By Iminza Keboge
Published November 5, 2018
A month-long exhibition of drawings and paintings opens at Nairobi National Museum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on November 5, 2018 and runs through November 30, 2018. and on November 9, 2018 in United Arab Emirates’ Sharjah.
The show is titled Watu, Viatu na Mavazi and runs between 8:30 AM and 5:30 PM daily.
The Curator of the show, Lydia Gatundu-Galavu, says the exhibitor, artist Erick ‘Stickky’ Muriithi, will talk about his work with art lovers at the museum on November 10, 2018 at 2:00 PM.
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Meanwhile, the Middle East gets its very first graphic design biennial November 9-30, 2018 as the fictitious ‘Ministry of Graphic Design’ introduce visitors to the best and most ground-breaking graphic design in the Middle East and beyond, examining the discipline’s limits, scope and purpose in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.
“Masterminded by Fikra,” Dorothy Bourne writes, “this is not your average design event. For one thing, it’s taking place in a condemned building – the former Bank of Sharjah which is planned for demolition in the near future. For another, it takes the form of a fictitious ministry, divided into departments responsible for subjects such as Flying Saucers and Graphic Optimism.”
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The biennial brings together hundreds of designers, collectives, institutions and industry leaders from more than 20 countries for one of the most wide-ranging and ambitious creative events to be undertaken in United Arab Emirates’ Sharjah the city, Bourne reports.
Organised by graphic design studio and education platform Fikra, it seeks to act as an international platform for creative practitioners in the Middle East to contribute to global design conversation, foster collaboration and explore the role of graphic design in an increasingly complex and culturally fragmented landscape.
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“The biennial comprises exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, and a conference that collectively showcase an expanded view of the field of graphic design. It will question the very role of the graphic designer. This is perfect especially for the first edition of the biennial, as I would like to think of it as un-defining graphic design – challenging preconceived ideas of the discipline but providing an unexpectedly broad array of graphic design works,concepts and initiatives,” says Salem Al-Qassimi, founder of Fikra.
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