CURATORIAL + ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
Sphere
SPHERE evokes a new world and shape for artworks. The Micro Galleries International Artist Collective members are the guest curators, re-framing and re-envisioning artworks from their peers in the Collective, to give them a unique focus, intent and purpose within the larger fabric of our world-wide Collective and the global issues we face.
SPHERE featured three exhibitions curated by Adam Kuby (USA), Valeriana (Colombia), and Wilson Muratha (Kenya).
Creative Lead: Rachel Honnery
This program was made possible thanks to Jason Stephenson.
SPHERE featured three exhibitions curated by Adam Kuby (USA), Valeriana (Colombia), and Wilson Muratha (Kenya).
Creative Lead: Rachel Honnery
This program was made possible thanks to Jason Stephenson.
The Other, throughout human history until now, has been the one outside of the agreed social norm. You are Other if you are any variation be it your gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, economic status, or ideology. We are in a time where the old structures that protected this norm, are crumbling. The voices of the Other are emerging, and now Otherness is a fertile ground for new discussions, and new ideas about the current system, and what we want humanity to become. Delve into this virtual exhibition that explores how MG artists are embracing and pushing the boundaries of Otherness to create something new, diverse and powerful.
Curator: Valeriana (Colombia)
Curator: Valeriana (Colombia)
Paukwa-Pakawa. It Came And It Happened.
"Nobody lacks a story, some are funny, others are sad. The journey is long we encounter a lot in our path,
bad days are brightened by good times, unforgettable memories. It all comes to an ending with: 'I lived', but the sweetness of the story is how it starts - Paukwa-Pakawa."
"It came and it happened", is a translation for the Swahili phrase Paukwa Pakawa used to begin stories. This exhibition uses artists from the Micro Galleries International Artist Collective to tell personal stories of dreams, hopes and life. The artworks displayed in this exhibition blur the lines between the past, present and future. How we leave traces of our existence on earth and on one another, and how that imprint creates our narratives, understanding of history, and visions for the future.
It Came and it Happened.
Curator: Wilson Muratha (Kenya)
Click the video below for the 4 min highlight reel, or...
bad days are brightened by good times, unforgettable memories. It all comes to an ending with: 'I lived', but the sweetness of the story is how it starts - Paukwa-Pakawa."
"It came and it happened", is a translation for the Swahili phrase Paukwa Pakawa used to begin stories. This exhibition uses artists from the Micro Galleries International Artist Collective to tell personal stories of dreams, hopes and life. The artworks displayed in this exhibition blur the lines between the past, present and future. How we leave traces of our existence on earth and on one another, and how that imprint creates our narratives, understanding of history, and visions for the future.
It Came and it Happened.
Curator: Wilson Muratha (Kenya)
Click the video below for the 4 min highlight reel, or...
Against the Odds
That life itself gained a foothold on Earth within such a vast universe is already an "Against the Odds" story—and likely the biggest of all. So it's not surprising that all organisms on earth are hard-wired to survive and thrive whatever the obstacles. Do we all contain that initial impulse that the first life forms held? Does it exist in each of us? I think so.
This online exhibition features work from MG Collective Artists that bring us closer to those that are that are fighting to survive and thrive despite whole systems and forces working against them—be they humans or other species we share the planet with.
Through their imagery, the processes they use to create, or their strategic on-site interventions, the pieces gathered here give a window into the ecologies of privilege and access that so many are forced to deal with—or that other species have to navigate on our human- dominated planet.
Being an artist is also a feat of determination, whatever privileges one did or didn't have, in a world that prioritizes profit over spirit. How closely linked is the urge to create with the urge to survive? Are they even separate? The street artists, rad designers, artivists, public artists, and out-of-the-boxers of the Micro Galleries International Artist Collective have each found scrappy ways to carve out their niche, to make work, engage with the wider world, and hopefully make a buck. Against the odds.
Curator: Adam Kuby
Click the video below for the 4 min highlight reel.
This online exhibition features work from MG Collective Artists that bring us closer to those that are that are fighting to survive and thrive despite whole systems and forces working against them—be they humans or other species we share the planet with.
Through their imagery, the processes they use to create, or their strategic on-site interventions, the pieces gathered here give a window into the ecologies of privilege and access that so many are forced to deal with—or that other species have to navigate on our human- dominated planet.
Being an artist is also a feat of determination, whatever privileges one did or didn't have, in a world that prioritizes profit over spirit. How closely linked is the urge to create with the urge to survive? Are they even separate? The street artists, rad designers, artivists, public artists, and out-of-the-boxers of the Micro Galleries International Artist Collective have each found scrappy ways to carve out their niche, to make work, engage with the wider world, and hopefully make a buck. Against the odds.
Curator: Adam Kuby
Click the video below for the 4 min highlight reel.