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Africa Reframed
Experiences

Exhibitions | Platforms | Engagement

Africa Reframed Experiences brings contemporary African creativity to global audiences through major exhibitions, focused events, and strategic platforms. Our programs showcase visual storytelling that shapes narratives and fosters meaningful connections, extending our Archive and Academy work to drive engagement across creative innovation, environmental sustainability, and social issues.

The Africa Reframed exhibition at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, featuring modular OSB structures that divide the 5000m² space, showcasing large-scale artworks and emphasizing the industrial architecture with focused lighting.
A section of the Africa Reframed exhibition featuring framed photographs and vibrant artwork displayed on OSB panels. A blurred figure walks past, adding motion to the otherwise static gallery setting.

Exhibitions

Our exhibitions have scaled from local institutions to major art fairs, including Paris Photo and Europe's largest exhibition of contemporary African photography. We combine curatorial vision with architectural design to create dynamic engagement spaces.

The Africa Reframed exhibition at Øksnehallen Copenhagen demonstrates this approach. Our design created an engaging journey through the historic 5000m² space using modular OSB structures that both divided the vast hall and provided varied presentation surfaces. These architectural elements—combining display walls, plinths, and framing devices—allowed intimate engagement with large-scale works while maintaining visual connections across the exhibition. The lighting design emphasized individual works while revealing the historic industrial architecture above.

A gallery wall at the Africa Reframed exhibition, featuring framed photographs displayed on modular OSB structures under warm, focused lighting.
Visitors viewing portraits and artworks displayed on OSB panels at the Africa Reframed exhibition, emphasizing interactive and modular design elements.
Rows of OSB structures showcasing portraits and framed images in a well-lit industrial space at the Africa Reframed exhibition.

Public programs

We create platforms for multifaceted engagement with contemporary African creativity. Through film screenings, hands-on workshops, and focused discussions, our programs foster deeper understanding and dialogue. Each format offers distinct ways to explore creative practice, from new African cinema and experimental documentaries to participatory craft sessions and expert-led conversations.

  • We curate comprehensive film programs that explore contemporary storytelling through multiple formats. Our selections range from groundbreaking feature films and experimental documentaries to innovative audio narratives. Each program creates dialogue between established and emerging voices while engaging audiences with pressing cultural and social themes.

    Selected Programs: Our film curation spans works like "A Kind of Paradise," which follows artists and musicians across six countries exploring creativity against societal challenges, to "Black President," examining artists' roles in a globalized world through exiled artist Kudzanai Chiurai. We've showcased emerging voices through series like Afripedia, documenting creative pioneers across five African nations, and innovative storytelling like "Crumbs," Ethiopia's first post-apocalyptic sci-fi film.

    The My Africa Podcast series from Lagos demonstrates our engagement with audio narratives, providing platforms for cultural leaders to share personal stories beyond public personas.

  • We design hands-on programs that connect audiences with creative practice through direct engagement. Our workshops span traditional crafts to future-focused innovation, creating spaces where participants can explore techniques, materials, and ideas. These experiences combine practical skills with deeper understanding of creative processes and cultural context.

    Selected Programs: Our textile workshops have explored traditional wax print techniques using authentic materials, creating spaces where participants develop their own designs while engaging with textile heritage and contemporary practice. Through innovative food programs, we've examined sustainable futures by connecting traditional practices with current food security challenges.

    Interactive sound and performance programs have demonstrated how music and art influence global artistic perspectives, creating immersive experiences that challenge conventional understanding of creative practice.

  • Panel Talks and Discussions We develop focused conversations that unite diverse voices to explore contemporary creative practice. Our discussions bring together artists, designers, cultural leaders, and audiences in dialogue about current developments and future possibilities. These platforms create opportunities for knowledge exchange while fostering new connections and understanding.

    Selected Programs: Our fashion dialogues have explored how emerging designers are gaining international recognition while maintaining cultural authenticity. Creative practice discussions examine how design innovation emerges from cross-cultural exchange, bringing together perspectives from anthropology, entrepreneurship, and cultural studies.

A vibrant photograph by Namsa Leuba featuring three individuals in bold, colorful attire and masks, blending traditional African aesthetics with contemporary art. The image was used for the Africa Reframed poster.

Artwork by Namsa Lauba, used for Africa Reframed poster

  • Run is running away. He has just killed his country’s Prime Minister. To escape, he takes on the face and clothes of a madman who has been wandering through the town for months. His life flashes before him: his childhood with Master Tourou, when he dreamt of becoming a rainmaker; his incredible adventures with Greedy Gladys; and his militia past as a Young Patriot in Ivory Coast’s political and military conflict. Run has not chosen these lives—they have stumbled upon him. He has been escaping from one life to the next. This is why he is called Run.


    The film portrays the last twenty years of the director’s country, Ivory Coast, exploring its history and geography. A vast narrative, it captures the nation’s collective memory through the iconic life of one individual: Run.

  • Set in a community vibrant with African migrants from across the continent this district, AYANDA is a coming-of-age story of a twenty-one year old Afro-hipster, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she's thrown into a world of greasy overalls, gender stereotypes and abandoned vintage cars once loved, now in need of a young womans re-inventive touch to bring them back to life again. Ayanda decides to bring her dead fathers garage back to former glory despite resistance from both her mother and her uncle, Zama, who wants to sell the garage. Along with David, the Nigerian mechanic who harbours trauma from his dark past, and Zoum, the enthusiastic but exam-averse non-mechanic, Ayanda sets out to rebuild the business, and against all odds, the business heads into profit. But success feels empty when the realisation sets in – how far she is prepared to go to preserve something that is lost entirely in the past – her father, the garage, and her refusal to move forward into a future for herself and those she loves.

Artists and insights

We unite creative voices across disciplines, creating connections between visual storytelling, design, film, and fashion. Artists, designers, and cultural practitioners come together in our programs to share perspectives and explore ideas.

Insights, our digital journal, captures these conversations through features and profiles. We look at how artists engage with themes from environmental challenges to social change, creating an evolving record of contemporary creative practice.

Yinka Ilori's design debates consumerism when he transforms vintage furniture to new and colorful life by combining elements from different chairs and adding other objects, textiles and colors.

Fabrice Monteiro's photography intersects environmentalism and African heritage, portraying ecological narratives.

Omar Victor Diop integrates African history with contemporary cultural commentary through his photography.

Lien Botha merges photography and narrative, capturing the essence of transformation and memory.

Dillon Marsh visualizes the environmental impact of mining in South Africa through photographic art.

Namsa Leuba's work juxtaposes, re-works, challenges, and examines African identity through Western eyes.

Discover more artists in our journal Insights

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