Circle Art Gallery
White-cube gallery whose annual auction turns its own floor into East Africa's busiest art trading room.
This guide to Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi follows curator Danda Jaroljmek and her partners as they built East Africa's contemporary art market almost from nothing after founding the gallery in twenty twelve, moving from pop-up shows to Nairobi's first white-cube space in twenty fifteen. It centers on the annual auction that turns these quiet white walls into a packed trading floor for one night, with a gavel cracking down and bids arriving from three continents. Works travel here each year from across East Africa, from Kenya to Mozambique, for the one night the gallery becomes something closer to a trading room.
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