Donderdag 09 December 2010

Thank You Netherlands is een initiatief van de Okyeman Foundation. Dit innovatieve en interessante project betreft een fototentoonstelling en film die een realistisch beeld geven van de succesvolle ontwikkelingssamenwerking tussen Nederland en Ghana.

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30 juni 1960 : Congo roept zijn onafhankelijkheid uit. Nu een tentoonstelling die de gebeurtenissen van vlak voor, tijdens en na de onafhankelijkheid in een historische, politieke en geografische context plaatst. Congolese getuigen krijgen het woord.

africamuseum

Het werk van Marthe Nso Abomois (1953, Kameroen) is typisch Afrikaans en visueel krachtig. Ze schildert onbevangen, intuïtief en oorspronkelijk. Marthe is autodidact en heeft zich op geheel eigen wijze ontwikkeld. Zelf zegt ze: 'Ik schilder wie ik ben'.

karibugallery

Voor het eerst wonen er meer mensen in de stad dan op het platteland. Magnum-fotograaf Jonas Bendiksen fotografeerde twintig trotse families in Nairobi, Caracas, Jakarta en Mumbai. In kader van Campagne voor menswaardig wonen van Amnesty International.

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De Niger-rivier wordt ernstig bedreigd. Deze reportage van Raymond Dakoua toont het grote economische, sociale, menselijke en ecologische belang van de derde grootste rivier in Afrika en pleit voor een vernieuwde bewustwording van de impact van de Niger.

zuiderpershuis

Distillation of work from the Bamako Encounters 8th African Photographic Biennale, 2009. Mali´s pan-African exhibition is travelling for the first time providing South-Africans to engage with contemporary photography from across the continent and its diaspora.

iziko ifas.org

Teksten, historische foto's en cartoons. Geschiedenis van dit maandblad loopt parallel aan de onstuimige ontwikkelingen in Zuid-Afrika, van Afrikaner nationalisme en apartheid tot de overwinning van het ANC en de geboorte van een democratisch Zuid-Afrika.

zuidafrikahuis

Exhibition on significant events that occured from 1800 till 1900. The Gold Coast then went through wars and power struggles that served as the stepping stone for the struggle for independence. Also on Missionaries, the Abolition of Slave Trade and more.

nubukefoundation

Jasper de Beijer reconstrueert de koloniale geschiedenis met elementen van het fotoarchief en wekt deze tot leven in een nieuwe omgeving. Als archeoloog graaft hij steeds dieper in het beeldmateriaal. Ook: Ubongo (Afrikaanse fotoserie De Beijer 2009).

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Finland?s first major review of artists and themes in contemporary South African art. Key theme is society in a constant state of flux. 20 artists including Jane Alexander, Roger Ballen, Conrad Botes, Wim Botha, Pieter Hugo, Lunga Kama, Anton Kannemeyer.

helsinkiartmuseum

Hoe houdt de 'Afrikaan' zich staande en gaande in een continent van schijnbare tegenstrijd? Lucas Daniëls portretteert de anonieme tegenligger in zijn niet-gezochte context. Recht voor de raapse eerlijkheid, los-uit-de-pols-portretten, blote integriteit.

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Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.

afropolis museumkoeln

Explores glossolalia. Series of intimate sonic portraits of people speaking in tongues, augmented with interviews. Liminal space wherein seemingly nonsensical linguistic, but nevertheless very personal, spiritual expression can be opened up to the publc.

goetheonmain

Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.

madmuseum

Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.

nmafa

Combineert werk van kunstenaars met een zeer verschillende achtergrond: Spierenburg (NL) en Woueté (Kameroen) vinden hun inspiratie in de relatie tussen individu en zijn directe omgeving en werken met verschillende media. Opening 20 nov, 16-18u.

Installatie (objecten, foto, video) Pan African Contemporary Arts & Film Collective (Brazilië, NL, Senegal). Vervolg in serie presentaties van project State of L3 dat op drie continenten zoekt naar de Afrikaanse identiteit van kunstenaars en jongeren.

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More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.

mafh africanart.org

Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.

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Thank You Netherlands is een initiatief van de Okyeman Foundation. Dit innovatieve en interessante project betreft een fototentoonstelling en film die een realistisch beeld geven van de succesvolle ontwikkelingssamenwerking tussen Nederland en Ghana.

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Recent paintings by Ethiopian-born artist Tesfaye Tessema. In Tessema’s pictures, the filter of personal experience of doing, of painting and making art, away from his Ethiopian homeland for over three decades is not just essential to the substance of his creative process, but also bears witness to his ability to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.

skoto gallery

From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).

mostrefondazionecrmo

Comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist's work. Explores five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the past three decades through more than 60 works in a range of media - including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures, and books.

albertina

The Ifa Lethu Foundation has been instrumental in repatriating South African art produced during apartheid that ended up overseas because there was no local market for the work of black South African artists. The show explores this previously lost artistic heritage.

iziko

Willie Bester, known for his mixed media installations made of found objects, is regarded as one of South Africa´s most important resistance artists. He incorporates recycled material into his paintings, assemblages and sculptures, usually commenting on political injustices and human rights issues of the day.

barnardgallery

Anton Kannemeyer, new works and classics from Alphabet of Democracy. Viviane Sassen, photographs infused with memories of her youth in East Africa. Claudette Schreuders, sculptures from new series Close, close. Serge Alain Nitegeka, meditations based on his experience of Johannesburg. Hylton Nel, plates, bowls, vases, plaques and figurative pieces.

michaelstevenson

Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.

rom africanart

Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.

South African Jewish Museum