Agenda 27 November - 03 December 2011
Zondag 27 November
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
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.
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Afrikaanse kunstenaars tijdens Rijksakademie OPEN 2011
53 Rijksakademie kunstenaars presenteren werk dat ze gedurende het afgelopen jaar hebben ontwikkeld. Ook met een film- en performanceprogramma, rondleidingen (door de ateliers, de werkplaatsen & de eeuwenoude bibliotheekcollectie) en een publiek debat. Uit Afrika zijn er kunstenaars uit Egypte, Marokko, Nigeria & DC Congo.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
IDFA 2011, met films uit Afrika
Het programma van het 24ste International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA 2011) is bekend. Ook dit jaar zijn er weer een aantal documentaires uit Afrika bij. De filmbeschrijvingen komen eind oktober online op de festivalsite. Een selectie van de films uit Afrika: Excursions in the Dark (Egypte); Robert Mugabe .... What Happened? (Zuid-Afrika, Zimbabwe, Engeland); Yoole, The Sacrifice (Senegal).
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
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.
Man and Machine - Kelani Abass
Paintings, drawings and sound installations of a printing machine at work. New body of work that involves gears wheels, colours, print and stories told through machines. Kelani Abass was born in 1979 and has been a full time studio artist since graduating from YABATECH in 2007.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
Nneka
De in Nigeria geboren zangeres Nneka mengt zwoele soul met Hiphop. Op haar 18de verhuist zij naar het thuisland van haar moeder, Duitsland. Vanaf dat moment is haar carrière als artieste een feit. Haar derde en, tot nu toe, laatste album ‘Concrete Jungle’ is een album dat voor liefde, hoop en optimisme staat en opgedragen is aan de mensen van Warri en Niger Delta in Nigeria.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
Out of Tanzania
Met hedendaagse schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken. Werk van Haji Chilonga, Salum Kambi, Constantin Kiswanga, George Lilanga, Henrick Lilanga, David Mzuguno, Vinta Malaba en Dastani Nyedi. De tentoonstelling is van maandag t/m woensdag op afspraak open, van donderdag t/m zondag van 14.00 uur tot 20.00 uur.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Proximity
The title of Jake Aikman’s third solo exhibition; Proximity is as ambiguous and mysterious as his atmospheric, meditative paintings. The exhibition is a marked stylistic evolution is visible in his new body of work. Aikman subtly moves from his trademark crisp “sea paintings” to softer, hued and hazy compositions which serve to heighten intrigue and fascination with the already magnetic and spellbinding content.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
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.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
Vincent Vulsma - A Sign of Autumn
Voorwerpen uit etnografische collecties en uit de canons van modernistisch design en fotografie, bij elkaar gebracht in montages. Centraal object een Baulé-masker uit het Amsterdamse Tropenmuseum. Ook foto van Kuba-stoffen als uitgangspunt voor jacquard-geweven reproducties en in de Congo gemaakte krukken in combinatie met notenhouten krukken van Ray Eames.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Inzamelingsactie voor studenten in Mali
Zaterdag 26 November 2011 11:00
t/m Zondag 27 November 2011
Inzamelingsactie voor materialen en geld voor studenten aan het Institut National des Arts (INA) in Bamako, door studenten aan de Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. 5 studenten gaan een maand lang naar Bamako in Mali, voor onderwijs in de schildertechniek Bogolan. Kunst te koop, variërend van keramiek tot schilderijen, veelal van studenten. Verder workshops Afrikaanse maskers, geluksamuletten, Afrikaanse sierraden en animatiefilmpjes.
Kerstmarkt
Zondag 27 November 2011 12:00 - 17:00
Onder het genot van een hapje of drankje in kerstsfeer dé plek om alvast uw Sinterklaas- en Kerstcadeautjes te kopen. U kunt op onder andere terecht voor: wijn, boerewors/biltong, Zuid-Afrikaanse supermarkt-producten, sieraden, ansichtkaarten, Art en craft van de San (Bushmen uit Zuidelijk Afrika) en uiteraard onze eigen specialiteit: boeken, zowel nieuw als tweedehands.
Jubileum Tania Leon Studiefonds (voor Zuid-Afrikaanse vrouwen)
Zondag 27 November 2011 14:00 - 17:00
Al 25 jaar werft het Tania Leon Studiefonds fondsen voor talentvolle maar kansarme Zuid-Afrikaanse jonge vrouwen. Dit jubileum wordt gevierd samen met allen die zich in de loop van de jaren ingezet hebben voor het fonds. Op het programma staat onder meer een veiling van een foto van Zanele Muholi en een optreden van Rina Mushonga. Wel graag van te voren aanmelden.
IDFA in Kriterion - The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Zondag 27 November 2011 15:00
Het verhaal van militaire leider Joshua Milton Blahyi, die duizenden mensen vermoorde in de burgeroorlog in Liberia. Hij probeert zijn leven te beteren als Evangelist. Hij gaat de confrontatie met zijn verleden aan op zoek naar vergiffenis van zijn slachtoffers. De camera volgt de oud-generaal als hij kerkdiensten leidt of slachtoffers bezoekt. Het levert absurde taferelen op; de oorlogsmisdadiger die zijn aan rolstoel gekluisterde slachtoffer door de straat duwt. Na afloop gaan experts op het gebied van ontwikkelingshulp en Afrikaanse geschiedenis met elkaar in debat.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 28 November
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
Nneka
De in Nigeria geboren zangeres Nneka mengt zwoele soul met Hiphop. Op haar 18de verhuist zij naar het thuisland van haar moeder, Duitsland. Vanaf dat moment is haar carrière als artieste een feit. Haar derde en, tot nu toe, laatste album ‘Concrete Jungle’ is een album dat voor liefde, hoop en optimisme staat en opgedragen is aan de mensen van Warri en Niger Delta in Nigeria.
Nneka
De in Nigeria geboren zangeres Nneka mengt zwoele soul met Hiphop. Op haar 18de verhuist zij naar het thuisland van haar moeder, Duitsland. Vanaf dat moment is haar carrière als artieste een feit. Haar derde en, tot nu toe, laatste album ‘Concrete Jungle’ is een album dat voor liefde, hoop en optimisme staat en opgedragen is aan de mensen van Warri en Niger Delta in Nigeria.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
Out of Tanzania
Met hedendaagse schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken. Werk van Haji Chilonga, Salum Kambi, Constantin Kiswanga, George Lilanga, Henrick Lilanga, David Mzuguno, Vinta Malaba en Dastani Nyedi. De tentoonstelling is van maandag t/m woensdag op afspraak open, van donderdag t/m zondag van 14.00 uur tot 20.00 uur.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Proximity
The title of Jake Aikman’s third solo exhibition; Proximity is as ambiguous and mysterious as his atmospheric, meditative paintings. The exhibition is a marked stylistic evolution is visible in his new body of work. Aikman subtly moves from his trademark crisp “sea paintings” to softer, hued and hazy compositions which serve to heighten intrigue and fascination with the already magnetic and spellbinding content.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Promotie D.T. Koning: Importing God - over Ghanese en andere kerken in NL
Maandag 28 November 2011 13:45
Titel: Importing God: The Mission of the Ghanaian Adventist Church and other Immigrant Churches in the Netherlands. Uit de studie van Daniëlle Koning blijkt dat de meeste zendingsactiviteiten van christenmigranten in Nederland beperkt blijven tot migrantengroepen. In subtiele vormen en aantallen blijkt er sprake te zijn van een ‘omkering’ van zending: nu verspreiden Afrika, Latijns-Amerika en Azië hun religie in Europa.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 29 November
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Amanda Strydom: Vuur In Glas
Amanda Strydom is een Zuid-Afrikaanse megaster. Zij wisselt, samen met haar driemans live band, Afrikaanse fado af met stevige rock en romantische ballades. Elk nummer dat Strydom zingt gaat recht je hart in. Dat is wat haar zo onvergetelijk maakt. Deze vrouw geeft alles wat ze in zich heeft. “Een bijzondere vrouw. Betrokken bij haar land, geëngageerd en gezegend met een stem die in alle regels weemoed laat doorklinken.” - schreef het blad Esta.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Further Fictions - Natasha Norman & Damn your eyes, damn your eyes - Robyn Nesbitt
Joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
It's A Wrap - Various artists
artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show continues at it’s initiative called the COLLECTIVE with a maximum sale price for works at R1 500. The exhibition includes paintings,street art, jewellery and used art books. The COLLECTIVE is an art gallery that has been created for, but not limited to, the promotion of young artists under the age of 35 within the Durban area. Not only does the gallery promote the visual art spectrum, but music and poetry as well.
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sammy Baloji, Fakhri El Ghezal
Mémoire - Sammy Baloji (DR Congo). Verhaal van een lichaam dat beweegt langs het puin van wat vroeger het economische hart van de Democratische Republiek Congo was. Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunesië). Kritische kunst van voor en na de revolutie. Halkoum, a Dream City is een multidisciplinaire kunstzinnige interventie in de publieke ruimte. Verder werk van Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestina). In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Klaas Steytler: In die somer van ‘36 - Leeskring Zuid-Afrikahuis
In een klein dorp in de vrijstaat komt de stadse Dewwie als assistente in de apotheek van haar verwant Sinclair werken. De zwoele jonge vrouw brengt heel wat harten in het dorp op hol, en de gemoederen lopen hoog op. Gastheer is Rob van der Veer. Aanmelden via site.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
Nneka
De in Nigeria geboren zangeres Nneka mengt zwoele soul met Hiphop. Op haar 18de verhuist zij naar het thuisland van haar moeder, Duitsland. Vanaf dat moment is haar carrière als artieste een feit. Haar derde en, tot nu toe, laatste album ‘Concrete Jungle’ is een album dat voor liefde, hoop en optimisme staat en opgedragen is aan de mensen van Warri en Niger Delta in Nigeria.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
Out of Tanzania
Met hedendaagse schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken. Werk van Haji Chilonga, Salum Kambi, Constantin Kiswanga, George Lilanga, Henrick Lilanga, David Mzuguno, Vinta Malaba en Dastani Nyedi. De tentoonstelling is van maandag t/m woensdag op afspraak open, van donderdag t/m zondag van 14.00 uur tot 20.00 uur.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Proximity
The title of Jake Aikman’s third solo exhibition; Proximity is as ambiguous and mysterious as his atmospheric, meditative paintings. The exhibition is a marked stylistic evolution is visible in his new body of work. Aikman subtly moves from his trademark crisp “sea paintings” to softer, hued and hazy compositions which serve to heighten intrigue and fascination with the already magnetic and spellbinding content.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Yahia Yaïch - Fadhel Jaïbi & Familia Productions
Theater uit Tunesië. Tegen de achtergrond van de ontwikkelingen in zijn land vormt Fadhel Jaïbi’s nieuwe voorstelling het bewijs hoe actueel theater kan zijn. Yahia Yaïch, hooggeplaatst in een autoritair regime, hoort op tv dat hij is ontslagen en komt via omwegen in psychiatrische inrichting terecht. Urgente en spannende voorstelling, gespeeld door een gedreven ploeg acteurs, een unieke blik in het moderne Tunesië. In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 30 November
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Amanda Strydom: Vuur In Glas
Amanda Strydom is een Zuid-Afrikaanse megaster. Zij wisselt, samen met haar driemans live band, Afrikaanse fado af met stevige rock en romantische ballades. Elk nummer dat Strydom zingt gaat recht je hart in. Dat is wat haar zo onvergetelijk maakt. Deze vrouw geeft alles wat ze in zich heeft. “Een bijzondere vrouw. Betrokken bij haar land, geëngageerd en gezegend met een stem die in alle regels weemoed laat doorklinken.” - schreef het blad Esta.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Further Fictions - Natasha Norman & Damn your eyes, damn your eyes - Robyn Nesbitt
Joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
It's A Wrap - Various artists
artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show continues at it’s initiative called the COLLECTIVE with a maximum sale price for works at R1 500. The exhibition includes paintings,street art, jewellery and used art books. The COLLECTIVE is an art gallery that has been created for, but not limited to, the promotion of young artists under the age of 35 within the Durban area. Not only does the gallery promote the visual art spectrum, but music and poetry as well.
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sammy Baloji, Fakhri El Ghezal
Mémoire - Sammy Baloji (DR Congo). Verhaal van een lichaam dat beweegt langs het puin van wat vroeger het economische hart van de Democratische Republiek Congo was. Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunesië). Kritische kunst van voor en na de revolutie. Halkoum, a Dream City is een multidisciplinaire kunstzinnige interventie in de publieke ruimte. Verder werk van Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestina). In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
Out of Tanzania
Met hedendaagse schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken. Werk van Haji Chilonga, Salum Kambi, Constantin Kiswanga, George Lilanga, Henrick Lilanga, David Mzuguno, Vinta Malaba en Dastani Nyedi. De tentoonstelling is van maandag t/m woensdag op afspraak open, van donderdag t/m zondag van 14.00 uur tot 20.00 uur.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Prequel Dag Wereldmuziek; speciale aandacht voor Kaap-Verdiaanse muziekscene
In het kader van de Dag van de Wereldmuziek een speciale editie van het World Blend Café. Centraal staat het hart van de Rotterdamse muziekscene met extra aandacht voor de grote Kaap-Verdiaanse scene, de Rotterdamse podia, de muzikanten, de opleidingen en het beleid. Speciale gasten zijn o.m. Joe Boyd, auteur van "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 60ties" en Simon Broughton, hoofdredacteur van Songlines en de Rough Guide to World Music. Met optreden van oa Gil Semedo (Kaap Verdie).
Proximity
The title of Jake Aikman’s third solo exhibition; Proximity is as ambiguous and mysterious as his atmospheric, meditative paintings. The exhibition is a marked stylistic evolution is visible in his new body of work. Aikman subtly moves from his trademark crisp “sea paintings” to softer, hued and hazy compositions which serve to heighten intrigue and fascination with the already magnetic and spellbinding content.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Yahia Yaïch - Fadhel Jaïbi & Familia Productions
Theater uit Tunesië. Tegen de achtergrond van de ontwikkelingen in zijn land vormt Fadhel Jaïbi’s nieuwe voorstelling het bewijs hoe actueel theater kan zijn. Yahia Yaïch, hooggeplaatst in een autoritair regime, hoort op tv dat hij is ontslagen en komt via omwegen in psychiatrische inrichting terecht. Urgente en spannende voorstelling, gespeeld door een gedreven ploeg acteurs, een unieke blik in het moderne Tunesië. In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Promotie: Zwangerschapskwesties Kameroenese vrouwen complexer dan gedacht
Woensdag 30 November 2011 10:00
De titel van het proefschrift is Ambiguous Ambitions: On pathways, projects, and pregnancy interruptions in Cameroon. Promovenda Erica van der Sijpt deed onderzoek naar de manier waarop vrouwen in Oost-Kameroen omgaan met zwangerschapsverlies. Promotor: mw. prof. dr. A.P. Hardon en dhr. prof. dr. P.L. Geschiere.
Lecture by The President of Mali
Woensdag 30 November 2011 16:00
Lecture by His Excellency Amadou Toumani Touré, The President of Mali: Reflections on the democratization processes in Mali and in Africa after the national conferences of the 1990s and the question of peace and security in the Sahelo-Saharian region. The lecture will be in French, simultaneous translation to English will be provided.
An official invitation will follow which will include an online registration form.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 01 December
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
AVANTCARGUARD, Jaco + Z-dog and Friends
We were offered this show at Blank Projects, and since we’ll all be in Cape Town over the Holiday season and we don’t have a central meeting point, we figured that Blank Projects could be just that. We’ll be at Blank from time to time, where we’ll be working on new AVANTCARGUARD shit, recording a new Jaco+Z-dog album, playing some shows, maybe we’ll even make a short film or two. We’ll also be inviting some collaborators and friends over. So come round to Blank if the weather is crap. Maybe we’ll be around making some new stuff.
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Amanda Strydom: Vuur In Glas
Amanda Strydom is een Zuid-Afrikaanse megaster. Zij wisselt, samen met haar driemans live band, Afrikaanse fado af met stevige rock en romantische ballades. Elk nummer dat Strydom zingt gaat recht je hart in. Dat is wat haar zo onvergetelijk maakt. Deze vrouw geeft alles wat ze in zich heeft. “Een bijzondere vrouw. Betrokken bij haar land, geëngageerd en gezegend met een stem die in alle regels weemoed laat doorklinken.” - schreef het blad Esta.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Fucking Hell - Cameron Platter
Exploring a reality stranger than fiction, through fantasy, satire and subculture, Cameron Platter fills the ordinary and the marginal, with incendiary new meaning. Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa’s popular culture.
Further Fictions - Natasha Norman & Damn your eyes, damn your eyes - Robyn Nesbitt
Joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
In Ongenade - Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Luc Perceval regisseert de bewerking van John M. Coetzees (Zuid-Afrika) roman. Vader David gaat met zijn dochter Lucy op het platteland wonen. Lucy wordt verkracht door zwarten, maar wil geen aangifte doen. Vader leeft met zijn normen en waarden nog volop in het oude Zuid-Afrika. Lucy weet dat ze moet leren omgaan met deze realiteit. Met Gijs Scholten van Aschat en Janni Goslinga.
It's A Wrap - Various artists
artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show continues at it’s initiative called the COLLECTIVE with a maximum sale price for works at R1 500. The exhibition includes paintings,street art, jewellery and used art books. The COLLECTIVE is an art gallery that has been created for, but not limited to, the promotion of young artists under the age of 35 within the Durban area. Not only does the gallery promote the visual art spectrum, but music and poetry as well.
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sammy Baloji, Fakhri El Ghezal
Mémoire - Sammy Baloji (DR Congo). Verhaal van een lichaam dat beweegt langs het puin van wat vroeger het economische hart van de Democratische Republiek Congo was. Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunesië). Kritische kunst van voor en na de revolutie. Halkoum, a Dream City is een multidisciplinaire kunstzinnige interventie in de publieke ruimte. Verder werk van Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestina). In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
South Africa: A Nation in Transformation - Jurgen Schadeberg
In recognition of World AIDS Day. The exhibit, presented by Altadena-based Art AIDS Art, features the work of 80-year-old Jurgen Schadeberg, a pioneer in southern African photography. The images capture 60 years of South African history. The exhibit also includes contemporary photography by Pasadenans and young South Africans, along with contemporary handcrafts and fabric.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
The Sun Stands Still - Sean Slemon (South Africa)
Envisions a scenario where the sun could be slowed, or stopped entirely, creating shadows that are physically tangible. This thought experiment intends to illustrate resources in the public sphere that are not easily quantified. Making their debut are the Shadow series of life-size sculptures of the artist’s shadow rendered in polymer gypsum, foam, and steel, and finished to appear as though carved from marble.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Promotie: Zuiverheid en onzuiverheid: menstruatie en de invloed rol Akan-vrouwen in de kerk
Donderdag 01 December 2011 11:45
The title of this dissertation by A.D. Frimpong is Purity and Impurity: Menstruation and its Impact on the Role of Akan Women in the Church. De promovenda onderzocht o.a. waarom het biologische gegeven dat vrouwen regelmatig menstrueren een van de belangrijkste redenen is voor hun uitsluiting van cultische functies en leiderschap in zowel de Joods-christelijke - als de Akantradities. Promotor: prof.dr. M.E. Brinkman; prof.dr. M.M. Jansen.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 02 December
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
AVANTCARGUARD, Jaco + Z-dog and Friends
We were offered this show at Blank Projects, and since we’ll all be in Cape Town over the Holiday season and we don’t have a central meeting point, we figured that Blank Projects could be just that. We’ll be at Blank from time to time, where we’ll be working on new AVANTCARGUARD shit, recording a new Jaco+Z-dog album, playing some shows, maybe we’ll even make a short film or two. We’ll also be inviting some collaborators and friends over. So come round to Blank if the weather is crap. Maybe we’ll be around making some new stuff.
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Amanda Strydom: Vuur In Glas
Amanda Strydom is een Zuid-Afrikaanse megaster. Zij wisselt, samen met haar driemans live band, Afrikaanse fado af met stevige rock en romantische ballades. Elk nummer dat Strydom zingt gaat recht je hart in. Dat is wat haar zo onvergetelijk maakt. Deze vrouw geeft alles wat ze in zich heeft. “Een bijzondere vrouw. Betrokken bij haar land, geëngageerd en gezegend met een stem die in alle regels weemoed laat doorklinken.” - schreef het blad Esta.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Fucking Hell - Cameron Platter
Exploring a reality stranger than fiction, through fantasy, satire and subculture, Cameron Platter fills the ordinary and the marginal, with incendiary new meaning. Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa’s popular culture.
Further Fictions - Natasha Norman & Damn your eyes, damn your eyes - Robyn Nesbitt
Joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
In Ongenade - Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Luc Perceval regisseert de bewerking van John M. Coetzees (Zuid-Afrika) roman. Vader David gaat met zijn dochter Lucy op het platteland wonen. Lucy wordt verkracht door zwarten, maar wil geen aangifte doen. Vader leeft met zijn normen en waarden nog volop in het oude Zuid-Afrika. Lucy weet dat ze moet leren omgaan met deze realiteit. Met Gijs Scholten van Aschat en Janni Goslinga.
It's A Wrap - Various artists
artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show continues at it’s initiative called the COLLECTIVE with a maximum sale price for works at R1 500. The exhibition includes paintings,street art, jewellery and used art books. The COLLECTIVE is an art gallery that has been created for, but not limited to, the promotion of young artists under the age of 35 within the Durban area. Not only does the gallery promote the visual art spectrum, but music and poetry as well.
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sammy Baloji, Fakhri El Ghezal
Mémoire - Sammy Baloji (DR Congo). Verhaal van een lichaam dat beweegt langs het puin van wat vroeger het economische hart van de Democratische Republiek Congo was. Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunesië). Kritische kunst van voor en na de revolutie. Halkoum, a Dream City is een multidisciplinaire kunstzinnige interventie in de publieke ruimte. Verder werk van Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestina). In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Marrakech International Film Festival
Since its inaugural year in 2000, the Festival International du Film de Marrakech (FIFM) has been one of the biggest events devoted to Moroccan cinema. The festival's jury gathers international writers, actors and personalities, and endeavors to reward the best Moroccan and foreign feature and short films. An annual event, this year marks the 11th edition of the festival.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
Ntjam Rosie - Clubtour ELLE
Vorig jaar bracht de van oorsprong Kameroenese Ntjam Rosie haar tweede album uit, genaamd ELLE. Ze liet zich daarvoor inspireren door onder meer Stevie Wonder, George Duke en Miriam Makeba. Op het album zijn de soul-, jazz- en Afrikaanse en Braziliaanse ritme-invloeden duidelijk hoorbaar.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
South Africa: A Nation in Transformation - Jurgen Schadeberg
In recognition of World AIDS Day. The exhibit, presented by Altadena-based Art AIDS Art, features the work of 80-year-old Jurgen Schadeberg, a pioneer in southern African photography. The images capture 60 years of South African history. The exhibit also includes contemporary photography by Pasadenans and young South Africans, along with contemporary handcrafts and fabric.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
The Sun Stands Still - Sean Slemon (South Africa)
Envisions a scenario where the sun could be slowed, or stopped entirely, creating shadows that are physically tangible. This thought experiment intends to illustrate resources in the public sphere that are not easily quantified. Making their debut are the Shadow series of life-size sculptures of the artist’s shadow rendered in polymer gypsum, foam, and steel, and finished to appear as though carved from marble.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
Victims and Martyrs - with Conrad Botes (South Africa)
Examines the complexity and internal contradictions of the conceptual framework of victims and martyrs. The exhibiting artists interpret, activate and stage the landscape where victimisation and martyrdom takes place. Boundaries between victims and perpetrators dissolve and the premises that maintain and reproduce these roles are scrutinized.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
Promotie: Drie virussen in Guinea-Bissau beschreven
Vrijdag 02 December 2011 14:00
Titel proefschrift: (Molecular) epidemiology of HIV-1, HIV-2 and HTLV-1 in Guinea-Bissau. Promovenda Carla van Tienen onderzocht drie virussen die voorkomen in Guinea-Bissau, een klein land in West-Afrika. Ze laat zien dat het aantal mensen met hiv-1 stijgt en het aantal hiv-2 infecties (de zwakke broeder van hiv-1) daalt. Mensen die recent geïnfecteerd zijn met hiv-2 lopen het grootste risico om iemand anders te besmetten. Promotor: dhr. prof. dr. R.A. Coutinho.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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 03 December
A Natural Selection - various artists
Second half of the 40-year retrospective exhibition at AVA, with work by dozens of artists. To talk about the development of a contemporary art scene using scientific terms like Natural Selection seems odd. But in fact, the changing cultural climate, political terrain and available resources determining artistic evolution in an ecosphere like Cape Town, are at times quite Darwinian. Which qualities are inherited? What are the connecting traits? Are there radically new qualities which adapt under pressure?
AVANTCARGUARD, Jaco + Z-dog and Friends
We were offered this show at Blank Projects, and since we’ll all be in Cape Town over the Holiday season and we don’t have a central meeting point, we figured that Blank Projects could be just that. We’ll be at Blank from time to time, where we’ll be working on new AVANTCARGUARD shit, recording a new Jaco+Z-dog album, playing some shows, maybe we’ll even make a short film or two. We’ll also be inviting some collaborators and friends over. So come round to Blank if the weather is crap. Maybe we’ll be around making some new stuff.
Africa XL
Honderden wondermooie foto's van Afrika: het resultaat van de vele reizen van fotograaf Eddy van Gestel. Zijn foto's zijn een hulde aan het continent. De portretten en de foto’s van landschappen en dieren tonen op een haast emotionele wijze de kwetsbare schoonheid van een divers en voortdurend veranderend Afrika. Eén ding hebben alle foto’s gemeen: ze zetten zich voor altijd vast op ons netvlies.
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.
Afrika Mon Amour
Er zijn twee tentoonstellingen te zien: één met werk van Afrikaanse kunstenaars, en een tentoonstelling met het werk van de Hengelose fotograaf Olo Habers met foto’s over Oeganda. In de vitrines is Afrikaans design te koop.
Tevens is de kunstdruk Mandela Landscape van Anton Corbijn en Berend Strik, gemaakt voor ZAM Africa Magazine te bewonderen.
Amanda Strydom: Vuur In Glas
Amanda Strydom is een Zuid-Afrikaanse megaster. Zij wisselt, samen met haar driemans live band, Afrikaanse fado af met stevige rock en romantische ballades. Elk nummer dat Strydom zingt gaat recht je hart in. Dat is wat haar zo onvergetelijk maakt. Deze vrouw geeft alles wat ze in zich heeft. “Een bijzondere vrouw. Betrokken bij haar land, geëngageerd en gezegend met een stem die in alle regels weemoed laat doorklinken.” - schreef het blad Esta.
Animal Abstraction - Roger Ballen (South Africa)
Selection of work from over the past 20 years by Roger Ballen, one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. Ballen has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic.
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.
Bestiaire - Soly Cissé
The paintings of Soly Cissé are not just "beautiful", "well crafted" or "pleasant". In fact, they bring us back to the essential, back to the very essence of existence, of desire, of madness, of Death (Death is always there, in ambush). The sometimes scarcely sketched figures, the quick brushstroke, the nervous but sure gesture are sufficient to tell the essential.
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.
David Glodblatt - Portraits
Old and new portraits of South Africans taken over the course of David Goldblatt's 50-year career. Commissioned portraits of well-known South African and a curated selection of photographs spanning the 1960s ‘70s and ‘80s. Also on show the series Ex-Offenders in which David Goldblatt invites convicted and alleged criminals to revisit the scene of the crime of which they’ve been accused, and to be photographed there.
Dogon
Het verhaal van de Dogon cultuur uit Mali gaat terug naar de 10e eeuw. De bezoeker krijgt een introductie op de geschiedenis van de cultuur en maakt kennis met deze invloedrijke cultuur aan de hand van de diversiteit en kwaliteit van de objecten, het onderzoek door antropologen in de 19e eeuw en de toenemende interesse in de mooie objecten bij het grote publiek.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Eternal Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.
Fela!
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. This triumphant tale of courage, passion and love, features Fela Kuti’s captivating music and the visionary direction and choreography of Tony-Award winner Bill T. Jones.
Fucking Hell - Cameron Platter
Exploring a reality stranger than fiction, through fantasy, satire and subculture, Cameron Platter fills the ordinary and the marginal, with incendiary new meaning. Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa’s popular culture.
Further Fictions - Natasha Norman & Damn your eyes, damn your eyes - Robyn Nesbitt
Joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.
Gradex '11: FOLD
Group exhibition featuring works from studio practice majors. The class of 2011 have selected FOLD – as noun and verb – as the primary organizing principle and conceptual framework for the exhibition. As the curatorial team observe, “The fold produces a fragile and liminal space – a crease – where all practices briefly meet and interact".
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
Spanning 21 countries across the African continent, this exhibition brings together objects used in daily life that blend beauty and utility—several on view for the first time. This display is of more than 80 objects from the late 19th- and early 20th-century. A selection of videos and photographs will also be on display to show how the objects were created and used.
In Ongenade - Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Luc Perceval regisseert de bewerking van John M. Coetzees (Zuid-Afrika) roman. Vader David gaat met zijn dochter Lucy op het platteland wonen. Lucy wordt verkracht door zwarten, maar wil geen aangifte doen. Vader leeft met zijn normen en waarden nog volop in het oude Zuid-Afrika. Lucy weet dat ze moet leren omgaan met deze realiteit. Met Gijs Scholten van Aschat en Janni Goslinga.
It's A Wrap - Various artists
artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show continues at it’s initiative called the COLLECTIVE with a maximum sale price for works at R1 500. The exhibition includes paintings,street art, jewellery and used art books. The COLLECTIVE is an art gallery that has been created for, but not limited to, the promotion of young artists under the age of 35 within the Durban area. Not only does the gallery promote the visual art spectrum, but music and poetry as well.
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sammy Baloji, Fakhri El Ghezal
Mémoire - Sammy Baloji (DR Congo). Verhaal van een lichaam dat beweegt langs het puin van wat vroeger het economische hart van de Democratische Republiek Congo was. Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunesië). Kritische kunst van voor en na de revolutie. Halkoum, a Dream City is een multidisciplinaire kunstzinnige interventie in de publieke ruimte. Verder werk van Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestina). In het kader van Meeting Points 6.
Karoo Highveld Exhibition
Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.
Mappa del Mondo - Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
Dan Halter's works refer to the individual dimension of each migration movement. Using everyday materials and techniques in a playful way, Halter uncovers oppressive conditions which force people to leave their home. The NKV presents three of his works in a cabinet exhibition.
Marrakech International Film Festival
Since its inaugural year in 2000, the Festival International du Film de Marrakech (FIFM) has been one of the biggest events devoted to Moroccan cinema. The festival's jury gathers international writers, actors and personalities, and endeavors to reward the best Moroccan and foreign feature and short films. An annual event, this year marks the 11th edition of the festival.
Masters of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika) en Wim van der Meij (Nederland)
Duotentoonstelling. Te zien zijn kunstwerken van twee kunstenaars (Abe Mathabe uit Soweto en Wim van der Meij uit Zutphen) met de gave van de fijne motoriek en de vaste hand. Voorafgaand aan de tentoonstelling maken zij van de gelegenheid gebruik om met elkaar aan het werk te gaan en hun artistieke ervaringen, kennis en kunde te delen. Abe Mathabe zal tijdens zijn verblijf in Nederland ook op andere plaatsen aan het werk gaan.
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.
Mdungu: Gambian Space Program club tour
De negenmansformatie Mdungu, bestaand uit Nederlandse, Spaanse, Gambiaanse, en Luxemburgse muzikanten, brengt hun muziek met flair en energie. De Afrikaanse muziek van Mdungu is een sterke muzikale ervaring. Het funkt en groovet, voedt je ziel en stuurt je voeten. Krachtige percussie, pakkende melodieën en scherpe teksten introduceren je in een wereld waar geen verleden en geen toekomst zijn, geen grenzen en geen paspoort.
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic
Transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and initiated by The Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels). Inspired by the developments in the Middle East, the artists taking part explore aesthetic strategies and ways in which contemporary representations advance concepts of civic imagination and struggle. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui and many others.
Mikhael Subotzky (South-Africa): Beaufort West (photography)
... The local jail, too, is on the main road, and it is what caught Mikhael Subotzky’s attention: ‘I was drawn to Beaufort West because its prison is bizarrely situated in a traffic circle in the centre of the town in the middle of the N1 highway’, Subotzky says. ‘Most South African prisons are hidden from view on the outskirts of our towns and cities. I was interested in this image of the prison at the centre of the town’.
Nabil Boutros - Egypte(s) au présent
Boutros: I have observed that in recent years a lot of people in Egypt, under cover of having a new financial or religious status, changed their look radically and relatively fast and, in the same way, changed their social relationships. What can be deduced from this? At the least, that everyone has multiple faces; at the worst, that clothes make the man.
No fashion, please! - Photography between Gender and Lifestyle
Rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. With two South African participants: Steven Cohen and Viviane Sassen.
Nordenian Nodes/Titek
Vier musici met bijna zoveel instrumenten als culturen. Bao Sissoko en Niti Ranjan Biswas - internationaal geroemd - ontdekken de match tussen stuwende ritmes van de tabla en de bijna barokke klank van de West-Afrikaanse kora. Het samenspel wordt compleet met twee westerse snaarinstrumenten bespeeld door Mark Tuinstra en Oene van Geel.
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.
Pinky Promise - Pierre Crocquet
An exhibition that presents the stories of five victims and three perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse and subsequent healing. Pierre Crocquet approaches the subject with sensitivity, nonetheless adopting a robust stance on this destructive and increasingly prevalent phenomenon.
Rencontres de Bamako 2011
Pan-African event presenting numerous exhibitions of photographers from all over the continent. Mali has become the center of African photography – it is the birthplace of Africa’s first two internationally recognized photographers – Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé. As the home of the African Photography Biennial, Bamako continues to be the continental center of an artistic form in which Africans excel.
Schlafkrankheit - speelfilm
Arts Ebbo Velten leidt een centrum voor slaapziekte in Kameroen. Vrouw Vera wil terug naar Duitsland, waar dochter in internaat zit. Ebbo moet kiezen: zijn vrije levensstijl in Afrika opgeven of zijn geliefde vrouw kwijtraken. Ebbo’s vriend Alex Nzila verkeert in een vergelijkbare spagaat: hij realiseert zich dat hij niet alles mag beoordelen vanuit zijn Europese perspectief, maar hij voelt zich vaak een outsider in eigen land.
Selected Works
Kehinde Wiley is an artist who mixes the culture of the urban fabric he grew up in with the traditional portrait style in which he paints. His strikingly large paintings depict young African Americans and portrays them within the visual codes of power, wealth, masculinity and prestige. His paintings represent a juxtaposition of art history and modernity with the aim of making paintings that matter in the 21st century.
Skyndood en Niemandswoord van Susan Opperman (ZA)
Voor de derde editie van Kunsthal Light maakt de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Susan Opperman de wandschildering Skyndood & Niemandswoord, geïnspireerd op haar graphic novel Gifpit - die koms van die Vreemdeling. Tevens zijn enkele van haar meest iconische karakters uit Gifpit in rauwe zwart-wit tekeningen en met onverbloemde teksten in de etalage langs de hellingbaan van de Kunsthal te zien. Vanaf 16 november werkt Opperman in de Kunsthal aan haar wandschildering.
South Africa: A Nation in Transformation - Jurgen Schadeberg
In recognition of World AIDS Day. The exhibit, presented by Altadena-based Art AIDS Art, features the work of 80-year-old Jurgen Schadeberg, a pioneer in southern African photography. The images capture 60 years of South African history. The exhibit also includes contemporary photography by Pasadenans and young South Africans, along with contemporary handcrafts and fabric.
Southern Panoramas: Gregg Smith at 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Featuring video, performances, installations, objects, publications, paintings, photography and other artistic forms, 'Southern Panoramas' aims to create a key role for artistic output from various regions throughout the geopolitical south. This edition’s participants, including South African Gregg Smith, were chosen from 1,295 submissions, the largest number ever received by the Festival.
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC-Videobrasil
Spectres - Sven Augustijnen (België)
Documentaire thriller over één van de donkerste bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de dekolonisatie van Belgisch Congo rond 1960. Augustijnen volgt Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, in 1961, toen Patrice Lumumba werd vermoord, een hoge Belgische ambtenaar in Congo op zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid. Onderdeel van totaalproject met verder installatie Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles en krantenbijlage Panorama, fotoseries en meer.
TV Series - Marley Africa Road Trip
Africa held Bob Marley spellbound but this film discovers it through his sons’ eyes, as they share an exploration, keeping close to the heart of the country, meeting its people and encountering its wildlife. Between adventures on the road they relate the lessons they have learned from their father about family, moral righteousness and revolution.
The Five Great Guitars - African Blues tour
Meestergitarist Jan Kuiper en zijn bekende ensemble The Five Great Guitars in concert met de Afrikaanse gitarist en zanger Habib Koité Koité stamt uit een familie van bekende Malinese griots. Zowel zijn zang als gitaarspel hebben een typische Afrikaanse, vriendelijk deinende kalmte. De vijf gitaristen ontwikkelen samen met Koité nieuwe muziek, met nadruk op de grooves en swing van de Afrikaanse muziek.
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989
Exhibition aims to demonstrate how globalization, with its dominant market mechanisms on the one hand, and its utopias of connectivity and liberalness on the other, influences the different spheres of art production and reception. Apart from the large number of African participants, there are also noteworthy projects on Africa by artists from other continents.
The Sun Stands Still - Sean Slemon (South Africa)
Envisions a scenario where the sun could be slowed, or stopped entirely, creating shadows that are physically tangible. This thought experiment intends to illustrate resources in the public sphere that are not easily quantified. Making their debut are the Shadow series of life-size sculptures of the artist’s shadow rendered in polymer gypsum, foam, and steel, and finished to appear as though carved from marble.
Uncensored
In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.
Untitled - Summer Exhibition
Brings together a collection of prints that celebrate the diversity of associated and DKW artists, pooling together a variety of themes and techniques employed in printmaking. Artworks by Deborah Bell, Willem Boshoff, Wilma Cruise, Christopher Cozier (Trinidad), Ann Gollifer (Botswana), Trasi Henen, David Hockney (UK), William Kentridge, Laurence Lemaoana, Maja Maljević, Colbert Mashile, John Meyer, Richard Penn, Robyn Penn, Diane Victor, Jeremy Wafer and Mary Wafer.
Victims and Martyrs - with Conrad Botes (South Africa)
Examines the complexity and internal contradictions of the conceptual framework of victims and martyrs. The exhibiting artists interpret, activate and stage the landscape where victimisation and martyrdom takes place. Boundaries between victims and perpetrators dissolve and the premises that maintain and reproduce these roles are scrutinized.
William Kentridge - Other Faces
Drawn and filmed over the past year, and shown in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, William Kentridge uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing.
Wrecking at Private Siding 661 - Bridget Baker
Site-specific installation sees Bridget Baker working with personal and historical elements relating to the immigration of British settlers to East London, South Africa. The work acknowledges the silent evidence of the many ships that were wrecked along its coast, as well as evidence of the demise of her father and grandfather's work in the wool and hide industry in that town.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 19 Oktober 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 28 December 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.
