until Sunday January 15 2017

Kunsthal Rotterdam
T : +31 (0)10 44 00 301
Westzeedijk 341
3015 AA Rotterdam
The Netherlands

CONTINENT OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

Africa has joined the digital world with access to internet and more than 650 million mobile phones – more than in Europe or the United States. The exhibition ‘Making Africa’ presents the work of more than 120 artists and designers to show how design reacts to the economic and political changes in the continent.

African designers and artists from different disciplines break with the conventional definitions of design, art, photography, architecture and film, such as the sculptural eyewear of Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru, the furniture designs of Cheick Diallo from Mali, or the photography of Mozambiquan Mario Macliau and Nigerian J.D. Okhai Ojeikere. The exhibition, which has been produced in collaboration with the Vitra Design Museum, is based on prolonged research and many interviews with African creative personalities.