Emmanuel Eni

Emmanuel Eni (born 1967) is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.

Biography Eni is from Igbanke, in mid-west Nigeria. He received a degree from Igbobi College in Lagos, Nigeria. In 1984 he graduated from the polytechnic Auchi in the same city. The University of Benin awarded him a BA in sculpture in 1991. Afterwards, he attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where he received a degree in 1993. He is the writer and performer of "Black man in European Kitchen" and is also known as the "sculptor of elephants," and the "Father of 100 Elephants." His drama Death of the Curator was performed at the Museum of Ethnography in Leipzig.

He has repeatedly addressed the Israel-Palestine conflict in his works, as in the Dakar Biennale in 2006.

Exhibitions Eni has had exhibitions at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France, the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art) Senegal, and parallel at the Documenta 12 in Kassel. "Hope of Love" paintings and sculptures, Germany "THE BOOM" exhibition of new light painting art and sculptures

"Brightness of the picture" - sculptures and paintings, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany "Haske Zanen" - sculptures, paintings and performance with new light, painting, art Thought pyramid Gallery Abuja / German Embassy Abuja Nigeria "Art Merchant“ - sculptures and paintings, National museum Lagos, Nigeria Diverse lecture activities in sculpture, installation, audiovisual performance and literature "Leaf spirit totem" - 7 m high sculpture for Syke, Bremen Germany (Wood, Terra Kota, Mirror glass, 2011) "Blackman in European Kitchen", ICD Institute for cultural diplomacy, Berlin, Germany "Ear as a long road" - poetic performance, Berlin, Poetry Festival Lyricline "Consciences and frontiers" installation "Israel and Palestine" and "Knowledge is power" - SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Exhibition / performance Israel and Palestine "Schlachtfelder" - Battlefields Anniversary of 250 years battle - city of Minden, Germany "Black History month" - Africa reflection - sculptures and paintings, America Haus, Berlin, Germany "2nd African Legends Performance" poetic musical dance performance, America Haus, Berlin, Germany ARESUVA - African regional summit for visual arts, Abuja, Nigeria Visiting professor new media/performance - Art University Berlin Weißensee. Kunsthochschule Berlin - Weißensee Berlin, Germany "Africanize" installation - Grassimuseum Grassi Museum, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Leipzig, Germany "Africanize" installation kunstbanken hamar Hamar, Norway "Blackman in European Kitchen" - installation/performance, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria "CharacterLAGOStika", Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria "Death of the curator" installation/performance, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany "CrossCulture" installation/performance - Goethe-Institut Senegal, Dakar, Senegal Publication "Death of the curator" drama. E.N.I Publishers, Berlin Group Show "Black Paris" African position on contemporary art of Diaspora, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany "Blackman in European Kitchen" - performance Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany "Israel and Palestine" installation/performance Dak'Art 2006 Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal "Junking of the Elephant" – destruction of a 20-ton heavy "Elephant" Monument of re-enforced Steel Concrete - Before a live Audience. For the Ecology and nature "Death of the curator" installation/performance, Grassi museum Leipzig, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Germany Guest professor sculpture - rhode island school of design (risd), USA Publication "Masquaradeundressing" (poems, tales and stories), CPN publishers, England "Water Burns" - exhibition/installation on "Water Uses" in the New Millennium Vienna, Austria "History of love" - sculptures and paintings. Galerie im Prater, Berlin, Germany Making of "Elephant" (20 ton monument for nature) und Making of "Leaf“ (7 meters high monument for nature) steel concrete "Characteristics of living things", Archäologisches Museum Colombischlössle Archeology museum of Castle Colombi, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany "Parts of Clay" - Centre Monroe for the Arts, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA "Clear Walls" - Lisa Parker Fine Art New York, USA "Parables" - National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria "Creation Story" - Albertus - Magnus - Haus, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Drawing School, University of Lagos, Nigeria.