Maandag 04 Juni 2012
Expression without Borders – NL, werken van 7 kunstenaars uit Soweto
Zondag 29 April 2012 14:00
t/m Woensdag 06 Juni 2012
Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.
Ina van Zyl: Laughing Out Loud
Zaterdag 12 Mei 2012 15:30
t/m Zaterdag 16 Juni 2012
Ina van Zyl was born in Ceres, South Africa, 1971. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
De opening van de tentoonstelling is 12 mei, om 15:30 uur.
Tumble in Sugargrass met Uche Okpa Iroha
Zaterdag 26 Mei 2012 16:00
t/m Zaterdag 07 Juli 2012
Uche Okpa Iroha (Nigeria) legt in series foto’s de actuele situatie vast in zijn continent. Toch zijn het geen documentaire foto’s - de val van het licht, de extra aangebrachte kleurlaag tilt ze uit boven de dagelijkse realiteit en maakt ze tot kunst. In 2005 begonnen met fotografie wil hij met zijn werk verhalen vertellen over Afrika. Nu studeert hij 2 jaar in Nederland aan de Rijksacademie, om daarna in Nigeria zijn eigen platform te creëren.
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.
Uncensored
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.
The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji
Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.
Laila Essaydi - Revisions
Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.
Goddelijk en Griezelig. Het geheim van de slang
Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.
African artists at Prism, Drawings from 1990 to 2012
Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).
The Rainbow Nation: beeldhouwkunst uit Zuid-Afrika
Op deze gezamenlijk tentoonstelling van de Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur en het Museum Beelden aan Zee is de ontwikkeling te zien van de Zuid-Afrikaanse beeldhouwkunst in de afgelopen zestig jaar. Van de dagen van de Apartheid via de bereikte vrijheid in 1994 - de eerste verkiezingen voor alle rassen - tot de huidige periode van transformatie. De beelden reflecteren die politieke en maatschappelijke omwenteling.
De gierzwaluw, stedenband Haarlem-Mutare bestaat 20 jaar
De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege. De tentoonstelling is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.
A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell
Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.
The Other Half: Past and Future Now - Michael MacGarry
The centrepiece of this exhibition is the large-scale sculpture Faro RLV 3-10, an unmanned field artillery cannon (Remote Land Vehicle) of the Nigerian Federal Army in the year 2052, conceived, designed and manufactured by the artist, principally in mild steel. Informing the work is the idea that, in all probability, the United States will in our lifetime engage in military activities against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the rubric of ensuring security, peace and stability in the country and the region.
London 2012 Festival: We Face Forward, Art from West Africa Today
We Face Forward, Art from West Africa Today is a city-wide exhibition of contemporary art from the region, and the first major collaboration between Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery and The Gallery of Costume at Platt Hall. It will feature painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, video and sound work from a wide range of internationally acclaimed artists,
International Museum Day 2012: International Arts Exhibition in Rwanda
The theme for International Museum Day 2012 is Museums in a Changing World. New challenges, New inspirations. This more is a recognition that institutions are faced with interpreting, and existing in a field that is becoming increasingly fluid. Each may face a unique set of goals, interests and audiences. Nothing is less true for the Rwesero Arts Museum, which will participate for the first time in this particular international event. May18th she will launch two big and two smaller shows, which make together an international arts exhibition on a scale she never had on display until now.
Start nieuwe seizoen: Out of Africa
Naast de tentoonstelling van de Surinaamse kunstenaar George Struikelblok is in de galerie ook de tentoonstelling Out of Africa te zien met intrigerende houten beelden van Abou Sidibé uit Mali/Burkina Faso en kleurrijke sculpturen van papier-maché, gemaakt door de internationaal bekende kunstenaar Mickaël Bethe-Selassie (Ethiopië / Frankrijk).
Coming of Age - Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking at Artist Proof Studio
Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.
Wosene Worke Kosrof (Ethiopia) - Words: Future Tense
Recent paintings. Wosene's work continues to draw upon an individual reserve of personal and collective memories to activate a meaningful form of engagement that celebrates the richness of Ethiopia’s visual culture. For years, he has consistently explored strategies that combine the dynamic interplay between text and image with the abstract dimensions of the Amharic script, a modern language of Ethiopia and one of the oldest indigenous to Africa.
Rood is het andere blauw - Fitsum Behre Woldelibanos
Fitsum Behre Woldelibanos (Eritrea, Kenia) schildert mensen met wie hij iets heeft of met wie hij zich verwant voelt. Hij heeft zijn muzen, vrouwen die hij vaker schildert, maar hij heeft ook een serie ‘Black Male’ gemaakt, omdat hij zich identificeert met de zwarte man en soms de behoefte heeft om zijn huidskleur tot thema te maken. Opvallend is, dat hij zich meestal beperkt tot koppen. Verder dan de schouders komt hij niet, omdat volgens hem het hoofd het hele verhaal vertelt.
Extra - Candice Breitz
This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.
White Termite - Liza Grobler
The show is loosely based on Eugene Marais’ book, The Soul of the White Ant, which draws parallels between the ant nest as a compound animal and the human body. White Termite is a mixed media installation consisting of a constructed space that interacts with the gallery’s interior and visitors moving through it. Digital projections and collaborative processes (the crocheting performance) will continuously redefine and transform the space; much like water, the viewer’s experience evolves over time as they negotiate the interior installations.
White Termite
Liza Grobler
Vlakplaas - Renzske Scholtz
In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.
Didn't Want to Be Your Ghost - Natasja Fourie
The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.
Rewind - Khaya Sineyile
When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.
Out of Focus - various photographers
A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).
De gierzwaluw, stedenband Haarlem-Mutare bestaat 20 jaar
De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij wordt op donderdag 7 juni om 11.00 uur officieel geopend door de kinderen van Groep 7 van de Basisschool de Dolfijn samen met de Haarlemse theaterartiest Hakim Traïdia. Tijdens de opening wordt een gastles verzorgt over dit interessante vogeltje door Jos Slenter. De tentoonstelling is een onderdeel van het breed project van de Stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.
Paintings and Prints for Doctors and Dentists - Anton Kannemeyer
The humorous origins of this show lie in a suggestion by Kannemeyer's doctor that the artist no longer pay him in cash but give him art in exchange for his services. But whenever Kannemeyer put forward a work in payment, the doctor had to 'run it by his wife' who invariably thought the piece was inappropriate for their home. When Kannemeyer's dentist made the same suggestion, the artist decided it was time for an exhibition of works that 'doctors and dentists' might actually want to hang in their houses.
The Other Half: Past and Future Now - Michael MacGarry
New sculpture, installation, photography and video. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the large-scale sculpture Faro RLV 3-10, an unmanned field artillery cannon (Remote Land Vehicle) of the Nigerian Federal Army in the year 2052, conceived, designed and manufactured by the artist, principally in mild steel. Another key sculpture is Iceman, made in plastic resin from the body cast of a heavyweight bodybuilder; the head and face, however, are those of the artist. The installation La Maison d'une Artiste is a future projection - embodying in equal parts lyrical humour and masculine critique - of the central narrative of Edmond de Goncourt's 1881 book of the same name.
Into the Night - Niklas Zimmer
A collection of long-exposure, film-based photographs taken at night in Cape Town. In this series of nudes, still lifes and cityscapes, Niklas Zimmer has used the night and the process of photographing with long exposures as an allegorical backdrop for a politics of personal path-finding through ambivalent terrains of consciousness.
Tentoonstelling: Expression without borders
De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.
Kunst uit Benin: Paulin Zoffoun
Er worden batiks en schilderijen tentoongesteld van Paulin Zoffoun, ook wel Pauzo genoemd. Zijn kunst wordt bevolkt door tekens en verwijzingen naar de oude cultuur van Benin waar Pauzo's wortels liggen. Op de expositie wordt uitgebreid uitleg gegeven over de inhoud van de doeken.
Fototentoonstelling Chasing Shadows
An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.
Tentoonstelling: The Next Generation
Dit is een selectie van het werk van 20 hedendaagse kunstenaars uit Zuid Afrika die in de afgelopen jaren in de Thami Mnyele Foundation "Artist-in-Residence" hebben gewerkt. Twintig jaar geleden inspireerde de Zuid-Afrikaanse verzetsstrijder en kunstenaar Thami Mnyele een groep Amsterdamse kunstenaars tot het oprichten van een programma, waardoor kunstenaars uit het hele continent van Afrika en haar diaspora de mogelijkheid kregen om drie maanden in Amsterdam te wonen en te werken. Zijne Excellentie Mr. Peter Goosen, Ambassadeur van de Republiek Zuid-Afrika, zal zaterdag 30 juni om 16.30 uur de opening van de tentoonstelling verrichten.
