Exhibition: Disobedient Devices by Greenman Muleh Mbillo, Joan Otieno & Dani Ploeger, Until Aug. 31 2021 @ National Museum of Kenya

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Dates: July 21st to 31st August 2021

Venue: National Museum of Kenya

Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm, Open daily
Entry: Normal museum rates apply

About

Since 2017, artists Greenman Muleh Mbillo, Joan Otieno and Dani Ploeger have been working together in Nairobi. Their project, Disobedient Devices, imagines a future with technology that draws from local stories, myths and memories, instead of globally standardized digital systems by Big Tech. Through the modification and appropriation of used electric and electronic appliances they envisage a technological culture that connects to people’s lifeworlds and that goes beyond nihilistic and unsustainable ideologies of endless growth and ‘progress.’

This exhibition shows eight devices created by artists, fundis and academics who participated in workshops organized in 2019-20, as well as three short science-fiction films by Mbillo, Otieno and Ploeger in which these objects are put to work.

Disobedient Devices is organized by Warembo Wasanii Art Studio in Nairobi and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. It is supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund.

The Other Kind of Beauty – A Major Exhibition of Recent Works by Nadia Kisseleva, Oct. 3-30 2018 @ the National Museum

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The Other Kind of Beauty – A Major Exhibition of Recent Works by Nadia Kisseleva

Opening: October 3, 2018
Venue: Creativity Gallery, National Museum of Kenya
Time: 12 PM to 5.30 PM
Entry: Free

Dates: Until October 30, 2018
Entry: Museum Rates Apply

“These works are based on my life in Kenya. In the past artists used to say: ’My art is my life.’ and nowadays they say: ‘My life is my art.’ These paintings are about the latter and this is the first time I take this approach – reflecting on my life. I found it is a really big theme that takes my work from ‘private’ to the ‘public’ and political. I would like to develop it more in the future.” Nadia Kisseleva

Talk: Gorillas in the Midst of War, Aug. 18 2018 @ Nairobi National Museum

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The Kenya Museum Society is delighted to invite you to this important and enlightening talk; “Gorillas in the midst of war: health studies on one of our closest relatives.”

Date: August 18, 2018
Venue: Nairobi National Museum
Time: from 4 pm
Cost: KES 500/- for guests, KES 400/- for KMS Members

A Talk by Prof. John E Cooper and Dr Margaret E Cooper Veterinary pathologist and animal lawyer.

More details on John and Margaret Coopers’ Talk at the Nairobi National Museum (pdf)