Emeka Ogboh is taking part in the exhibition Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art, cur. Annja Müller-Alsbach Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Emeka Ogboh, Sufferhead Original, 2019. Exhibition view: The Taste of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2020.
The Kunstmuseum Ravensburg is showing for the first time in Germany the haunting sound and light installation The Way Earthly Things Are Going by Emeka Ogboh which the Nigerian artist conceived for documenta 14 in Athens in 2017.
Image: Emeka Ogboh, The Way Earthly Things Are Going, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, 2020. Photo © Wynrich Zlomke
Based on the results of a questionnaire circulated in Reims and beyond, the artist composed a beer whose flavour relates the respondents’ relationship to social and political engagement. This gastronomic creation, produced in collaboration with SHED/Senses Brewing, will be accompanied by a musical intervention by the artist, who uses sound to decipher and reformulate the scores of stories to be rewritten.
Emeka Ogboh at the Cleveland Museum of Art © The Darkroom Co. 2018
Que représente le fait de chanter ensemble dans notre société, surtout dans un monde en proie aux pandémies et aux crises, où la musique et l’art en soi ont longtemps été réduits au silence ? Cet été, Ogboh transforme le centre-ville de Francfort en un paysage sonore sur l’eau et sur terre. Au centre de son installation sonore multicanal en trois parties, THIS TOO SHALL PASS, qui s’étend d’une cour près de l’hôtel de ville Römer à l’église Dreikönigskirche en passant par un bateau ressemblant à un radeau sur le Main, se trouve un hymne du même nom composé récemment. L’œuvre in situ la plus importante d’Emeka Ogboh en Europe à ce jour a été commandée par l’EKHN Stiftung en coopération avec le Kulturfonds RheinMain et rendue possible grâce à l’aide d’autres sponsors.
TTSP studio session. Photo: Adolphus Opara. © Emeka Ogboh, 2021.
Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival are pleased to announce that a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh will be unveiled at Edinburgh’s Burns Monument on 29 July 2021. The new public artwork, co-commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival, is a response to the ongoing theatre surrounding the UK’s departure from the European Union. The new work is commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Talbot Rice Gallery, which is part of Edinburgh College of Art. Supported by the PLACE Programme, a partnership between Edinburgh Festivals, Scottish Government, City of Edinburgh Council and Creative Scotland. With additional support from Goethe-Institut Glasgow, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Reid School of Music at Edinburgh College of Art and Museums and Galleries Edinburgh
James Cohan is pleased to present Notes on Exile, the first US gallery exhibition of work by multimedia artist Emeka Ogboh, on view at 48 Walker Street from October 28 through December 18, 2021. This exhibition marks the US premiere of The Way Earthly Things Are Going, 2017, Ogboh’s internationally acclaimed work from documenta 14.
Installation view, Emeka Ogboh, Notes on Exile, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, 2021