Aderemi Adegbite | |
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| Born | 28th February, 1982 Ebute Metta, Lagos State, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Occupation(s) | Contemporary artist, curator, poet, publisher |
| Website | www |
Aderemi Adegbite (born 1982, Yoruba, Lagos, Nigeria) is a contemporary artist-curator, poet, and publisher.
Aderemi [1] was born Abdullah Aderemilekun Adegbite in Iwaya, Lagos State, Nigeria, a neighbouring community to Makoko both on the land and waterfront. At age 9, he relocated to his home town, Inisa where he lived with his aunt until he was 12. He returned to Lagos to live with his parents and further his education. At an early age, Aderemi would freely draw on the back page of coupons in his father's Pool House and past the drawings on the wall. He spent several years learning from his father, the business of gambling determined by the winnings and draws of the UEFA Champions League.
Subsequently, he started his independent artistic career partly as self-taught and partly through internships which exposed him to working with renowned cultural producers and curators through projects such as the travelling exhibition titled: “Africa: See You, See Me,” curated by Prof. Awam Amkpa of New York University and “White Money” a project of Flinn Works [2] in Berlin, Germany. In 2010, he conceived a project, P.A.G.E.S [3] – a confluence of visual art and literature. This project got the approval of the late Bisi Silva, and it was part of several exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA, Lagos) [4] until 2013. His curatorial interest is in the interception between literature, performance, and social and visual arts. He has consistently collaborated with local and international performance artists on his social art projects.
In May 2016, the Vernacular Art-space Laboratory [5] (VAL Lagos) started as a non-space artist-led and artist-run initiative with its first project being the Iwaya Community Art Festival which metamorphosed into the Iwaya Community Art Biennial. A platform founded by Aderemi is dedicated to promoting artists' projects that serve as conduits for disseminating artistic interventions. The series of community interventions and projects on this platform embody Aderemi's belief in the power of art as a catalyst for social change. More than fifteen international artists have participated in the festival since 2016, apart from Communal Re-Imagination [6] – an alternative art education program funded by the Prince Claus Fund through its Next Generation grant. VAL Lagos continues to work with young people in the Iwaya Community and environs with projects like VAL Satellite Lab – an extracurricular art program in collaboration with high schools around the community.
The Tutùọlá Institute [7] is an alternative artistic platform for critical reflection and practices in our post-colonial world. The institute aims to promote the Yoruba language, philosophy, spirituality and culture in selected countries while fostering international cooperation and collaboration with private and public cultural institutions, artist collectives and networks within the creative industries. As an artistic intervention, it challenges the concept of "cultural relations" and "soft power" used by the Global North as an instrument of foreign mission. The institute was inaugurated in 2021 at Sophiensaele, [8] Berlin, it invited artists from Germany, Brazil, and Tanzania whose works reflect the theme of inequality and humanity. The White Money [9] project addresses the complex issues surrounding the management of money and the phenomenon of power games between institutions and cultural actors in the Global North and the Global South. Tutùọlá Institute [10] is registered as a private company Limited by Guarantee Charity in Nigeria with the registration number: RC: 1839417. [11] And with a home office in Iwaya Community on Lagos Mainland. Aderemi Adegbite is the Director-at-Large of Tutùọlá Institute.
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