Bookmark and Share

Contact / Inquiry

Languages

Yinka Shonibare

First Name Last Name
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z all
Yinka Shonibare
Artist's Name: Yinka Shonibare
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1962
Nationality: GB
City: London

Yinka Shonibare auf MyArtSpace

MyArtSpace is a free platform for artists who want to present their work.
home page of MyArtSpace

If you are Yinka Shonibare you can create your own free profile page on MyArtSpace.
Please send your request here.

Reports of Yinka Shonibare:

Download Free Report of Yinka Shonibare - pdf-file for free

Yinka Shonibare - Profile

The nigerian artrist Yinka Shonibare deals in his installations, objects and photographs with historical, cultural and economic contexts. The basis for this are, among others, literature and paintings, as well as an intense preoccupation with clothes and fashion as meaning and identity. The protagonists of his "tableau vivants" He dresses in period costume-perfect, however, from "African" fabrics .. The complex history of the material makes it clear that their supposedly safe allocated only one origin of the trade routes of colonial powers shaped design ist.1962 born in London, grew up in Nigeria and later returned to London, Yinka Shonibare is itself an example of the increasing hybridization of unique cultural or national definitions that are dealing with culture in cosmopolitan times has changed fundamentally. (Kunsthalle Wien)

important exhibitions from Yinka Shonibare

Exhibition Location City Country Date
49. Biennale Venedig 2001 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 10.06.2001
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child Miami US 31.10.2008
Turner Prize 2004 - shortlist Turner Prize London GB 20.10.2004
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara US 14.03.2009
Yinka Shonibare MBE Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Sydney AS 24.09.2008
Arsenale 2012: The First Kiev International Biennale Center for Contemporary Art, Kiew Kiew UA 24.05.2012
Yinka Shonibare Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art Brooklyn US 26.06.2009
Take Two - Worlds and Views - Contemporary Art from the Collection MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 14.09.2005
Yinka Shonibare Kunsthalle Wien Wien AT 14.05.2004
Les artistes contemporains au Louvre Louvre Paris FR 20.10.2006

WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Yinka Shonibare

Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube

21/04/2012 - 05/08/2012
Claudia Angelmaier Hubert Becker Joseph Beuys Mike Bidlo François Boucher Giorgio de Chirico Lovis Corinth
...
Karlsruhe

Arsenale 2012: The First Kiev International Biennale

24/05/2012 - 31/07/2012
Ai Weiwei Makoto Aida Lara Baladi Kader Attia Phyllida Barlow Lutz Becker Louise Bourgeois
...
Kiew

artist's website


external Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution:
Yinka Shonibare

Galleries representing
Yinka Shonibare:

James Cohan
Stephen Friedman Gallery

Collections representing
Yinka Shonibare

ARCO Foundation Collection
Arts Council Collection
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Moderna Museet Malmö
MUSAC Leon - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA
National Galleries of Scotland
National Museum of African Art
Speed Art Museum
Tate Britain
Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst