Delfina Foundation’s Network of Africa Patrons is a new initiative, launched in 2020 to enable us to shape our engagement and professional support of the continent’s next generation of creative practitioners and feeding back into networks across the region.

In this endeavour, we are building on our history of nurturing the careers of artists and curators from across Africa such as Bisi Silva (Nigeria), Kendell Geers (South Africa), Lydia Ourahmane (Algeria), Nástio Mosquito (Angola/Belgium), Élise Atangana (France/Cameroon), Wael Shawky (Egypt), Nadia Kaabi-Linke (Tunisia) and Syowia Kyambi (Germany/Kenya).

For more about joining this network, click here.

RESIDENCIES SUPPORTED

Jared Onyango

London: 25/09/2023 — 17/12/2023

Joseph K. Kasau & Stéphane Kabila

London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022

Nolan Oswald Dennis

London: 20/09/2021 — 19/12/2021

RESIDENCIES COMPLEMENTED

Dana Whabira

London: 26/06/2023 — 17/09/2023

SELECT OUTCOMES OF SUPPORTED RESIDENCIES

Delfina Presents: Joseph K. Kasau and Stéphane Kabila

On art as a tool – not just to reflect, but also to act

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Delfina Presents: Nolan Oswald Dennis

Exploring the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation

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Restitution and the Non-Returnable

Discussing collections, repatriation, compensation and what might be ‘non-returnable’

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Delfina Presents: Sheila Chukwulozie

Exploring the relationship between the post-colonial body, Catholicism, and sonic history

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Performance as Process: Syowia Kyambi

Navigating questions of communal identity, the state, self-censorship

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Sneek Peak: Binelde Hyrcan

Introducing our winter 2017 artist-in-residence

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Before Seven Hills

Curator Élise Atangana introduces her Kampala Biennale research, followed by a performance by Julien Creuzet

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