Painting by Moses Nyawanda

Exhibition: Social Perceptions, Until Jan. 31 2016 @ Cultural Dynamism Gallery – National Museum

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Painting by Moses Nyawanda
Painting by Moses Nyawanda
Social Perceptions by Railway Museum Arts Studio Artists;

Dates: Until January 31, 2016
Venue: Cultural Dynamism Gallery, Nairobi National Museum
Time: Daily 8.30am – 5.30pm
Entry: Normal Museum Rates Apply

About
This exhibition of paintings by Kevin Ndege, Stephen Njenga, Samwel Njoroge and Moses Nyawanda is the artists’ response to certain social issues in the world we live in today.

The four artists have varied individual perceptions of this subject that each has addressed in a unique and captivating style. They work in a space situated in the heart of Nairobi’s Central Business District, the Railway Museum Arts Studio that is housed by The Nairobi Railway Museum. Other members of this studio are Peter Ndirangu, Lia Barhane, Joan Otieno and Sam Githinji.

Polands Forest Exhibition NM

Exhibition: Poland’s Forests by Mr Stanislaw Butrym (1930 – 2011), Dec. 21 2015 @ National Museum

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Polands Forest Exhibition NM
You are invited to the photography exhibition “Poland’s Forests” by Mr Stanislaw Butrym (1930 – 2011), a superb and award winning Polish photographer, who was recognised as one of the first pioneers in his country in the field of championing forests as an exquisite source of aesthetic inspiration.

Date: 21 December 2015
Venue: National Museums of Kenya, main exhibition hall

About
This exhibition is conceived, organised and curated by the renowned Film Director Jacob Barua who mainly specialises in historical subject matters. He is a long time member of the BIEA. The exhibition runs to the 21st December 2015, at the National Museums of Kenya, main exhibition hall, located in the old Coryndon wing.

Find more information, here.

Helter-Skelter Onditi

Art Exhibition: Helter – Skelter by Paul Onditi, Dec. 10 2015 – Jan. 17 2016 @ The Art Space

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Helter-Skelter Onditi
Art Exibition: Helter – skelter by Paul Onditi

Opening: THURSDAY 10th December 2015
Venue: The Art Space; off Riverside Drive near the Australian High Commission
Time: 6 pm

Exhibition Dates: Until January 17, 2016

About

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly. – Ben Okri

Helter – skelter emanates from Paul Onditi’s previous show, Reconstruction of the Tower of Babel. It follows his seminal character, Smokey as he transitions to a new direction.

Helter – skelter is about scattered ideas around humanity, relating to socio-economic and political affairs. Immersed in a variety of landscapes, Smokey is seen contemplating on his future path.

The collection of pieces extract influence from different bodies of work, both past and present. The works are purposely in disharmony to reflect on Onditi’s practice where he uses found film, old prints, caustic acid and polyester plates to examine the human condition.

This is Onditi’s first solo show in Kenya for the year 2015.

Paul Onditi
Born in Kenya, Paul Onditi moved to Germany in 2000, where he studied art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. In 2010 he returned to Nairobi, where he is currently living and practicing. Onditi was included in Bonhams’ Africa Now auction in London in 2013 and 2014. His work was also featured in the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London in 2015.

The Art Space
Based in Kenya, The Art Space is an independent creative space which comprises of a commercial art gallery and alternative show spaces. Through art exhibitions and informal conversations, The Art Space allows for growth, critique and experimentation in the visual arts. The Art Space focuses on modern and contemporary art from Africa and links artists with the contemporary art market.

Whom we Are

Exhibition: Whom I Am, Who We Are, Dec. 7 2015 – Feb. 27 2016 @ National Museum

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Whom we Are
Dates: December 7, 2015 to February 27, 2016
Venue: National Museum of Nairobi
Time: 8.30am – 5.30pm Daily
Normal Museum Rates Apply

About
The project WHO I AM WHO WE ARE uses art and self-expression to create spaces and conversations for personal reflection on the themes of citizenry, civic responsibility, race, belonging, ‘ethnicism’ and nationalism. Between 2013 and 2015, this project has collected archival material in various part of Kenya comprising of 80 life-size paintings called Body Maps, 1,500 voices recorded in a public installation called ‘In a Silent Room’, 9 documentaries, 80 interviews and 2,000 photographs.

This first major exhibition of WHO I AM WHO WE ARE showcases a selection of these paintings, stories, recorded interviews and films creating a mosaic of voices and impressions on what it means to be a Kenyan today.

Find more information on the project’s blog

Crafting Kenya

Exhibition & Expo: Crafting Kenya, Dec. 2-20 2015 @ Alliance Française

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Crafting Kenya
CRAFTING KENYA a photographic journey of Kenya’s crafts

A project by designer, Wanja Laiboni with the photographer, Athony Bourrasseau

Opening: Wednesday, 2 December at 6.30pm.
Venue: Alliance Française de Nairobi

About
Crafting Kenya documents Kenya’s traditional and contemporary crafts via photography, seeking to create a visual crafts resource as well as celebrate the wealth of Kenya’s crafts and talent of its artisans.

http://www.craftingkenya.com/

Exhibition runs until 18 December.

V2 at Little Art Gallery

Exhibition: Visceral 2 – M THEORY, Until Dec. 20 2015 @ The Little Art Gallery – Karen

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V2 at Little Art Gallery
Dates: Until 20th December 2015
Venue: The Little Art Gallery, Karen, Nairobi.

About
Mwini Mutuku, Curator Ross Van Horn and The Little Art Gallery Project Coordinator, William Ndwiga invite you to Visceral 2| M THEORY at The Little Art Gallery, Karen.
Mwini’s work exists at the intersection of graphic design and fine art.In ‘Visceral 2 | M THEORY’, he explores particle physics and the mind in an attempt to investigate ideas around existence.

The exhibition is set as a conversation between two bodies of work, one with Mirrors and the other with Scorched Paper pieces that attempt to visualise string theory – often called the “theory of everything”.

Painting by Samuel Githingi Ashanti

Exhibition: Self Portrayals by Samuel Githingi Ashanti, Until Jan. 17 2016 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

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Painting by Samuel Githingi Ashanti
Painting by Samuel Githingi Ashanti
Exhibition by Samuel Githingi Ashanti at Red Hill Art Gallery

About
Samuel Githingi Ashanti graduated at Buruburu Institute of Fine Art in 2008 with a Certificate in Fine Art and in 2012 with a Diploma in Fine Art.
Red Hill Art Gallery shows a selection of his latest artworks created in 2015, large scale oil-acrylic-mixed-media canvases and pastel-mixed-media works on large paper sizes.
‘Self-Portrayals’ is a very personal contemplation of a young artist’s search of himself; influenced by African mythology and spirituality and inspired by his Rastafarian credence, a reflection about death and life, desperation and hope.

……it’s just too hard a day to move on not thinking deep of life and death, this has changed my view aboutl life and spirituality, through this it has made me able to create a series of work – spirits in trial,time in trial which reflect much on me in relation with nature or life…..

Samuel Githingi Ashanti is an inspirational and promising emerging artist who responds to his environment with his very own personal voice.
He was born in 1989 in Gatundu, Central Kenya
His artworks were shown in the ‘Affordable Art Exhibition’ of the National Museum, in the ‘Manjano Art Exhibition’ and in the ‘Kenya Art Fair’.

The exhibition continues until 17 January 2016.