Exhibition layout at Turner Contemporary

All art should be Social Art

MASK Prize is delighted to be hosted by one of the world's leading galleries of contemporary art, Turner Contemporary. Over the past five years MASK Prize has promoted creativity, innovation and self-expression among young people in Africa. This exhibition celebrates outstanding work across Visual Art, Music, Videos, and Entrepreneurial Ideas.

Since launching in 2013, MASK Prize has grown rapidly, attracting more than 6,500 entries, with work being exhibited at the Nairobi National Museum (Kenya), Saatchi Gallery (London) and the Library of Congress (Washington DC). It contributed to the Kenyan Ministry of Education recent recognition of creativity as a 'core competence' of its school curriculum.

This is the third year that winning works from the competition have been exhibited at Turner Contemporary celebrating the vital role of creativity in the lives of individuals and society as a whole.

The exhibition consists of artworks, photographs of the participants and their quotations about art and creativity.

Art  and creativity make us innovative and lead us to the inventions that make the world a better place. 

- John Mutahi, 20 

I imagine things and make them a reality.

- Patrick  Mulinge,  14 

Art  is  something that can move people just by looking at it. It makes us feel.

- Jesie Otumba  Otieno,  21

I express my thoughts in pictures that words cannot describe. In drawings there is a lot you can say that carries meaning.   

- Claire Njeri Kuria, 17

I  source my inspiration from everything that surrounds me.   

- Shamia Isaac, 21

Creativity is developing new ideas that bring change. 

-  Kennedy Kinyua Kimani, 13 

Artworks and artists exhibited:

MASK Prize past exhibitions