Dig Where You Stand Ghana | SCCA Tamale – Past
Dig Where You Stand Togo | Palais de Lomé – Ongoing
Art Base Africa
Art Base Africa (ABA) is a virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary African Art and diaspora.
Restitution – Home Museum
Concept and Co-direction: Dr. Clémentine Deliss & Azu Nwagbogu Guest Curators: Dr. Oluwatoyin Sogbesan & Asya Yaghmurian Online Concept and Design: Birds of Knowledge For its eleventh edition, LagosPhoto Festival turns its gaze to the burning political, civic and aesthetic ramifications of restitution. It re-routes the optic and debates from Paris, London, Amsterdam and Berlin […]
Restitution – Research
The demands for returning iconic cultural artefacts to African states, prominently advocated during the 1970s, notably through FESTAC cultural initiatives, are now experiencing an acceleration and democratization. Economists Felwine Sarr and historian Bénédicte Savoy stress the urgent need for Africa’s youth to access the knowledge embodied in these artefacts, emphasizing a dialogue between cultures rather […]
Restitution – Dr Clémentine Deliss Talks and Presentation
Clémentine Deliss Dr. Clémentine Deliss works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and critical anthropology. She is associate curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art and director of the Metabolic Museum-University. Between 2010–2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt am Main instituting a new research lab and curating Object Atlas – Fieldwork in […]
Passports | 2019
Passports was the theme of the 10th edition of LagosPhoto Festival and asked the question ‘What are the options of living freely in a world that will be determined by borders? Artists of different nationalities were invited to explore options of a fluid world, where nationality, gender, and historical imbalances are secondary. The festival […]
Time Has Gone | 2018
Under the theme “Time Has Gone,” the focus the festival explored contemporary dialogues encompassing various aspects of time. Artists from diverse corners of the world engaged in discussions on the notion of urgency. Each artist investigated practices of archiving, preserving and envisioning an Afro-centric future, concluding a ‘time that is up’. The festival was […]
Inherent Risk: Rituals and Performance | 2016
The theme for seventh edition; INHERENT RISK; RITUALS AND PERFORMANCE explores the role of acts of repetition that shape gender, image, identity, social agency, power and social constructs in contemporary society. Actions repeated constantly, becomes a ritual, its transference into other spaces of engagement becomes a performance. The preceding choice of each action contains […]
Dey Your Lane! | 2016
‘Dey your Lane!’ is a typical Lagos expression for ‘mind your own business’. When you realise that Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with a population of over 18 million, you can imagine this phrase comes in handy. With photography, video and soundscapes, the exhibition depicts the individualistic and creative […]