Top contemporary artists from Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda at the leading Amsterdam art fair: the KunstRAI 2015.
The 31st edition of the oldest and leading art fair for contemporary art in the Netherlands, the KunstRAI, took place in Amsterdam from the 27th-31st of May. This year, 64 galleries showed the works of reputable Dutch and foreign artists. Gallery Devearts presented artworks of the Kenyan painter Beatrice Wanjiku, the Nigerian photographer Uche Okpa-Iroha, and the Ugandan visual artists Ronex Ahimbisibwe and Collin Sekajugo.
Thousands of visitors got acquainted and inspired by the works of these leading artists from East and West Africa, making the KunstRAI a huge success.
While contemporary art from the African continent enjoys heightened interest worldwide, and Africa is according to CNN “the buzz at this year’s Venice Biennale”, it has received relatively limited attention and recognition in continental Western Europe. Devearts aims to change this and actively promotes and sells the work of well-established and upcoming contemporary artists from Africa.
The next events where Devearts will present various contemporary artists from the African continent are the “African Tree exhibition” -which is part of one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions in Germany: the OSTRALE 2015- in Dresden (from 10 July-27 September) and the contemporary art fair Art the Hague 2015 (from 7-11 October). In addition, Devearts is currently preparing for a large exhibition focused on presenting an overview of Africa’s finest contemporary art in the Hague in close cooperation with interested embassies and other stakeholders.
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