Zaterdag 12 November 2011

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.

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Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.

bundeskunsthalle

The exhibition Artists in Dialogue: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira is the second in a series of exhibitions in which exciting artists (at least one of whom is African) are invited to a new encounter -- one in which each artist responds to the work of the other, and resulting in original, site-specific works at the museum.

Artists in Dialogue II

Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.

kiasma

This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.

labiennale dafrique

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

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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.

blantonmuseum africanart

This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.

prm artthrob

Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.

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Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.

rencontres-bamako

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.

africamuseum

Vele aspecten van volkswoningbouw in Mutare komen aan de orde: de worsteling, de ontwikkeling, de organisaties, de verandering. Van de persoonlijke schaal van zelf je huis bouwen tot stadsplanning en infrastructuur. De moeite die het kost om iets tot stand te brengen, maar die moeite maakt dat het ook van de mensen zelf wordt en dat ze er zich voor inzetten.

haarlem-mutare

Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.

global-contemporary

Spanning over 15 years of work, the show examines Tracey Rose's unique and complex visual language and her performance-based practice represented through her photographs and video work. Rose belongs to a generation of artists charged with reinventing the artistic gesture in post-apartheid South Africa. Within this fold, she has defined a provocative visual world, refusing to simplify reality for the sake of clarity.

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Solotentoonstelling van Jan Hoeks over de 'sweet crazies', zwervers die leven op de straten van Addis Ababa, Ethiopie. Hoeks raakte gefascineerd door hun markante uiterlijk: vele lagen kleding, eigen gemaakte sieraden en attributen. Hoeks fotografeerde de sweet crazies in de vele studio's van Addis, het resultaat een serie portretten van deze kleurrijke bewoners van deze stad.

artpocalypse-collective

Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.

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Bonkoungou is een Afrikaan die wil laten zien wat er in zijn wereld gebeurt, met welke problemen hij in zijn dagelijks leven geconfronteerd wordt. Als hij dieren maakt, zijn het meer dan dieren. Het zijn karikaturen van mensen, vooral mensen die invloed hebben op het dagelijks leven van de bewoners van zijn land. Zijn menselijke figuren zijn letterlijk met elkaar verbonden, alsof ze steun bij elkaar zoeken alsof ze een familieband hebben.

de40eurogalerie

Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.

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Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.

christianferreira artthrob

Marx's latest body of work is a study of disrupted surfaces and comprises an examination into the properties of text, line, flatness and depth. In her work, notions of the fold are explored through a fundamental process of modification. Marx purposefully disrupts the flatness of inscribed surfaces - by crumpling paper or folding cloth the inherent flatness of the surfaces become topographical dimensional volumes.

whatiftheworld artthrob

The images in the exhibition convey much more than meet the eye. For, notwithstanding their modernistic aspects, they have been inspired by the Yoruba notion of the self as an interface of spirit and matter, the one empowering the other in the natural world.

skotogallery

Met hedendaagse schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken. Werk van Haji Chilonga, Salum Kambi, Constantin Kiswanga, George Lilanga, Henrick Lilanga, David Mzuguno, Vinta Malaba en Dastani Nyedi. De tentoonstelling is van maandag t/m woensdag op afspraak open, van donderdag t/m zondag van 14.00 uur tot 20.00 uur.

lumieresdafrique

Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.

izarte

Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.

kunsthallewien

The title of Jake Aikman’s third solo exhibition; Proximity is as ambiguous and mysterious as his atmospheric, meditative paintings. The exhibition is a marked stylistic evolution is visible in his new body of work. Aikman subtly moves from his trademark crisp “sea paintings” to softer, hued and hazy compositions which serve to heighten intrigue and fascination with the already magnetic and spellbinding content.

Proximity

Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.

17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil

Voorwerpen uit etnografische collecties en uit de canons van modernistisch design en fotografie, bij elkaar gebracht in montages. Centraal object een Baulé-masker uit het  Amsterdamse Tropenmuseum. Ook foto van Kuba-stoffen als uitgangspunt voor jacquard-geweven reproducties en in de Congo gemaakte krukken in combinatie met notenhouten krukken van Ray Eames.

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Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as period pains/ periods pain. Zanele Muholi uses her own menstrual blood as a vehicle and medium to begin to express and bridge the pain and loss I feel as I hear and become witness to the pain of 'curative rapes' that many of the girls and women in my black lesbian community bleed from their vaginas and their minds.

blankprojects

Recent works (paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, installations) by a selection of artists from the five countries constituting the East Africa Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda). Also international guest artists from other countries of Africa, Europe, and from the USA.

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Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.

goodman-gallery

Na twee jaar is Abe Mathabe uit Soweto terug met zijn miniaturen (etsen) in Nederland. Abe Mathabe laat dit keer ook zijn inkt- en ballpointtekeningen zien. ... Zonder dat hij voorbij wil gaan aan de harde realiteit van alledag in zijn land, kiest hij ervoor om te wijzen op lichtpunten. Op zijn vaak piepkleine, figuratieve etsen beeldt hij mensen af die een positieve uitstraling hebben, die zelfverzekerd overkomen, die gelukkig lijken te zijn ... .

galerie23 abemathabe

... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.

artthrob magnum-biography

Bamako Encounters will be offering a glimpse of the new generation of African artists, spotted at the Biennial of African Photography, created in 1994. The Artur Walther Collection will be showing a generation of African artists in an exhibition space set out in the midst of the exhibition. Publishers will launch some new books about and present portfolios by African photographers. Also many galleries that support African photography will be presenting their most emblematic works.

parisphoto

Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.

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Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.

baltimore museum of art

Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.

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Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.

rogerballen reflex-art

Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.

argosarts meetingpoints

The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant".  In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.

influxcontemporary africancolours

Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.

goodman-gallery dafrique

Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.

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Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.

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Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.

scaddmoa kehindewiley

Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise,  Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.

davidkrutprojects

An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.

joburg-jag artthrob

Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.

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