Thank you for supporting us!!

By wedeyin | November 17, 2017

Amazing people!
3385 Euros! That is the final sum we got through the crowdsourcing campaign. Whoop whoop! Oh yeah, we did! Thank you all sososo much for your support through liking, loving, sharing, commenting, and giving. This year was so far inspiring, and we will keep on pushing to amplify the art production and empowerment of Black and PoC women*/non-binary/trans*/inter/femmes in Vienna. ❤ ❤ ❤

8 Days left to reach Crowdfunding goal

By wedeyin | November 2, 2017

We are happy to announce that we already reached 80 % of our crowdfunding goal on Firefund.net– a platform for radical political crowdsourcing.

❤ ❤ Please support us with donating if you can and/or sharing this with your friends, family, lovers, partners, allies, collegues, sugapersons!

With your help we will spend our goal of 3000 Euro on:

* Maintaining the BPoC community space (rent, electricity, internet, insurance) for 2017

* Production costs for exhibitions (material costs, transport, printing costs)

* Projector for film screenings & presentations

About WE DEY x SPACE:

WE DEY found a permanent home at WE DEY x SPACE in Vienna, Austria. We are organising exhibitions, workshops, performance nights, poetry events, self-care sundays, yoga classes and contemporary dance classes. We aim to create a space of support for and by Black and PoC women*/non-binary/trans*/inter/femmes. A space to connect to each other, to get to know each other better, to work on alliances and future projects. A space that allows us to think and voice our needs and wishes/visions.

Amoako Boafo solo exhibition

By wedeyin | August 21, 2017

AMOAKO BOAFO
‘Detoxing Masculinity’

22nd June – 8th July 2017
WE DEY x space

©Esther Abiona Ojo

‘Detoxing Masculinity’ presents the latest self-portrait series of Amoako Boafo in a solo exhibition. The artist presents works that continue the explorations and engagement with personal narratives in relation to collective histories, as well as materiality, and process. The large-scale oil paintings underline Amoako Boafo’s multifaceted references from the fields of literature, iconography and traditional painting, inspired by his personal quest to free himself from society‘s norms and limitations.

In Detoxing Masculinity the artists reflects on his religious upbringing, toxic notions of masculinity and his transformation to self-validation and becoming. While disrupting the white gaze onto his naked Black body with non-stereotypical representations of Black masculinity, the series can be read as journey, longing for self-love and self-care. Black self-love is revolutionary in a world, which still sees the Black male body as something to be consumed, to be hyper-sexualized and at the same time something to be afraid of.

Sunanda Mesquita
curator/co-founder of WE DEY

WE DEY x space

By wedeyin | August 21, 2017

WE DEY x space is a self – organised art space in Vienna dedicated to amplify the art and culture production of Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color. WE DEY aims to centre marginalised voices, perspectives, knowledge(s) and experiences from different Diasporas. WE DEY x space hosts exhibitions, workshops, kitchen table talks and film screenings around the topics of decolonial art production, community, self-care and empowerment.

WE DEY 2017

By wedeyin | February 3, 2016

WE DEY starts fresh in 2017! Please stay tuned for exciting projects and events that are coming up soon!

WE DEY show

By wedeyin | December 29, 2015

11.01.2016: 19.00 Vernissage WUK Projectraum (www.wuk.at)
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien

“WE DEY show” with works by Amoako Boafo, Sunanda Mesquita, Belinda Kazeem, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Stephanie Misa, Darkmatter & Xana. Live performance by XANA (UK) and Djane Chilo!!

Amoako Boafo and Sunanda Mesquita will present insights in their process of initiating the artist archive WE-DEY.IN as well as invite artists they met on the way to participate in a group exhibition.

During the kültürgemma stipendium the two artists founded- WE DEY, an online platform for contemporary arts. WE DEY means “we are” in pidgin – an appropriation of the colonial language English which is spoken in former British colonies such as Ghana, Nigeria and by the West African diaspora both on the continent and living abroad.

The artists Sunanda Mesquita and Amoako Boafo aim to portray contemporary Black Artists and Artists of Colour based in Austria and abroad, creating a platform which enables networking and exchange.