Agenda 26 Juni - 02 Juli 2011
Zondag 26 Juni
14e editie Amsterdam Roots Festival 2011
4 dagen lang muziek uit alle windstreken. Het leidende thema is Tracks. Daarin wordt zichtbaar & hoorbaar hoe culturele achtergrond & tradities een rol spelen als inspiratiebron. Met onder meer Maitre Tambours de Burundi op 25 juni. Vier dagen in het Tropentheater, Sugar Factory, Paradiso en Melkweg. Afsluiting op 26 juni met Alliantie Roots Open Air, gratis in het Oosterpark.
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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 Kigozi - recent works from Human Series
In the paintings of Kigozi (Uganda) birds, livestock and children often play a central role in the composition, based on the challenges of life. Kigozi opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories of day to day life, his parents were small scale farmers.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
Festival Afrique-Carib
Third World The Reggae Ambassadors, in Almere for the 1st time. Calambuco brings you a musical experience that awakens the nostalgia of the Salsa lover. Young Cosje a Surinamese band with members out of the villages of Klaaskreek, Surinam. And much more!
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Khaira Arby - Desert Blues uit Timbuktu
De stem van Khaira Arby is een krachtig, loepzuiver instrument waarmee zij emoties losmaakt die onafhankelijk zijn van taal en cultuur. De musici rondom de Malinese zangeres mengen eeuwenoude melodieën en ritmes met wringende elektrische gitaren en soepele drums.
Kleine architectendag
In het kader van de tentoonstelling ' Blueprints of Paradise' organiseert het Afrikamuseum een architectuur workshop voor kinderen. Want wat komt er allemaal kijken bij de bouw van een stad? Met behulp van karton, piepschuim en hout kom je erachter, terwijl de volwassenen worden rondgeleid over de tentoonstelling.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
ZIFF 2011 - 14th Festival of the Dhow Countries
East Africa’s largest film and arts festival, showcasing a broad spectrum of African and International creative works on the theme A Season of Visions.
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2011 - 14th Festival of the Dhow Countries
Zwelethu Mthethwa - photographs
New photographic work by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits – often, group portraits – of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Nhlangakazi in KwaZulu Natal. The End of an Era, an exercise in 'still life' photography, is set in Johannesburg’s hostels for migrant male labourers.
Dag van de Amsterdamse geschiedenis - Barbara Henkes over het Zuid-Afrikahuis
Zondag 26 Juni 2011 13:00
Het Zuid-Afrikahuis stelt zich ten doel stelt de belangstelling voor Zuid-Afrika levend te houden. Natuurlijk weerspiegelt het huis de ambivalente verhouding tussen Nederland en Zuid Afrika. Ooit heette het Jan van Riebeeckhuis. Barbara Henkes doet aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen onderzoek naar Nederlandse immigranten in Zuid-Afrika.
Het Zuid-Afrikahuis door Barbara Henkes
Zondag 26 Juni 2011 13:00
Tijdens de dag van de Amsterdamse geschiedenis houdt Barbara Henkes (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) een lezing over de ambivalente verhouding tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika en verheldert de positie en het doel van het Zuid-Afrikahuis, dat in de jaren ' 70 door aanhangers van de Anti-Apartheidsbeweging ernstig werd bekritiseerd.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Maandag 27 Juni
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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 Kigozi - recent works from Human Series
In the paintings of Kigozi (Uganda) birds, livestock and children often play a central role in the composition, based on the challenges of life. Kigozi opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories of day to day life, his parents were small scale farmers.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
International conference Arts Society and Sustainable Development
Topics: sustainability within the arts, development of products, entrepreneurship & social-cultural development of communities, drama, film, visual communication, fashion, fine arts, crafts, musical theatre, music, design, architecture & photography
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
The past & it's possibilities: Perspectives of Southern Africa
The Southern African Historical Society organises it's 23rd Biennial Conference. The society is an active network for communication amoung professionals located in the subcontinental region and aims to create opportunities and exchanges for young and emerging historians, in particular those based in the region.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
Zwelethu Mthethwa - photographs
New photographic work by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits – often, group portraits – of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Nhlangakazi in KwaZulu Natal. The End of an Era, an exercise in 'still life' photography, is set in Johannesburg’s hostels for migrant male labourers.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Dinsdag 28 Juni
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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 Kigozi - recent works from Human Series
In the paintings of Kigozi (Uganda) birds, livestock and children often play a central role in the composition, based on the challenges of life. Kigozi opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories of day to day life, his parents were small scale farmers.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
International conference Arts Society and Sustainable Development
Topics: sustainability within the arts, development of products, entrepreneurship & social-cultural development of communities, drama, film, visual communication, fashion, fine arts, crafts, musical theatre, music, design, architecture & photography
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
The past & it's possibilities: Perspectives of Southern Africa
The Southern African Historical Society organises it's 23rd Biennial Conference. The society is an active network for communication amoung professionals located in the subcontinental region and aims to create opportunities and exchanges for young and emerging historians, in particular those based in the region.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
Zwelethu Mthethwa - photographs
New photographic work by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits – often, group portraits – of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Nhlangakazi in KwaZulu Natal. The End of an Era, an exercise in 'still life' photography, is set in Johannesburg’s hostels for migrant male labourers.
Limits to Decentralization in Mozambique: Leadership, Politics and Local Government Capacities for S
Dinsdag 28 Juni 2011 16:00
Public Defence - Antonio Pedro Jose Machohe, Mozambique. Study seeks to assess the extent to which new local structures and decision-making processes since the first elections in 1998 are able to respond to the needs and wants of the communities they claim to represent.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Woensdag 29 Juni
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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 Kigozi - recent works from Human Series
In the paintings of Kigozi (Uganda) birds, livestock and children often play a central role in the composition, based on the challenges of life. Kigozi opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories of day to day life, his parents were small scale farmers.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
International conference Arts Society and Sustainable Development
Topics: sustainability within the arts, development of products, entrepreneurship & social-cultural development of communities, drama, film, visual communication, fashion, fine arts, crafts, musical theatre, music, design, architecture & photography
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
The past & it's possibilities: Perspectives of Southern Africa
The Southern African Historical Society organises it's 23rd Biennial Conference. The society is an active network for communication amoung professionals located in the subcontinental region and aims to create opportunities and exchanges for young and emerging historians, in particular those based in the region.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
WORM@Heidegger - Shanghaan Electro (Zuid-Afrika)
Nozinja + DJ Spoko + Tshetsha Boys with hyper-kinetic digital dance music custom made for weekly dance offs in Soweto. Shangaan Electro is the street level dance phenomenon from South Africa that went global in 2010 on the back of a series of viral youtube clips and an acclaimed compilation on Honest Jon's that introduced the movers and shakers in this fast emerging micro-genre.
Zwelethu Mthethwa - photographs
New photographic work by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits – often, group portraits – of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Nhlangakazi in KwaZulu Natal. The End of an Era, an exercise in 'still life' photography, is set in Johannesburg’s hostels for migrant male labourers.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Donderdag 30 Juni
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.
6th Baxter Dance Film Festival
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Benda Bilili !
Congolees-Franse documentaire Benda Bilili! van Renaud Barret + Florent de La Tullaye is een aanstekelijke muziekdocumentaire over een groep gehandicapte straatmuzikanten uit Congo die met hun muzikale act de wereld veroveren. Aanvang do. + vrij. om 19.15; zo. om 15.30 en di. om 20.00
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
Congotronics vs Rockers
30 juni; de dag van de Congolese onafhankelijkheid staat in het teken van gevaarlijke funky muziek uit Kinshasa, Congo. Een live dialoog tussen diverse bands uit allerlei windstreken met op het podium: Konono No1, Juana Molina, Kasai Allstars, Skeletons, Wildbirds & Peacedrums.
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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 Kigozi - recent works from Human Series
In the paintings of Kigozi (Uganda) birds, livestock and children often play a central role in the composition, based on the challenges of life. Kigozi opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories of day to day life, his parents were small scale farmers.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
'Music is the weapon of the future' aldus Femi Kuti. En wat voor muziek; krachtige nummers, ritmische Afrobeats met invloeden van jazz, funk en hiphop. Hij werkte samen met Common, Jaguar Wright en Mos Def. Femi heeft een krachtige boodschap; net als zijn vader Fela Kuti is hij een fel politiek activist. Dit optreden staat in het teken van zijn nieuwe album: Africa for Africa.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
National Arts Festival 2011 in Grahamstown, South Africa
37th edition of the leading arts festival in Southern Africa. Some objectives are to deliver excellence; encourage innovation & development by providing a platform for established & emerging South African artists; create opportunities for collaboration
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Het verhaal van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zorrorai en van vrijwilligers van het Home Based Care Project, waarin 49 vrouwelijke caregivers en 1 mannelijke, thuiszorg bieden aan ouderen en terminaal zieken. In het kader van het 100 Faces-project van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Vrijdag 01 Juli
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.
6th Baxter Dance Film Festival
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Benda Bilili !
Congolees-Franse documentaire Benda Bilili! van Renaud Barret + Florent de La Tullaye is een aanstekelijke muziekdocumentaire over een groep gehandicapte straatmuzikanten uit Congo die met hun muzikale act de wereld veroveren. Aanvang do. + vrij. om 19.15; zo. om 15.30 en di. om 20.00
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
Michael MacGarry
Previous Standard Bank Young Artist award winner Michael MacGarry presents a solo show of a comprehensive body of new work, including small and large-scale sculpture, photography and video. The works manifest MacGarry's ongoing concern with contemporary sociopolitical and economic life in several key African countries, along with broader conjecture as to future projections and fictions on the continent as a whole.
National Arts Festival 2011 in Grahamstown, South Africa
37th edition of the leading arts festival in Southern Africa. Some objectives are to deliver excellence; encourage innovation & development by providing a platform for established & emerging South African artists; create opportunities for collaboration
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Het verhaal van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zorrorai en van vrijwilligers van het Home Based Care Project, waarin 49 vrouwelijke caregivers en 1 mannelijke, thuiszorg bieden aan ouderen en terminaal zieken. In het kader van het 100 Faces-project van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Security - Jane Alexander (South Africa)
From its inception in the early 1980s, while South Africa was still under the rule of the apartheid regime, Alexander’s artistic practice has been deeply sensitive to socio-political issues as a part of her interest and observation of human and other animal behaviour in and beyond her own social environment.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Zaterdag 02 Juli
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.
6th Baxter Dance Film Festival
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.
Abstract South African Art: Revisited
The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.
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.
Afrikafestival Hertme 2011
Het 23ste Afrikafestival 2011 staat voor de deur. Het programma is goed gevuld met met grote namen zoals Baba Sissoko (Mali) die op zaterdag de aftrap zal geven, Staff Benda Bilili (DR Congo) is inmiddels kind aan huis in Europa en zal ongetwijfeld de boel op stelten zetten met hun fantastische show, zondag betreedt onder meer Seun Kuti (Nigeria) het podium.
Appropriated Landscapes - 14 artists
Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.
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.
Benda Bilili !
Congolees-Franse documentaire Benda Bilili! van Renaud Barret + Florent de La Tullaye is een aanstekelijke muziekdocumentaire over een groep gehandicapte straatmuzikanten uit Congo die met hun muzikale act de wereld veroveren. Aanvang do. + vrij. om 19.15; zo. om 15.30 en di. om 20.00
Berni Searle: Shimmer
Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.
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.
Cityscapes ViceVersa
Het uitgangspunt: verblijf in de stad. Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi (Zuid-Afrika) is geïntrigeerd door de fietsende Amsterdammers tijdens zijn residency. Fally Sene Sow (Senegal) put uit beelden van de drukke markt in Dakar. Henny Verbeek verbleef regelmatig voor langere tijd in Ghana en Mali. Heidi Sincuba (Zuid-Afrika) neemt de hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse stad als vertrekpunt.
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.
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.
Fathi Hassan - Transformation
In his new works, Fathi Hassan (Egypt) continues his exploration of representational possibilities of language inspired by texts from the Arabic calligraphy, firmly rooted in a framework of references that reflect his Nubian heritage and willingness to embrace a continuum of cultural precedents and influences.
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.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
From Africa with Love - Contemporary Design from South Africa
A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.
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.
Ghost Towns & At Home - Sabelo Mlangeni
At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.
Grande Hotel
Ooit was het een megalomaan pronkstuk van het kolonialisme, tegenwoordig is het Grande Hotel in Beira, aan de kust van Mozambique, een ruïne. Tussen de kale betonnen muren – alles van waarde is eruit gesloopt en verkocht – wonen zo’n 3.500 mensen, die het zonder water en elektriciteit moeten redden. Een even schrijnende als beeldschone documentaire van Lotte Stoops.
Heidi Sincuba - Vroeg ryp, vroeg vrot
Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.
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 - Berni Searle
Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.
JOHAN - Made by Vlisco
Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Le Fil - Gay & Lesbian Summer Tour
Malik, succesvol architect in Frankrijk, keert na de dood van zijn vader terug naar Tunesië. Maar daar is het leven heel anders; hij kan onmogelijk tegen zijn moeder (Claudia Cardinale) zeggen dat hij homo is en zoekt daarom zijn heil in vluchtige ontmoetingen. Dat verandert dramatisch als hij als een blok valt voor de knappe, maar gereserveerde tuinman Bilal.
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?
Like Honey - Jon Eiselin
Tijdens zijn laatste bezoek aan zijn 'home town', Durban in Zuid-Afrika, bracht schilder Jon Eiselin de meeste tijd door aan de tropische zuidkust, waar hij geïnspireerd werd door de algemene levendigheid van de mensen, de overvloed van kleur, hitte, het scherpe zonlicht en water, de noodzakelijke en verschillende verschijningsvormen ervan.
National Arts Festival 2011 in Grahamstown, South Africa
37th edition of the leading arts festival in Southern Africa. Some objectives are to deliver excellence; encourage innovation & development by providing a platform for established & emerging South African artists; create opportunities for collaboration
Ndeupe - foto's van Judith Quax
Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Het verhaal van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zorrorai en van vrijwilligers van het Home Based Care Project, waarin 49 vrouwelijke caregivers en 1 mannelijke, thuiszorg bieden aan ouderen en terminaal zieken. In het kader van het 100 Faces-project van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
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).
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays
The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.
Security - Jane Alexander (South Africa)
From its inception in the early 1980s, while South Africa was still under the rule of the apartheid regime, Alexander’s artistic practice has been deeply sensitive to socio-political issues as a part of her interest and observation of human and other animal behaviour in and beyond her own social environment.
Substantial African Participation at 54th Biennal
This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.
The Duality Of Remembering And Forgetting - Corlie de Kock, Sandra Hanekom and Madelein Marincowitz
The three artists all create art pieces in a lyrical and detailed manner. Artworks that imbue the mundane and commonplace with a sense of imaginative significance. The common thread woven through each of these artists work is the compulsive and obsessive fastidiousness in which they create detailed images.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
The People's Painter - Vladimir Tretchikoff
While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Tingatinga Paintings from Tanzania
Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 04 Mei 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 12 Oktober 2011
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.