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OPENARTEXCHANGE
Hoogstraat 85
3111 HC Schiedam Pays-Bas
Mobile : +31 (0)6 13 52 81 18
Mail : joke.bakker@openartexchange.com
Responsable : Joke Bakker-Jansen
Hoogstraat 85
3111 HC Schiedam Pays-Bas
Mobile : +31 (0)6 13 52 81 18
Mail : joke.bakker@openartexchange.com
Responsable : Joke Bakker-Jansen
OpenArtExchange is a young and fast growing, independent international art gallery, founded in 2018, with a 600 m2 art space in the museum quarters of Schiedam (Rotterdam-region). It aims to be a platform where non-western, professional artists could exhibit high quality, contemporary art along with their Western peers, all building onto healthy international careers. We promote and sell our collection, consisting of paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and occasionally installations and photography, via several channels mainly within Europe. These channels range from offline (gallery, art fairs and festivals), to online (own website/ social media and 3rd party art platforms Artsy and ArtNet/ArtNet Auctions).
For art lovers this translates into a fine collection of African contemporary art within a reasonable price range, from internationally acknowledged artists mainly from Angola, Congo, Nigeria and Benin, next to contemporary art from seasoned western oriented artists mainly from the Netherlands.
We bring to Lille ArtUp! a great selection of mainly contemporary African art in varying sizes from a mix of emerging African artists and some more seasoned ones. Most of these works were created recently for the exposition “The lightness of being” reflecting on a sobering of the mind after more than 2 years of pandemic. A revaluation of the simple life steering away from consumerism and the endless need for growth. Going back to the core of being. A return to the warmth of close kin, re-discovering the joys of belonging, the beauty of nature, enjoying the small gestures of life, the sun on your face. Also a return to experimenting with beautiful forms, colors and light, rich textures and intuitive painting styles for the mere sake of enjoying it.
Like the impressionist painted their most delightful paintings full of light and happiness against the backdrop of one of the most bloodiest periods in Paris. Like Milan Kundera’s heroes in “The unbearable lightness of being” found their way back to love in the countryside against the backdrop of the violent repression of the Prague Spring revolution.
Featured artists :
PATRICK MUSOMBWA- 1988
His colourful, expressionist paintings and collages with layered textures exploit the themes of man’s life and walk represented by deformed bodies and faces. In his surrealist works he fuses influences of Edvard Munch with 3D effects and abstract elements.SAM OVRAITI- 1961
Colourist Ovraiti shows oil and acrylic paintings with heavy textures, fusing clear influences of Picasso with the colours and light of the French impressionists and his own inimitable touch. Being among the seasoned, most influential painters in Nigeria today, his works radiate a universal beauty…SANDA AMADOU- 1978
The unexpected universe is a largely black and white world with a tinge of colour, somewhere between reality and fantasy. With his unique semi-abstract visual language, Amadou reinterprets the nomadic Fulani universe and brings it to life. A dream world formed by various entangled and…KINGSLEY OGWARA
Ogwara is a master orchestrator of colours and forms, who intuitively expresses the common denominating feeling that is shared, the harmony that can be found and connects us all. His layered, rich textures give away the sculptor within him, adding 3-D effect to his canvasses.