One of Kenya's video art pioneers

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One of Kenya's video art pioneers

Sometime during August 2002, the Nairobi Arts Trust signed a collaboration protocol with the European satellite of the Centre for Contemporary Art of Africa (Camouflage) in Brussels, Belgium, by Jimmy Ogonga

Whereas many artists who emerged from Africa's art scene, beginning 1980s to the 90s were mainly self taught, Kenyan-German new media and video artist Ingrid Mwangi, belongs to the generation of those who went through art school. And then managed to break free from the limiting conventions of formalized schooling, having attained the crucial yet elusive point where one is no longer a fugitive of training. She now creates pieces that interrogate intercultural social and political transactions as discovered through her self-replicated African and European background.

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