The Nairobi Print project is a platform dedicated to research and conversation on art and curatorial practice in Africa and the Black Diaspora. Through scholarly and critical engagement with historical and emerging themes in contemporary art, the project includes an open access library, a journal of commissioned texts and an engaging podcast. Our aspiration is to expand the discursive and collaborative field between artists and art practitioners in Africa and the Black Diaspora.  

In its first year, NPP launches a three-part programme called NPP Writes, Talks, and Creates, inviting artists, writers and scholars to partner in our vision.  

NPP Writes: Guided by the principles of open access in arts scholarship, we will be commissioning texts, in addition to our open access library, with both functioning as valuable research tools. The library connects users to essays and texts focused on ideas that have shaped modern discourses. In collaboration with various art spaces, NPP also aims at expanding knowledge from and about African art & artists by providing contextual and theoretical frameworks for ongoing exhibitions and projects. This will take the form of form of pop-up libraries and reading tables. As part of our ongoing expansion, we are actively collecting and indexing additional texts to enhance the library's content and diversity of voice and ideas.

NPP Talks: Nai-pod is an online podcast that invites guests to analyse the cultural, historical, and political circumstances that have and continue to shape contemporary art practice for artists in African and the black diaspora. In this, we hope to facilitate cross-border dialogue, fostering invaluable intersections and seeding collaborations.  

NPP creates fosters partnerships in developing programming with artists and communities that further its core values of advancing research and engaging in fair and open conversation into contemporary art practices.  

Website: www.nairobiprintproject.com