Collaboration started within the TPAAE project grew, including new cooperating organizations from academic, administrative, and artistic fields. After signing the Memorandum of Understanding with TUM, it entered the TPAAE Consortium in place of BtB. The TPAAE project allowed for setting up the Erasmus+ exchange between KU and PU with AASZ, for teachers coming to Poland and to Kenya, and for Kenyan students studying in Poland. The KA171 programme is realized between UNIMC and KU and PUC as the follow-up project supporting the development of the art education between Kenya and Italy.
The realization of the TPAAE project has sustainable positive effects. Apart from adding some portion of knowledge, it revived the art live on the East African Coast, especially in Kenya, around Mombasa, where no curators from the center of the country, Nairobi, were sent. The contemporary art landscape on the Kenyan Coast is different, hosting art associations and clubs, like Swahili Pot Hub, Daughter of Mekatilili, Kilifi Now!, some of which were initiated directly within the TPAAE project’s activities. New gallery spaces were recently opened in Mombasa, too. AASZ assured that after the TPAAE project’s end the Short Film Festival LAMPART, started within the DUOS Festival framework will be continued by the network of institutions created within the previous activities. Such a revived art scene, experienced in international exchange will serve well as a resource for PUC students in Art and Design, reciprocally providing a working environment for university’s graduates. These effects were possible to achieve thanks to transcultural art research and exchange, which resulted in structuring Art and Design programmes starting from the East African perspective on art and culture and opening up for Global North history and practice of art.
It can be noticed that the realization of the TPAAE project supporting research on East African art, art education, and art practice in transcultural perspective coincides with the global appearance of East African art on the international art scene and market. This is confirmed by the presence and recognition of East African artists from Kenya and Uganda at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, where the Ugandan pavilion received a special mention, at the 23rd Milan International Triennale in 2022, and at Dokumenta15 in Kassel in 2022. The Kenyan pavilion is not presented during the current 50th Venice Biennale in 2024, although the Kenyan representation is published in the official catalog. The artists presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 and the ones that were chosen for the 50th Venice Biennale in 2024 were also promoted within the TPAAE project, what definitely added to their international recognition.
