Opening: Thursday, 27 July 2023
Venue: NCAI – Rosslyn Riviera Mall
Time: 5pm – 8pm
The exhibition runs until 23 September 2023
Time: 10am to 6pm on Weekdays, and 11am to 6pm on Saturday
About
An exhibition bringing together works by four Kenyan artists, each of them considering the behaviour of social groups and their relationships with the physical and social spaces they inhabit.
Dates: Until October 8, 2021
Venue: 523, Riara Road
Dates: Until October 8, 2021
Venue: 523, Riara Road
Dates: March 2-22, 2021
Venue: Circle Art Gallery
About
In the gallery over the next 3 weeks we have a selection of new work from some of East Africa’s most experimental emerging and established artists. Come and visit the gallery for an overview of new paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the following artists;Paul Onditi, Longinos Nagila, Miska Mohmmed, Florin Iki, Jonathan Solanke Gathaara Fraser, Maliza Kiasuwa, Donald Wasswa, Onyis Martin, Nadia Wamuya, Paul Njihia, Wanjohi Maina, Shabu Mwangi, Dennis Muraguri and Cyrus Kabiru.
Image via the Gallery
Dates: March 2-22, 2021
Venue: Circle Art Gallery
About
In the gallery over the next 3 weeks we have a selection of new work from some of East Africa’s most experimental emerging and established artists. Come and visit the gallery for an overview of new paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the following artists;Paul Onditi, Longinos Nagila, Miska Mohmmed, Florin Iki, Jonathan Solanke Gathaara Fraser, Maliza Kiasuwa, Donald Wasswa, Onyis Martin, Nadia Wamuya, Paul Njihia, Wanjohi Maina, Shabu Mwangi, Dennis Muraguri and Cyrus Kabiru.
Image via the Gallery
Opening | 24-November-2016 | 6:00 PM
Venue: Kuona Trust, Centre for Visual Arts
Location: Likoni Lane, off Dennis Pritt Road, Kilimani
Exhibition continues until 31 December 2016
About
Exhibition by Lemek Tompoika & Paul Njihia interrogating the use of alphanumeric symbols as objects of identity and status.Numbers are significant symbols in the modern society. They have been used to represent individuals and their positions. In the west, individuals are more identifiable by their Social Security Number, while more recently locally, the Personal Identification Number (P.I.N) has become a more specific form of identification to access various services. These numerical labels are designed by governments and corporations of many countries as a means of tracking individuals for purposes of taxation and other government-related functions therefore aiding institutional discrimination, oppression and inequality among humans.
Lemek Tompoika examines how the use of these symbols has replaced actual persons; how humans become statistics during voting and how names identifiable to local cultures have been replaced by western identification numbers. He uses archival text and imagery from newspapers and emphasizes the perception of newspaper as a status symbol.
Paul Njihia’s work explores how numbers in the education system are used to define students. This is clearly seen in exams whereby the marks that a student gets and ranking position overshadows the students’ characters, talents and other abilities. On the other hand the quality of education is assumed to go hand in hand with the amount of school fees that an institution charges. This obsession with marks, position, fees and other form of numbers has compromised on the quality of education.
‘Wrong Number’ looks at how this system of using symbols/numbers/digits can be manipulated to include or exclude and how it often leads to disenfranchising.
A display of recent works by Paul Njihia
Dates: July 6-26, 2015
Venue: the Talisman Restaurant, Karen
