Curating Africa’s Finest Artistic Voices
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Where art brings people together culture. community. creativity
In many cultures, the kolanut is more than an offering it is a symbol of hospitality, connection, and shared experience.
Kolanut Gallery is built on this same spirit. A space where art brings people together, sparks conversations, and creates moments of reflection. Here, every work invites you in. Every encounter matters.
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Kolanut Gallery
Just because the lizard nods his head doesn’t mean he is in agreement.
A Group Exhibition
Artist
AKACHUKWU, CHUKWUEMEKA
My works are presented as a collection of short stories. Each piece is a complete narrative yet it is linked to others; its completeness is drawn from others’. I want the viewers through my art, to arrive at a point where they can engage the artworks completely on their own. My purpose is to bring the viewer to a point where dialogue with each artwork becomes effortless, where the viewer can engage with the works losing conscious of time.
Artist
ABIMBOLA RUKAYAT SADIQ
I am a visual artist working primarily with acrylics in impasto style, using palette knife techniques to create textured, expressive works that explore human experiences through an African lens. Rooted in personal narratives and cultural heritage, my practice challenges stereotypes and highlights the depth, resilience, and beauty of African identity.
My art is deeply inspired by lived experiences and cultural heritage. Through bold strokes and tactile surfaces, I explore themes of identity, womanhood, strength, and transformation…
ARTIST
CLEMENT MMADUKO NWAFOR
An award-winning contemporary Nigerian artist and the creative art director of Clemspeter Art Creations Limited, who lives and works in Abuja. He had long started his art subconsciously as a child when he would spend hours drawing with crayons and coloured pencils. As time went by, he took up apprenticeship under Master Philip Nzekwe who has guided and trained his eyes in sculpture, while he has gone ahead to execute numerous commissions in sculpture and thereafter, he also went ahead to learn and develop his skills on painting under a renowned Nigerian artist, Oswald Uruakpa, in 2011…
Artist
MOSES IBANGA
A Nigerian visual expressionist known for his innovative use of unconventional materials. Ibanga explores and experiments with diverse media to articulate and share fascination with history and events, a process that continually informs his creative experience .In his recent explorations, off cut leather finds a new expression, accommodating a spectrum of colours and textures. These materials offer an alternative view point – where the end of one circle marks the beginning of another creative process, seamlessly blending reality with imagination.
Artist
UCHAY JOEL CHIMA
Uchay Joel Chima is an internationally renowned artist living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. He graduated in 1997 from the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu, Nigeria and has exhibited in prominent galleries in Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chima currently has studios in Lagos, Nigeria and Houston, Texas.
ARTIST
UCHE UZORAKA
Born in 1974 in Delta State, Nigeria, Uche Uzorka’s practice incorporates painting, collage, cutting and pasting, charcoal, and ink drawing. For his intricate ink drawings, first there’s plane paper, and then there’s the intermittent interaction of pen lines, shapes, and forms. The process continues until there are the organic outcomes of the continuous relations between open spaces, covered spaces, and the shapes and forms in between…
Artist
AMARACHI OKAFOR
My Paintings, Sculptures, and Installations explore transformation and innovation while communicating playfulness and quiet enjoyment. I engage the histories that are fixed in used things, which tell of our lived lives held within them, as they have witnessed these. They bear our past and present actions, and in their tale about these, they reveal our future. They embody memory. I investigate and try to fathom this memory and experience…
Kolanut Gallery is delighted to announce its inaugural Open Call for visual artists as part of the gallery’s official opening in Abuja. This exhibition is more than a showcase — it is an invitation to build a creative community from the ground up.
Kolanut Gallery is founded on the belief that art thrives where community thrives. As we open our doors, we want to celebrate the artists who shape the cultural landscape of Abuja every day. This open call is an opportunity to gather, connect, and uplift the diverse voices that make this city vibrant.
We welcome artists of all ages, working across all mediums, and at every stage of their creative journey in Abuja. Whether you are emerging, self‑taught, or established, your perspective matters here.
