborne. The workmanship and finish on these pieces is extraordinary and this exhibition offers collectors a chance to pick up some beautiful three dimensional pieces at a very fair price.
Dates: May 10-22, 2023
Venue: the Village Market
An Exhibition by Mukuru Art Collective Based Artists.
Opening: May 10, 2023
Venue: Alliance Française Nairobi
Time: 6:30pm
Dates: Until May 28, 2023
About
Who was Arthur Firmin? Shel Arensen, Founder and Editor of the Old Africa magazine, which publishes stories and photos from East Africa’s past, will give a presentation on the life and work of Arthur Firmin before the official opening of this photo exhibition.
Opening: April 29, 2023
Venue: One Off Contemporary Art Gallery
Time: 12 Noon – 4 PM
Exhibitions Run: Until May 21, 2023
Gallery open:
Tuesday through Saturday, from 10am – 5:00pm
Sunday, from noon to – 5:00pm
Forever is Not Ours
One Off Contemporary Art Gallery is enormously proud to host a solo photographic exhibition by Margaret Ngigi. The artist is building a reputation for the initiation of visual conversations on taboo subjects and in this series of works, she explores the ticking clock which propels each of us towards an inevitable demise. The exaggerated expression in each pair of eyes, the emphasis on the placement of the hands, the carefully choreographed costume choices all enhance the narrative of disquiet. The striking portraits offer the audience much to reflect on.
Opening: April 22, 2023
Venue: Village Market – Rooftop
Time: 1-7 PM
Until: May 8, 2023
About
Traceback presents works that unravel truths about African culture, nature, and rural-urban societies majorly inspired by East Africa in relation to human psychology subtly intertwined with the artists’ culturally rich backgrounds and perspectives. The exhibition also expounds generally on social issues including migration (in an African context) and their impact on our behavior and culture.
Like computing, tracing back to your roots can be a continuous and sometimes uncomfortable process. Still, it is as vital as progression, especially because culture shock or loss is inevitable in the process of embracing modernization. Although with the two artists’ opinions, these twists and turns shape our path and journey to finding our true selves.
Curated by Thadde Tewa (of @tewasartgallery).
Opening: April 22, 2023
Venue: Village Market – Rooftop
Time: 1-7 PM
Until: May 8, 2023
About
Traceback presents works that unravel truths about African culture, nature, and rural-urban societies majorly inspired by East Africa in relation to human psychology subtly intertwined with the artists’ culturally rich backgrounds and perspectives. The exhibition also expounds generally on social issues including migration (in an African context) and their impact on our behavior and culture.
Like computing, tracing back to your roots can be a continuous and sometimes uncomfortable process. Still, it is as vital as progression, especially because culture shock or loss is inevitable in the process of embracing modernization. Although with the two artists’ opinions, these twists and turns shape our path and journey to finding our true selves.
Curated by Thadde Tewa (of @tewasartgallery).
Opening: April 19, 2023
Venue: Circle Art Gallery, Victoria Square – Riara Road
Time: from 6 PM
Until May 20, 2023
About
Raised in Kenya, Sujay Shah has experienced the intermingling of cultural ideologies, myths and histories. Shah is interested in how we can cope with colonial and cultural pasts, which are built into our surroundings.
In his recent paintings, Sujay deconstructs, satirises and critiques some of the harmful legacies of colonialism through the lens of big game trophy hunting. The presence of certain objects in Kenyan homes, country clubs and Safari lodges, such as skin rugs, animal parts and mounted animal heads serve as a haunting reminder of this violent history.
In the depicted fictitious dioramas and still lives, acts of brutality go side by side with luxury items such as Victorian objects, silverware, candelabra, and cabinets challenging the notions of what it means to be “civilised.” Intertwining horror, humour and surrealism, the exasperated animals are subjected to various states of disrespect, further undermining and trivialising the convoluted nature of these hunts.
Allusions are also made to early conservation practices that forcibly evicted people from their lands, recasting them as poachers, and equally absolving these hunters who treated Africa’s wilderness as theme parks. By portraying aspects of museum displays, these different moments are merged into a single image to suggest how the perception and romance of Africa, to the outside world, was fabricated, exoticized, and stereotyped. Images of which still perpetuate and haunt us today.
Sujay Shah is currently living and working in Kenya. He graduated with a B.F.A in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2013. After college, Sujay lived in New York, working as a studio assistant for the artists Paul Bloodgood and Anne Chu. His work has been exhibited in the US (Savannah, Georgia and New York) and France (Lacoste). His work is in the permanent collection of the Savannah College of Art and Design. In Kenya he has been in group exhibitions at the Kenya Art Fair, If Not Now at the Cave Bureau, and I Will See What I Want To See at Circle Art Agency. In 2022, he was awarded a Venice travel fellowship by Wangechi Mutu Studio.
Dates: April 17-30, 2023
Venue: Alliance Française
About
The Swahili Coast stretches from Mogadishu in Somalia in the North to Sofala in Mozambique in the South, encompassing islands such as Madagascar, Comoros, Zanzibar, Pemba and Lamu among others.
It is renowned for its impressive carved doors, often more than a century old. Of various styles, these doors come from a tradition that has its roots in the Middle Ages. They illustrate the variety of tastes, customs and populations that have coexisted, each owner choosing his door according to his social and community affiliation.
