Event in english

For reasons beyond his control, Ibrahim Mahama will not be able to participate in today's discussion at 6:30 p.m.

participants: Ibrahim Mahama, Aravani Art Project, Marina Naprushkina
introduction: Agnieszka Pindera, Director of Zachęta, and Omenaa Mensah, founder and President of the OmenaArt Foundation
moderation: Alona Karavai

A discussion about how art, beyond its obvious decorative or critical function, can also become an effective tool for mediation and collective imagination. 

Aravani Art Project – Indian public art collective, run by trans and cis women. Initiated by Bangalore-based artist Poornima Sukumar, the project brings together people from the transgender community who paint murals inspired by their lives and experiences, in and around public spaces in the city. The project is named after the annual Aravani Festival that takes place in the Koothandavar Temple, Tamil Nadu, where thousands of members from the transgender community assemble to perform the rituals of being married to Lord Aravan.

Alona Karavai – is a co-founder of numerous art organizations, including Insha Osvita, residency house Khata-Maysternya, agency proto produkciia, the gallery Asortymentna kimnata, and of the art media outlet covering art post impreza. She is also a social investor at Urban Space 500, and a co-organizer of the Porto Franko festival. Alona studied organizational development in TU Kaiserslautern. Her professional interests are cultural management and curating, visual art and music, organizational development and various educational produc 

Marina Naprushkina – is an artist, feminist, and activist. Naprushkina works mostly outside of institutional spaces, in collaboration with communities and activist organisations. Naprushkina focuses on creating new formats, structures and organisations based on self-organisation and the intersection of theory and practice. In 2013, Naprushkina co-founded the initiative Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, which aims to create a strong community of people with and without migration and asylum backgrounds, and serves as a commons space based on migrant self-organisation, where art has become a key means of communication. Naprushkina received the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture (2017) and the Sussmann Artist Award (2015). She participated a.o. in the Kyiv Biennial (2023 and 2017), the 7th Berlin Biennial (2011), the 11th Istanbul International Biennial (2009). Together with Nadira Husain, Naprushkina is part of a professorial duo at Universität der Künste Berlin. 

Ibrahim Mahama – is an artist based in Tamale. He holds an MFA (2013) and BFA (2010) in Painting and Sculpture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. Mahama’s work was featured in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), curated by Okwui Enwezor, and has been exhibited internationally, including Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (USA), Saatchi Gallery (UK), and Tyburn Gallery (UK). His solo shows include Material Effects (2015, USA) and Civil Occupation (2014, Ireland). His large-scale installations explore themes of labor, migration, and material histories, often using repurposed materials to reflect on global trade and socio-political structures. 

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Partnerem wydarzenia oraz realizacji pracy Ibrahima Mahamy jest Fundacja OmenaArt Foundation.