Agenda 17 - 23 April 2011
Zondag 17 April
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.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afridance workshop
Spetterende West-Afrikaanse dansworkshop met dansleraar en choreograaf Lamine Dramé + live percussionisten. Wie zijn workshop Afrikaans dansen volgt krijgt niet alleen veel van de West-Afrikaanse cultuur mee, maar gaat ook met een aantal belangrijke levenslessen mee naar huis.
afridance
Alite Thijsen - Work in Progress: 2009-2011
The last 20 years Alite Thijsen has frequently worked and travelled in Africa. The video now on show is shot in Casamanca (Senegal) during the boukout ceremony. The origin of the boukout goes way back in the past and seems to be unaffected by evangelisation, conversion, colonialism and globalization.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
Donso on live tour
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
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."
kunstveiling voor 'Amazing Children'
Zondag 17 April 2011 14:00
Stichting 'Amazing Children' organiseert in samenwerking met Galerie Art Fusion en kunstenares Hanneke Toes een kunstveiling van portretten van kinderen uit Zuid-Afrika. Deze portretten zijn gemaakt door Hanneke Toes. De opbrengst komt ten gunste diverse vrijwilligersprojecten die worden opgezet voor weeshuizen in Zuid-Afrika.
Islam Nu 2011 met Bright O'Richards
Zondag 17 April 2011 16:00
In 'As I left my fathers House' vertelt de van oorsprong liberiaanse theatermaker Bright O'Richards aan de hand van de heilige boeken tenach, bijbel en koran het verhaal van vluchtelingen. Hoe is het om te vluchten en te leven vol onzekerheid? Wat betekenen hoop, liefde en geloof in de context van migratie? Een voorstelling in het kader van Islam Nu, over de betekenis van de Islam hier en nu.
Carmen Souza
Woensdag 13 April 2011 20:30
t/m Zondag 17 April 2011
Ondanks haar creools dialect klinkt Carmen (Kaapverdië) nu eens als pure Billy Holiday, dan weer als de jonge Zap Mama. In april 2010 lanceerde ze haar derde album 'Protegid'. Met haar ontwapenende natuurlijkheid zorgt Carmen voor een intiem optreden vol vibraties.
Maandag 18 April
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.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Work in Progress: 2009-2011
The last 20 years Alite Thijsen has frequently worked and travelled in Africa. The video now on show is shot in Casamanca (Senegal) during the boukout ceremony. The origin of the boukout goes way back in the past and seems to be unaffected by evangelisation, conversion, colonialism and globalization.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
Donso on live tour
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
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."
Dinsdag 19 April
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.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Casablanca Workshops
Over the past few years Alite Thijsen initiated various (one minute) workshops in Africa, the first ones in Morocco. The motivation for initiating those workshops originates in the imaging of Africa in the western media, as well as in the potency of the creators of the works. The results show the richness and the diversity of the artistic production while at the same time display the perception of the young creators.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
Donso on live tour
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Staff Benda Bilili - opnieuw on tour
De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! Sinds het verschijnen van hun debuut-cd Tres Tres Fort touren ze de hele wereld over en spelen alle zalen plat. De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
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."
promotie: Speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English
Dinsdag 19 April 2011 16:15
E.M. Tajeldin Ali verdedigt om 16.15uur zijn proefschrift: Speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English. Promotor: Prof.dr. V.J.J.P. van Heuven
Woensdag 20 April
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.
4th annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival
This film festival was founded in St. Louis (USA) and has editions in Bermuda, Cameroon and Barbados. A festival about African films and African-diaspora documentary film. The program contains different sessions, with themes such as Land & Freedom, Creative Solutions and A life in Art.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Casablanca Workshops
Over the past few years Alite Thijsen initiated various (one minute) workshops in Africa, the first ones in Morocco. The motivation for initiating those workshops originates in the imaging of Africa in the western media, as well as in the potency of the creators of the works. The results show the richness and the diversity of the artistic production while at the same time display the perception of the young creators.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
Donso on live tour
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Zaandam najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen zijn met Afrikaanse ritmes. 27 april start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Staff Benda Bilili - opnieuw on tour
De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! Sinds het verschijnen van hun debuut-cd Tres Tres Fort touren ze de hele wereld over en spelen alle zalen plat. De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
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."
Donderdag 21 April
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.
4th annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival
This film festival was founded in St. Louis (USA) and has editions in Bermuda, Cameroon and Barbados. A festival about African films and African-diaspora documentary film. The program contains different sessions, with themes such as Land & Freedom, Creative Solutions and A life in Art.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Casablanca Workshops
Over the past few years Alite Thijsen initiated various (one minute) workshops in Africa, the first ones in Morocco. The motivation for initiating those workshops originates in the imaging of Africa in the western media, as well as in the potency of the creators of the works. The results show the richness and the diversity of the artistic production while at the same time display the perception of the young creators.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
Donso on live tour
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Staff Benda Bilili - opnieuw on tour
De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! Sinds het verschijnen van hun debuut-cd Tres Tres Fort touren ze de hele wereld over en spelen alle zalen plat. De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
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."
Africa Today Seminar: The Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Donderdag 21 April 2011 15:30
Nicholas Koumjian, Principle Trial Attorney, Special Court for Sierra Leone. This court was set up in January 2002 in a treaty between the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations. The treaty and its statutes gave the court the jurisdiction to try those considered ‘most responsible’ for the atrocities that were committed in Sierra Leone between 30 November 1996 and 18 January 2002. Please register.
Rhythm Orgy
Donderdag 21 April 2011 20:30
Rhythm Orgy is een muzikale ontmoeting tussen bijzondere Europese en Afrikaanse musici o.l.v. de in Zambia geboren en getogen drummer/componist Michael Baird. Bezetting deze maand: Michael Baird (ZAM): drums, Ebou Gaye Mada (GAM): percussie, Zoumana Diarra (MALI): kora, gitaar, Ad Colen (NL): saxen, Dion Nijland (NL): contrabas.
Vrijdag 22 April
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.
4th annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival
This film festival was founded in St. Louis (USA) and has editions in Bermuda, Cameroon and Barbados. A festival about African films and African-diaspora documentary film. The program contains different sessions, with themes such as Land & Freedom, Creative Solutions and A life in Art.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Casablanca Workshops
Over the past few years Alite Thijsen initiated various (one minute) workshops in Africa, the first ones in Morocco. The motivation for initiating those workshops originates in the imaging of Africa in the western media, as well as in the potency of the creators of the works. The results show the richness and the diversity of the artistic production while at the same time display the perception of the young creators.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rabasa - Kaap-Verdië
Traditionele en eigentijdse muziek van de Kaap-Verdische Eilanden: een heerlijke mix van melancholische fado en West-Afrikaanse ritmes. Het repertoire van deze achtkoppige band bestaat uit verschillende genres zoals morna, coladeira, funana, batuque en cola sanjon.
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).
Staff Benda Bilili - opnieuw on tour
De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! Sinds het verschijnen van hun debuut-cd Tres Tres Fort touren ze de hele wereld over en spelen alle zalen plat. De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
World Press Photo 2011
Jaarlijkse winnaarstentoonstelling. Foto van het jaar ging naar Jodi Bieber (Zuid-Afrika) voor haar portret van een Afghaans meisje voor Time, maar ook haar landgenoten Mike Hutchings (sport) en Thomas P. Peschak (natuur) en Somaliër Feisal Omar (dagelijks leven) zijn onderscheiden.
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."
Zaterdag 23 April
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.
4th annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival
This film festival was founded in St. Louis (USA) and has editions in Bermuda, Cameroon and Barbados. A festival about African films and African-diaspora documentary film. The program contains different sessions, with themes such as Land & Freedom, Creative Solutions and A life in Art.
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.
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.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Alite Thijsen - Casablanca Workshops
Over the past few years Alite Thijsen initiated various (one minute) workshops in Africa, the first ones in Morocco. The motivation for initiating those workshops originates in the imaging of Africa in the western media, as well as in the potency of the creators of the works. The results show the richness and the diversity of the artistic production while at the same time display the perception of the young creators.
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.
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.
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).
Black Venus
Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois, Frankrijk 2010. Waargebeurd verhaal: een groep Franse monniken in Algerije ziet zich halverwege de jaren '90 geconfronteerd met het geweld van moslimfundamentalisten. Een menselijk portret van religieuze idealisten. Grand Prix Cannes.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a better world: Oscarwinnaar
Anton is dokter in een Afrikaans vluchtelingen kamp en ziet de verschrikkingen van een echte oorlog. Zijn familie woont in Denemarken. Hij en zijn vrouw worstelen met de mogelijkheid om te scheiden. Hun oudste zoon, de 10-jarige Elias, wordt op school gepest. De wereld zou beter zijn als op geweld niet automatisch wraak volgt, is de morele les van het Deense drama.
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.
Jaarvergadering NZAV - lezing Adriaan van Dis
De jaarvergadering van NZAV vindt plaats in het Nederlands Instituut voor de Tropen. Na afloop van de vergadering zal Adriaan van Dis een lezing houden met aansluitend een borrel die in het teken zal staan van het 150-jarig bestaan van de NZAV.
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.
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.
Les Spectateurs - Europese tour
OMSK Dordrecht en Lotte van den Berg presenteren de voorstelling Les Spectateurs; een reis van Dordrecht naar Kinshasa (DR Congo) en weer terug, met spelers uit Nederland en Afrika. Centraal staat de vraag hoe een vreemdeling zich verhoudt tot een nieuwe omgeving. Blijf je altijd een toeschouwer (spectateur) of kun je één worden met een onbekende plek?
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.
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.
Movies that Matter - A Small Act
Een kleine daad met grootse gevolgen. Toen Hilde Back een Keniaans kind sponsorde, had ze niet verwacht ooit iets van hem te horen. Jaren later gaat Chris Mburu op zoek naar zijn weldoener. Inmiddels is hij mensenrechtenadvocaat bij de Verenigde Naties. Met zijn Hilde Back Education Fund helpt hij arme, leergierige Keniaanse kinderen om naar de middelbare school te gaan.
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.
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Hoofddorp najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen met Afrikaanse ritmes. 7 mei start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Staff Benda Bilili - opnieuw on tour
De Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili is live on stage een ware sensatie. Deze straatmuzikanten met een handicap kunnen swingen! Sinds het verschijnen van hun debuut-cd Tres Tres Fort touren ze de hele wereld over en spelen alle zalen plat. De hartslag van Afrika klinkt door in hun soepele Congolese rumba en ballades.
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.
The African Mama's: sing mama Africa
We moeten weten waar we vandaan komen om te begrijpen waar we naar toe gaan. Daarom zingen we de songs van Miriam Makeba (1932-2008). Een muzikaal en kleurrijk eerbetoon aan de vrouw die ondanks de vele tegenslagen een moeder van haar volk is geweest en heeft gestreden tegen Apartheid. Zij heeft laten zien dat je overal ter wereld je Afrikaanse identiteit mag uitdragen.
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.
UK Tour State of Emergency
The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.
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.
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.
World Press Photo 2011
Jaarlijkse winnaarstentoonstelling. Foto van het jaar ging naar Jodi Bieber (Zuid-Afrika) voor haar portret van een Afghaans meisje voor Time, maar ook haar landgenoten Mike Hutchings (sport) en Thomas P. Peschak (natuur) en Somaliër Feisal Omar (dagelijks leven) zijn onderscheiden.
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."
Zangduo Sean Bergin en Rogério Bicudo
Zaterdag 23 April 2011 20:30
Zuid-Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse klanken versmelten bij het zangduo Bergin (Zuid-Afrika) en Bicudo (Brazilië). Speelse liedjes met een serieus randje. Bicudo leerde tijdens zijn jeugd in Rio de Janeiro de Spaanse gitaar kennen. De jonge blanke saxofonist Sean Bergin leerde tijdens de Apartheid van de zwarte Afrikanen hoe echt jazz hoort te klinken.
