"TRANSITIONS"
Group exhibition from at The Space
Springer Quartier, Fuhlentwiete 3 Hamburg, Germany.
Opening event will take place on Thursday, 07 March 2024, at 18:00.
HFBK JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG 2024
REVIEW
February 13, 2024
During the tour, the multidisciplinary Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya transforms the entrance hall of the HFBK into a sacral cathedral of sound. Sounds of various Kenyan church services as well as German church bells can be heard from the loudspeakers, creating chaotic sound collisions at changing time intervals. In doing so, the artist raises the question of who has control over the acoustic environment of the public and private.
Theresa Weise, Gallerytalk.net
Thank you for having us Exhibition 2023
REVIEW
October 16, 2023
About twenty official documents hang on the wall of the gallery space in the Frappant. The installation "Rite of Passage" traces the bureaucratic path of the artist Nicholas Mboya. Several rows of documents scanned by him show the official view of him. Each document also features a self-portrait of the artist from different perspectives. Alternating between Kenya and Germany, a chronological path can be traced as well as an adaptation of the self to the respective institutions.
The installation not only documents the documents required for international students to be admitted to study in Germany. It also shows the slow classification of a body that tries to adapt to official perspectives without losing itself.
Katrin Krumm, Gallerytalk.net
Lingua Franca as a Communication Transit Point
Article
2023
Based on the language policy of his home country Kenya, Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya takes a look at the language dynamics in Germany, at the HFBK Hamburg and proposes a compromise language to reconcile local and international needs.
Nicholas Mboya, Lerchenfeld Magazine