Ebele Okoye

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Ebele Okoye (born October 6, 1969 in Onitsha , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian painter and animation artist.

Life

After studying art at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) in Enugu (Nigeria) from 1985 to 1989, she worked as a freelance graphic artist and cartoonist in Lagos, Nigeria. From 1995 she devoted herself exclusively to painting.

In 2000 she migrated to Germany and studied communication design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . It was formed from 2003 at the International Film School Cologne to cartoons and animation illustrator on. In 2009 she drew the animated film Anna Blume . In 2010 she made the five-minute short film The Essence , which received several awards.

She has lived in Berlin since 2008 .

Ebele Okoye regularly shows her work in group and solo exhibitions.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1995 Storms of the Heart - National Museum, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1996 Realities 1 - Didi Museum, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1998 Selectet Paintings ans Portraits in Oil - American Embassy Center, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1999 New Culture - Didi Museum, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 2001 Woman about Woman - Cologne
  • 2002 Nomadic Diaries - Allerweltshaus, Cologne and Galerie am Lieglweg, Neulengbach ( Austria )
  • 2003 Between Territories - Galerie HAUS 23, Cottbus

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995 Mirrors of Society - National Museum, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1996 Nigeria / China Cooperative Exhibition - Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1996 Selected Nigerian Artists on behalf of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Nigeria - South Korea
  • 1997 Small-Small Things - National Museum, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 1998 The Rape of Nature - Brazilian Embassy, ​​Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 2000 Threshold of Peace - Abuja , (Nigeria)
  • 2001 Women about Women - Goethe-Institut, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • 2003 Ipade encounter - Afro-Asian Institute (gallery), Vienna (Austria)
  • 2004 Globalia - Women's Museum , Bonn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ebele Okoye. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Böll Foundation, 1, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 25, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.migration-boell.de  
  2. ↑ Susanne Messmer: This is where ideas fly. taz, October 16, 2012, accessed October 25, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Okoye, Ebele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Onitsha , Nigeria