N’gendo Mukii was the selected artist by Africa Centre-Jiwar AIR residence program in the 5th edition of collaboration. As an award-winning film director, she’s most well known for her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women’s ideals of beauty. Her work focuses on relationships, the separation between perception and reality and the use of moving...
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Souths. Artists from the global South
Collective exhibition Centre cívic Ateneu Fort Pienc EXTENDED!!! From 7th to 10th December Opening 6th November 19.30h Guided visit 19th November 19.30h Mondays – Fridays 10h-20h Saturdays 10h14h and 16h-20h Address: pl. Fort Pienc 4-5 Jiwar has developed, over its 7 years of existence, an international artists’ residency program, from which artists from all over...
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Mediterranean of talents and desires
Exhibition of the Mediterranean artists’ collection of Jiwar in Valencia Opening of the exhibition the 4th October 2018 with Emili Payà (Octubre CCC director), Chene Gómez (CREART founder), Mireia Estrada (Jiwar co-founder and director), Maite Ibáñez (Mostra Viva) The works that you will see in this exhibition and its contexts of creation deeply mark our identity as a...
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Ng’endo Mukii, independent filmmaker
Ng’endo Mukii is an award-winning film director, most well known for film ‘Yellow Fever’. Her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women’s ideals of beauty. Ng’endo focuses on relationships and the separation between perception and reality. At the prestigious Design Indaba conference (2015), she gave a presentation, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use...
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Tamrat Gezahegne Performance “Our climate and the clothes we wear”
The Italian writer Tommaso Merlo give us his vision of the Tamrat Gezahegne’s performance in Galeria d’Art Lola Ventós (Figueres). Tamrat Gezahegne is a visual artist from Ethiopia, granted by the AIR grant 2015 from Africa Centre and Jiwar. A collaboration Jiwar-Africa Centre With the support:
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Mário Macilau. Photographer
Mário Macilau (b.1984) lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique. @ Mário Macilau 2018 Macilau started his photographic journey in 2003, and went professional after he traded his mother’s cellphone for his first camera in 2007. He specialises in long-term projects that link to multiple sub-genres; identity, political issues, environmental conditions, and engagement with socially isolated...
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Collin Sekajugo interviewed by Nicky Armstrong
Collin Sekajugo is an East African artist who was resident at the Jiwar centre for six weeks in collaboration with the Africa Centre. Founder of the first arts centre in Rwanda, Ivuka, and fighting for social change and community safety in Uganda, Collin spoke to us about his work, his art and his two homes...
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Collin Sekajugo. Presentations in Barcelona
The role of art in Africa’s development Monday the 14th of March at 7 p.m. Biblioteca Vila de Gràcia. C. Torrent de l’Olla, 104 In English with translation into Catalan Friday, the 18th of March at 7p.m. Llibreria Altaïr. Espai Cafeteria. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 616 In English with translation into...
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Collin Sekajugo. Visual artist, Uganda-Rwanda
ART AS A DEVELOPMENT ENGINE. COLLIN SEKAJUGO AT JIWAR. Within the framework of the agreement with Africa Centre (South Africa), and this year with the support from The African Arts Trust (Kenia), Jiwar collaborates since three years in the AIR project in which 8 creators are selected from around 400 artist candidatures of every discipline...
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