International Tue 15-05-2012

Portraits for Self Determining Haiti
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Régine Romain photographs and researches Haiti’s shifting yet distinct presence throughout the world in an ongoing visual diaspora project. Her work is grounded in individual and community portraiture. 

International Mon 14-05-2012

Word: Future Tense. An Exhibition by Wosene Worke Kosrof
Press Release| Skoto Gallery

Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Word: Future Tense, an exhibition of recent paintings by the Ethiopian-born artist Wosene Worke Kosrof. His work draws upon an individual reserve of personal and collective memories celebrating the richness of...


International Mon 13-02-2012

Simon Njami & Ghanaian Architect David Adjaye Collaborate in Visionary Africa: Art at Work
Press Release

This project, organised jointly by the European Commission and the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Centre for Fine Arts) in Brussels, is an itinerant urban exhibition of contemporary African artistic practices, including artist residencies, showcases of...


International Mon 06-02-2012

Simon Coates and Ephrem Solomon Tegegn Dubai Art Residency & Exhibition Spawns Unique Creative Relationship
Press Release

In September 2011, English-born, Dubai-based artist Simon Coates and Ethiopian artist Ephrem Solomon Tegegn embarked on a joint artist-in-residency program at the Gallery of Light in the Dubai Community Theatre & Art Centre (DUCTAC).


International Wed 01-02-2012

MORTUARY ARTS in Africa & African Diaspora. A Call for Papers
Krydz Ikwuemesi

Funerals in Africa have never been a mere act of interment marked by rites of passage, but an important performance on the social stage conditioned by the incident and social perception of death.


International Mon 23-01-2012

Skoto Gallery at 20
by Geoffrey Jacques

To say the quality of the work shown at Skoto Gallery during these last twenty years is responsible for its success would be one obvious truth. There is, however, more to it than that.


International Tue 17-01-2012

The Market Photo Workshop Briefing Sessions
Press Release

The Market Photo Workshop will hold briefing sessions on Wednesday 18 January 2012 at 1pm for applicants wishing to enter either for the 2012 Women's Photography Mentorship or for the 2012 Media and Advocacy Photography Mentorship.


International Mon 16-01-2012

Yinka to exhibit in New York
James Cohan Gallery

British born, Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is exhibiting in New York at the James Cohan Gallery with new works in February (16) running through until March 24th.


International Mon 09-01-2012

Time is Love.5. An International Video Art Competition
Julie Crenn

Curated by Kisito Assangni, this show states multiple sufferings, tearings and impossibilities of rapprochement. If Time is Love.5 raises a dark portrait of the human feelings, lights of hopes live and resist nevertheless.


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