Six artists and a ‘molue’ museum off to Dak’Art

The second edition of the art project, ‘Stretched Terrains,’ began on Tuesday, April 10 in Lagos, with six artists on board a ‘molue’ museum. They are headed to Dakar, Senegal for the 13th edition of the contemporary art biennale, Dak’Art.   The initiative which is a brainchild of the German Goethe Institut, supported by Lufthansa and […]

The second edition of the art project, ‘Stretched Terrains,’ began on Tuesday, April 10 in Lagos, with six artists on board a ‘molue’ museum. They are headed to Dakar, Senegal for the 13th edition of the contemporary art biennale, Dak’Art.  

The initiative which is a brainchild of the German Goethe Institut, supported by Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines, is a residency program for young artists from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Germany.

The group, embarking on a six-week journey, will travel through Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali, to expectedly arrive Dakar at the beginning of May, in time for the opening of the exhibition.

According to Robin Sohdi, Lufthansa General Manager Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, “‘Stretched Terrains’ is a great platform to show the strengths of Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines in West Africa working closely together and supporting the development of young African talents.”

Artists in the project curated by Germany-based Nigerian artist, Emeka Udemba, will in the course of this journey, “examine diverse public spaces as communication zones of social, economic and political interaction,” a statement by Goethe Institut said.

The statement also said, “The project embraces the diversity of practices and perspectives of the participating artists, who will discuss and exchange their artistic interactions as they travel almost 10,000-kilometers on a road trip. 

“The artwork, which will be created in Dakar and during the journey, will be presented and discussed along the way back to Nigeria at the Goethe-Institutes and cultural centers at Dakar, Bamako, Abidjan, Accra, Lomé and Lagos,” the statement added.

The artists will be greeted at every stop by Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines and Goethe-Institut teams. Furthermore, they will display their artwork at each destination they stop at. 

Once they reach Senegal, the artists will stay for the Dak’Art exhibition until May 7, when they will start their journey back to Lagos. On their way back, they will make stops again at all the previous Goethe-Institut locations they visited, planning to arrive in Lagos on May 25.