Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist and Scholar...
Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist and Scholar who lives and works between Lagos and Berlin, moving from one to the other frequently. A past member of the renowned Nigerian photography collective Depth of Field (DOF), he holds a bachelor’s/master’s degree from the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and has exhibited in biennales and art festivals in cities across the world, notably Lagos, Bamako, Cape Town, London, Berlin, Bayreuth, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Brussels, Johannesburg, New York, Washington, Barcelona, Seville, Madrid and Paris.

 In 2015, his work was exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale, in the context of an installation titled A Trans-African Worldspace. Okereke is the founder and artistic director of Invisible Borders Trans-African Project, an artist-led initiative that addresses gaps and misconceptions posed by frontiers dividing the 54 countries of the African continent. The project’s flagship undertaking is the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip, wherein a dozen artists, including photographers, writers, filmmakers and performance artists collectively travel across Africa to explore and participate in various photographic events, festivals and exhibitions, while engaging in daily with, and producing work about/in collaboration with, the people and the places they encounter.

He is the founder and host of Nkata Podcast Station as well as the Director of Kupesonic Sound Project.

Okereke's work oscillates between diverse mediums. He employs photography, video, poetry and performative interventions in the exploration of one over-arching theme:  that of borders. Another aspect of his artistic practice lies in the intersection between art-making and pedagogy, specifically, lecturing and project organising – coordinating artistic interventions that promote exchanges cutting across national and international platforms. In 2008, he organized the first-ever photographic exchange project between schools in France and Nigeria – the Yaba College of Arts and Technology Lagos and Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. This was followed by Crossing Compasses: Lagos-Berlin Photo Exchange and Converging Visions: Nigeria-Netherlands Photo Exchange (2012). Okereke has served as a guest/visiting lecturer in several art platforms and learning institutions – most recently Hartford University’s MFA program in photography and  Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg Austria (July 2018).

In 2018, Emeka Okereke was conferred France’s prestigious insignia of Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters) by the Ministry of Culture of France as recognition of his contribution to the discourse on art in Africa, France, and the world at large.

In 2022, he was a visiting lecturer/scholar at the Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. He is currently teaching a course under

Interdisciplinary Art Practices and Theory at the Berlin University of Arts (UDK Berlin).



 
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