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This project situates the hardware store as a structure and departure point for theory and practice in the context of Nairobi and Eastern Africa. Through an exploration of materials and tools that ...
HARDWARE
Film Programming Peasant Film Program 2026: TBC Six Minutes Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam June 2025 Link to program details The Journey of the ...
Study & Film Programming
The voice of a British man narrates a film produced in the 1950’s describing the moment when Nairobi transitions from a small town into a city. This was made by the Colonial Film ...
Rijksakademie Open Studios: 2025
All images courtesy of the artist ©Jackie ...
Printmaking: Etching & Lithography
I'd like to preface by saying that this work is not about animals. Even though you will see a lot of animals. The Amsterdam Zoo (ARTIS) becomes a site of intervention in this work where visuality ...
Zoo studies
Excerpt of the video installation Former WIELS resident Jackie Karuti brings her latest work to AFFILIATE, a space ...
Model II: construction
This work was presented at the Rijksakademie open studios. 30 May - 2 June 2024. It was preceded by the film program; The Journey of the Hyena convened at the Rijksakademie in April, 2024. Model ...
Rijksakademie Open Studios: 2024
This solo exhibition is part of a moving image project that departs from Fukeiron; the concept of landscape theory asserting that the visible landscape around us is an expression of ...
BODY MACHINE LOCATION
March 29 - April 27, 2023 | Goethe Institut, Nairobi The exhibition departs from the method of assembly in Jackie Karuti’s self-titled publication released in 2022. It elaborates on ...
DIVISION: Before Line/ After Image
Electronic Theater, 2022 Aichi Triennale, Japan Venue: Library (3rd flr) Former Ichinomiya Central Nursing School, ...
Electronic Theater | Aichi Triennale, Japan
Jackie Karuti was the main prize winner of the 2020 Henrike Grohs Art Award. This book is published as part of the award, with support from the Goethe-Institut and Grohs family. ...
Notes Movement Method
All images courtesy of the artist ©Jackie ...
Printmaking: Copper-plate aquatint etchings
Weather instruments: an assemblage of objects, images, spare parts & ...
Weather Instruments
Installed at Aerial, Bergen as part of the durational symposium The Only lasting Truth is Change, 2021 convened by (BEK) Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Norway. This work is presented through ...
How Clouds are Formed | Installation
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Slides for sun & machine projection
Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of Weathered Wood Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany 23. September 2021 - 19. December 2021 Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of ...
Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of Weathered Wood
In 2018 I acquired a two-acre piece of land in Ngatataek; Kajiado, Kenya to serve as an observatory. This piece of land has allowed me to witness the soil eroded area and seasonal river on site over ...
2°18’44.6” S 36°45’39.9” E
Through the hands of the Engineer and the eyes of the Chemist, the function and usefulness of both the projector and microscope are tested in two video experiments. The ...
The Engineer | The Chemist
How Clouds are Formed: a set of 10 drawings Medium: Graphite on rag paper Dimensions: 57.5 x 77.5 cm
How Clouds are Formed (Drawings)
Turbulence presents a spectre of an image, in this case a spinning chair without a seat. It suggests an act of transformation or imminent overthrowal experienced through what could be ...
How Clouds are Formed (Video)
Our ability to ‘move’ in the world is modified and affected by the objects we encounter in the world. Excerpt from 'Movement short stories' in Notes Movement Method The ...
The Fuse
A voyeur witnesses the shapeshifting of a wooden structure from animal, to human to forces of nature. A dream sequence employing magical realism assembled from footage gathered while ...
Autopsy
FOSSILS is a site-specific performance that takes place in an old house situated on the fringes of the Nairobi National Park. It frames the performance as a house tour through an explorers lens with ...
Fossils
One day a box Emerged from the sea And from the box Came a wind full of stories Every year the women Would let down the ladders And the children would ascend Many years later The children ...
Black Birds
The Planets is a series of snapshots marking events highlighting milestones in exploration and innovation. They exalt man while also speaking of a history of technology and exploitation at a time of ...
The Planets, Chapter 32
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There Are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About
Seer is a collaborative performance piece by Gor Soudan & Jackie Karuti. Gor invites Karuti to incorporate objects from his installation, More Deader and Outer Things between Earth and H(e)aven, ...
Seer
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Limited-edition Artist Books
In The Case of Books was a project that happened between 2013-2015. Jackie Karuti invited fellow artists and friends to visit and dust libraries found in various artist studios, project ...
In The Case of Books: Nairobi + Kampala
