Exhibition Opening: »Food, Art & Activism: Nourishing Ourselves and Each Other

• Exhibition

M.Bassy e.V. is conceiving the interdisciplinary exhibition project »Food, Art & Activism: Nourishing Ourselves and Each Other« from September 15 until November 10, 2024 (Opening: September 14, 7 pm), which invites works & voices of selected artists, activists, authors & collectives from the African continent and the diaspora to Hamburg to engage aesthetically, critical-investigatively, anthropologically and socio-politically with the themes of food, nutrition, ecology, agriculture and collective resource use from a decolonial, global-southern perspective. The project comprises a two-month group exhibition presenting sculptural, installative and video works by Minia Biabiany, CATPC – Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Ramata Coulibaly, Luiza Prado de O. Martins & Tracey Rose (i.a.), an artist residency and accompanying events consisting of artist talks, food performances, lectures & a film screening – furthermore including activists and authors as Darlène Kassem & Ozoz Sokoh – that seek to approach the topics of food, art and activism holistically and in collaboration with the Hamburg audience.