By Prisca Sam-Duru
Em’kal Eyongakpa, an inter media artist who approaches the experienced, the unknown, as well as collective histories through a ritual use of repetition and transformation, has been awarded the 2018 Henrike Grohs Art Award.
Em’kal Eyongakpa, born 1981 in Mamfe, Cameroon, is the first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family. He will be awarded with a 20.000€ cash prize on 13 March 2018 in Abidjan.
“The jury unanimously awards the inaugural Henrike Grohs Art Award to Em’kal Eyongakpa for his poetic, subtle and subjective approach. His work expresses universal concerns for humanity. The multidisciplinary stance of his practice that includes knowledge derived from science, ethnobotany, magical realism, experimentation and utopia, aptly responds to the core values of the Henrike…
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