Notes on Friendship: Breaking Bread

Currently showing in, Notes on Friendship: Breaking Bread, a collaborative exhibition between Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) and Savannah Center for Contemporary Art, Tamale, Ghana. The exhibition explores friendship as a dynamic space for dialogue, critique, and support, offering a platform where shared histories and present-day realities intersect, opening up new possibilities for connection and collaboration. This flexible idea of friendship allows artists to form relationships on their own terms, encouraging mutual exploration and creative engagement.

Exhibition still fig. 1 The Substance of Things

Framed as a "lost tape" rediscovered in African history, Notes on Friendship: Breaking Bread reimagines hosting and hospitality as acts of political and artistic significance, featuring 23 artists from East and West Africa. exhibition is a cross-cultural connection and imaginative collaboration. Emerging from a desire to bridge geographic and generational divides, the exhibition explores friendship as a site for dialogue, critique, and creative support.

The exhibition presents the worldviews of practitioners across generations, Media and, discipline through three thematic configurations: About us, Nostalgia, and Objects. About us, explores narratives that constitute the self. Nostalgia, gathers work that offer perspectives informed by history and current interpretation thereof. Works in the third group, objects, takes a speculative approach towards the future through their engagement with objects and materiality.



The exhibition runs until 27th July 2025

Echoes and Edges

Echoes and Edges 

16 January -22 February

Montague Contemporary

In the moments between the familiar and the unknown lies the potential for transformation. This space of transition, memory, and renewal is at the heart of Echoes and Edges, an exhibition that isInspired by Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1962) and Okwui Enwezor’s analyses of temporality and rupture, the show invites audiences to consider the fragile yet potent boundaries of being. As Heidegger writes, “Temporality makes up the primordial meaning of Dasein’s Being” (Heidegger, 1962, p. 41) - a reflection on the fluid and interconnected dimensions of past, present, and future that shape our existence.

Heidegger’s exploration of the concept "Dasein" (Being-there) is a meditation on existence as a state of constant becoming. For Heidegger, the human condition is defined by its temporality: our being is always situated within a continuum of memory, present experience, and anticipation. This interplay creates a dynamic process of self-definition, a navigation of edges where past and future collide. Read more here... https://www.montaguecontemporary.com/exhibitions/51-echoes-and-edges-beatrice-wanjiku-camille-wekesa-miska-mohmmed/overview/