UPCOMING

The Lagos Studio Archives will have its first solo exhibition at Autograph, London this Autumn entitled: Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos.


Ohiri to exhibit at Oodi - (Helsinki Central Library) later this year. Exact dates to be announced this summer. Stay tuned for more news.




 

PAST


08.12.23

Karl Ohiri & Riikka Kassinen are the greatful recipients of a two- year working grant from Kone Foundation. The grant will be used to support their Lagos Studio Archives project.

 

26.10.23 - 5-8pm

No One Knows Tomorrow: Archiving for the Future
G.A.S Foundation, Lagos Nigeria

Karl Ohiri and Fu'ad Lawal from Archivi.ng will be in conversation to discuss ideas around archiving, accessibility, and the challenges encountered in establishing self-initiated archives.

 

01.10.23 - 01.11.23

Karl Ohiri & Riikka Kassinen have been selected by Autograph to partcipate in a one month residency at G.A.S Foundation, Lagos with their Lagos Studio Archives Project.

 

6.07.23 - 29.10.23

Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes
South London Gallery, London

Lagos Studio Archives will feature in a group exhibition exploring connections between Lagos, Nigeria and Peckham in south east London.



08.06.23

Cultured Magazine Review: With "New Photography 2023," MoMA Asks What Lagos Can Tell Us About The State of the Genre.

 

28.05.23 - 16.09.23


New Photograhy 2023 - Museum of Modern Art

Presenting the work of 7 artists who explore the image as a social medium, united by their critical use of photographic forms.



23.05.23


MoMA Magazine Presents: Working With Time: Seven Photographers Share Their Creative Processes.



21.05.23 - 14.05.23


Peckham 24 Exhibition: Notes on a Native Son: After Baldwin. Featuring nine artists that explore the complexitiy and nuances of the Black male experience.

 

13.05.23


Peckham 24 Talks
Recaliming the Frame: The Black Male Body Redefined
Sunset Studios, London



19.04.23


Decentering the Document - MoMA (online)
An experimental platform for free-form critical discussions. Held on the occasion of the exhibition New Photography 2023.

 

02.11.22

Critical Workshop | Artist's Sessions: Itinerant Images
Organised by The Nlele Insitute (Lagos) and MoMA (New York)
Part of the (TNI) inagural Lagos Portfolio Review.

 

23.06.22 - 24.06.22

Two day Symposium: In a Pot of Hot Soup - Archives and the Making of the Past in the Future, SOAS University of London.

 

03.05.22

Ohiri will form part of the jury for Deptford X Supported. Founded in 1998, Deptford X is London's longest running visual arts festival.


12.04.22 - 09.07.22

Care | Contagion | Community - Self & Other (Touring)
Exhibition touring to Impressions gallery in Bradford, UK

 

23.12.21

Care, Contagion, Community, Self and Other, featured on the Guardian online.

 

28.10.21

Lagos Studio Archives have contributed images for the Land of Twins publication by Benedict Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde.



23.09.21 - 12.02.22

Care | Contagion | Community - Self & Other
Group exhibition and book launch at Autograph, London



12. 06.21

Power without Power taken down from Rele Gallery and loaned to a member of the public for the Democracy Day protest in Lagos.


23.05.21 -18.07.21

Terrains of Possibilty 
Group exhibition at Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria



10. 05.21

Ade Photo and Fumi Photo have been acquired by the Lagos Studio Archives.



31.03.21


Autograph's senior curator Renée Mussai reflects on the importance of their Covid-19 artist commissions in her text, One (Pandemic) Year On...


03.03.21

Ohiri's Autograph commission Equation for Humanity is now part of their public collection. The work reflects on what it means to be human during such challenging times.



27.01.21

Karl Ohiri has been invited by Falmouth University to present a guest lecture. The lecture will take place online and will only be available to Falmouth students.

 

04.01.21

Roadworks Media online panel discussion on 'The Future of the Creative Industry' the affects of the pandemic and the impact of Black Lives Matter on the industry.

 

20.11.20

Short Q&A available on the Tongues website. The site features a growing database of interviews from artists from around the world.



25.10.20

Work included on the Art Crush App. The App aims to make the Arts Council Collection accessible to all and will be available from Google Play and Apple App store.



08.06.20 - 18.07.20

Unquiet Moments Curated by The Courtauld Instituteof Art MA Curating the Art Museum students. The exhibition will take place online due to Covid-19.



29.06.20 - 5.30 - 7.30pm

Karl Ohiri & Mohini Chandra in Conversation, part of the 'Unquiet Moments' online public programme inconjunction with Somerset House.

 

15.05.20

Ohiri selected for Autograph's Care, Contagion, Community - Self & Other, a commission responding to the wider context of the Covid-19 crisis.



14.02.20 - 26.09.20

Go On Being So (Group Show)
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Newlyn, UK



26.10.19 - 30.11.19

Karl Ohiri will be presenting a new video work entitled 'Rolling Footage' at the 2nd Edition of the Lagos Biennial 2019. A review of the Biennial can be read here.

 

17.10.19 - 19.10.19

Karl Ohiri will be contributing to a paper by Valentine Umansky, part of Black Portraiture[s] V: Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future.

 

15.08.19

Presenting Work in Progress for PDF (Praksis Development Forum) Oslo, Norway.

 

07.08.19

'Lagos Studio Archives' has been awarded funding from the Arts Council England's Developing Your Creative Practice Grant.

 

29.07.19

'Lagos Studio Archives' featured on The Art Momentum. The article is written by Dr Jareh Das and explores the aims and motivations behind the project. Click Here to read.

 

01.07.19 - 30.07.19

'Nollywood Nights' from the series 'Memories of You' will be exhibited at Open Walls. A group show coinciding with Les Recontres d'Arles 50th Anniversary.

 

11.05.19 - 24.11.19

Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen will be exhibiting in Personal Structures. A group show in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. The publication can be purchased here.

 

15.05.19

Presenting Practice - Visiting Artist at LCC University, London College of Communication.

 

15.03.19 - 14.04.19

'A Year in Protest' will be exhibited a Format International Photography Festival. Artists will be responding to the theme Forever/Now.

 

21.01.19

Omenka Online interview: Exploring the complexities of family, identity and collective histories.

 

07.11.18

Presenting Practice - Visiting Artist at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester.



18.08.18

'My Granddad's Car II' featured in Sculptorvox Vol 2: Blood & Wire. A magazine critiquing identity, politics, social history and the human body.

 

08.11.18

Lagos Studio Archives will be presented at the ParisPhoto Curators' Meeting. Bringing together professionals, focusing on art from Africa the Caribbean and France.

 

28.10.18

Guest artist on a panel led by Professor Abosede-George, discussing Art and the Archive, part of LagosPhoto 18 talks programme.

 

27.10.18 - 15.11.18

'Lagos Studio Archives' will be presented as an on-going project and talk at LagosPhoto Festival 2018.

 

14.06.18 - 15.07.18

Exhibiting in a group show entitled 'There Not There' Curated by the Courtauld Institute's MA Curating for the Museum students. Click here to read a review.

 

31.01.18

Ohiri and Kasinen's 'Medicine Man' is now part of the Wellcome Collection. The acquisition is available for viewing on request from the Wellcome Collection Library.

 

20.10.17 - 29.10.17

Karl Ohiri will exhibiting at Frequency Festival - A digital arts and culture biennial set in Lincoln. The artist will install a greeting flag exploring the festival theme of DisPLACEment.



03.07.17 - 24.09.17

Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen will be exhibiting in a group show at the Reattu Museum entitled 'Recontes a Reattu' curated by Andy Neyrotti and part of Recontres d'Arles 2017.



19.05.17 - 29.05.17

Karl Ohiri & Sayed Hasan will be exhibiting 'My Granddad's Car II' at Alchemy Festival 2017 at the Southbank Centre, London.



15.05.17 - 18.30 - 20.30

Karl Ohiri & Sayed Hasan, My Granddad's Car, in conversation with Raquel-Villa Pirez at SOAS University of London.



28.04.17- 28.07.17

Karl Ohiri & Sayed Hasan have been invited by Bisi Silva to present 'My Granddad's Car' at the 2nd Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennial.



25.04.17

Karl Ohiri's work has been acquired by the Arts Council England Collection. The work is now available for loan to museums and galleries worldwide.



12.01.17 - 10.02.17

Ohiri & Hasan's 'My Granddad's Car' journey continues to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, in Greenwich. For exhibition details Click Here.



17.11.16 - 26.02.17

Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen's 'Boy Scout' portrait has been selected for the 2016 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.



12.11.16 - 31.12.16

Karl Ohiri & Sayed hasan will be exhibiting 'My Granddad's Car II' at the New Art Exchnage in Nottingham. For the exhibition listing click here.



20.06.16

Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen are delighted to announce that their portrait Medicine Man is now part of the Arles Photography Collections.



04.07.16 - 25.09.16

Karl Ohiri will be exhibiting at Rencontres d'Arles 2016 in a group show entitled Tear My Bra curated by Azu Nwagbogu.



06.05.16 - 21.05.16

Karl Ohiri's solo exhibition 'Sweet Mother' will premiere at Omenka Gallery, curated by Ohiri + Kassinen it features autobiographical works that span over a 5 year period.



26.11.15 - 17.01.16

'How To Mend A Broken Heart' to feature in the group show entitled 'Smile Orange' at the Cubitt Gallery, curated by Morgan Quaintance.

 

13.03.15 - 12.04.15

An Image You Were Never Meant To See will be exhibited as part of Format International Photography Festival 2015.