Donderdag 13 Januari 2011

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

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.

lucasdaniels

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

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

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.

mhka stateofl3

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.

nmaa

De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.

afrikamuseum

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.

ceczo

In 1986 - bijna honderd jaar na Joseph Conrad - voer Marek Stawski met de Colonel Ebeya van Kinshasa naar Kisangani. Dwars door het evenaarswoud reisde hij te midden van drieduizend Congolese opvarenden de majestueuze Congostroom op. Zijn foto’s brengen die wonderlijke reis tot leven. Stawski is geboren in Polen en woont in Amsterdam.

dompolski

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

Werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die eerder hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23, in wisselende selecties. O.a. Tété Azankpo, Donatien Alihonou, George Struikelblok, Gerald Chukwuma, Mbongeni Buthelezi, jonge kunstenaars uit Zimbabwe en Viktor Ekpuk.

galerie23

In grote, losse streken zet Mukambe (Zimbabwe) zijn Afrikaanse figuren neer. Context ontbreekt. Ze staan of zitten in een lege, witte ruimte. Hun gezichten zijn niet uitgewerkt. Het zijn hun lichamen die spreken. Zwart is de basiskleur. Die vult hij af en toe aan met andere, soms verrassend felle kleuren. Tentoonstelling in combinatie met Winteropstelling.

galerie23

Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.

MMKA

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

Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.

galeriesanaa

3 Artists present African Tales - Mohamed Charinda - Tales about Shimoje, John Kilaka and Peter Martin - Tales about Vubi. Nangida Masawe - Rabbits and Tortoise. From the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (TACS) in Dar es Salaam/Tanzania.

mikkeli (in Finnish) tingatingastudio frangipaniart (in Dutch)

Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.

ijb tingatingastudio

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

Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.

henricartierbresson

Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.

mocp michaelstevenson