Art & Cultural Communications | Audience Development, Cross-Cultural Engagement, Digital Transformation
Pleased to have supported on the comms strategy for the launch of Omenai Gallery, a hybrid, digital-physical model taking up its first physical space in Chicago's West town. ✨ Omenai, Inc, the gallery's parent company, was founded by Gbenro Adeyemo, who in 2021 launched the social media and editorial platform as a means of connecting African diasporic communities and democratising global access to contemporary African art. Collectors, artists and enthusiasts began engaing with the platform in novel ways, building circuits of trusts that would prompt Adeyemo to organically expand his mission into physical, exhibiting space. The move signals the importance of digital technology in transnational community building, and also presents new opportunities for cities, such as Chicago, to meaningfully and positively impact the ever-global, African art market. Presenting the works of Kwaku Osei Owusu Achim, in the artist's first ever solo exhibition, Omenai Gallery's inaugural exhibition opens to the public today. Click here for a recent article by Art Report Africa, for more details on the launch 🌟: - #contemporaryartmarket #chicagoartmarket #contemporaryafricanart #artbusiness
