Aderemi Adegbite

Aderemi Adegbite is an artist-curator and multidisciplinary artist. He is the founder and artistic director of the Vernacular Art-space Laboratory, an artist initiative for artist-run projects. Recently, he created the Tutùọlá Institute, conceptualized as an alternative artistic and cultural platform for critical reflection and practices in our postcolonial world.

His current artistic focus questions individual realities and truth(s) that stretch across the societal fabric as constants for an elastic socio-system. He is concerned about how past experiences (agonies, joys, businesses, travels and religious beliefs) of being part of a family reshape the individual’s present conditions and serve as catalysts for “the” surrealistic future. The psychological effect of the idea of “one for all, all for one,” is at the centre of his new interventions through social art, installation, multimedia, photography and video art.

2008 - 2009
Scholarship programme in Small and Medium Enterprise
British Council, Pan-African University (Entrepreneurial Development School) & University of Glamorgan, UK

2009 - 2010
Scholarship programme in Media and Communication
British Council, Pan-African University (School of Media and Communication) & Creative Industry Development Agency, UK

2023
Ludwigsburg Film Akademie (International Class - Certificate Programme)

Solo Exhibition

2022 The PATH of Those Whom YOU Bestowed Favour at Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA Lagos) curated by Dr. Lekan Balogun

2019 Guide Us To The Right Path at Vernacular Art-space Laboratory, Lagos, Nigeria.

2017 City and The Missing Link at Hole of Fame, Dresden, Germany.

2016 Time Out+ Off Exhibition at Dak’Art Biennale, (Nigerian Embassy) Senegal.

2016 WHO at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth, German

2014 PowerLines at The Osh Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
2014 Through My Eyes at the Kongress Center Rosengarten, Mannheim,Germany

2012 N65 at Goethe Institut Lagos, Nigeria
2012 N65 at Goethe Institut Dakar, Senegal

Group Exhibitions.
2023 “Currently Available” at Akademie Schloss Solitude
2023 “Taking a break from everything” in The One Minute’s REST HARD exhibition at
Office Party Delhi
2021 “White Money” – Launching of Tutuola Institute – Sophiensele, Berlin, Germany
2020 “Gazing at COVID-19 in Arts and Beyond” – Iwawalewa Haus, Bayreuth (virtual exhibition)
2020 “Where I'm Coming From' (WICF)” - Guest Project Digital
2019 City Prince/sses at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, curated Hugo Vitrani and Fabien Danesi
2017 “O Triângulo do Atl...