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“Free my soul” by Dennis Adwar
Published: October 11th, 2020
“In this interview with Dennis Adwar, He discusses the inspiration behind his new and wonderful wood craft art titled “Free my soul”. View the video here:
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“Inside” by Eltayeb Dawelbait
Published: September 20th, 2020
In an exclusive interview with Kendi Art, Eltayeb talks about his latest work – an untitled piece from his COVID – 19 series. His technique consists of grating at wood to glimpse at its past lives, an apt approach as he explores the impact of the pandemic on who we are, how we live our […]
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“Belongings” by Anne Mwiti
Published: May 9th, 2020
In an exclusive interview with Kendi Art, Anne N. Mwiti breaks down a piece from her latest series “Isolationism”. Anne is an award-winning contemporary artist from Kenya and a Fine Art lecturer at Kenyatta University. At the age of five, she discovered different media of expression and recalls her first drawing to be that of […]
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Our End Year Events
Published: February 13th, 2020
Art Masters with Peter Elung’at We celebrated our second anniversary with the launch of the Art Masters series and co-hosted the first event with renowned Kenyan artist Peter Elung’at at his Akachit in Rangau, Ongata Rongai. The purpose of the Art Masters series is to promote awareness, access and purchase of local art by the […]
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Kendi Art On Visual Arts And Trade In Kenya
Published: January 30th, 2020
In a discussion on visual arts and trade during Goethe-Institut Kenya’s IMARA Roundtable, Kendi Art Founder & Director expounds on incorporating entrepreneurial skills in production and distribution of artwork to create sustainable careers for artists in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Kenya. The dynamic growth of the cultural and creative industry is propelled by […]
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Art & Finance Conference
Published: April 1st, 2019
ART COLLECTING AS A WISE INVESTMENT Article by: MARGARETTA WA GACHERU When Mutuma Murangu isn’t trading in commodities, he’s pioneering on the cutting edge of art collecting in Kenya. Specializing in stone, Mutuma is hardly a household name in the Kenyan art world. Indeed, he only started exhibiting part of his large collection of stone […]
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In Quest To Take Kenyan Art To The World!
Published: September 23rd, 2018
Online sales site Kendiart in quest to take Kenyan art to the world – Daily Nation Article by: MARGARETTA WA GACHERU Ever since Christine ‘Kui’ Ng’ang’a bought her first piece of Kenyan art, a surrealist painting by John Silver Kimani at Kuona Trust in 2012, she has been fascinated by contemporary Kenyan art. But this […]
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Kendi Art Running Into The New Year
Published: December 15th, 2017
One special appeal of Kendi Art is that Kui has done extensive research on the issue of shipping artworks and has been able to solve and simplify that problem so that shipping is no longer something that keeps Kenyans from purchasing the art.
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Kendi Art Marketplace Launch
Published: November 24th, 2017
Online marketplace for East African Contemporary Art launches Nairobi, Kenya – November 24, 2017 Kendi Art Limited, the first fully integrated online marketplace for contemporary art from East Africa today announced the launch of its website, www.kendiart.com. The company, which prides itself on curating some of the best works of art from established and new […]
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