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INTRODUCING OUR PARTNERS | SAS26 🤝

Building a stronger African art ecosystem takes collaboration, shared knowledge and a collective commitment to shaping its future.

As we prepare for the State of Art Summit 2026, we’re pleased to work alongside our partners to create space for meaningful conversations, new connections and fresh perspectives on African art.

📅 30–31 October 2026

📍 Day 1 | 30 October
Uganda National Theatre, Kampala, Uganda

📍 Day 2 | 31 October
National ICT Innovation Hub Auditorium, Nakawa, Kampala, Uganda

Together, we’re building, sustaining and reclaiming the African art ecosystem.

🎟️ Free entry. Register via the link in our bio.

#SAS26 #StateOfArtSummit #AfricanArt #AfricanArtEcosystem #SilhouetteArtFoundation

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ARE YOU FREE ?

SOLITUDE IS FREEDOM ITS SELF ‼️

@vodoarts @kikadde_kollective @butterfly_paints_ug @citoneandclay @sweepers_solutions @ssebo_lule @luwafuroadpress_ @devisthepoet @isabirye_mitch @peterfog_1 @neatlayers_ @the.wamala.art @dungumichael @henry_kiyingi @yigart_joshua_m @odurart @frank_tumuhairwe @ruganzubruno @waswad_ @levy_anyanzo @litoartworld @the_more_guy @pkframespoint @dero.brands2023 @c.r.a.f.t.b.y.b.u.r.g.a.i.n.z @yacovos @ahmeddidaati @affordableartshow.ug @tindicolours @geraldahairwe @too.phaiith @ninnojackjr @victorluzze @sayyidbinmusa @eperu_magala @sserunjogiw @jackson_kirisa

#solitude #documentary #originalart #rest

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Film Screening:

Some Ma'di Girl from Kampala featuring @vinimercy_

On the 24th & 25th of this month at @agandystudios

A Film by @nersky_

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kąrî'kạchä seid'ou (signed Kevin Amankwah), 1995. UNTITLED: [SLOW DOWN: C̶A̶T̶T̶L̶E̶ BATTLE AHEAD], Oil on Canvas, 105 × 135 cm approx. Private Collection.

Explication (Part 2):

"By putting “cattle” under sous rature, I expose the word's semantic density and destinies, in letting “cattle”, “chattel” and “battle” reverberate against one another. The battle, then, is not merely a battle over words. It is the struggle over the conditions that continue to make life fungible: the rapid conversion of bodies, things, desires and environments into units of value, extraction and consumption. The painting's injunction to “Slow Down!” asks us to interrupt that momentum and to consider what, and whose lives, are being made exchangeable in the process.

The return of Slow Down: C̶a̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ Battle Ahead in Venice is also commemorative. The painting belongs to the prehistory of blaxTARLINES. It emerged from the turbulent experimental culture of the 1990s, when a loose constellation of MFA students—Kwamivi Zewuze Adzraku (Grandpa), Emmanuel Vincent Essel (Papa Essel), Catherina Niklaus and myself (formerly known as Kevin Amankwah)—worked with collaborators including Atta Kwami and Agyeman Ossei (Dota). Together we were testing forms of artistic practice that exceeded both the inherited academy and the emerging neoliberal art world. Much of what we imagined at the time did not yet have the institutional or organisational conditions to survive. There were experiments, conversations, propositions and collaborations, but no stable collective infrastructure to hold them together. The work therefore remained scattered, provisional and unfinished. What seemed then to be isolated experiments can now be read as early signals of a collective practice that had not yet learned its own name." kąrî'kạchä seid'ou

Visit the blaxTARLINES exhibition taking it's titular from seid'ou's painting at at Biennale Arte 2026 by Koyo Kouoh between now and November 22, 2026.

#blaxtarlines #blaxtarlineskumasi #karikachaseidou #BiennaleArte2026

#InMinorKeys

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kąrî'kạchä seid'ou (signed Kevin Amankwah), 1995. UNTITLED: [SLOW DOWN: C̶A̶T̶T̶L̶E̶ BATTLE AHEAD], Oil on Canvas, 105 × 135 cm approx. Private Collection.

Explication (Part 1):

"Slow Down: C̶a̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ Battle Ahead now reads as though it had been waiting for history to catch up. Painted thirty-one years ago, it anticipated a world in which war, genocide, democratic erosion, militarised borders, ecological collapse and xenophobia have become increasingly difficult to ignore. The “cattle” iconography, together with the textual and sonic slippage between “cattle” and “battle,” gives the work an uncanny contemporary force. It asks us to pause before the acceleration of forces that turn lives, territories and resources into objects of control and extraction. This is also what made the painting resonate with the protests, boycotts and difficult questions about institutional responsibility surrounding the Venice Biennale. But there is another word already inside “cattle”: “chattel”. Before I painted the work, “cattle” had long been haunted by the history of “chattel”—the reduction of living beings to movable property and, eventually, of human beings to exchangeable things. In 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 (1789), the Ghana-descendant abolitionist Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (Kwabena Attaborah Kweku Enu), anticipating what Saidiyya Hartman would later theorise as fungibility, described the degradation of captive Black women, children and men as being brought “away to a state of a degree equal to that of a cow or a horse.” The enslaved person becomes not simply a person who can be owned, but a body rendered interchangeable, available for appropriation, substitution, surrogation, and projections by others." -- kąrî'kạchä seid'ou

Visit the blaxTARLINES exhibition taking it's titular from seid'ou's painting at at Biennale Arte 2026 by Koyo Kouoh between now and November 22, 2026.

#blaxtarlines #blaxtarlineskumasi #karikachaseidou #BiennaleArte2026
#InMinorKeys

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Grateful to Carol Kagezi, @zitonitristan
@_kikomeko and @the.wamala.art
For hosting us at the National ICT Innovation Hub and the Kitawulizi Pavilion in Kampala, Uganda.

"The Kitawuluzi: A Heterotopia of Reciprocity" is a blaxTARLINES KUMASI project realized in collaboration with Vodo Arts Society and Lab @vodoarts , and UNDER GROUND CONTEMPORARY ART @underground8808 , KAMPALA hosted by the National ICT Innovation Hub, co-curated by Zitoni Kayonga Tristan Tani and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh.

Mediation: Carol Kagezi.

Pavilion Architect/Designer: Gerald Kikomeko Puto

Permanent installation: Wamala Kyeyune Joseph

Venue: A site-specific pavilion located at the car park of the National ICT Innovation Hub in Kampala.

The project is under the auspices of blaxxMEDIA, a flagship open-source setup by blaxTARLINES KUMASI.

Photos courtesy of Gerald Kimomeko Puto and Vodo Arts Society and Lab.

#blaxtarlines #blaxtarlineskumasi #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys #vodoarts

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We visited @_kikomeko Working with cast aluminium sourced from scrap engine parts and domestic objects; melted down and recast. Gerald Kikomeko Puto takes us through his studio process.

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Public Art Talk Sparks Dialogue on Contemporary Art Practices at MTSIFA - College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology

"Students, artists, and art enthusiasts gathered at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA) on Monday September 21st, 2026, for a Public Art Talk organized by UNDER GROUND Contemporary Art and Vodo Arts Society +Lab in collaboration with blaxTARLINES KUMASI.

The event featured renowned Ghanaian art scholars and curators Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Selom Koffi Kudjie, who led an engaging discussion on contemporary art practices, public art, and the role of creative spaces in fostering cultural exchange across Africa."

Makerere University College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology

Read full article via link in bio.

https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/09/public-art-talk-sparks-dialogue-on-contemporary-art-practices-at-mtsifa/

Photos courtesy of Lito Art World, Zitoni Tristan, Katesi Jacqueline Kalange.

#blaxtarlines #vodoartsociety #undergroundcontemporary #uganda #kumasi

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The Witness
A glimpse into the celestial connection that shapes our daily existence.
Kasagga traces dreams and visions carried from childhood to the present — a personal reflection on the unknown and the invisible. Here, the moon takes center stage as both witness and guide.

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This week - FRIDAY. @dennis_kasagga_ Solo show

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Visiting Lecture Series | Makerere University
Exploring the evolving historical intersections within contemporary African art and the debates they ignite.
This series connects art students with distinguished African practitioners and scholars who challenge disciplinary boundaries. More than just theory, they focused on emancipatory practices and the critical work of building and supporting art infrastructures across the continent.
Invited Practitioners:
Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
Selom Kudjie - Director, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale
Took place today
Monday 21st Sept. 2pm: Public art talk Makerere art gallery, Makerere University, Kampala

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Uganda 🇺🇬 our gallant men are in town, catch the public art and lecture series from our distinguished scholars and practitioners @iubizzle @k_mls_k .

Make time to listen and get inspired ☺️
#uganda🇺🇬 #arttalk #ghana #explorepage✨

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