Bikoka Art Project
BIKOKA ART PROJECT
A new initiative fostering artistic and professional opportunities for local youth and women, and supporting the next generation of creatives in Lolodorf, Cameroon
Bikoka Art Project is a new independent initiative dedicated to providing artistic and professional opportunities to local youth and women, and supporting the next generation of creatives in Lolodorf, Cameroon.
Community & Environment
Developed in dialogue with the local community, and in harmony with the area’s cultural heritage and natural environment, Bikoka Art Project will first run as an online and open-air art project. It will also host some of its first events at existing local facilities.
Activities
Its activities will include artists commissions, workshops, young talents programmes, exhibitions and performances. Its first orientations will focus on history and traditional knowledge more particularly around plants, music and architecture. It will also seek to work in collaboration with artists and art organisations in Cameroon, Africa and globally.
Bikoka Art Project is located in the quiet and green area of Bikoka on a vast site that will evolve into an art centre, enabling to expand its activities to include an artists, curators and art writers residency, an exhibition space, art library, and a sculpture garden.
Exhibitions
Bikoka Art Project @ 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Somerset House, London
13-16 October 2022
Portrait of a Community - Features of a Land
Municipal Foyer, Lolodorf
11 - 25 February 2022
Commissions
Video
Yvon Ngassam
Portrait of a Community - Features of a Land (series)
2021-2022
In this video excerpt Yvon Ngassam interviews Messa Jeannine, a local matriarch recounting her arrival in Lolodorf in the 1970s and discussing some of the issues experienced by local women.
Media
‘Bikoka Art Project: A New Art Initiative in the South Province of Cameroon’, Will Furtado interviews Christine Eyene. Contemporary And (C&), 27 May 2022.
‘Bikoka Art Project launches in Cameroon’, Art Africa, 14 Feb 2022.
Read also
‘The Power of the Pan-African Artistic Exchange’, Vanessa Peterson interviews Maria Varnava. Frieze, 7 March 2022.
Support
Support Bikoka Art Project by purchasing a limited edition photographic print by Cameroonian artist Yvon Ngassam or through donations.
Donations to Eyonart will support Bikoka Art Project’s future artists commissions, community workshops, and the training of emerging creatives and art professionals.