William Ukoh (sometimes known as willyverse) is a young Nigerian-born, Toronto-based artist whose diverse work encompasses fashion, portraiture and documentary photography, as well as film. His recent personal bodies of work have addressed subjects ranging from cultural appropriation to the entrepreneurial spirit of Lagos’s artisans while his clients include fashion designer Andrea Iyamah and Ours magazine. As he prepares to join Nataal's New African Photography II exhibition line-up at Brooklyn’s Red Hook Labs, we get to know Ukoh.
Hamburg gains a brand-new creative hub. The young gallery LKB/G will open doors at May 05th.
The unconventional concept is going to establish a newly platform of exhibiting art from the Global South in Germany.
The research and exhibition project »Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow« is telling
design stories from Africa and Europe in multiple exhibitions. A central focus is
placed on the relationship between both continents and the interdependence of
African and European Design.
Early in the year bestseller author Melanie Raabe came to M.Bassy and gave us a beautiful evening filled with her own as well as African literature, with good talks and fresh thoughts.
The exibition deals with the artistic examination of the so far untold music history. The focus is not only on the creative work of each and every artist but also reflects on issues of cultural identity, origin and regional history.
