Exploring Art in Africa | Africa Blooming Blog https://www.africablooming.com/en/category/art-en/ Celebrating African Creativity Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:21:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.africablooming.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-AB-africablooming-32x32.png Exploring Art in Africa | Africa Blooming Blog https://www.africablooming.com/en/category/art-en/ 32 32 198374553 Art | Taweydo Gallery: an oasis of creativity in the heart of Niamey https://www.africablooming.com/en/art-taweydo-gallery-an-oasis-of-creativity-in-the-heart-of-niamey/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:28:12 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/art-taweydo-gallery-an-oasis-of-creativity-in-the-heart-of-niamey/ Niamey-based art gallery Taweydo presents the exhibition “Le Niger en couleur II”. Figuration, graphic forms, surrealism and abstraction: Nigerien artists are in the spotlight.

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]]> 5883 Best wishes from Lomé La Belle https://www.africablooming.com/en/best-wishes-from-lome-la-belle/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:59:28 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=4959 Rediscovering the capital of Togo and delighted to share some places not to be missed if you visit Lome!

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]]> 4959 Exploring Togolese contemporary art | 3 exhibitions at the Palais de Lomé https://www.africablooming.com/en/discovering-togolese-artists-exhibitions-at-the-palais-de-lome/ Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:23:17 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=4747 After an inaugural exhibition focusing on kings, 3 exhibitions opened this year at the Palais de Lomé, celebrating the city, its youth and its creative talents.

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]]> 4747 Art | Mathka Paris | Exhibition | Nomadic abstraction https://www.africablooming.com/en/mathka-paris-exhibition-nomadic-abstraction/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:26:25 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=4271 The Franco-Nigerien artist Mathka Paris exhibits at the Grand Hôtel du Niger, in Niamey. An opportunity to discover the contemporary work of this heiress of the Fulani Wodaabe culture.

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]]> 4271 Movie | Zinder | Another Look at the Sahel https://www.africablooming.com/en/movie-zinder-another-look-at-the-sahel/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:19:36 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/movie-zinder-another-look-at-the-sahel/ In June 2021, the young Nigerien director Aïcha Macky was screening her film Zinder for the first time in Niamey, a documentary that takes us on a journey to meet the gangs of the Sahelian city and a youth who are rarely given a voice.

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]]> 3453 Dance | Lowela | La Mer Noire on an African tour https://www.africablooming.com/en/dance-lowela-la-mer-noire-on-an-african-tour/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 19:39:00 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/dance-lowela-la-mer-noire-on-an-african-tour/ A hip hop wave is taking over the continent. The Senegalese dance company La Mer Noire is now on an African tour.

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]]> 3179 Surf Ghana | Kick, push and skate in Accra https://www.africablooming.com/en/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:01:13 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra/ In the heart of Accra, skaters have their lair. In 2016, Surf Ghana is born, a surf, skateboard and art collective, offering a space for meeting and sharing around the culture of skateboarding to the young people of the Ghanaian capital. Surf Ghana invites both young and adults to learn how to skate, gives visibility […]

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]]> 2972 Aux Impossibles Imminents | A docuseries by Elom20ce https://www.africablooming.com/en/aux-impossibles-imminents-a-docuseries-by-elom20ce/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:53:28 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=2821 As part of the Lomé+ exhibition, commissioned by the Togolese architect and anthropologist Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, the rapper Elom20ce presents the documentary Aux Impossibles Imminents, a series of 6 portraits of inhabitants of the Togolese capital, which illustrate one of the titles of his new album ‘Amewuga’. A prolific Togolese and pan-African activist, Elom20ce celebrates […]

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]]> 2821 Dance Festival | Dialogues de Corps | Ouagadougou https://www.africablooming.com/en/dialogues-de-corps-dance-festival-ouagadougou/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 11:15:43 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/dialogues-de-corps-dance-festival-ouagadougou/ On December 9, the festival Dialogues de Corps will open its doors for a new edition : Nos Solitudes Partagées (Our Shared Lonliness), at the Choreographic Center La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In these times of uncertainty and restrictions, the festival is adapting and this edition will have a special resonance with the presentation […]

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]]> 2726 CDC La Termitière | A growing choreographic center https://www.africablooming.com/en/cdc-la-termitiere-a-growing-choreographic-center/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 08:59:36 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=2243 It is a temple of dance in the heart of Ouagadougou.The Choreographic Center ‘La Termitière’, born almost 15 years ago, pursues its ambition to develop contemporary dance on the continent. This year the CDC announces the construction of a new studio and the rehabilitation of the outdoor theater. Burkina Faso has long been an important […]

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