Dates: April 16-28, 2024
Venue: Alliance Française
About
Kenyan artist, Maggie Otieno, presents a body of work that speaks of stories from the earth.
Using old, discarded, and distressed materials, with the primary material being 200 years old railway sleepers sourced from India and Kenya, Maggie’s sculptures carry the burden of untold tales demanding to be understood.
Dates: April 16-28, 2024
Venue: Alliance Française
About
Kenyan artist, Maggie Otieno, presents a body of work that speaks of stories from the earth.
Using old, discarded, and distressed materials, with the primary material being 200 years old railway sleepers sourced from India and Kenya, Maggie’s sculptures carry the burden of untold tales demanding to be understood.
World Bank Art Program Exhibition: One In Three – What Does It take for You to Be Outraged?
Opening: July 28, 2016
Venue: Ecology Gallery, National Museum
Time: 5 pm
One In Three: What Does It Take for You to Be Outraged? From the World Bank Art Program
The One In Three exhibition is a global exhibition that includes artworks from artists from every region of the world. The title of the exhibition derives from statistics that a third of women in the world will experience gender-based violence (GBV) in their lifetimes. Through works of art and statistical data collected from all regions of the world, the exhibition will raise awareness about universality of gender-based violence, and will encourage a dialogue in the local community about both preventing GBV and the rehabilitation from the trauma of it.The exhibition will display photographs, paintings and sculpture created by emerging, international contemporary artists that directly confront the issue of GBV. This is art that makes a difference by raising awareness about a global social problem with local effects.
Opening: September 26, 2015
Time: 2-4 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 25 – November 20, 2015
SILENT CONVERSATIONS
This body of work is a continuation of the ‘Conversation’ that has dominated Maggie Otieno’s work for the last 7 years. She is engaging her audience to converse with the Elders and others: the sculptures created from a 100 year old red Indian teak wood (Railway Sleepers) and new and recycled metal. She uses this mix of complementary, seasoned, old and the new materials to symbolize societal inter-intra age synergies, dialogues and linkages as well as to arouse conversations within her audience.To produce this body of works, Maggie has been inspired by looking at people having conversations, whether she is part of these conversations or not. ‘I get caught up in the expressions, and gestures that I see. I have translated these distant conversations into my work and they therefore form a part of a continuous conversation within the audience that interacts with the works … The works on Block Board are ‘ALL MY THOUGHTS’ – A series of new works embodying the conversations that go through my mind as I interact with my materials, eliminating and adding onto elements at my discretion. It is about what I choose to remember and that which I choose to forget, and these too, are my Silent Conversations’
Maggie has taken part in numerous exhibitions, workshops and residencies both in Kenya, East African region, Algeria, Nigeria, Netherlands, USA and UK.
Directions from CBD
Margaretta wa Gacheru, Arts correspondent for the Nation Media Group, has been writing about visual and performing arts in Kenya for decades.
She curates an exhibition of Kenyan contemporary artists based on her recent publication Creating Contemporary African Art: Art Networks in Urban Kenya: 1960 – 2010.
The publication is a result of her extensive research for her Ph.D in sociology from the Loyola University Chicago.
Opening: September 16, 2014
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Entrance Free
Runs Until: October 5, 2014
About
There is no better person than Margaretta to bear witness to the exponential growth in the credibility and the creativity of Kenyan visual artists, from the first post-independent art gallery (PaayaPaa) to the current networks of high value Kenyan artists.In this exhibition, Margaretta brings together a selection of artists from different art networks who have contributed to the evolution of Kenyan visual arts and who continue to display the characteristics of Kenyan entrepreneurial spirit: innovative, adaptable, inventive and original, playing their part in the effervescence of the Kenyan visual arts sector.
Artists include: Ancent Soi, Jak Katarikawe, Mary Collis, Kioko Mwitiki, Shine Tani, Patrick Mukabi, Maggie Otieno, Gakunju Kaigwa, Dennis Muragori, Cyrus Nganga, Nani Croze and other.
Date: Saturday, August 17, 2013
Venue: Kenya Cultural Centre (Kenya National Theatre) Opp. Norfolk Hotel
Time: from 2-5 pm
Entry: Free
Panelist: Judy Kibinge, Mathew Ondiege, Muturi Njee & Sylvia Gichia
What does being a professional artist in Kenya take? What’s the current market situation? Who are the players? Why should artists take their profession seriously? Can one solely survive on artistry in Kenya?
Our panelists for this session include well known artists professionals who have made a mark in the creative world. They include Judy Kibinge, creative director, writer and film maker, Mathew Ondiege – a professional actor, dancer, director and choreographer, Muturi Njee is a painter, jewel maker and a mentor whose passion is in encouraging and motivating artists into taking their art profession seriously. Sylvia Gichia – Director at Kuona Trust Centre for visual arts in Kenya.
