Benin artist to embark on journey to Jerusalem

The Beninese installation artist Georges Adéagbo, who has a solo booth at Galerie Wien Lukatsch at Art Basel (T8), has been invited by the Israel Museum to create an exhibition for January 2016. Adéagbo, who usually spends a few weeks in the place he is showing, is due to travel to Jerusalem in October to start collecting materials. He will then send the found objects and images to Benin to be remade by local craftsmen before shipping them back to Israel. “His work will be extremely meaningful in Jerusalem, a city between Asia, Africa and North Africa, full of different traditions and tensions,” says Rita Kersting, the museum’s curator of contemporary art.