Yinka Shonibare CBE is delighted to have been selected as part of the official Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia from April 2024.
Titled Nigeria Imaginary, the exhibition will explore different perspectives and constructed ideas, memories of and nostalgia for Nigeria, with a scope that is cross-generational and inter-geographic. Artists featured alongside Shonibare will include Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Abraham Oghobase, Precious Okoyomon, and Fatimah Tuggar.
This marks the second occasion for an official Nigerian presentation at Venice Biennale and will be curated by Aindrea Emelife, curator of Modern and Contemporary at the Museum of West African Art, Benin City.