Addis Ababa What's on
16 February 2011. This lecture is conducted by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl, director of the Frobenius-Institut in Frankfurt, Germany, who presents the work of his institution, regarded as one of the lea...
Addis Ababa What's on
Screening on Life Styles in Times of Climate Change
17 February 2011. Goethe Institut projects the German documentary film People, Dreams, Action by Andreas Stiglmayr, which tells of a self administrated eco-village called Sieben Linden, founded by 120...
Addis Ababa What's on
Lecture on Development and Cooperation in Ethiopia
23 February 2011. This panel discussion conducted in English is part of the series What is Zeminawinet? Perspectives on Ethiopian Modernity, organized by Addis Ababa University, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftu...
Addis Ababa What's on
Screenings on Climate and Culture in Ethiopia
24 February 2011. Goethe-Institut organizes the screening of a thematic series of short film dedicated on the past present and future of climate and culture in Ethiopia.
The three movies will be t...
Addis Ababa What's on
26 February 2011. This dance performance entitled Dance Move Urban Space tells an urban story set in Addis Ababa, performed by 20 artists choreographed by the German director Helena Waldman.
These...
Accra What's on
9-26 February 2011. This exhibition displays work by the Accra-based Togolese wood sculptor Ray Claver Agbo. Agbo, who is also a member of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana, is inspired in his...
Nairobi What's on
31 January-28 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Circles of Life, features a collection of glass etchings and paintings by the Kenyan artist Patrick Kariuki as well as other works by Bonface Main...
Accra What's on
Fashion Show and Fair at Alliance Française
5 February 2011. This event, which consists of a fashion show and a fair, marks the official launch of the new association of young Ghanaian fashion designers, the so-called The Web.
In the aftern...
Cairo What's on
25 January-7 February 2011. This group exhibition displays the paintings by several Egyptian artists such as Ayman El-Semary, Effat Hosni, Farouk Wahba, Maye Refqy, Myriam Gohar and Reda Abdel-Salam....
Cairo What's on
25 January-9 February 2011. Paintings by the Egyptian abstract painter and minister of culture Farouk Hosny. Hosny has held exhibitions worldwide and won the Japanese Soka Gakai International Universi...
Accra What's on
17 February 2011. This edition of the series Un Auteur, Une Histoire (An Author, A History) is dedicated to the French novelist, poet, filmmaker and playwright Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974).
In 1946 he b...
Cairo What's on
Liberated Spatiality by Thaier Helal
25 January-28 April 2011. This exhibition by the Syrian painter Thaier Helal displays a new series of mixed media canvases, made of lines and markings liberated from spatial bounds.
His paintings a...
Nairobi What's on
Lola Kenya Screen Forum on Short Films from Eastern Africa
31 January-26 December 2011. Every last Monday of the month Goethe Institut hosts Lola Kenya Film Forum, a series of screenings and public discussions on film production in Kenya.
This audiovisual...
Accra What's on
NAFTI Film Lectures on Ghanaian Cinema
14-18 February 2011. This series of film lectures celebrates Ghanaian cinema and pays homage to the Ghanaian film maker Kwaw Ansah. Daily viewings and public discussions focus on Ansah
Cape Town What's on
23 February-30 April 2011. This exhibition pays homage to the South African photographer Ernest Cole with a selection of extremely rare and unpublished photographs from the Swedish Hasselblad Foundati...
Nairobi What's on
Elaine Kehew’s The Sugar Canes
23 January-24 February 2011. This exhibition, entitled The Sugar Canes (Sweet Ruminations), shows the recent series of paintings by the Nairobi-based, American painter Elaine Kehew for the first tim...
Cape Town What's on
Gerhard Marx at the Goodman Gallery
22 January-12 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Cumulus by Gerhard Marx inaugurates the new Goodman Gallery. On display is a series of new works, which were created thanks to several processes d...
Cairo What's on
22 January-19 February 2011. This retrospective exhibition pays homage to the Egyptian artist Huda Lufti and her 20-year long artistic career.
Lufti began as a mediaeval historian, later became a...
Accra What's on
19 January-5 February 2011. This exhibition entitled Enhili features the works by the Acrra-based artist from Burkina Faso Dao Mamadou, better known as Daoma. Daoma
Cairo What's on
16 January-7 February 2011. This exhibition pays homage to the Paris-based Egyptian artist Georges Bahgory, considered the grandfather of Egyptian caricature, with a great selection of paintings....
