Agenda 04 - 10 September 2011
Zondag 04 September
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.
2011 African Festival of the Arts Chicago
The African Festival of the Arts (AFA) is an annual celebration of arts and culture from across the African Diaspora. It is the largest neighborhood festival in Chicago, and the largest of its kind in the U.S. In it's 21st year, the festival has workshops, entertainment and food stalls.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
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.
Bootvluchtelingen
Foto’s van Piet den Blanken: het verhaal van Afrikaanse bootvluchtelingen, die in vervallen vissersbootjes de gevaarlijke overtocht maken van Marokko naar de Canarische Eilanden (2006-2008). Ze zijn ten einde raad, hebben een uitzichtloze toekomst in eigen land en hopen op een beter bestaan in het veelbelovende Europa. Ook foto's uit eigen collectie van Vietnamese bootvluchtelingen (1975-1980).
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Cursus Nederlands voor Afrikaanssprekenden
Elk voor- en najaar in het Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam. De lessen zijn vooral gericht op de verschillen tussen Nederlands en Afrikaans. Kosten: € 125 (€ 100 voor studenten en au-pairs). Alle lesmateriaal, o.a. het lesboekje "Oranje Boven" en "Afrikaans op reis" is ingesloten. Aanmelden: zie site.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
El Dunya Mondiaal Festival Maastricht
Feestelijk en swingend programma van muzikanten, dansers, artiesten, workshoppers, standhouders voor het goede doel en fairtrade en kinderen van ‘all over the World’. Met onder meer Marokkaanse rai en traditionals door Marmaas, dansbare Toeareg-blues van Kel Assouf en opzwepende krijgsdans van Dousebane uit Rwanda.
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.
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.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
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.
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
Leer Afrikaans
Wie zich de schoonheid van het Afrikaans eigen wil maken, kan vanaf september terecht in het Zuid-Afrikahuis. Hier starten nieuwe cursussen Afrikaans voor beginners en gevorderden. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie over tijdstip en tarief.
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?
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 05 September
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.
2011 African Festival of the Arts Chicago
The African Festival of the Arts (AFA) is an annual celebration of arts and culture from across the African Diaspora. It is the largest neighborhood festival in Chicago, and the largest of its kind in the U.S. In it's 21st year, the festival has workshops, entertainment and food stalls.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Cursus Nederlands voor Afrikaanssprekenden
Elk voor- en najaar in het Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam. De lessen zijn vooral gericht op de verschillen tussen Nederlands en Afrikaans. Kosten: € 125 (€ 100 voor studenten en au-pairs). Alle lesmateriaal, o.a. het lesboekje "Oranje Boven" en "Afrikaans op reis" is ingesloten. Aanmelden: zie site.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
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.
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.
Interlaced - Berni Searle
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
International Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
Leer Afrikaans
Wie zich de schoonheid van het Afrikaans eigen wil maken, kan vanaf september terecht in het Zuid-Afrikahuis. Hier starten nieuwe cursussen Afrikaans voor beginners en gevorderden. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie over tijdstip en tarief.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Miskien (Zuid-Afrika) op Amsterdam Fringe Festival
'miskien' (Best of Grahamstown Fringe 2011) - The Pink Couch. 2 best friends, dead end jobs, rugby & some regular guy stuff. Performed in English & Afrikaans, 'miskien is a simple story of 2 guys who are stuck in similar dead end jobs & nondescript lives
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 06 September
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Cursus Nederlands voor Afrikaanssprekenden
Elk voor- en najaar in het Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam. De lessen zijn vooral gericht op de verschillen tussen Nederlands en Afrikaans. Kosten: € 125 (€ 100 voor studenten en au-pairs). Alle lesmateriaal, o.a. het lesboekje "Oranje Boven" en "Afrikaans op reis" is ingesloten. Aanmelden: zie site.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
Freetown - door Dood Paard op Nederlands Theater festival 2011
3 vrouwen ontmoeten elkaar in een W-Afrikaans land. Het resort biedt niet alleen paradijselijke stranden, een heerlijke zee & een comfortabel verblijf: je kunt hier in contact komen met sterke, donkere & lief glimlachende mannen. Officiële jury-selectie
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.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
Leer Afrikaans
Wie zich de schoonheid van het Afrikaans eigen wil maken, kan vanaf september terecht in het Zuid-Afrikahuis. Hier starten nieuwe cursussen Afrikaans voor beginners en gevorderden. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie over tijdstip en tarief.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Miskien (Zuid-Afrika) op Amsterdam Fringe Festival
'miskien' (Best of Grahamstown Fringe 2011) - The Pink Couch. 2 best friends, dead end jobs, rugby & some regular guy stuff. Performed in English & Afrikaans, 'miskien is a simple story of 2 guys who are stuck in similar dead end jobs & nondescript lives
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Woyzeck on the Highveld - on tour
Using hand carved, rod-manipulated puppets this adaption of Georg Büchner's famous play is a story of jealousy, murder & the struggle of an individual against an uncaring society. Set in 1950's South Africa, a migrant worker struggles to survive. Includes animated film by well-known artist William Kentridge.
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 07 September
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
Arab Film Festival - 11e editie
Met de nieuwste & meest bijzondere kwaliteitsfilms van Arabische bodem of gemaakt door Arabische migranten in West-Europa. Dit jaar staat de Arabische revolutie centraal. Met dit jaar speelfilms uit Egypte & Marokko & veel korte films in de "Arab shorts".
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Cursus Nederlands voor Afrikaanssprekenden
Elk voor- en najaar in het Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam. De lessen zijn vooral gericht op de verschillen tussen Nederlands en Afrikaans. Kosten: € 125 (€ 100 voor studenten en au-pairs). Alle lesmateriaal, o.a. het lesboekje "Oranje Boven" en "Afrikaans op reis" is ingesloten. Aanmelden: zie site.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
Freetown - door Dood Paard op Nederlands Theater festival 2011
3 vrouwen ontmoeten elkaar in een W-Afrikaans land. Het resort biedt niet alleen paradijselijke stranden, een heerlijke zee & een comfortabel verblijf: je kunt hier in contact komen met sterke, donkere & lief glimlachende mannen. Officiële jury-selectie
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.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
Leer Afrikaans
Wie zich de schoonheid van het Afrikaans eigen wil maken, kan vanaf september terecht in het Zuid-Afrikahuis. Hier starten nieuwe cursussen Afrikaans voor beginners en gevorderden. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie over tijdstip en tarief.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Miskien (Zuid-Afrika) op Amsterdam Fringe Festival
'miskien' (Best of Grahamstown Fringe 2011) - The Pink Couch. 2 best friends, dead end jobs, rugby & some regular guy stuff. Performed in English & Afrikaans, 'miskien is a simple story of 2 guys who are stuck in similar dead end jobs & nondescript lives
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Zaandam najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen zijn met Afrikaanse ritmes. 14 september start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Woyzeck on the Highveld - on tour
Using hand carved, rod-manipulated puppets this adaption of Georg Büchner's famous play is a story of jealousy, murder & the struggle of an individual against an uncaring society. Set in 1950's South Africa, a migrant worker struggles to survive. Includes animated film by well-known artist William Kentridge.
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 08 September
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
Arab Film Festival - 11e editie
Met de nieuwste & meest bijzondere kwaliteitsfilms van Arabische bodem of gemaakt door Arabische migranten in West-Europa. Dit jaar staat de Arabische revolutie centraal. Met dit jaar speelfilms uit Egypte & Marokko & veel korte films in de "Arab shorts".
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Cursus Nederlands voor Afrikaanssprekenden
Elk voor- en najaar in het Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam. De lessen zijn vooral gericht op de verschillen tussen Nederlands en Afrikaans. Kosten: € 125 (€ 100 voor studenten en au-pairs). Alle lesmateriaal, o.a. het lesboekje "Oranje Boven" en "Afrikaans op reis" is ingesloten. Aanmelden: zie site.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
Freetown - door Dood Paard op Nederlands Theater festival 2011
3 vrouwen ontmoeten elkaar in een W-Afrikaans land. Het resort biedt niet alleen paradijselijke stranden, een heerlijke zee & een comfortabel verblijf: je kunt hier in contact komen met sterke, donkere & lief glimlachende mannen. Officiële jury-selectie
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.
Horse - Multiple Views of a Singular Beast
Work from 60 artists from across South Africa. The arists were invited to entertain the idea “horse” and the request initiated a rich variety of responses. The exhibition is both an expression and a celebration of diversity – horse as partner, horseas victim, horse as power, horse as property, horse as sexuality. Horse on paper,on film, on canvas, in sound, in light and in performance.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
Leer Afrikaans
Wie zich de schoonheid van het Afrikaans eigen wil maken, kan vanaf september terecht in het Zuid-Afrikahuis. Hier starten nieuwe cursussen Afrikaans voor beginners en gevorderden. Bezoek de website voor meer informatie over tijdstip en tarief.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Miskien (Zuid-Afrika) op Amsterdam Fringe Festival
'miskien' (Best of Grahamstown Fringe 2011) - The Pink Couch. 2 best friends, dead end jobs, rugby & some regular guy stuff. Performed in English & Afrikaans, 'miskien is a simple story of 2 guys who are stuck in similar dead end jobs & nondescript lives
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Woyzeck on the Highveld - on tour
Using hand carved, rod-manipulated puppets this adaption of Georg Büchner's famous play is a story of jealousy, murder & the struggle of an individual against an uncaring society. Set in 1950's South Africa, a migrant worker struggles to survive. Includes animated film by well-known artist William Kentridge.
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
Africa Today Seminar: The Role of the Netherlands Military in Operations in Africa
Donderdag 08 September 2011 15:30
Robert Lemstra, Netherlands Ministry of Defence. Dutch military involvement in Africa ranges from medical support operations in the UN mission in the Congo in 1960 to the deployment of a marine-corps unit as part of the European peace-keeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic in 2008. On the role the Dutch military is playing in Africa today. Please register.
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 09 September
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
Arab Film Festival - 11e editie
Met de nieuwste & meest bijzondere kwaliteitsfilms van Arabische bodem of gemaakt door Arabische migranten in West-Europa. Dit jaar staat de Arabische revolutie centraal. Met dit jaar speelfilms uit Egypte & Marokko & veel korte films in de "Arab shorts".
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
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.
Horse - Multiple Views of a Singular Beast
Work from 60 artists from across South Africa. The arists were invited to entertain the idea “horse” and the request initiated a rich variety of responses. The exhibition is both an expression and a celebration of diversity – horse as partner, horseas victim, horse as power, horse as property, horse as sexuality. Horse on paper,on film, on canvas, in sound, in light and in performance.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Woyzeck on the Highveld - on tour
Using hand carved, rod-manipulated puppets this adaption of Georg Büchner's famous play is a story of jealousy, murder & the struggle of an individual against an uncaring society. Set in 1950's South Africa, a migrant worker struggles to survive. Includes animated film by well-known artist William Kentridge.
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
tournee Freetown - door Dood Paard
3 vrouwen ontmoeten elkaar in een W-Afrikaans land. Het resort biedt niet alleen paradijselijke stranden, een heerlijke zee & een comfortabel verblijf: je kunt hier in contact komen met sterke, donkere & lief glimlachende mannen. Officiële jury-selectie
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
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 10 September
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
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.
Arab Film Festival - 11e editie
Met de nieuwste & meest bijzondere kwaliteitsfilms van Arabische bodem of gemaakt door Arabische migranten in West-Europa. Dit jaar staat de Arabische revolutie centraal. Met dit jaar speelfilms uit Egypte & Marokko & veel korte films in de "Arab shorts".
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.
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.
Contested Terrains
Exhibition of recent work by four contemporary artists working in Africa, co-curated by Tate and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. These artists look at Africa's past and present, exploring current political and social concerns both at a domestic level and across the world. Work by Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Michael MacGarry (South Africa), Sammy Baloji (DR Congo) and Kader Attia (France). At the Level 2 Gallery.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
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.
Horse - Multiple Views of a Singular Beast
Work from 60 artists from across South Africa. The arists were invited to entertain the idea “horse” and the request initiated a rich variety of responses. The exhibition is both an expression and a celebration of diversity – horse as partner, horseas victim, horse as power, horse as property, horse as sexuality. Horse on paper,on film, on canvas, in sound, in light and in performance.
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
Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.
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 Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg
Covering a diverse and eclectic range of events from music and theatre to dance and comedy, from visual arts and the spoken word to visual arts and craft. Arts Alive is the cultural event opening the doorways to South Africa as a cultural destination.
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.
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience
A dynamic 12-day celebration of contemporary dance. This festival of cutting edge local and international dance also includes a Fringe programme, a Youth Fringe day, plus dance masterclasses and workshops
Kel Assouf - warme Toearegmuziek
Kel Assouf heeft twee basisprincipes: de promotie van de Toeareg-cultuur en het openstaan voor ontmoetingen. Het warme Toeareg-repertoire wordt aangevuld met de veelzijdige inbreng van de zeven bandleden, voornamelijk afkomstig uit het Afrikaanse continent. De multiculturele grootstad Brussel laat zijn sporen na. Zo vinden vleugjes reggae, afrobeat en salsa hun weg in de desert blues.
La Robe Envolée - traces of transition
Zeven aansprekende video', vele spannende foto's, aangevuld met tekeningen en keramiek belichten het oeuvre van Myriam Mihindou (Gabon/Frankrijk). Haar eerste solo-expositie belooft veel goeds. De tentoonstelling gaat gepaard met een door Daphne Pappers verzorgde lezingenreeks. Meer informatie op de website.
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?
Mbongeni Buthelezi - maNyauza: Silent messages to my Mother
Mid-career retrospective. Mbongeni Buthelezi's chosen medium is the humble plastic shopping bag, which he melts and collages to build his pictures. The hype machine argues that this allows Buthelezi's work to participate in debates about conservation, although in reality he contributes but a superficial commentary on consumer society. Expect instead conservative imagery (sentimental portraits, township scenes) rendered in an essentially gimmicky style.
Moeders in Congo - Moederschap voor de lens
Een expo over moederschap in drie delen. Professionele foto's van Lieve Blancquaert, gemaakt in de regio Kasongo Lunda en geflankeerd door verhalen van gefotografeerde vrouwen, persoonlijke foto's van Memisa-medewerkers in Congo en historische foto's van het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde uit de jaren dertig en vijftig.
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Hoofddorp najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen met Afrikaanse ritmes. 17 september start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
Ouder worden in Mutare
Deze tentoonstelling vertelt het verhaal en laat indringende foto's zien van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zororai en hun caregivers (thuiszorgers) het Home Based Care Project. In Afrika is zorg van buiten de familie ongebruikelijk, maar door de Aids-problematiek is het voor veel families te zwaar om dit op zich te nemen. In het kader van de campagne 100 Faces.
Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2011
The festival provides a platform for performing & visual artists to collaborate, to push boundaries & to blur the lines of their disciplines in order to create provocative & ground-breaking work. This 6th edition attracts artists from all over the world
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.
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.
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 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.
Transvaalse verhalen
Aan de expositie werken acht Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars mee. Organisatoren zijn de Nederlander Dennis van Huisum en de Zuid-Afrikaan Godfrey Hill, die met hun Gallerie Transvaal Art jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars de mogelijkheid willen geven hun werk internationaal bekend te stellen
Woyzeck on the Highveld - on tour
Using hand carved, rod-manipulated puppets this adaption of Georg Büchner's famous play is a story of jealousy, murder & the struggle of an individual against an uncaring society. Set in 1950's South Africa, a migrant worker struggles to survive. Includes animated film by well-known artist William Kentridge.
Yaya Coulibaly - Enfance du Monde (marionetten)
De marionetten van de gerenommeerde Malinese kunstenaar Yaya Coulibaly roepen een aards paradijs op. Coulibaly heeft een uitgebreide collectie poppen, waarvan vele van generatie op generatie doorgegeven werden binnen zijn familie. Zijn hoogkwalitatieve performance bevat volksverhalen, legendes, koloniale geschiedenis en commentaar op het leven in Mali.
Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba - Jonathan Shapiro’s Mandela
Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over 130 of his works.
start djembe-lessen en Afrikaanse danslessen in Noord-Holland
Michael Agbodo geeft lessen in percussie/djembé & in Afrikaanse dans & Afro jazz dans. Zowel beginners, gevorderden & kinderen. Djembelessen start: Alkmaar op 6 sep. Haarlem op 24 sep. & Wormer op 29 sep. start Afr. dans Alkmaar op 5 sep. & Haarlem op 9 sep.
tournee Freetown - door Dood Paard
3 vrouwen ontmoeten elkaar in een W-Afrikaans land. Het resort biedt niet alleen paradijselijke stranden, een heerlijke zee & een comfortabel verblijf: je kunt hier in contact komen met sterke, donkere & lief glimlachende mannen. Officiële jury-selectie
Surprising Europe TV Series on Al Jazeera English
Maandag 08 Augustus 2011 16:30
t/m Donderdag 06 Oktober 2011
See how life really is for an African immigrant in Europe. The picture is quite different from the one usually presented to family and friends staying behind. For Surprising Europe, Africans in ten European countries decided to present the reality behind their lives. Nine weekly episodes on Al Jazeera English, Mon 10:30 PM, Tue 9:30 AM, Wed 3:30 AM, Thu 4:30 PM GMT. The website also is an integral part of the project.
Afrikaans Maanlicht - dansen op Afrikaanse muziek
Zaterdag 10 September 2011 21:30
Bij gebrek aan elektriciteit vieren Afrikanen feest in het maanlicht! Gezellig dansen op vrolijke muziek uit alle windstreken van Afrika met de vernieuwde muziekcollectie van DJ Aziz. 5 euro voor 23:00, daarna 7,50.
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.