Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist, writer and DJ who lives and works between Lagos and Berlin, moving from one to the other on a frequent basis. 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.
Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist, writer and DJ who lives and works between Lagos and Berlin, moving from one to the other on a frequent basis. 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.
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 organizing – coordinating artistic interventions that promote exchanges cutting across national and international platforms.
Emeka Okereke, artist in Residence at Pol & Grace Hotel is the founder of @nkatapodcast and @invisibleborders, the multi disciplinary artist is researching on the concepts of “traveling bodies” and “a story of distances” while he adopts the “Mediterranean Sea as a metaphoric vantage point. His time in the city is resulting in podcasts, essays, poems, DJ sessions, interviews, photography and many more works still to come.
Links to some of the content created during the residence:
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EP12: Memory, Performance, Healing and Celebration in the Photographic works of Lebohang Kganye.
EP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate The Continent – with Ekow Eshun
https://emekaokereke.medium.com/facing-the-mediterranean-a8e3aa0d8f6a
https://beteve.cat/radio-africa/conversem-amb-emeka-okereke/
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The beautiful pictures are courtesy of Alvaro Garcia, you can find his work at:
https://www.instagram.com/alvarogarcia_photo/
www.alvarogarciaphoto.com
