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You are Invited to see the exhibition: FELA from the archives of TheNews part of FELABRATION 2011 courtesy of CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Lagos and curated by The Felabration Organising Committee of PHOTOGRAPHS from the photograph archives of Independent Communications Network Limited publishers of TheNews, PM News, and Tempo By Various photographers The Exhibition opens 11-10-11 1700hrs and runs until 16-10-11 2200hrs @*Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos* 9, McEwen Street, Sabo Lagos, Nigeria.

Monday 26th - Saturday 31st July 2010 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to host the internationally renowned artists collective IRWIN, members of NSK (new Slovenian Art). Over a one week period of screenings, lectures and panel discussions, Towards a Double Consciousness: NSK Passport Project will take as its point of departure, NSK's artistic intervention State in Time and its increasing significance in Africa especially within the context of Nigeria. State in Time, one of the most (in)famous projects produced by NSK, evolved out of their earlier activities, finding formation as a 'state' at the collapse of Yugoslavia and the coming into existence of the Republic of Slovenia in 1991. NSK's State in Time transcends a physical geographical location or a defined statehood within a prescribed ethnic, cultural or religious belief, providing what IRWIN collaborator and writer Alexei Monroe describes as "a conceptual form of identification for individuals fr...

Until 21st July: Pret a Partager featuring the works of 17 artists, photographers, fashion designers from across Africa and Germany continues in 3 venues: Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Sabo, Yaba College of Art and Technology, Yaba and African Artist Foundation, Ikoyi. Presented in collaboration with Goethe Institute, Lagos From 19th to 21st July : NSK Passport Video Interviews . Still time to participate, call 08034392413 for your time 30min time slot. Supported by Goethe Institute, Lagos From 26th - 31st July: Double Consciousness:NSK Passport Project . An exhibition, roundtable discussions and screening featuring internationally renowned Slovenian artist collective IRWIN (3 members will be in lagos) international respected scholar and curator, and director of new media art centre HMKV Dr. Inke Arns, performance artist and sculptor Jelili Atiku as well as independent curator Bisi Silva. Curated and moderated by Hansi Momodu, MA candidate, Curating Contemporary Art, Royal Col...

In celebration of World Video Art Day, the Video Artist Network Lagos would like to invite you to a screening of curated works from the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos library, to be held at 2:00pm 22nd June. Work selected will cover fashion, performance and Identity featuring work by Jelili Atiku, Sabina Maria Van Der Linden, LucFosther Diop and an array of international and local artist work. Drinks, light snacks and an opportunity to discuss works further with curators and Van Lagos team Emeka Ogboh, Jude Anogwih and Oyinda Fakeye. 22 of June: International Day of the Video-art from Optica TV on Vimeo . http://www.van-lagos.com/

culled from the Kuona Trust March newsletter For one month between February & March, I had the opportunity of spending time with renowned curator Bisi Silva at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Lagos on a knowledge and skills sharing programme. The aim was to support the professional development of organizations in the triangle network. This is an opportunity for coordinators to work alongside their peers sharing experiences, knowledge and skills for the benefit of their organizations, local artists and the community. The residencies are a hands-on project with the visiting coordina­tors becoming involved in the life of the host organization and contributing to the host’s project with their skills and expertise. The host is also expected to offer support to the visiting coordinator through their particular knowledge and skills so that both sides can learn from each other. CCA, Lagos is an independent non-profit making visual art organization set up to pro­vide a platform for th...

To coincide with the programme CCA,Lagos will be hosting a three day workshop on fashion and photography, in which artist Pinar Yolacan will guide participants in conceiving and realizing work(s) that will go on to be exhibited within the CCA,Lagos library space as part of our Fashion, Art and Identity series. The workshop will take place from the 21st- 23rd April 2010, for more information please contact Oyinda Fakeye at info@ccalagos.org or on 07055680104, spaces are limited.

As part of the year long focus on Photography and Art, Fashion and Identity, CCA,Lagos is pleased to present Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan’s critically acclaimed series “Maria” , (2007) a stunning collection of 12 stunning life size portrait photographs of African-Brazilian women emerging from stark black backgrounds. Taken over a twelve month period in Itaparica, Bahia, Yolaçan’s images are evocative of Old Master portraits, possessing the psychological and emotional immediacy of the Romantic genre. In this series the artist subverts regality by dressing her sitters in elaborate hand sewn couture costumes with trimmings of ‘unusual’ materials such as velvet, satin, tripe, placenta and sheep’s testicles. Through this series Yolaçan engages with issues of beauty, the body, colonialism, and death as a way of broaching the “impermanence of things.” The exhibition launches with a light reception at the CCA,Lagos gallery space on Saturday 17th April, where press and guests will be invited to...

..... by SENAM OKUDZETO (Lives and Works in Basel, Switzerland) DATE & TIME SATURDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 3PM PLACE CCA,LAGOS 9 MCEWEN STREET, OFF HERBERT MACAULAY ST, SABO, YABA, LAGOS GUEST ARTIST BIO SENAM OKUDZETO IS A TRANSNATIONAL ARTIST, WRITER, AND SCHOLAR, (GHANA /UK/USA). BORN IN CHICAGO, USA, SHE SPENT HER CHILDHOOD LIVING IN GHANA, NIGERIA, THE UK, AND USA SHE NOW DIVIDES THE YEAR BETWEEN PROJECTS IN BASEL, LONDON, NEW YORK, AND ACCRA. SHE RECEIVED HER BA FROM THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UCL, LONDON, HER MASTER’S FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON AND CONTINUED POST-GRADUATE STUDY AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM’S INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM IN NEW YORK. IN 2003/2004 OKUDZETO WAS AWARDED A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AT THE RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE A SOLO SHOW AT KUNSTRAUM LAKESIDE KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA (2009), A SOLO PROJECT AT PS1 MOMA -’PORTES-ORANGES’ (2007), THE DAK’ART BIENALLE IN SENEGAL (2006), WHERE SHE REPRESENTED THE...

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is please to present its third Video Art Workshop. The four day workshop will be led by two artists working in the area of Video, Petra Szilagyi (United States) and Jude Anogwih (Nigeria). The workshop aims to: • Provide artists with a good grasp of the concepts of Video Art within contemporary artistic practice • Provide the technical ability to incorporate and create works of Video Art. • To create project based on experimentation of the video image on the classic forms of art like painting, sculpture, music and theatre. • To introduce new elements like performance. Installation, photography and sound projects. Workshop content includes: • Screening of artists videos from around the world • Talks and presentations by the workshop artists • Introduction to different video art approaches • Development of participants own ideas, storyboard, visual concept etc • Implementation of ideas and editing of individual works • Screening of Video Art works t...

Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos in fulfillment of its objectives, has over the past 23months presented an innovative programme of exhibitions, talks, seminars, workshops and events reaching out to a local, African and global audience. We are pleased to present the 2010 programme, On Independence and The Ambivalence of Promise. We start this landmark year for Nigeria and the African continent with an ambitious and innovative Fine Art Photography workshop focusing not so much on technique but on methodology, critical thinking, conceptual ideas and their implementation. This project is open to artists in Nigeria and around Africa working in all media - painting, sculpture, textile, ceramics, photography, video and new media, performance art, writing, theatre and dance. The workshop will be an intensive 30 day programme facilitated by experienced local and international artists, critics, curators starting on the 8th of February till 6th of March 2010 The content of the programme will...

P.A.G.E.S Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Centre for Contemporary Art, 9 McEween Street, behind Domino Dinners, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos. P.A.G.E.S, the confluence of literature, art works, comics and photography brings together two patriots and compatriots in dialogue with their country - Nigeria with their art and literature. This programme is designed to converge fictionist, poets and playwrights, arts and literary lovers at Art Exhibition Halls around the world to give literary interpretation to the works being exhibited and dialogue around it at all time. We've in the pass hosted: Jude Dibia, a published writer with two books in an exhibition titled "Like A Virgin," Onyeka Nwelue, a young and dynamic young author in an exhibition tagged "The World is Flat," and Toni Kan, the author of many books in an exhibition titled "Trash-ing." THE EXHIBITION Identity: An Imagined State, brings together for the first time works by ...

Curated by Jude Anogwih and Oyinda Fakeye Opening: Saturday,31st October 2009, 3pm Exhibition continues till 28th November, 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the first international exhibition of Video Art in Nigeria Identity:An Imagined State , which constitutes the final part of a year long focus on the medium. In fulfilment of our objectives to provide a platform for artistic diversity and experimentation, CCA,Lagos focused on a specific medium over a twelve month period hosting a one week video art workshop with One Minute Foundation and a two week workshop Linha Imaginaria conceived by Angolan Artist Miguel Petchkovsky and co-facilitated with Camerounian artist Goddy Leye and Brazilian Artist Eustaquio Neves. Identity: An Imagined State, brings together for the first time works by twelve established and emerging artists of different cultural, geographic and social backgrounds from Nigeria, Africa, and South America. The works consider from both local a...

Centre for Contemporary Art,Lagos is pleased to present its public programme on Thursday 1st of October as follows Date Thursday 1st October 2009 Time 2pm (prompt o) Venue - CCA,Lagos 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Yaba Artist Kainebi Osahenye talks about his exhibition Trash-ing with CCA,Lagos Director Bisi Silva. They are then joined in a panel discussion on the State of Painting in Nigeria by Uche Edochie and Jess Castellote 3.30pm - Refreshments 4. 00pm Talk by Giles Peppiat, MRICS, Director, Bonhams Mr Peppiat's talk will give an overview of the international auction house Bonhams as well as focus on the contemporary African art sales within an international context. Giles Peppiatt studied at St. Andrews University before joining Bonhams in 1989. In 1993 he trained as an auctioneer and conducted his first auction in that year. In 1997 he qualified as a ‘Chartered Arts & Antiques Surveyor’ with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Giles is also the world leading exper...

Opening: Saturday, 12th September 2009, 3pm Exhibition continues till 10th October 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media and painterly installations by acclaimed Lagos based artist Kainebi Osahenye. With over twenty years of artistic practice, this current incarnation Trash-ing builds on the continuous process of experimentation which has pushed the boundaries of his painting. Trash-ing signals a new departure from his well-known large-scale neo-expressionist paintings towards the incorporation of more conceptual concerns through a format that increasingly borrows from an installation orientated process. Losing none of his gestural signature strokes, nor the luminosity of his colours or the edginess of his subject matter, Trash-ing highlights some of the issues that have pervaded his work for over a decade. In the recent works these existential, political, religious and everyday themes which habitually manifested with a degree o...

Date: Saturday 25th July 2009, 2pm – 4pm The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos has initiated a dynamic platform for visual art and culture since opening its doors in December 2007 engaging with artists, critics, writers, curators and art mangers. CCA,Lagos continues with its aims to build a strong discursive platform by actively encouraging debate and critical discourse that highlights topical issues that affect our society and the world in general. We achieve this by inviting local, African and international guest speakers to talk on a wide range of themes and issues concerning contemporary art and culture. In July 2009 CCA, Lagos continues its public programme with a talk by South African artist and curator Gabi Ngcobo originally schedule for the Like A Virgin... programme. Transition has its own constraints, life forms, threatening dynamics and consequences. During transition, the questions “who are we?” alongside “which options among the available ones are the right ones?” tend ...

I have been slow to upload resently andl here is why. I have aong with 2 co-curators been working towards a video art exhibition, which is to take place between October and November this year (2009). Please feel free to disseminate the info to relevant artists, critics or curators. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 20TH JUNE THANKS Identity: An Imagined State (Draft title) Video Art Exhibition Call for participation Following the implementation of two successful video art workshops, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos will be hosting the first video art exhibition in Lagos, taking the form of a three part project to be held in October/November 2009. The exhibition Identity: An Imagined State will cover themes that each takes a different perspective on notions of identity exploring issues of race, citizenship and migration. The exhibition aims to provide a platform in Lagos for emerging and established video artists. The exhibition, split into sections listed below will form the curatorial framew...

SATURDAY 14TH FEBRUARY 2009 3PM Monna Mokoena (South Africa) Monna Mokoena is a highly respected and innovative curator, well known on the South African arts landscape. He also established Gallery MOMO in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2003. MOMO not only exhibits but also represents leading contemporary South African and international artists. Mokoena’s focus is on contemporary work that stretches boundaries, nurturing a global platform for our continent's extraordinary creative impetus. As an independent curator Mokoena also undertakes commissioned projects. Corporate clients, architects, designers, government departments and many artists have worked with him to develop art strategies and processes that align with organisational objectives. He enjoys collaborating and bringing substantial knowledge of the arts in South Africa and worldwide to the table. On an ongoing basis, he is involved in the management of various art collections as well as sitting on various boards in an a...

SATURDAY 7TH FEB 2PM THE MOST PROVOCATIVE EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR Like a Virgin... Lucy Azubuike and Zanele Muholi. This is an unmissable exhibition of two rising African women artists who defiantly put sexuality and the body at the centre of their work and challenge stereotypes within a patriarchal society. PANEL DISCUSSION 2PM SAT 7TH FEB The panel discussion promises to be enlightening and at times controversial. But then what is Art about if it continues to reinforce taboos. We have an interesting and critical panel including exhibiting artist Lucy Azubuike, emerging South African curator Gabi Ngcobo (co-curator of Cape Africa in 2007), artist and art historian Ken Okoli from Ahmadu Bello University. It will be moderated by Hansi Momodu, CCA,Lagos . Cultural Stimulus with PAGES PAGES, is the confluence of literature, art works, comics and photography. This programme is designed to converge fictionist, poets and playwrights at the Centre for Contemporary Art,Lagos, to give litera...

29th January – 14th March 2009 Curator: Bisi Silva Curatorial Assistant: Hansi Momodu The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the works of Nigerian artist Lucy Azubuike and South African photographer, Zanele Muholi in the exhibition "Like A Virgin…" . The works highlights women's experiences, identities, their bodies and sexuality, in a manner yet to be explored in contemporary Nigerian art. Since 1999, Azubuike has created a large, ongoing body of work of her menstruation cycle. These simple images of menstrual blood serve as a diary, a book of visual narratives containing insights into personal reflections and experiences such as love, hope, disappointment and friendship. In another series, Azubuike focuses on photographing trees. She moves from the autobiographical and the personal to the public and focuses on the way in which culture, tradition and religion, the embodiments of patriarchal society impact negatively on women. These manifest as ou...