Nigeria has announced the details for its national pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, marking the second time the country has ever participated in the global art event.
Titled “Nigeria Imaginary,” the exhibition will feature an intergenerational group of nine Nigerian and Nigerian diasporic artist. It will be sited in a historical palazzo in Dorsoduro, near the Gallerie dell’Accademia.
Those artists are Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Abraham Oghobase, Yinka Shonibare, Fatimah Tuggar, and Precious Okoyomon, whose contribution to the main exhibition at the 2022 Venice Bienanle made her a breakout star.