Contemporary artists and visitors gathered at the Somali National Museum in Mogadishu for the country’s first international contemporary art exhibition on 24 July. The newly-renovated museum had been ...

This is the first time the museum has organized and curated a contemporary Somali art exhibit. “It’s exciting to have one of the artists talk about his work,” said Curator Jan-Lodewijk ...

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Salman Madow, a lecturer at Somali National University specializing in modern arts and photography, said when he talks about art's storytelling impact, he has to talk about its significance in the ...

Analysis - UNDP is working with the Somali Arts Foundation to combine women's poetry, ... Somalia: The Art of Self Expression - Supporting Somali Women to Tell Their Own Stories. 30 December 2021.

When Minneapolis Institute of Art curator Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers decided to build a show about Islamic Africa, he knew he couldn't do it alone. "I am not Muslim, I don't read Arabic," said the ...

The free mini hut workshops offered at the Chocolate Church Art Center served as a tool for potential healing past traumas. A Minnesota-based Somali multimedia artist and playwright shared her ...

When Mariane Ibrahim opened her elegant, new three-story art gallery in Paris last September, she became one of the few Black gallerists to set up shop in the French capital ...

Though Ibrahim is a pioneer in bringing contemporary African diasporic art to Paris, she believes that others will soon follow. Paris has “the right audience,” she noted. “That’s why I’m ...