Emeka Udemba, Friederike Moschel, Director Goethe Institut and Robin Sohdi, Gen. Mgr Lufthansa Nigeria / Equitorial Guinea |
Lufthansa and Brussels
Airlines are supporting "Stretched Terrains – The Mobile Museum on its Way
to Dak'Art", a residency program for young artists from Nigeria, Ghana,
Ivory Coast, Senegal and Germany on the move spanning several countries in West
Africa.
“'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”, says Robin Sohdi, Lufthansa General Manager Nigeria and
Equatorial Guinea.
On April 11, 2018,
starting from Lagos, the artist group will begin a six-week journey with a
Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines branded, converted public transport bus, called
the Molue Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art. They will cross through Benin,
Togo, Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Mali, with a planned arrival in Dakar, Senegal
at the beginning of May, right in time for the opening of the13th International
Biennial Dak'Art" exhibition. The artists will be greeted at every stop by
the 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 07,
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 on
the way to the exhibition, planning to arrive in Lagos on May 25.
During their journey,
the artists examine diverse public spaces as communication zones of social,
economic and political interaction. 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 Nigerian artist
Emeka Udemba, who is living in Germany, is the curator of the project. The
whole journey can be followed on the weblog, Stretched Terrains, and on social
media with the hashtag #StretchedTerrains "Stretched Terrains – The Mobile
Museum on the Way to Dak'Art" is a project by Goethe-Institut Nigeria,
supported by Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines.
Brussels Airlines is
renowned for its Africa-expertise and is now fully integrated in the Lufthansa
Group. While Lufthansa is Europe's only 5 Star airline, and founder of Star
Alliance, the largest airline network in the world.
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