Poster of the exhibition: Street scenes with painted sotrama minibuses, Bamako, Mali, 2024, photos © Abdoul Karim Diallo
Merci Maman is an exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich. It is based on around sixty photographs specially created for it by the Yamarou Collective in Mali (Seydou Camara, Monique Dena, Abdoul Karim Diallo, Sidiki Haidara and Anna N’Diaye). As members of this collective, they have been exploring a unique form of ‘art on wheels’ in Mali for years. Their works show painted buses on the roads, but also their drivers and passengers. With this exhibition the Museum Fünf Kontinente is endeavouring to support the Malian photography collective’s vision of communicating a differentiated picture of the West African country – as seen through the lens of its own population.
The exhibition will be on display from May 16 to November 16.
Stefan Eisenhofer
