Emmanuel Eni

Emmanuel Eni AKA Blackman in European Kitchen ( bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1967), o nyɛla Nigerian-born German yili yiina ni yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi tira. O nyɛla bɛ ni mi ka o nyɛ painter, sculptor, multimedia artist, performance artist nti pahi poet. Bɛ ni mi shɛli ni THE NATION Newspapers nyɛla din buɣisi o ni o nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumdi so ŋun mali kpaŋmaŋ pam o tuma polo. Punpɔŋɔ na, o daa nyɛla ŋun pahi yuuni 2020 yili yiini gonaate kpaɣi di la puuni nti Forbes.

Exhibitions

"Hope of Love" paintings and sculptures Germany, "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
• "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 - Grassimuseum Grassi Museum, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Leipzig, Germany
• "Africanize" installation kunstbanken hamar Hamar, Norway
• "Blackman in European Kitchen" - installation/performance, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
• "CharacterLAGOStika", Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Death of the curator" installation/performance, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
• "CrossCulture" installation/performance - Goethe-Institut Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
• Publication "Death of the curator" drama. E.N.I Publishers, Berlin
• Group Show "Black 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 Dak'Art 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
• Guest professor sculpture - rhode island school of design (risd) (RISD), USA
• Publication "Masquaradeundressing" (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", Archäologisches Museum Colombischlössle Archeology museum of Castle Colombi, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• "Parts of Clay" - 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.

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.

"Kindonkind"- Poetry anthology. 321 pages of 600 poems published in Germany 2021

External links

• Death of the Curator-Kunstinstallation Archived 2018-07-07 at the Wayback Machine im Leipzig Museum of Ethnography (German)
• Blackman in European Kitchen - public figure on Facebook