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25 September 2015

<em>Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design</em>

Making Africa

Dates: October 30, 2015–February 21, 2016

Curators: Amelie Klein, Vitra Design Museum; Petra Joos, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design, an exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Vitra Design Museum, in collaboration with the German Federal Culture Foundation and the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

The show exhibits work from a diverse range of creative fields: object and furniture design graphic arts, illustration, fashion, architecture, urban planning, craft, film, photography, as well as digital and analogue approaches; these works demonstrate the political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformation of the continent.

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