Making Africa - Opening Talk with Okwui Enwezor and Amelie Klein at Vitra Design Museum

This video documents the Opening Talk within the framework of the exhibition Making Africa - A Contintent of Contemporary Design at Vitra Design Museum with Okwui Enwezor and Amelie Klein. The talk is entitled Making Africa - Ideas and Objects for a Continent to Come. Okwui Enwezor is the director of Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. He is considered one of the most influential people in contemporary art. Enwezor was the artistic director of documental 11 and is the curator of the 2015 Venice Art Biennale. The Nigerian-born curator and author is also consulting curator of the exhibition Making Africa at Vitra Design Museum. With Amelie Klein, curator of the exhibition, Enwezor talks about the exhibition’s development, its protagonists and exhibits, as well as the question of how contemporary art and design are shaping the future of the African continent. The video above is an excerpt, the complete is available on our website, vernissage.tv
Making Africa - Ideas and Objects for a Continent to Come. Opening Talk with Okwui Enwezor and Amelie Klein at Zaha Hadid Fire Station, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (Germany), March 13, 2015.
More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture:
vernissage.tv
Connect:
/ vernissagetv
/ vernissagetv
Browse our Archive:
vernissage.tv/archive/posts/
Find Artists, Designers, Architects:
vernissage.tv/archive/artists/
Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.

[@vernissagetv]

Making Africa - Opening Talk with Okwui Enwezor and Amelie Klein at Vitra Design Museum #design #art #africa