Dates: August 10-16, 2015
Venue: Various
Out of Town: Mombasa International Cultural Festival, Aug. 14-23 2015 @ Mombasa County
Dates: August 14-23, 2015
Venue: Mombasa County
Programme
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Exhibition: Paintings by Moses Mungai, Until Aug. 6-31 2015 @ Creativity Gallery – National Museum
Venue: Creativity Gallery – National Museum
Time: 8.30 am – 5.30 pm
Entry: Museum Rates Apply
About
Moses Muigai graduated from Creative Art Centre in 2002. Moses comes from a family of artists. His father was a blacksmith and his siblings are artists too. Using impasto, cubism techniques and palette knife, Moses creates a sense of harmony across his colourful figures.
In 2014,the Kenya Wildlife Service invited Moses to open The Heritage Art Gallery at the Mt. longonot National Park in Kenya’s Rift Valley.
The gallery showcases a diversity of Kenya’s art.
Exhibition: African Dynamic Inspiration by Peter Mburu, Until Aug. 15 2015 @ Karen Blixen Museum
Venue: Karen Blixen Museum
Time: 10 am – 4.30 pm
Entry: Museum Rates Apply
About
PETER N MBURU a.k.a SALIM is currently exhibiting at Karen Blixen Museum. His exhibition AFRICAN DYNAMIC INSPIRATIONS mostly feature human movement and beauty especially African women and their daily activities. The exhibition will show until 15 August.Salim is an artist who explores various media although his common genre is painting. He has a long history of exhibitions, commissioned works, installations and children projects. Most recently he showed in March 2015 at Ebeltoft Denmark and the Spring Bazaar at the American Embassy where he regularly exhibits and gives talks on subjects around his work.
Exhibition: Faces by Michael Soi, Aug. 12-24 2015 @ Circle Art Agency
Dates: August 12-24, 2015
Venue: Circle Art Agency
Kenyan Cartoonists Take On Obama, Aug. 4-23 2015 @ Alliance Française
Obama mania continues at Alliance Française…
Dates: August 4-23, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française, 1st Floor Gallery
About
The exhibition was first shown at PAWA 254 to coincide with President Obama’s visit to Kenya from 24 to 26 July. Updated with the most recent cartoons that take a critical look at Obama’s visit to Kenya beyond the fine speeches, the exhibition tracks Kenya’s perception of Obama since his last visit in 2006.
Exhibition: My Life My Work My Style by Mary Ogembo, Aug. 12 – 22 2015 @ Michael Joseph Centre
My Life My Work My Style Exhibition by the GoDown Arts Centre based artist Mary Ogembo;
Dates: August 12 – 22, 2015
Venue: Michael Joseph Centre, Safaricom House
Exhibition: Visceral, Aug. 6-20 2015 @ Kuona Trust
Opening: August 6, 2015
Venue: Kuona Trust
Exhibition Dates: Until August 20, 2015
Visceral is a Conceptual Art Exhibition by Mwini Mutuku that explores emotions and the mind through Mirrors.
Photography Exhibition: Black, Jul. 31-Aug. 14 2015 @ Prokraft Africa
“Black” Photography Exhibition At Prokraft Africa
Opening: July 30, 2015
Exhibition Dates: Until August 14, 2015
Venue: Prokraft Africa Studio’s
About
Prompted by the increasing international recognition of African artists, Prokraft Africa embarks on a journey to celebrate African talent by holding its first art gallery – the gravity art exhibition.
as a complement to the commercial advertising field, Prokraft aims to revive the art-exhibiting and art-buying culture across Kenya, the East Africa region and Africa, by publishing and selling exclusive artwork produced by its artists. With space gravity, Prokraft Africa also seeks to establish a platform to challenge and inspire creatives by holding themed art galleries.Black – the exhibition
The exhibition features artwork from Prokraft Africa talents Jeffrey Otieno, Joe Makeni, Mutua Matheka, Osborne Macharia and Thandiwe Muriu. Prokraft has challenged the talents to create a minimum 5 pieces each, defining black from their perspective, while remaining consistent to personal style of work. Each of the pieces will be produced in a limited edition of 10.
About PROKRAFT AFRICA
PROKRAFT AFRICA is East Africa’s first creative talent management agency and represents some of the region’s highest ranking creative professionals in photography and illustrations. Since its formation, PROKRAFT AFRICA has set a benchmark for visual digital artwork produced on the continent, resulting PROKRAFT AFRICA talents being ranked as part of the world’s top 200 digital artists by Lürzer’s archive in 2015. PROKRAFT AFRICA’s talents have worked with various visual art production campaigns for corporations such as Mercedes, KPLC, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Pepsi, Samsung and Safaricom.
Slum Photography Exhibition, Aug. 6 2015 @ Michael Joseph Centre – The Safaricom House
Date: 6 August, 2015
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Venue: Michael Joseph Centre, The Safaricom House
Entry/Tickets/Admission: 3000 KSh
Advance Tickets: 0729465940
Contact: slumphotographyKE@gmail.com
The event will be hosted by Big Ted and will include performances by: Octopizzo, Recap and Tear Drops
About
#PigaPichaMtoiAsome is an initiative for photographers to use their unique vision to promote slum child education through photography. In this exhibition, photos from the #PigaPichaMtoiAsome initiative will be
showcased to raise awareness about the barriers to education faced by children living in slums and the importance of achieving education for all.
The exhibition will focus on sharing the stories of children currently out of school and living in Kibera and ALL PROCEEDS will go towards sending these children to school. An auction of photographs from the exhibit will be held.
Webpage (Instagram): https://instagram.com/slumphotography/