Emmanuel Eni

**Emmanuel Eni AKA Blackman in European Kitchen** ( bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni  1967),  o nyɛla Nigerian-born German yili yiina ni yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi tira. O nyɛla bɛ ni mi ka o nyɛ  painter, sculptor, multimedia artist, performance artist nti pahi poet. Bɛ ni mi shɛli ni THE NATION Newspapers nyɛla din buɣisi o ni o nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumdi so ŋun mali kpaŋmaŋ pam o tuma polo. Punpɔŋɔ na, o daa nyɛla ŋun pahi yuuni 2020 yili yiini gonaate kpaɣi di la puuni nti Forbes. 

## Exhibitions
"Hope of Love" paintings and sculptures Germany, "THE BOOM" exhibition of new light painting art and sculptures
* "Brightness of the picture" - sculptures and paintings, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
* "Haske Zanen" - sculptures, paintings and performance with new light, painting, art
* Thought pyramid Gallery Abuja / German Embassy Abuja Nigeria
* "Art Merchant“ - sculptures and paintings, National museum Lagos, Nigeria
* Diverse lecture activities in sculpture, installation, audiovisual performance and literature
* "Leaf spirit totem" - 7 m high sculpture for Syke, Bremen Germany (Wood, Terra Kota, Mirror glass, 2011)
* "Blackman in European Kitchen", ICD Institute for cultural diplomacy, Berlin, Germany
* "Ear as a long road" - poetic performance, Berlin, Poetry Festival Lyricline
* "Consciences and frontiers" installation "Israel and Palestine" and "Knowledge is power" - SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
* Exhibition / performance Israel and Palestine "Schlachtfelder" - Battlefields Anniversary of 250 years battle - city of Minden, Germany
* "Black History month" - Africa reflection - sculptures and paintings, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
* "2nd African Legends Performance" poetic musical dance performance, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
* ARESUVA - African regional summit for visual arts, Abuja, Nigeria
* Visiting professor new media/performance - Art University Berlin Weißensee. Kunsthochschule Berlin - Weißensee Berlin, Germany
* "Africanize" installation - Grassimuseum Grassi Museum, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Leipzig, Germany
* "Africanize" installation kunstbanken hamar Hamar, Norway
* "Blackman in European Kitchen" - installation/performance, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
* "CharacterLAGOStika", Goethe-Institut Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria
* "Death of the curator" installation/performance, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
* "CrossCulture" installation/performance - Goethe-Institut Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
* Publication "Death of the curator" drama. E.N.I Publishers, Berlin
* Group Show "Black Paris" African position on contemporary art of Diaspora. Paris France, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
* "Blackman in European Kitchen" - performance Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
* "Israel and Palestine" installation/performance Dak'Art 2006 Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
* "Junking of the Elephant" – destruction of a 20-ton heavy "Elephant" Monument of re-enforced Steel Concrete - Before a live Audience. For the Ecology and nature
* "Death of the curator" installation/performance, Grassi museum Leipzig, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Germany
* Guest professor sculpture - rhode island school of design (risd) (RISD), USA
* Publication "Masquaradeundressing" (poems, tales and stories), CPN publishers, England
* "Water Burns" - exhibition/installation on "Water Uses" in the New Millennium Vienna, Austria
* "History of love" - sculptures and paintings. Galerie im Prater, Berlin, Germany
* Making of "Elephant" (20 ton monument for nature) und Making of "Leaf“ (7 meters high monument for nature) steel concrete
* "Characteristics of living things", Archäologisches Museum Colombischlössle Archeology museum of Castle Colombi, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
* "Parts of Clay" - Centre Monroe for the Arts, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
* "Clear Walls" - Lisa Parker Fine Art New York, USA
* "Parables" - National museum, Lagos, Nigeria
* "Creation Story" - Albertus - Magnus - Haus, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
* Drawing School, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

## Bibliography
* Emmanuel Eni: *Death of the curator*. Berlin 2007.
* Emmanuel Eni: *Elephants and new – light paintings* (Ausstellung vom 19. August bis 9. Oktober 2011, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Hrsg.: Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Kulturamt. Projektmitarbeiter: Anja Braun, Stefan Martinkat) 
* Emmanuel Eni: *The Art of Blackman in European Kitchen*. 2017.
"Kindonkind"- Poetry anthology. 321 pages of 600 poems published in Germany 2021

## Kundivihira

## External links

* Death of the Curator-Kunstinstallation  im Leipzig Museum of Ethnography (German)
* Blackman in European Kitchen - public figure on Facebook