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30/05/2026

Windows of Venice ✨

While exploring Venice, was drawn to the city’s windows. Overlooking canals, courtyards, and narrow streets, each one offered a different perspective on the life unfolding beyond it.

Collected throughout his walks, each window becomes a reminder that every view is partial, and that new ways of seeing often begin with a simple shift in position.
This idea also extends to art, understood as a set of openings onto the world: spaces of exchange where contemporary practice meets broader cultural contexts, each offering a different way of looking and understanding.

23/05/2026

Inside the world of Murano Glass with

During his time on Murano island, moved through workshops and furnaces, observing the precision, rhythm, and physicality behind each process. Between heat, breath, and molten material, every moment reveals the balance between control and unpredictability that defines Murano’s glass-making tradition.

Spending time alongside master artisans and glass makers offered a closer understanding of a practice where technique is inseparable from memory, and where knowledge continues to pass through observation, repetition, and daily work.

Thank you Dylan for taking the time!

14/05/2026

Venice Encounters ✨

During the opening weeks of Biennale Arte 2026, Venice becomes a shifting landscape of conversations, shared time, and unexpected meetings. Between pavilion visits, walks across the city, and moments spent at the gallery admiring ’s works, each day was shaped by the people passing by.
Some encounters reconnect existing friendships, while others emerge naturally through the rhythm and intensity of the weeks.

Across these days, a living network of interactions begins to form, held together by curiosity, presence, and the experience of gathering around art.

07/05/2026

Opened today: “BLACKBOX”, a solo exhibition by Dawit Abebe, currently in residency at AKKA Project Venice.

Working across painting and mixed media, Abebe develops a layered visual language shaped by memory, perception, and the complex intersections between social, political, and human–technology dynamics. In BLACKBOX, the concept of the “black box” becomes both poetic and analytical: a metaphor for memory as fragmented, shifting, and never fully accessible. Through vibrant, stratified compositions, figures, symbols, and text emerge and dissolve, resisting fixed interpretation and inviting viewers into an open field of meaning.

Recurring elements, such as barefoot figures, suspended forms, and textual traces, act as thresholds between personal and collective histories, reflecting on identity, transformation, and the ambiguity of progress.

📅 Open Studio Visit: May 7–9, 2026
Reserve your spot via the ARTSVP link in bio.
📍 On view until June 15, 2026

25/04/2026

Exciting news! ✨

has landed in Venice!

His distinctive perspective and practice bring a fresh energy, and we’re looking forward to seeing how his ideas will take shape within the context of Venice.

As the 13th artist in residence at AKKA Project from now on, Dawit will be taking over our Instagram, sharing glimpses of Venice through his own lens.

Stay tuned as this creative dialogue unfolds and new work begins to take shape.

23/04/2026

Alexandre Kyungu has been selected among the artists featured in the opening of MUVEC – Casa della Contemporaneità, the new Contemporary Art Museum in Mestre.

This recognition traces back to 2023, when Alexandre took part in the AFRICA 1:1 Residency Program hosted at AKKA Project Venezia, where an initial exchange gave rise to a dialogue that has continued to unfold over time.

Today, we celebrate this achievement in Mestre’s new home for contemporary art, where Kyungu’s work is presented alongside and .

Congratulations Alexandre!

13/04/2026

We are pleased to share that Franklyn Dzingai has been selected for the Zimbabwe Pavilion, curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, at the 2026 Biennale Arte di Venezia.

Born in 1988 in Kwekwe and based in Harare, Dzingai developed his artistic language through printmaking studies at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art Studio, emerging as one of the few artists in Zimbabwe primarily dedicated to this medium.

Using cardboard in a reductive relief technique, he transforms humble materials into vibrant, intricately layered compositions enriched with collage and drawing.

We had the pleasure of presenting his work in 2022 in the group exhibition “African Identities” at our gallery, and we are delighted to see his practice gain this important international recognition.

07/04/2026

We are delighted to see Kaloki Nyamai invited to participate among the 111 artists of the 61st Biennale Arte di Venezia.

Born in 1985 in Nairobi, where he lives and works, Nyamai’s multidisciplinary practice explores the relationship between ancestral memory and contemporary experience across painting, metal, video, and installation.

His collaboration with AKKA Project includes “Washa, Simple Tales in Complex Times” (2017–2018, Dubai) and “Africa & the Other 54 Countries: Focus on Kenya” (2018–2019, Dubai), key moments in his international trajectory. His work is also part of the .k.k.a.collection

We warmly congratulate him on this distinguished achievement and look forward to seeing his work during the Biennale.

31/03/2026

We are proud to congratulate Ronex Ahimbisibwe on his selection for the Uganda Pavilion, curated by Taga Francis Nuwagaba, at the 2026 Biennale Arte In Minor Keys, envisioned by Koyo Kouoh.

Born in Rucence, Uganda, in 1977 and based in Kampala, Ahimbisibwe has been working with our gallery since 2016. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, photography, furniture, and installation, driven by studio research into the subconscious, personal limits, and creative freedom. Rejecting fixed styles or media hierarchies, his work blends contradictions and transforms emotions into tangible forms.

Using materials from bark cloth and banana fibers to metal and recycled elements, Ahimbisibwe continues to expand the dialogue between materiality and imagination.

We warmly celebrate this milestone and look forward to experiencing his work within the context of the Biennale.

For available works, please DM.

Iter by Ronex Ahimbisibwe
Olis and Mixed Media on Canvas
96x80 cm

28/03/2026

Following Koyo Kouoh’s curatorial vision of working “in minor keys”, this year’s Biennale invites slower looking, layered narratives, and practices that resist simplification.

Across pavilions and exhibitions, artists engage memory, identity, ecology, and speculative futures, shaping a conversation where multiple centers coexist and contemporary art is continuously redefined. Far from the margins, African perspectives emerge as vital forces within the global cultural landscape.

Our latest article traces the African Pavilions and the ideas connecting them across Venice.

Read the full article via the link in bio!

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