Nairobi · East African contemporary art

Collect the work you can't stop thinking about

ArtCollect is the home of East African collage, print, and photography — originals and small editions from artists you can actually meet, with opening-night tickets handed off to TikoYetu.

new drops every first Friday →
Now showing
  • New on the wall — Continental · Ben Mungai
  • New on the wall — Crossover · Ben Mungai
  • New on the wall — Hollow · Ben Mungai
  • New on the wall — Dusk, Acacia · Ben Mungai
  • New on the wall — Bloom · Ben Mungai
  • Opening — Monochrome Horizon — Opening Night
  • Opening tickets on TikoYetu — instant QR, clear prices
Portrait of Ben Mungai
Kenya

In the studio this week

BEN MUNGAI

Acrylic painter blending pop-culture portraiture with quiet, conceptual still life, as Studio ArtDid.co.
Step into the studio9 works on the wall

Fund the walls & workshops

ART CAUSES

All causes
Kibera Walls Fund

Kibera Walls Fund

Kenya · run by Blue Room Collective

Paint, lifts, and stipends for the community mural program turning Kibera's corridor walls into a public gallery.

Ksh 30,400of Ksh 500,000
Donate on TikoYetu
Girls Who Print — Mombasa

Girls Who Print — Mombasa

Kenya · run by Mombasa Arts Trust

A screen-printing workshop fund for teenage girls at the Coast: meshes, inks, and a press that stays after the residency ends.

Ksh 4,850of Ksh 300,000
Donate on TikoYetu
every shilling is receipted — paint litres & stipend weeks, published

How ArtCollect works

THREE MOVES, NO MYSTERY

STEP 1

Discover the wall

Browse every published work — collage, editions, photography — with live availability and the artist's own story attached to each piece.

STEP 2

Ask, or just collect

Originals go through a short enquiry with the artist; editions and prints check out directly. Either way, the artist is one message away.

STEP 3

Meet at the opening

When a piece is part of a show, grab opening-night tickets through TikoYetu — clear pricing, instant QR, no ambiguity at the door.

A gallery that behaves like a studio wall

Work arrives here the way it exists in the studio: taped, stapled, annotated, mid-thought. Every piece is published by the artist who made it — original, edition, or print — with the story of how it was made kept attached.

When a show opens, the opening lives here too. Tickets are sold by TikoYetu, our ticketing arm — clear prices, real availability, QR tickets the moment payment confirms.

Mark the calendar

UPCOMING OPENINGS