MUSIC
Aly Keïta, a virtuoso of the Balafon, was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. From his youngest age, he was introduced to the instrument by his father, himself a Balafon player.
The West African musician gained worldwide recognition for his mastery of the balafon, which he has been playing since childhood, and has now made it to the side of the best: Omar Sosa, Joe Zawinul, Rhoda Scott, Paco Séry, Pharoah Sanders, Paolo Fresu, Hans Lüdemann Trio Ivoire, L. Subramaniam, Trilok Gurtu & Jan Garbarek, to name just a few.
Today, Aly Keïta lives in Berlin and connects musical worlds with the impressive virtuosity. He wanders between spectacular African rhythm, polyphony and jazz elements, and combines them to create a wonderful and unique sound world – two magical hands and a thousand and one strokes.
In 2022 Aly Keïta has won the German Jazz Prize in the category “Special Instruments”.
“I want my music to be alive and full of energy, hope and love, music that I can share with the audience and through which the audience and I can share our joy.”
ART EXHIBITION
“Tennis Elbow” by Rotem Rozenboim
The colours are vivid, the line is vital, the compositions are condensed and full of drama. But the drama is a horror show; grotesque, nihilistic, sarcastic, but also touching and funny.
Rotem Rozenboim is a painter who now uses an AI image generator to create fictional scenes in which reality and dream, history and future, inner personal anxieties are interwoven with mass media images.
Framed Berlin presents “Tennis Elbow”, a selection of Rotem’s recent digital images, short animations, drawings and paintings.
Rotem Rozenboim, born 1980, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. A graduate of the Ha Midrasha School of Fine Arts, Bet Berl, he was awarded the 2014 Rafi Lavi Scholarship of Excellence in the Field of Art.Rozenboim creates figurative paintings and digital drawings. His art can be defined as intense painting, both in terms of content and in terms of colours and materials. His work shows a gap between the colourfulness and richness of the paintings’ appearance and the themes he chooses to deal with, which are the unstable form of the human body, human encounters in cases of illness, weakness and processes of decay, or strange, apocalyptic scenery and landscape.
