Maandag 11 April 2011
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
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.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
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.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
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.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
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.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
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.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
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.
De kracht van zilver, sieraden uit de collectie van Smith-Hutschenruyter
Deze bijzondere collectie sieraden is afkomstig uit een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van Noord-Afrika, Midden-Oosten en Azië. Ze vertellen het krachtige verhaal van schoonheid, vakmanschap en economische waarde. Ze staan voor esthetiek, maar ook voor magische spiritualiteit. Deze recent geschonken collectie wordt nu voor het eerst tentoongesteld.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
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.
Artists in Dialogue II
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.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Grootmoeders aan zet!
Annemarijne Bax (NL, 1981) fotografeerde Zuid-Afrikaanse grootmoeders voor World Granny. Tijdens de tentoonstelling geeft Bax een aantal lezingen (op vrijdagmiddag) over de trends, ontwikkelingen en resultaten van ontwikkelingssamenwerking bij de doelgroep ouderen in verschillende werelddelen. Voor de lezingen graag aanmelden (zie sites voor details).
Ernest Cole, Photographer
Ernest Cole (1940-1990) passionately believed in his mission to tell the world in photographs what it meant to be black under Apartheid rule. He penetrated to the very depths of the existence of black people as they negotiated their lives through the insanity of apartheid and its racist laws and oppression.
Stichting Thami Mnyele – 20 jaar
Twintig jaar geleden richtte een groep Amsterdamse kunstenaars een artists-in-residence programma op, waardoor kunstenaars uit Afrika drie maanden in Amsterdam kunnen wonen en werken. Jubileumtentoonstelling met werk van 26 van de 68 kunstenaars die de afgelopen 20 jaar in het atelier verbleven.
Olavo Amado - Het leven als labyrint
Amado (Sao Tomé) omschreef het leven ooit als een labyrint. “Je weet nooit wat je de volgende dag te wachten staat.” Met name in zijn abstractere werken lijkt hij dit uitgangspunt haast letterlijk vorm te geven. Het hele oppervlak is gevuld met labyrintachtige vormen. Heel kleurig, in elkaar grijpend, warrig.
Fetish Modernity. Iedereen modern
In het Westen hebben we de neiging om de wereld in te delen in ‘Wij’ versus de ‘Anderen’. We denken al snel een monopolie te hebben op alles wat modern is. Fetish Modernity toont dat dit absoluut niet het geval is en dat er ook buiten het Westen belangrijke vernieuwingen ontstaan.
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now
Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now features nearly 100, posters, books, and wall stencils created over the last five decades that demonstrate the exceptional reach, range, and impact of printmaking during and after a period of enormous political upheaval.
Possible Cities: Africa in Photography and Video
Seeks to complicate representations of Africa through a set of works on cities as sites of convergence of multiple pasts and futures. Includes photo installations by Sammy Baloji, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Guy Tillim and video installations by Salem Mekuria and IngridMwangiRobertHutter.
Art out of Africa - Tingatinga Paintings
As seen on Cbeebies Tingatinga Stories. The Tingatinga painting style is named after Edward Saidi Tingatinga, born in southern Tanzania. He developed his own very personal style based on Swahili and Arabic traditions, illustrating colourful animals that fill up most of the frame. After his death in 1972 the Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society was founded.
Jodi Bieber - Between Darkness and Light
Award-winning photographer Jodi Bieber explores the twilight that she experienced in the decade following the advent of democracy in South Africa. The show is a selection of work from 1993 to 2004, primarily revealing Bieber’s more rarely shown independent series, as well as some of her earlier work as a press photographer.
David Mzuguno (1951-2010) Tribute Exhibition
Tribute to the work of an artist with a real creative genius, one of Africa’s greatest artists, and a man who inspired many of the young painters of the current generation of Tingatinga painters. Please request access badge for EC premises at least 48 hours before visiting at info@lumieresdafrique.eu.
Blueprints of Paradise
Een tentoonstelling - ism African Architecture Matters - over architectuur en de snelle veranderingen die het Afrikaanse continent ondergaan. Na aanleiding van een competitie onder Afrikaanse kunstenaars en architecten over de vraag hoe westerse musea hedendaags Afrika zouden moeten representeren, zijn werken geselecteerd die op deze tentoonstelling zijn te zien.
Rainbow Savannah
By Sanaa Afrika. Feauturing Tinga Tinga paintings from Tanzania and Shona stone sculptures From Zimbabwe. Now also available during the exhibition Tinga Tinga tales, colourful childrens' books inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa.
Library of the infinitesimally small and the unimaginably large - Barbara Wildenboer
Using images and metaphor to investigate the scientific contents of found reference books, Barbara Wildenboer tries to make sense of phenomena such as fractal geometry and the interconnectedness of all living things by creating visual metaphors that speak of a sense of wonder at the complicated beauty of patterns in nature.
David Goldblatt - Lifetimes: Under Apartheid
Photographer David Goldblatt (b.1930) has explored the social landscape of his home country of South Africa since the late 1940s. In 1987, he generously donated a large collection of his work to the V&A Museum. View a selection of these images, focussing on the later years under apartheid rule, alongside important books by Goldblatt.
Nicholas Hlobo: Sculpture, Installation, Performance, Drawing
A number of works that show how Hlobo uses sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to address issues of gender, cultural difference and contemporary politics. Hlobo’s work implicates viewers in the scenario of South African culture, providing enough clues to bridge the differences between his local cultural sensitivities and those of a global art world.
Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from 3 Continents
Works featured in this installation are highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Among them are sculptural assemblages made of incongruous combinations of discarded materials by two contemporary artists from the Republic of Benin, Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962) and Calixte Dakpogan (b. 1958).
