Exhibition: Woppow, Dec. 17 2010-Jan. 15 2011 @ Goethe Institut

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A project by the artist collective UBERMORGEN.COM

Opening: December 17, 2010 at 7.30pm
Exhibition Dates: December 18, 2010 to January 15, 2011
Days: Monday to Saturday
Time:1- 6pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free

WOPPOW is a project by the artist collectiveUBERMORGEN.COM that has produced some of the most provocative artworks of recent years in the global art world, laying bare uncomfortable issues of our societies with absurd and ironical means. Their new project, in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Nairobi, focuses on one of the most covered but maybe less understood phenomena of today: Somali pirates. It provocatively interprets Somali piracy as a method to react to the exploitation of society: as re-appropriation by means of theft and robbery.

Ubermorgen.com looks at the big picture through a small video-camera, portraying the pirate’s phenomenon and its tribal expansion. As a meta-layer they use fashion and technology to talk about political, social and economic issues. The research findings, as abstract and absurd as they may come, will be on display in this tight and tense exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi.

Public Reading: Heroes Like Us, Nov. 25 2010 @ Goethe

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Public Reading of a Novel by Thomas Brussig – Heroes Like Us

Date: November 25, 2010
Venue: Goethe-Institut Library
Time: 6.00 pm
Entry: Free

Klaus Uhltzscht, born in 1968 in East Germany, is inspired early on to do his share to win the Cold War. Naturally, he joins the Secret Police, but his career as a international agent never materialises. His life changes when a strange accident in 1989 alters the size of his penis…

Photo Exhibition: Rear View, Nov. 19-Dec. 9 2010 @ Goethe Institut

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Rear View – by the Kenyan artist James Muriuki
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 19th November 2010 at 7.30 pm
Exhibition Schedule: November 20th to 9th December 2010
Time: Monday to Saturday, 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free

James Muriuki is internationally one of the best known Kenyan artists, using photography as his base medium. In 2006 James Muriuki was chosen for Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Okwui Enwezor’s show at the International Centre for Photography/New York.

And yet, most of his work has not been shown in Kenya. This is his first solo exhibition, a show that is long overdue. For this occasion, 3Collect, an artist collective focused on curatorial practice, has put together a retrospective of Muriuki’s work in the past years, showing the variety of his art projects and the development of his use of photography.

Rear View includes Muriuki’s latest works as well as photographs that have been included in important exhibitions around the world such as Snap Judgments, Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art at Museum Africa in Johannesburg and Events of the Self at the new Walther Collection Museum in Germany.