#UPCOMING: On this episode we speak to curator and founder of Phílos Nigeria, Asibi Danjuma on inventing new strategies for business in the African Art Market and navigating the economical downturn.

📖 PHILOS is a framework that merges fine Art and literature in exploring the profundity of the African continent based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Day-to-day, Asibi builds corporate collections and works with a select few artists in developing their artistic voices. She has produced several exhibitions for artists such as Fidelis Joseph, Kadara Enyeasi, Jonah Bulus and Ugochukwu Emebiriodo to name a few.

Asibi has contributed her expertise on the Nigerian art market to the Financial Times and served as a mentor for Art Bridge Project and Kuta Arts Foundation. In addition, her prose has been published by London, New-York and Hamburg based Art Publishers, Montez Press.

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On this episode we have a special interview with curator, writer and photographer, Aisha Aliyu-Bima, who opens her largest curated project next week at the Yemisi Shyllon Museum in Lagos, Nigeria.

Titled, ’AREWA?’, this exhibition presents a deep and nuanced look at Northern Nigeria, featuring its various cultures, its people and the predominant ideas that make up Northern identity in today's Nigeria. With a long history of Negative Stereotypes fuelled by the media where northern parts of Nigeria have been seen to have alot of insecurity, violence, underdevelopment and more, Aisha walks us through the historical and cultural necessity of this exhibition, and its need for demystifying the preconceived views of the north.

With a whopping 40 Artists and over 80+ works, This exhibition will be the first of its kind at the museum and probably the most comprehensive curatorial undertaking of Northern Art to date.

Aisha is the Director of Arts at the African School of Economics, Abuja, Nigeria. Her work mainly focuses on Africa's contemporary arts through the lens of Language, Conflict, Material and Reparations.

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On this episode, we speak to designer-cum-curator Olufisayo Bakare on her journey to becoming a curator, the responsibilities of holding such a position and the future of the African Art Market as it relies on specific industry stakeholders.

Nowadays the verb “to curate” appears frequently in our everyday lives, we listen to curated playlist, eat from curated menus and even stream films from curated platforms but we rarely discuss the importance of the curatorial practice in the visual arts.

With a background in Interior Design, Olufisayo Bakare has trained her eye to find the rare balance between simplicity with African artistry in her work. Her keen interest in ‘carving the phenomenal out of the familiar’ has inspired her curatorial practice by establishing her as an ally in the preservation, documentation, and representation of African culture through various art forms. She is an integral part of the ‘Precolonial Societies of Nigeria’ program, formulating the teaching manual for the Ile-Ife pre-colonial society. Buttressing this, Bakare is an active member of the ongoing ‘Museums of the Future’ program facilitated by Geothe Institut. She is also the Founder of Interior Living, and The Yellow of Lagos.