Amman, Jordan – 22 May 2025 — Under the esteemed patronage of HRH Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi, the group exhibition "Art & Dialogue" opened last Thursday at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts. The event was attended by the Ambassador of the European Union to Jordan, alongside numerous ambassadors, diplomatic missions, and cultural figures.
The International Alumni Archive (TIAA)
Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya's contribution to TIAA explores international student mobility from East Africa in the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. In the essay, he highlights the political turmoil in British East Africa at the height of colonial independence and the correlations with the Cold War rivalries that led to the international scholarship architecture of multinational programs designed to promote US-American and Soviet political and economic models in East Africa.
9 to 5 - Eine Frage Der Zeit (A Question of Time)
Merchants of Sacred Favour (2024)
An illuminated poster in a public space can theoretically override the time of day and night and represent its own light source for its surroundings. If disturbed, its create a flickering effects that can be perceived as unpleasant or even counterproductive.
Nicholas Mboya’s work shows ten different graphic announcements from so-called charismatic churches, protestant congregations, in Kenya.
Politics of Love
Burden of Honour I & II, 2024
Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya’s (*1992, Kisumu, KE) multimedia practice is informed by his interest in transnational realities, currently focusing on Germany and Kenya. He primarily engages in subject-matter concerning religion, economy, language, space and identity politics, including its impact on cultural and traditional behaviours.
“9 TO 5 - EINE FRAGE DER ZEIT” ICAT, HFBK HAMBURG
Group Exhibition
Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg
Opening event will take place on Thursday 12th December 2024 at 19:00
The Exhibition runs on the 13th.Dec 2024 - 26th Jan 2025
“POLITICS OF LOVE” KUNST HAUS HAMBURG
Group exhibition
Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg
Opening event will take place on Friday 30th November 2024 at 19:00
The Exhibition runs on the 30th.Nov 2024 - 2nd Feb 2025
October 2024 – The five new travel scholarship holders have been chosen: We are looking forward to Katja Pilipenko, Nicholas Mboya, Anna Stuedeli, Simone Kessler & Mohammad Poori
REISESTIPENDIUM 2025
“HUMAN ENCOUNTERS”, ACADEMY SELECTION 2024
Group exhibition at Galerie Kellermann
Heinrich-Heine- Allee 12 Düsseldorf, Germany
Opening event will take place on Friday 19th April 2024 at 18:00
HFBK JAHRESAUSSTELLUNG
2024
REVIEW
February 13, 2024
During the tour, the multidisciplinary Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya transforms the entrance hall of the HFBK into a sacral cathedral of sound. Sounds of various Kenyan church services as well as German church bells can be heard from the loudspeakers, creating chaotic sound collisions at changing time intervals. In doing so, the artist raises the question of who has control over the acoustic environment of the public and private.
Theresa Weise, Gallerytalk.net
Thank you for having us
Exhibition
2023
REVIEW
October 16, 2023
About twenty official documents hang on the wall of the gallery space in the Frappant. The installation "Rite of Passage" traces the bureaucratic path of the artist Nicholas Mboya. Several rows of documents scanned by him show the official view of him. Each document also features a self-portrait of the artist from different perspectives. Alternating between Kenya and Germany, a chronological path can be traced as well as an adaptation of the self to the respective institutions.
Katrin Krumm, Gallerytalk.net
Transit Point,
HFBK Repositorium
Article
2023
In the work Transit Point, Nicholas Mboya addresses the geo-lingual identity as an immigrant in Germany while looking at its patterns of transcendence through a national and global lens. Transit Point aims to respond to the rapidly developing lingua franca in Kenya, Sheng. Sheng is a local slung, primarily a mix of English and Swahili, and other local vernacular embeddings spoken among the youths in Kenya.
Nicholas Mboya, HFBK Repositorium
Lingua Franca as a
Communication
Transit Point
Article
2023
Based on the language policy of his home country Kenya, Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya takes a look at the language dynamics in Germany, at the HFBK Hamburg and proposes a compromise language to reconcile local and international needs.
Nicholas Mboya, Lerchenfeld Magazine issue 67