AlterNativeArt

5 Military Street, Onikan Lagos www.rele.co rele was conceived as a response to an innate and unexplainable love for the arts. This love extends and cuts across various artistic mediums and platforms, thereby creating a constant desire to seek, develop and promote collaborations. With rele, every artist that is encountered and nurtured is the STAR. The artist exudes qualities that needs to be seen and felt, because of what use is a gift if it is not shared? rele is home to the artist who needs a safe place while daring to be different, home to the artist that is versatile and evolving, home to the artist who quite simply just wants to create. The mission here is to build the gap between the artist and the rest of the world. Catch the maiden exhibition through the month of February 2015 featuring: Taye Quaye Joe Amenechi Osione Itegboje Kayode Adegbola Zainabu Jalio Tunde Kelani Victor Ehikhamenor Taiye Idahor Wole Lagunju

Big 60 & International Video Art Festival Lagos 2014/2015 A Whitespace, 58 Raymond Njoku SW Ikoyi Lagos January 22nd 7pm The second annual festival hosted in collaboration with A  Whitespace - Lagos  continues with work by Nigerian and Indonesian artists, with films being made available by OK Video. The screening will feature 10 years of Indonesian film alongside a curated exhibition of Nigerian videos entitled ‘Owambe’ and features an installation fro Odun Orimolade. The screening is supported by the British Council Nigeria Owambe The gathering of people in celebration is an important part of the Nigerian culture. The milestones of life are marked through community gatherings, music and dance, with the ‘Owambe’ being a classic example of this. Owambe translates as "He/She was there", a colloquial expression for a party where the who-is-who in the Nigerian society are  in attendance. Visual cues tell of ties to a celebrant through fabric mater...

Opening Times Tues - Sat 10am - 6pm Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Lagos Ms Solange Farkas is an internationally respected curator with a special interest in exploring relations between Brazil and Africa with Nigeria especially. She will be discussing issues on contemporary Brazilian Art.