Chidi Kwubiri
Chidi Kwubiri was a Nigerian-German visual artist.
Chidi Kwubiri was first a guest student in 1993 and shortly thereafter a regular student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Michael Buthe. After Buthe's death in 1994, he changed to the masterclass of A. R. Penck and left the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2002 as a master class student of A. R. Penck.
Since 2000, Kwubiri lived with his family in Pulheim near Cologne, where he had his studio at the, a converted historical industrial complex. Chidi Kwubiri had numerous international solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the USA. In 2016 he designed the MISEREOR lenten veil, which has a tradition of over 40 years, for the global MISEREOR Lenten Campaigns 2017/2018
Exhibitions
2020:- ”blue is hot and red is cold”, Klasse A.R.Penck, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany
- 12th Florence Biennale, Italy
- ”a journey into contemporary AFRICAN ART”, Belvedere Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
- ”Scattering The Lines – Connecting The Dots “, Cartoon Art Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
- goodwill ambassador MISEREOR 2017/2018 “I am, because you are”
- „motionEmotion“, Gallery 1957, Accra/Ghana
- „LebensWert Arbeit“, Dom-Museum Trier/Germany
- arthouse auction, Lagos/Nigeria
- 56th Venice Biennale – collateral “italia docet”/Italy
- Casablanca Biennale/Morocco
- residency Ifitry/Morocco
- “mother tongue“, temple muse, Lagos/Nigeria
- paragon gallery, Miami/USA
- "theme Africa": Phillips de Pury, New York City, United States
- "whip not child": art project against violence on kids in co-operation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and Goethe Institute, Nigeria/Germany
- OPERA Gallery, Paris, France
- "reflection", Signature Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
- Millenia Fine Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Goethe-Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Neues Rathaus. Hannover, Germany
- "Zwei Schritte Voraus", Berlin
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn, Germany
- World Market Center, Las Vegas, USA
- Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
- Gallery ACHT P! PRAVATO, Bonn, Germany
- Gallery OTT, Düsseldorf, Germany,
- "back to the roots", Goethe Institute. Lagos, Nigeria
- International Art Fair "Palm Beach Contemporary", Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Kunsttage Rhein-Erft, Brauweiler Abbey, Germany
- "The Internationals", Millenia Gallery, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Kunstverein Erftstadt, Altes Stadthaus, Erftstadt-Lechenich, Germany
- Collection National Museum, Tivat, Montenegro
- Second Independent International Biennial of Graphic in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Holland Art Fair, The Hague, Netherlands
- International art fair "LINEART", Ghent, Belgium
- "Far from the bush", Gallery De Opsteker, Amsterdam and Durgerdam, The Netherlands
- Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Outdoor sculpture project, Skulpturenmeile, Steinhagen, Germany
- UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
- Koelner Bank, Cologne, Germany
- Jakobskirche, European Art Capital 1999, Weimar, Germany
- Dr. Georg Haar Foundation, European Art Capital 1999, Weimar, Germany
- project "ConverArt", BICC
- Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
- "art multiple", Düsseldorf, Germany
- Gallery Xenios, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Hedwig and Robert Samuel Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Art sponsorship awards