Zaterdag 01 September 2012

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.

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While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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.

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SANAA toont verschillende kunstdisciplines, tweedimensionaal en driedimensionaal, fotografie, video, tekeningen, installaties of combinaties daarvan. Deze zomer toont SANAA weer een prachtig overzicht van werk uit de exposities van het afgelopen jaar. Met o.a. Adriaan de Villiers, Myriam Mihindou, Michael Tsegaye, Victor Ekpuk.

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Richard Long and Willem Boshoff work in distinctly different visual languages, however their central context and inspiration is synonymous - nature and the nature of things. The exhibitions reveal how the artists uniquely engage with the natural and social world. In 1967 Long started his walk-works, initially repeating the organic, impermanent act of walking in a single line until a trail was made. Boshoff combines his fascination with words and language with an astute awareness of the natural world and socio-political discourses.

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De veelzijdige Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar William Kentridge ontwikkelde de afgelopen decennia een multidisciplinaire werkwijze waarin film, animatie, tekenkunst, grafiek en theater samenkomen. Typerend voor zijn werk zijn de krachtige houtskool- en pasteltekeningen die hij tot bewegend beeld transformeert. Black Box/Chambre Noire is een mechanisch theater waarin gedurende 23 minuten zes mechanische figuren beurtelings optreden tegen een geprojecteerde achtergrond van geanimeerde houtskooltekeningen.

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Award-winning photographer 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. In each case her idiosyncratic style traverses and ultimately defies categorisations such as photojournalism and visual art.

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Beeldend kunstenaar Jon Eiselin, oorspronkelijk uit Zuid Afrika en nu al geruime tijd woonachtig in Amsterdam, veranderde in 2008 na het laatste bezoek aan zijn land van een figuratieve naar een non-figuratieve stijl van schilderen. Eiselin had al besloten van thema te wisselen. Toen de gelegenheid zich aandiende hierop te reageren, maakte hij schetsen voor een eerste serie aan water gerelateerde schilderijen. Uiteindelijk resulteerden ze in speelse, hoekige en gebogen composities, die, zoals water, als het ware over het doek lijken te zweven, te drijven en te vloeien. Omdat ze geen specifiek middelpunt hebben, noemt Jon Eiselin deze afbeeldingen ‘grenzeloos en openeindig’. De titels voor zijn schilderijen zijn over het algemeen direct aan zijn observaties ontleend.

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A series of independent yet intersecting exhibitions will be brought together under one roof to form a complete piece that explores the nature of belief and the dynamics of communication. The complete exhibition, entitled MMXII, is a solo display by James Webb. A keynote work in the exhibition is Prayer, a multi-channel sound installation of prayers recorded from over 65 different faith groups in greater Johannesburg. Other works, including static and time-based media projects, will be shown alongside JAG’s collection.

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Solo exhibition by visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. For Muholi, MO(U)RNING evokes death but also suggests the cycle of life as morning follows night. Life and death, love and hate are some of the antitheses that appear throughout her work. In April this year, Muholi's Cape Town apartment was burgled in what was apparently an attack directed at her visual activism. The lost material was an extensive archive of photographic work, videos and texts documenting hate crimes in South Africa and gender issues in Africa. Now Muholi presents elements of her documentation that were not lost, together with new work realised in recent months.

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Group exhibition with a.o. Marlene Dumas (South Africa), Godfried Donkor (Ghana), Hassan Musa (Sudan), Chéri Samba (DR Congo)
The gallery is closed from July 15 to August 7

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Exhibition focusing on urbanisation and its effects on the disenfranchised. Cape Town mirrors many of the problems facing other African cities and cities in the developing world. How does this surplus humanity improvise survival in the city? The photographs included in this exhibition are an attempt to distill Lurie's experience of these fragments of life – of unfinished stories – on the precipice beyond the edge of Cape Town.

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Op verzoek van SEEtrust reisde fotograaf Martine Kolner de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren naar Zuid-Afrika. In de townships in Johannesburg fotografeerde zij de levensomstandigheden van de zwarte bevolking twintig jaar na de beëindiging van de apartheid. De expositie bestaat uit twaalf series waaronder Black in White, Headgear, In my Courtyard en Slash&Burn. De ruim honderd foto’s geven een impressie van de bewoners in een land waar na jarenlange strijd zwart en blank proberen elkaar de hand te reiken.

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Exhibition focuses on the complexities of global exchange fostered by capitalism, and its effects on life and art. Time, Trade & Travel set the participating artists on a quest for the historical encounters between Europeans and Africans, in which trade and the concomitant cultural exchange receive particular attention. In collaboration with the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana and featuring Dutch and Ghanese artists.

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Recente schilderijen en enkele doeken uit de Amsterdamse periode van Patrick Makumbe (Zimbabwe) en nieuwe werken van George Struikelblok (Suriname) worden, in wisselende selecties, gecombineerd met werken van kunstenaars die eerder hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23. Na een vervolgopleiding in 2004/5 aan de Rijksakademie in Amsterdam keerde Patrick Makumbe terug naar Zimbabwe. De werkomstandigheden waren aanvankelijk buitengewoon moeilijk: gebrek aan materiaal en een gespannen politieke sfeer. De condities verbeterden allengs.

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An outstanding exploration of the sounds and rhythms of Africa and the Diaspora and a groundbreaking digital experience that pays homage to artists and music of Africa and the African diaspora, the first tribute to black artists of its kind. The exhibition uses state-of-the-art technology, with over 100 interactive audio-visual setups transmitting the sights, sounds and rhythms of artists from all over the world. The exhibition comprises of a mind-blowing 13 hours’ worth of footage.

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In his latest body of work Wayne Barker builds on ideas of his own artistic history largely made up of work dealing with the politics of representation in terms of the South African landscape. The title of the exhibition, 'Love Land', alludes to the landscape as a product of deviant sexuality, a love child or bastard. The show features a selection of works that carries many of Barker’s trademarks, namely his use of neon signage, expressionist gestures juxtaposed with African pop imagery, digital manipulation and the incorporation of traditional South African craft.

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