Woensdag 20 April 2011
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geography of Somewhere
At the heart of this exhibition is a paradox: the work it brings together may be understood as coming from the city, but it is not of the city. The artists' practices draw aspects of their vocabularies from conditions of the urban, yet their works are not simply descriptive of the 'city'. Work by artists such as Odili Donald Odita, Zander Blom, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Gerald Machona, Meschac Gaba.
Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa, responding to the country's powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics. Work by Jodi Bieber, Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Mikhael Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko and others.
Drawing by Nature
Kunstenaars die zich toeleggen op tekenen. Mix van figuratieve en abstracte tekeningen met potlood en pastel, variërend van natuurlijke tekeningen van mensen, planten en dieren tot Afrikaanse grafische codes en symbolen. Emma van Drongelen, Laura Sassen, Joost Bakker (NL), Victor Ekpuk (Nigeria). Ekpuk baseert zich in zijn tekeningen op Nsibidi, een inheemse Afrikaanse taal die is opgebouwd uit grafische symbolen en codes.
galeriesanaa africaserver (interview met Victor Ekpuk)
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.
As Terras do Fim do Mundo - Jo Ractliffe
Nearly 60 evocative black and white landscapes. Guided by a group of former South African Defence Force soldiers, on their first trip back to the Angolan countryside since the 1988 ceasefire at Cuito Cuanavale, Ractliffe documents what she terms as the 'landscape of leftovers' from the country's devastating 27-year civil war.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers). In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces. Op 20 april een lezing en aansluitend een quiz over Zimbabwe.
Yvette Dunn - Drowning Colours
Dunn uses her body as the canvas and a point of departure into the creation of her work - be it a painting or recording herself as her alter ego sHero. "My mission is to re-interpret/ re-invent racial labels given to us by political systems. I do this through my colour palette and my camera."
Various Artists: Past Imperfect - Future Tense
Curated show of large-scale watercolours and prints from the Botanical Artists Association of South Africa. Sibonelo Chiliza will present his first major public showing. The event forms part of the galleries Social Art Intervention Program which promotes works within the broader context of culture, heritage and society.
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.
Penny Siopis - Who's Afraid of the Crowd?
In this exhibition Siopis continues her longstanding interest in the tension between form and formlessness, figure and ground. As before, her medium and process of working are as much conceptual as they are the means to create an image; be it ink and glue paintings, or the 8mm home movie footage she uses to compose her video.
Paul Edmunds - Tone
As Edmunds observes, many of us have a long and close relationship with music. From elements which are often non-narrative, mostly repetitive and largely abstract, we extract or assemble meaningful experience, repeatedly. In a series of pencil drawings, a linocut and two sculptures, Edmunds uses only line and its sculptural equivalent, edge, to explore visual correspondents for music and sound, and their constituent parts.
Lerato Shadi - 50 g and Tlhogo
In the video In 50 g, a locked-off, close-up shot of a woman's bust is shown; in the foreground her hands crochet a piece of fabric using red wool. Glimpses of the body can be seen as the hands move in a rhythmic pattern. For the performance Tlhogo, Shadi crocheted a cocoon from hand-spun wool of various origins. The red woollen sheath was created specifically to fit her body, with just enough space left open for her to enter it.
Wanyu Brush, Sane Wadu & Jak Katarikawe @ relaunch of Watatu Gallery
Three of East Africa's most celebrated artists respond to post election violence in Kenya, showcasing each artist’s unique style in confronting the civil strife that plagued the country. The artworks of the trio, exhibiting together for the first time, alight the senses and illustrate the power and need for exceptional art locally and globally.
Ibrahim El-Salahi - From Time to Time
El-Salahi draws on the rich literary and visual heritage of his homeland Sudan, combined with a rigorous compositional organization that seeks to balance spatial and structural concerns with an ability to reconcile intelligence and sensibility, knowledge and intuition as well as matter and spirit.
Interlaced - solotentoonstelling van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad)
Zij maakt intrigerende installaties, met gefilmde performances, enorme fotoprints & gevonden voorwerpen en haar eigen lichaam als onderwerp & uitgangspunt. Zij bedekt zichzelf met lagen van kleurrijke & aromatische kruiden of andere opvallende substanties.
Beyond the Horizon - werk van vier Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars
Rode draad is hun visie op identiteit in een zogenaamd 'rassenloze' Zuid-Afrikaanse maatschappij. Met: Zanele Muholi (Umlazi, Durban, 1972), Dineo Seshee Bopape (Polokwane, 1981), Yvette Dunn (Durban, 1979) & Frances Goodman (Johannesburg, 1975).
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
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.
Michael Taylor - The tenacious tree huggers
New series of paintings that portray a cast of awkward characters and their relationships to their personal environments. The paintings are character sketches of individuals struggling against the unpredictable ways of nature. These imagined people are not only confounded by the shifting occurrences within their environments, they are also troubled by their own individual natures.
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).
