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   Klaranze Okhide and the Architecture of Solitude: Drawing the Psychological Interior at AMIAF 2026 Klaranze Okhide and the Architecture of Solitude: Discover Nigerian artist Klaranze Okhide and her Solitude series, exploring identity, memory, trauma and psychological interiority through contemporary African drawing. Contemporary African art is often discussed through the language of culture, heritage, identity and social experience. But what happens when the artist turns the gaze away from the external world and towards the psychological spaces within?                                              For Nigerian visual artist and educator Klaranze Okhide, that interior territory becomes the subject of Solitude, a body of work examining memory, identity, vulnerability, trauma and psychological transformation. Solitude as a psychological condition Okhide does not pr...

Ebriel Afegbua Participating Artist at Artmiabo International Art Festival, 2024 Artmiabo International Art Festival, 2024 is delighted to have Artist Ebriel Afegbua as an exhibiting Sculptor in this years festival themed the Sculptors Odyssey. Date 29th April-1st May, 2024 Venue Ebonylife Place Victoria Island Lagos State Music Performance by Made Kuti. Get your VIP and Popular Tickets and program guide for the Festival through this link https://wakaevents.ng/en-ng/events/artmiabo-international-art-festival-2024 Check out Afegbua's Sculpture Pieces for the festival below Title: Queen Mother identity series 2023. Medium: Annealed wire, metal objects Dimension: 42 inches Height × 20 inches width Year: 2023 Title: Dan Arewa ( The Tribes Men) Medium: Annealed wire, pipe metal Dimension: 90 inches Height × 36 inches width Year 2022.

  Obinna Adiele Participating Artist at Artmiabo International Art Festival AMIAF 2024 Artmiabo International Art Festival, 2024 is delighted to have Artist Obinna Adiele as an exhibiting Sculptor in this years festival themed the Sculptors Odyssey. Date: 29th April-1st May, 2024 Venue: Ebonylife Place Victoria Island Lagos State *Special Artistic Music Performance by Made Kuti.

  Master Sculptor and Art Educationist, Adeola Balogun Celebrated at this Years Amiaf Artfestival. Dr. Adeola Balogun combines a fully engaged studio practice with a teaching career at Nigeria's premier tertiary institution, The Yaba College of Technology. He graduated from Yaba College of Technology, with a specialization in sculpture (1993/94) and Masters in Fine Art (MFA, Sculpture) at the University of Benin (2001/4), Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He had his Ph.D. in Sculpture (Studio) at Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. Balogun’s brilliance as an artist transcends the core medium of sculpture on which he has built a reputation but also traverses other regions of the visual arts. This he realizes through uncanny capacity in transforming mundane materials that have seemingly lost their primary purpose into objects of remarkable aesthetic contemplation imbued with multilayered meanings.   Adeola has staged over a dozen solo exhibitions and won several awa...

  AMIAF Participating Artist Sotonye Jumbo is a new-fashioned visual artist from River State, Nigeria. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in Bruce Onobrakpeya's Harmattan Workshop. Sotonye further interned in 2020 at the Bruce Onobrakpeya (art) Foundation. In 2018, he was selected alongside Anthonia Nneji and Omofemi Oluwole et al as part of the pioneering TOP TEN finalists of the Next of Kin art competition and exhibition by Thought Pyramid Art Centre. Sotonye Jumbo's representative pieces are multicultural. Predominantly, each of his characters on canvas is a balanced embellishment of the ensuing cohabitation possibility between individuals and extraterrestrials. The sophisticated half-jovian part person subjects are mostly styled in human clothing, sometimes executing household tasks or just gazing at the onlooker in a cool, funky pose. A transcendence of consciousness is required to grasp the celestial subjects in his intensely good works that are divergence from mainstrea...

  Congratulations to Lemi Ghariokwu an Award Recipient of AMIAF, 2023 With profound Respect and Adoration we announce Lemi Ghariokwu, arguably the Originator of the 'Art of Afrobeats' he will be exhbiting at this year's festival. I happen to be a huge fan....and can't wait for his exhibit as he takes us down memory lane. As an event of visual arts contents, AMIAF, in its 2023 edition is articulating fine art's significance to Afrobeats with the inclusion of painter, Lemi Ghariokwu. As an artist, Ghariokwu is one of the most iconic names in the history of the Afrobeat genre. Ghariokwu had the rare privilege of creating, in fine art, over 20 album designs for late Afrobeat founder, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Based on the link between his art and Afrobeat music, Ghariokwu, in specific terms explained the role of fine art in Afrobeat music. "Fine art played the role of packaging the brand in Fela's music," he stated during a recent chat ahead of AMIAF 2023. Gha...

Profile of Landscape Photographer Willem Vermeer          Willem Vermeer Artmiabo International Art Festival "RE-MAKE THE WORLD" 29TH APRIL-1ST MAY, 2022 LAGOS NIGERIA SPONSORED BY JCDecaux & Multichoice Nigeria Willem, is a photographer of the Lagos sea shores and an environmentalist. In the last few years he has curated Artmiabo Exhibitions and this year, he is in charge of curating the festival. His photos tell a story about Lagos which is an Island with several beaches in its shores, where 'Lagosians' as the people of Lagos are referred too, all go to relax and unwind leaving the hustle and bustle behind. Profile Willem Vermeer is a retired marketing professional from the Netherlands with over 35 years’ experience with over 20 years in Nigeria. He has a bachelor’s degree in Commercial Economics from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands (1976). From 1976 to 1999, he worked in va rious European Marketing & Sales and ...

  Artist Oladipupo Adesina Exhibiting at The Artmiabo International Art Festival AMIAF                                 Oladipupo Adesina Artist Oladipupo's works are an effective use of Recycled pieces of fabric and other materials to create Mixed Media Art that reflects his culture and Story about his Society.  We are delighted to have him exhibit at the festival, as his style lays emphasis on the theme of the Exhibition, which is Recycling objects into Art. Artmiabo International Art Festival "RE-MAKE THE WORLD" 29TH APRIL-1ST MAY, 2022 LAGOS NIGERIA SPONSORED BY JCDecaux & Multichoice Nigeria Artist Profile Oladipupo Adesina, was born in Lagos State in the early 70's.He graduated with a national diploma (General Art) and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in painting in 2013 from Lagos state Polytechnic,Ikorodu, Lagos.  He also won the overall best student in Art and Industrial Design in ...