Emmanuel Eni

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Emmanuel Eni, 2015

Emmanuel Eni (born in Igbanke in Nigeria) is a Nigerian painter, sculptor, multimedia and performance artist, poet and philosopher.^[1]

Exhibitions[]

"THE BOOM" exhibition of new light painting art and sculptures

• "Brightness of the picture" - sculptures and paintings, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
• "Haske Zanen" - sculptures, paintings and performance with new light, painting, art
• Thought pyramid Gallery Abuja / German Embassy Abuja Nigeria^[2]
• "Art Merchant“ - sculptures and paintings, National museum Lagos, Nigeria
• Diverse lecture activities in sculpture, installation, audiovisual performance and literature
• "Leaf spirit totem" - 7 m high sculpture for Syke, Bremen Germany (Wood, Terra Kota, Mirror glass, 2011)
• "Blackman in European Kitchen", ICD Institute for cultural diplomacy, Berlin, Germany
• "Ear as a long road" - poetic performance, Berlin, Poetry Festival Lyricline
• "Consciences and frontiers" installation "Israel and Palestine" and "Knowledge is power" - SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• Exhibition / performance Israel and Palestine "Schlachtfelder" - Battlefields Anniversary of 250 years battle - city of Minden, Germany
• "Black History month" - Africa reflection - sculptures and paintings, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
• "2nd African Legends Performance" poetic musical dance performance, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
• ARESUVA - African regional summit for visual arts, Abuja, Nigeria
• Visiting professor new media/performance - Art University Berlin Weißensee. Kunsthochschule Berlin - Weißensee Berlin, Germany
• "Africanize" installation - Grassi Museum, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Leipzig, Germany
• "Africanize" installation KUNSTBANKEN Museum Hamar, Norway
• "Blackman in European Kitchen" - installation/performance, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
• "CharacterLAGOStika", Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Death of the curator" installation/performance, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
• "CrossCulture" installation/performance - Goethe-Institute, Dakar, Senegal
• Publication "Death of the curator" drama. E.N.I Publishers, Berlin
• Group Show "Blackk Paris" African position on contemporary art of Diaspora. Paris France, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
• "Blackman in European Kitchen" - performance Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
• "Israel and Palestine" installation/performance Dakart 2006 Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
• "Junking of the Elephant" – destruction of a 20-ton heavy "Elephant" Monument of re-enforced Steel Concrete - Before a live Audience. For the Ecology and nature
• "Death of the curator" installation/performance, Grassi museum Leipzig, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Germany^[3]
• Guest professor sculpture - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA
• Publication "Maskuaradeundressing" (poems, tales and stories), CPN publishers, England
• "Water Burns" - exhibition/installation on "Water Uses" in the New Millennium Vienna, Austria
• "History of love" - sculptures and paintings. Galerie im Prater, Berlin, Germany
• Making of "Elephant" (20 ton monument for nature) und Making of "Leaf“ (7 meters high monument for nature) steel concrete
• "Characteristics of living things", Castle Colombi Park, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• "Parts of CIay" - Centre Monroe for the Arts, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
• "Clear Walls" - Lisa Parker Fine Art New York, USA
• "Parables" - National museum, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Creation Story" - Albertus - Magnus - Haus, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• Drawing School, University of Lagos, Nigeria.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography[]

• Emmanuel Eni: Death of the curator. Berlin 2007.
• Emmanuel Eni: Elephants and new – light paintings (Ausstellung vom 19. August bis 9. Oktober 2011, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Hrsg.: Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Kulturamt. Projektmitarbeiter: Anja Braun, Stefan Martinkat)
• Emmanuel Eni: The Art of Blackman in European Kitchen. 2017.

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• Death of the Curator-Kunstinstallation im Leipzig Museum of Ethnography (German)
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