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Lecture by Jimmy Ogonga
Wednesday November 18th, starting at 8 p.m.
Jimmy Ogonga, Program Director of the Nairobi Arts Trust – Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA) and himself an artist, is a guest of the Mondriaan Foundation as part of its international visitor’s program. On Wednesday 18th November he will deliver a lecture on his work at CCAEA, followed by an interview with Jelle Bouwhuis of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. We cordially invite you to attend.
The Nairobi Arts Trust / Center for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA):
The Nairobi Arts Trust / Center for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA) is an organization that is set to serve as an advocate for contemporary art and as a catalyst for the creation of significant art projects. They seek to nurture emerging and established artists, and to provide opportunities for inspiration, experimentation, education, and through any other art related means, which support the evolution of new ideas. Also they intend to involve in a broad range of symposia, lectures, artists’ talks and studio visits that will continuously cultivate diverse audiences for contemporary art forms and provide a forum for on-going dialogue. www.nairobi-arts.org
The Mondriaan Foundation International Visitor’s Program was initiated in 1996. Each year the foundation invites a number of professionals from other countries for an intensive introduction to contemporary arts from the Netherlands. These individually tailored programs intend to promote an international interest and awareness of contemporary art in our country. The guests are active in museums and project spaces or are independent curators or critics.
Ogonga’s presentation also fits in Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam’s research project "Africa Reflected". This project looks closely at representations of Africa within contemporary art production, with the aim of finding alternatives to predominantly stereotypical mass media representations. The research is designed to arrive at a critical discourse: it is after all about how our images of Africa are shaped, and how we seek to nuance this with the support of visual art. For more information on "Africa Reflected" click here.
The lecture will be on Wednesday November 18th from 8.00 to 9.30 p.m. at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
For reservations please contact Haco de Ridder at h.deridder@mondriaanfoundation.nl
From November 20 until January 3 at SMBA: "Walker Evans and the Barn", click here for more information.
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