Date: July 22, 2022
Venue: The Mall, Basement – Westlands
Time: 6 PM till Late
Entry: Free
About
Launch of a 3 part Documentary on Hip Hop music’s influence on the Kenyan urban culture, identity, fashion and social change.
The screening will be accompanied by a brief panel discussion with pioneers from the Kenyan hip hop music scene.
Special performances by Kalamashaka and a select group of DJ’s.
A collaboration between Goethe Institut Kenya & The MIST.
Date: July 22, 2022
Venue: The Mall, Basement – Westlands
Time: 6 PM till Late
Entry: Free
About
Launch of a 3 part Documentary on Hip Hop music’s influence on the Kenyan urban culture, identity, fashion and social change.
The screening will be accompanied by a brief panel discussion with pioneers from the Kenyan hip hop music scene.
Special performances by Kalamashaka and a select group of DJ’s.
A collaboration between Goethe Institut Kenya & The MIST.
Opening: July 21, 2022
Venue: 101, Manyani E
Time: 6PM
Exhibition by: Elkana Ong’esa, Moses Nyawanda, Iddi Achieng & Musa Omusi
Until: July 28, 2022
Dates: July 13-31, 2022
Venue: Alliance Française
Sarakasi za Siasa by Joseph Bertiers
Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, or ‘Bertiers’ as he is fondly known, began his artistic career as a professional sign writer. Over the past three decades, Bertiers’ lively, realistic and colourful paintings have humorously chronicled and weaved many local and international events with everyday life in Kenya.
This exhibition of his large-scale canvasses and life-size sculptures offers a satirical view of Kenyan politics over the years.
Dates: July 13-31, 2022
Venue: Alliance Française
Sarakasi za Siasa by Joseph Bertiers
Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, or ‘Bertiers’ as he is fondly known, began his artistic career as a professional sign writer. Over the past three decades, Bertiers’ lively, realistic and colourful paintings have humorously chronicled and weaved many local and international events with everyday life in Kenya.
This exhibition of his large-scale canvasses and life-size sculptures offers a satirical view of Kenyan politics over the years.
Dates: July 2-29, 2022
Venue: Banana Hill Art Gallery
Dates: July 2-29, 2022
Venue: Banana Hill Art Gallery
Date: July 7, 2022
Venue: National Museums of Kenya, Heritage Training Institute – Mombasa
Time: 9 am – 6 pm
Dress code: Swahili Attire
Date: July 7, 2022
Venue: National Museums of Kenya, Heritage Training Institute – Mombasa
Time: 9 am – 6 pm
Dress code: Swahili Attire
Opening: June 29, 2022
Venue: Circle Art Gallery
Until: July 30, 2022
This is Mohamed Otaybi’s first solo exhibition in Kenya, presenting 25 paintings made during the last decade.
About
Otaybi graduated from the Khartoum College of Fine and Applied Arts and began working as an artist during the dynamic period of the 1970s in Sudan. He was immersed in the debates about cultural heritage and Sudanese visual identity of the Khartoum School at the time. Many of these debates are still significant in Sudan today – the combination of Africanism, Islam, Arabism and Sudanese identity.
Long recognised and acclaimed as an influential figure in Sudanese art, Otaybi’s painterly language has evolved throughout his career, consolidating his reputation and strength as a colourist. Architectural and decorative motifs and calligraphic forms populate his paintings. Layering hues to create depth and vibration add to the mythological and dreamlike quality of his paintings, which reference a cultural past. Otaybi is also a celebrated cartoonist and illustrator, and elements of his graphic and satirical approach often translate into his paintings.
Otaybi’s lyrical images of life, nature, music and a heritage that combines Islamic symbolism and a modern multicultural way of life in Sudan, speaks of his country’s past and present and resonates with people across the world. As well as holding regular solo exhibitions in Khartoum, North Africa and the Arab world from 1970 to the present, he has shown in international group exhibitions including the Sharjah Biennial, UAE, 1993; Modernism in Sudanese Art, British Museum, London, 2004; Sudan: Emergence of Singularities, P21 Gallery, London, 2017 and Khartoum Contemporary, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, 2017. His work features in private and public collections including the National Museum in Sharjah. In 2018, Otaybi was the focus of the article ‘Masters We Need to Master’, Collector Magazine, Art Africa.
