Recent & current

• 25 Feb 2025 IY'AGBON BOKHIAN (Mother Deity Welcome)
  A one-day conference on the repatriation of Benin arts, National Museum Benin City — convened by Samson Ogiamien for Yaruya, with Cie Onyrikon, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Repatriates, National Museum Benin City and the University of Benin. A prelude to the planned 2026 performance "Iyagbon Bokhian". Full programme and documentation ↗
  
• 23 Aug 2024 – 16 Feb 2025

  Dialogue with Benin Art, Colonialism and Restitution

  Museum Rietberg, Zürich · part of the Swiss Benin Initiative, examining Benin artworks in Swiss collections and the question of restitution. ↗

• May 2024 – Jan 2025

  Exhibition "Mémoires"

  Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG) — Ogiamien has worked with the museum before, on Iyagbon's Mirror (2022) and the bronze-casting introduction MEG × JEMA (2023). ↗

• 17 May 2024 Restitution: Connecting generations and storieswith LichTraum Vienna — an evening talk with Samson Ogiamien on restitution, supported by Yaruya among others. More ↗
• 27 – 29 June 2024

  SE YA MA — Nigerian bronze casting with Samson Ogiamien

  Naturpark Pöllauer Tal, Styrian Summer Art. A three-day lost-wax bronze-casting workshop for beginners through advanced participants. ↗

  
• April 2023

  MEG × JEMA: Introduction to lost-wax bronze casting

  Musée d'ethnographie de Genève — a public introduction to lost-wax casting with the artist. ↗

• 23 – 25 June 2023

  Bronze casting in the Nigerian tradition

  Styrian Summer Art — participants cast a small bronze object using the ceramic-shell lost-wax process, with a history talk by the artist. ↗

• 22 Jul – 20 Aug 2019 Artists in Lovejoint exhibition with Stefanie Ogiamien — a group show by and about "mixed couples" in Graz, QL-Galerie. More at ogiamien.at ↗
• 26 May 2019

  Open Studios Day

  Open studios day of the freelance visual artists of Land Steiermark and Graz.

• 7 Dec 2017 Working across Art Forms and across Borderswith ISOP GmbH — performances, video, painting, photography, sculpture and sound from artist-in-residence stays in Sri Lanka, Scotland, Nigeria and Austria. More at ogiamien.at ↗

For older press coverage and the full exhibition history, see Exhibitions and ogiamien.at ↗.