“9 TO 5 - EINE FRAGE DER ZEIT” ICAT, HFBK HAMBURG

Group Exhibition

Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg

Opening event will take place on Thursday 12th December 2024 at 19:00

The Exhibition runs on the 13th.Dec 2024 - 26th Jan 2025

“POLITICS OF LOVE” KUNST HAUS HAMBURG

Group exhibition

Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg

Opening event will take place on Friday 30th November 2024 at 19:00

The Exhibition runs on the 30th.Nov 2024 - 2nd Feb 2025

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October 2024 – The five new travel scholarship holders have been chosen: We are looking forward to Katja Pilipenko, Nicholas Mboya, Anna Stuedeli, Simone Kessler & Mohammad Poori

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REISESTIPENDIUM 2025

“HUMAN ENCOUNTERS”, ACADEMY SELECTION 2024

Group exhibition at Galerie Kellermann

Heinrich-Heine- Allee 12 Düsseldorf, Germany

Opening event will take place on Friday 19th April 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

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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.

Katrin Krumm, Gallerytalk.net

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Transit Point,

HFBK Repositorium

Article

2023

In the work Transit Point, Nicholas Mboya addresses the geo-lingual identity as an immigrant in Germany while looking at its patterns of transcendence through a national and global lens. Transit Point aims to respond to the rapidly developing lingua franca in Kenya, Sheng. Sheng is a local slung, primarily a mix of English and Swahili, and other local vernacular embeddings spoken among the youths in Kenya.

Nicholas Mboya, HFBK Repositorium

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 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 issue 67

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