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Making Africa

28 May 2015

Cristina Morozzi

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After exploring the way of life in the Arab world with the exhibition “Living Under the Crescent Moon” (Vitra Design Museum 23/02 / 2007-31 / 08/2008) showing the diversity of the domestic culture, travelling from Syria to Morocco, from Damascus to Cairo … the Vitra Design Museum explores African design, with its recent exhibition Making Africa inaugurated March 14, 2015, exhibiting the work of over 120 artists, designers and contemporary architects, focusing its gaze on the digital natives of the black continent . The travelling exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue of 352 pages, which offers a comprehensive overview of current African creativity, is curated by Amelie Klein curator of the Vitra Design Museum in collaboration with Okwui Enwezor, director of both the Haus der Kunst in Munich and of La Biennale di Venezia, the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice.

WHERE: Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany

After exploring the way of life in the Arab world with the exhibition “Living Under the Crescent Moon” (Vitra Design Museum 23/02 / 2007-31 / 08/2008) showing the diversity of the domestic culture, travelling from Syria to Morocco, from Damascus to Cairo … the Vitra Design Museum explores African design, with its recent exhibition Making Africa inaugurated March 14, 2015, exhibiting the work of over 120 artists, designers and contemporary architects, focusing its gaze on the digital natives of the black continent . The travelling exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue of 352 pages, which offers a comprehensive overview of current African creativity, is curated by Amelie Klein curator of the Vitra Design Museum in collaboration with Okwui Enwezor, director of both the Haus der Kunst in Munich and of La Biennale di Venezia, the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice.
WHERE: Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany

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