Between Signals presents artistic practices that traverse the space between analog and digital, perception and presence. The exhibition brings together artists whose works invite audiences into a realm of sensory and cognitive exploration—where light, sound, scent, texture, and time converge to reimagine how we experience art, place, and memory.
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Curated by Munyu, the exhibition unfolds beyond the traditional gallery format through participatory engagements such as conversation circles, listening sessions, guided sensory walks, and interactive archives. These formats encourage expanded perception, inviting audiences to listen, move, and feel their way through the space.
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Beyond its multisensory nature, Between Signals reflects on the broader questions of infrastructure, sustainability, and collective care that shape cultural life. It offers a platform to think through how artistic expression can serve as a rehearsal for imagining new ways of living, connecting, and sustaining creative communities.​
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© Sophia Bauer, Sonic Stitchings, 2024
Sophia Bauer
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Sophia Bauer works and researches with sound in a conceptual and practical manner, using resonance as both medium and material. She explores how sound reveals insights into bodies, societies, power relations, and ecological changes through urban and natural structures and their histories. She works intensively with, and in, archives, seeking new and alternative forms of collective and cooperative collaboration. Her practice spans diverse media, including book objects, performances, sound archives, and installations. She is co-founder of Sound of Nairobi, an open-access archive of the sounds of Nairobi.
Natasha. Khanyola
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Natasha Khanyola is a creative technologist and artist with a passion for using different mediums to tell stories creatively. Before starting work as an interactive media developer and designer, Natasha studied mechanical engineering at university. After graduating she worked on creating concept designs for various short films, doing production design for a few films and doing sound design for some animations. Natasha also collaborates with her local music scene, creating interactive visuals for live music events. Currently, she primarily develops Interactive Media experiences. Natasha is constantly expanding her knowledge on different methods of delivering stories to an audience, including delving more into interactive narrative design and spatial sound design.
© James Kamande, Urban Shelters 2025
James Kamande
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James Kamande was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1992. Raised in Nairobi, Kamande is a visual artist and urban storyteller who works on canvas and steel. His work delves into the layered narratives of Nairobi’s built environment and its people. Through painting and sculptures, I explore the intersections of housing, economy, society, and politics, using architectural forms as both subject and metaphor. My practice captures the lived realities of urban communities, their resilience and fragility, as well as collective memory—while also reflecting on themes of community, isolation, and social transformation. By reimagining the textures and tensions of everyday life in the city, I aim to make silent conversations between people and the spaces they inhabit more visible.
Joy Mala
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Joy Mala is a curator, art writer, analytical chemist, and multidisciplinary creative with a growing practice at the intersection of storytelling, science, and exhibition-making. She curates exhibitions and writes critically about contemporary African art, intending to platform visual narratives and engage communities through accessible formats and immersive experiences. She examines culture, science and technology often from a speculative lens and continues to expand into these in a myriad of inter-disciplinary experiments. She is currently working at the arts and culture platform Contemporary And (C&) Magazine, in their Nairobi office.
Ndung'u Mbithi
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Ndung’u Mbithi (b. 2000) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Nairobi. His practice explores mental health, memory and family through weaving, installation, and painting. His weaving practice focuses on process rather than product. Looking at weaving as a meditative practice. Ndung’u held his first solo exhibition, Between the Bars at Munyu in May 2025, which was a personal exploration of alcoholism, mental health and suicide. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Arché and Aether Atelier in Nairobi, where he continues to expand his practice in painting and sculpting.
© Muthoni ni Mimi, Soundscapes, 2025
Muthoni ni Mimi
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Muthoni ni Mimi is a soundscape artist based in Kajiado. They capture experiences through sound. They create sonic memories of lived experiences . Immersion . Introspection. Living. Being . Muthoni ni mimi is currently immersed in work around soundscapes and archiving moments and experiences through sonic vibrations. Most of this is based on observation and memory of socio-political commentary across social movements.
© Anthony Muisyo, Astuta, 2024- 2025
Anthony Muisyo
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Anthony's (b. 1993) art and design practice draws from folklore, mythology, the algorithm, ancient history and the city he was born and lives in, Nairobi. He finds ways to use digital techniques and tools in combination with material such as paper, wood and fabric to create work that continuously interrogates our country’s colonial past and how that affects our ideas of the technological infrastructures we live in and its futurities.
© Cynthia Nyakiro, Kekertai, 2025
Cynthia Nyakiro
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Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri born 1994, is a visual artist born and based in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and Design, majoring in painting and sculpture, from Kenyatta University in 2022. Her practice spans a range of media, including recycled paper, x-rays, magazine cut-outs, ink, bleach, pigment, photography, and digital media. She explores materiality, transformation, and human experience through an experimental and process-driven approach. With a background in architecture, Nyakiro’s work is influenced by structure, deconstruction, and reassembly. She draws inspiration from nature, human relationships, and metaphysical ideas, often working with found objects and organic materials. By manipulating and reconfiguring these elements, she gives them new significance, allowing them to take on layered narratives.
© Awuor Onyango, Library of Silence: Lawino, 2016/ 2020/ 2025
Awuor Onyango
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Awuor Onyango is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Nairobi. Their practice moves across scent, sound, image, and text to explore how African bodies—particularly femme and othered bodies—are remembered, erased, or reconstituted within systems of knowledge and cultural memory. Working through installation, digital media, and material experiment, Awuor constructs multisensorial archives that challenge the colonial logic of museums and the inherited hierarchies of what counts as art, history, or intelligence. Their work draws from East African cosmologies, craft traditions, and everyday technologies to imagine alternative ways of sensing and knowing the world.
© Kimani Sam K., SOL NOVUS, 2025
Kimani Sam K.
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As a digital artist, animator, and projection-mapping artist, Kimani Sam K. sees beyond the static frame of canvas or screen. Based in Nairobi, and through light, form, and space, Sam looks to dissolve the barriers between image and environment. In Sam's installations, he brings forth living surfaces: walls, floors, façades whatever the stage to be participants in a dialogue. He weaves together real-space architecture, 3D visualisation, motion, and atmosphere to conjure moments where the familiar becomes uncanny; light bending around surfaces, shadows that speak, outlines that shift. Sam aims to reawaken our perception so that what we see is no longer passive, but immersive and mutable. His practice embraces experimentation.. He merges digital illustration, animation, spatial design, and interactive elements and through play with scale, timing, and texture, he strives to reveal the in-between: the threshold where virtual meets tangible, where the projected image collides with the physical world. Sam's goal is to evoke curiosity, a sense of surprise, and a renewed sense of connection to space.
© Kevo Stero, Echoes Between Wires, 2025
Kevo Stero
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Born ‘Kevin Irungu Karuga’ and raised amidst the sprawling slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, his journey began with humble beginnings. Days were spent amidst the flickering screens of video theaters, the buzzing atmosphere of cyber cafes, and the lively competition of playstation booths and game stadiums near the towering adopt-a-light in Bombolulu (one part of Kibera). He began his apprenticeship as a sign-writer and aspiring artist in 2004. From those early days, my artistic trend has expanded to encompass a myriad of mediums including painting, drawing, video, installation, performance, community outreach, and public art.
© Tizzita Tefera, The Queen Mothers Shrine, 2025
Tizzita Tefera
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Tizzita is a multidisciplinary artist and creative artist currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. An explorer whose practice moves fluidly between ritual, myth, memory, and the everyday. A third culture kid raised between Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda with Ethiopian roots, her work weaves together the visible and invisible bringing together family archives, African fabrics, esoteric knowledge, and the intimate rituals of femininity. A self-taught artist with a background in social sciences & a decade long career in the social impact space, she creates across a wide variety of mediums utilizing photography, printmaking, performance, and unconventional materials such as menstrual blood, exploring feminism, decoloniality, traditional crafts processes, shame, and the dualities of existence. Her art is deeply reflective, often a dialogue between the self and collective histories, where Jungian principles, African symbolism, and lived experience converge. Beyond the studio, Tizzita is an olfactor, sound enthusiast, ritual maker, and community builder.
© Wakianda, The Shrine of the Unspoken, 2025
Wakianda
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Wakianda is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in Nairobi, Kenya, whose work draws from the vibrant pulse of urban life and the ancestral memories carried within women’s bodies. A graduate of Kenyatta University with a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design and Marketing, she merges conceptual depth with material experimentation to explore themes of identity, resilience, and collective healing. Her practice spans painting, textiles, sculpture with upcycled materials, 3D printing, sound, and immersive installation. This interdisciplinary approach allows her to navigate socio-cultural narratives around racial justice, colorism, generational trauma, and feminist reimaginings of motherhood and reproductive labor.
© Adam Yawe, Mahindi Choma/ Mbembe cia ngara, 2024- 2025
Adam Yawe
Adam Yawe is an object storyteller living and working in Nairobi, Kenya. His practice traverses digital and physical mediums with the ultimate goal of crafting objects that tell stories and telling stories about objects. In his work, he seeks out reference objects in the urban environment, acknowledges the role they play in the present, connects them to the past and reimagines them for the future. His interests lie in telling stories and building archives, aiming to light a spark in the audience that changes their relationship with these objects and ultimately the city.
© Chela Yego, Kekertai, 2025
Chela Yego
Chela Yego born 1998 based in Nairobi ,Kenya. Chela Yego’s work primarily ranges from collage and sculpture to immersive installations. Her work is grounded in researching and exploring her inner world and her Nandi cultural history and rituals and translating these intersections through experimentation and exploration to a visual artform . Her recent projects embody this intense engagement with materiality and emotion. The Unfurling of My Abject Rage was a collaborative exhibition with Nyakiro that explored personal and collective rage through the physical manipulation of handmade paper.