Festivals and Films
Nairobi What's on
Amy Sandys-Lumsdaine at Talisman Restaurant
29 November-19 December 2010. The Talisman Restaurant hosts an exhibition by the international artist Amy Sandys-Lumsdaine. On this occasion the artist presents her new collection of oils and acrylics...
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Drawing East Africa: Early Maps from 1860 to 1890
30 November 2010-15 January 2011. This exhibition is part of the Hispanic-Kenyan Cultural forum held at the Spanish embassy. On display are ancient African maps from 1869 to 1890, which take visitors...
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5 November 2010. This dance performance, entitled Mikasi, was conceived by the organization Kuruka Maisha Foundation, which is involved in projects to improve the standard and conditions of life and e...
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Retrospective by James Muriuki
19 November-9 December 2010. This retrospective pays homage to one of Kenya
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18 December 2010-15 January 2011.This exhibition, entitled Woppow, is part of a larger project by the German artists collective Uebermorgen.com, which has produced many provocative works on sensitive,...
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Fafa Fashion Photo Exhibition at Goethe Institute
29 October-12 November 2010. On occasion of the Fafa Festival for African fashion and Arts, which highlights fashion, music and art around Africa, Goethe Institute hosts a fashion photo exhibition. Th...
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20-25 September 2010. This exhibition, entitled Kenyan Rangoli, is part of the Samosa 2010 Festival celebrated at RaMoMA. Rangoli is a popular art of decorative sand painting from India, which uses fi...
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Mwangalio Tofauti: Nine Photographic Perspectives from Kenya
11 September-12 November 2010. This photographic exhibition, organized by Goethe Institute in collaboration with the National Museum of Kenya, will display these images
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Until 8 September 2010. This exhibition unites Kenyan artists who have participated in exhibitions in Italy in recent years.
Titled 'Back from Italy' the artists include Justus Kyalo, Ash Uman, Ki...
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23 July - 7 August 2010. The Goethe-Institut continues its series of events promoting African up-and-coming artists, with its current exhibition of the work of Congolese photographer and film maker Sa...
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24 July-7 Sept 2010. Paintings on canvas of the people of Kenya make up the first solo show by Moses Nyawanda in Nairobi for over seven years.
Born in Bondo in Nyanza district in 1972, Nyawanda wor...
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31 July-31 Aug 2010. For the first time the Banana Hill Art Gallery just outside Nairobi is hosting an exhibition of work by two artists from outside Africa. They are painter Caroline Zagorski and pho...
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Eyes Have It: Politics Through Art
10-30 July 2010. Kenyan artists Richard Kimalhi, Camille Wekesa, Michael Soi, Patrick Mukabi, Allan Githuka, John Kamitcha, Berliers and Willie Wambuga display a selection of politically inspired work...
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Photographs of Kenya’s Nubians by Greg Costantine
17 July-14 August 2010. American photographer Greg Costantine presents an exhibition of black and white shots entitled Kenya
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4-18 July 2010. This exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between three Kenyan, three Danish and a German artist, who cooperate in various mediums such as sound, video, performance and inst...
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25-27 June 2010. Recent works by Scottish artist and art teacher Patricia Keay are on show in her Nairobi studio in Karen. Keay is leaving the Kenyan capital shortly to pursue her art in Watamu on the...
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Maasai portraits by Dale Webster
11 June-14 July 2010. Portraits and narrative paintings by the Nairobi-based artist Dale Webster challenge the popular stereotype of the Maasai as an exotic, decorative and picturesque people. The wor...
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Art is Our Special Ability exhibition
25-27 June 2010. Exhibition of work by students at the Kenya Community Centre for Learning, a non-profit school in Kileleshwa catering to special needs primary and secondary school children from a var...
