Africa

An exhibition shows the multitude of contemporary culture from Africa’s many regions, of which we far too rarely hear and which are necessary to nuance our gaze at Africa.

The exhibition “Africa. Architecture, culture and identity” shows that there are multiple alternative narratives about contemporary culture and history from the African continent’s many regions. These are necessary to refine our image of and view on Africa.

**Top**: SelgasCano, Konokono Vaccination and Educational Clinic, Kenya, 2014. Photo: Iwan Baan. **Above**: Kéré Architecture, Dano Secondary School , Burkina Faso, 2007. Photo: Kéré Architecture

The exhibition is divided into seven thematic sections: “Belonging” with around 30 prominent artists, designers, authors and architects which offer insight into his or her world and discusses what it means for them to ‘belong’; “Co-existence” thar demonstrates quite unique differences in the demographies that transect Sub-Saharan Africa; “Expanding Cities” turns the focus on Dakar, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Maputo and Johannesburg, picked out because several of them can be called important nodal points on the continent; “Making Space” compares the tradition-borne architecture in the countryside and in the cities across the continent; “Rebuilding” where the social-activist drawing office ASA, gives an account through installation, film, drawings and photography of their work with developing a school prototype which they have now built in many places across this (in the African context) small country; “New Communities” singles out a number of social construction projects whose aim is to create value for a local community – through their different functions, but also through their high degree of user involvement in the construction; “Building Futures” deals with the future, or ‘futures’, as they have been conceived, and as people try to create them.

Kéré Architecture, Gando School Library, Burkina Faso, 2012. Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Kéré Architecture, Village Elders in Burkina Faso, 2012. Photo: Tian Ren

Sharon Davis, Women’s Opportunity Centre, Rwanda, 2014. Photo: Elizabeth Felicella

SelgasCano, Konokono Vaccination and Educational Clinic, Kenya, 2014. Photo: Iwan Baan

25 June – 25 October 2015
Africa
Architecture, Culture and Identity
sponsored by Realdania
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk

Africa

An exhibition shows the multitude of contemporary culture from Africa’s many regions, of which we far too rarely hear and which are necessary to nuance our gaze at Africa.

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