Our 2024 exhibition Hakuna Utopia? In Search of Micro-Utopias, explorers themes of utopia, apocalypse and resilience in response to the challenges we’ve observed living in the city of 6 million people.

Each artist in our collective has developed a body of work in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and site specific installations across the city that address utopia and its universal aspirational qualities. The exhibition will take place in our warehouse in the Industrial Area, as well as in satellite locations in Mathare, Mukuru, Lucky Summer, and the Nairobi Arboretum.

The artists have identified “micro- utopias” around the city, places where despite extremely challenging conditions, arts and environmental groups are enacting change on the community level. These micro-utopias will be highlighted through a micro-utopia map, which will showcase locations that offer a glimpse of a better future. Participants who visit the exhibition can get a micro-utopia passport and their passport will be stamped at each of the micro-utopia locations they visit. Each location will have an installation or performance art experience for the community to participate in and to encourage patrons of the arts to visit parts of the city that they would otherwise have never experienced.