Donderdag 22 September 2011

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.

1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling  JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.

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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.

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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.

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Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.

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Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. 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.

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While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.

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The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.

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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.

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Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over  130 of his works.

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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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Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.

Tate Modern: 'Contested Terrains'

Een expo over moederschap in drie delen. Professionele foto's van Lieve Blancquaert, gemaakt in de regio Kasongo Lunda en geflankeerd door verhalen van gefotografeerde vrouwen, persoonlijke foto's van Memisa-medewerkers in Congo en historische foto's van het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde uit de jaren dertig en vijftig.

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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.

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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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Na het grote succes van voorgaande edities wordt voor de derde keer de biënnale van de wereldfotografie georganiseerd. Fotoquai 2011 presenteert 400 foto's van 46 hedendaagse fotografen uit alle windhoeken. Afrika is ruim vertegenwoordigd met foto's van Mack Magagane, Christian Tundula, Michael Tsegaye, Andrew Esiebo, Mwanzo Milinga, Sameer Kermalli en Helène Amouzou.

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Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.

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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.

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Shows a collection of abstract pencil drawings and a sculpture. Edmunds (South Africa) uses line or edge to explore visual correspondents for music and its constituent parts resulting in intricate labyrinthine abstractions that relate to pitch, tone, timbre and stereo.

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Work from 60 artists from across South Africa. The arists were invited to entertain the idea “horse” and the request initiated a rich variety of responses. The exhibition is both an expression and a celebration of diversity – horse as partner, horseas victim, horse as power, horse as property, horse as sexuality. Horse on paper,on film, on canvas, in sound, in light and in performance.

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Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen

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Focuses on the role of photography as it bears witness to the human condition at the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century. African participation: Boniface Mwangi (Kenya), Roger Ballen, Hasan & Husain Essop, Pieter Hugo, Guy Tillim (South Africa).

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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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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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