Agenda 06 - 12 Februari 2011
Zondag 06 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afrikaanse films op Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam 2011
Afrikaanse films op Iinternationaal FilmFestival Rotterdam 2011: Afrikaanse regisseurs naar China voor IFFR
Ook in de 40e editie v/h IFFR zijn er Afrikaanse films. Zo reisden in opdracht van het IFFR 2011 zeven Afrikaanse filmmakers naar China om een film te maken. Die films gaan dit festival in première als onderdeel van een themaprogramma getiteld 'Raiding Africa'. Met filmmakers uit Zuid-Afrika, Kameroen, Oeganda, Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville en Angola.
filmfestivalrotterdam Afrikaanse regisseurs naar China voor IFFR
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Hometime Attack - door Don't Hit Mama
Naar huis gaan staat centraal in het werk van Nita Liem. Terugkeren naar je bron, je oorsprong, jezelf. In dit stuk schakelt Liem met haar dansers tussen urban dance, Javaanse dansvormen & Afrikaanse dansinvloeden. Met Nita Liem, Nadia Souirti & Erick Lamba.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
Matinee du Monde
Zondag 06 Februari 2011 14:00
Iedere eerste zondag van de maand een dansfeest met Afrikaanse live muziek, hosted by Omar Ka. Met verrassende gastmuzikanten, DJ Caliente, dansworkshops, kinderworkshops, hapjes en drankjes. Volwassenen 7,50 euro, kinderen 2,50 euro.
Ahmed Soultan & support acts
Zondag 06 Februari 2011 20:30
De Afro-Arabische soulster Ahmed Soultan kan als één van de voormannen van de ‘Nayda’ (New Urban Moroccan scene) worden beschouwd. Hij heeft het soulvolle van d’Angelo, Neyo en Justin Timberlake, met een Arabische flavour, de ‘grooves’ van The Roots en een stem zo warm als die van Marvin Gaye of Stevie Wonder.
Maandag 07 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Hometime Attack - door Don't Hit Mama
Naar huis gaan staat centraal in het werk van Nita Liem. Terugkeren naar je bron, je oorsprong, jezelf. In dit stuk schakelt Liem met haar dansers tussen urban dance, Javaanse dansvormen & Afrikaanse dansinvloeden. Met Nita Liem, Nadia Souirti & Erick Lamba.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
Dinsdag 08 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Hometime Attack - door Don't Hit Mama
Naar huis gaan staat centraal in het werk van Nita Liem. Terugkeren naar je bron, je oorsprong, jezelf. In dit stuk schakelt Liem met haar dansers tussen urban dance, Javaanse dansvormen & Afrikaanse dansinvloeden. Met Nita Liem, Nadia Souirti & Erick Lamba.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
SLAA - Adriaan van Dis: Tikkop
Twee blanke mannen – de Nederlandse Mulder en de Zuid-Afrikaanse Donald – die betrokken waren bij verzet tegen de Apartheid halen na 40 jaar de banden weer aan en verkennen oude gevoelens: er is een liefde gedeeld, er zijn vrienden verraden, idealen verloochend. De werkelijkheid van het nieuwe Zuid-Afrika lijkt anders dan de droom van toen.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community - 25 Years at The Caversham Press
Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
Woensdag 09 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Hometime Attack - door Don't Hit Mama
Naar huis gaan staat centraal in het werk van Nita Liem. Terugkeren naar je bron, je oorsprong, jezelf. In dit stuk schakelt Liem met haar dansers tussen urban dance, Javaanse dansvormen & Afrikaanse dansinvloeden. Met Nita Liem, Nadia Souirti & Erick Lamba.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Malcolm Payne - Pogonology
Malcolm Payne will present a series of paintings premised on the aesthetics, history and significance of facial hair. This is Payne's 18th solo exhibition. His previous solo exhibition, Illuminated Manuscripts - Third selection, was held at the Irma Stern Museum in 2005.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Missie
Oude, maar vitale missionaris in Oost-Congo blikt terug met verbazing, veerkracht en verdriet. In een verbrokkelde monoloog vol humor en horror denkt hij na over keuzes, engagement en vertrouwen. Gebaseerd op interviews met missionarissen in Congo vandaag. Tekst David van Reybrouck, spel Bruno Vanden Broecke.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Zaandam najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen zijn met Afrikaanse ritmes. Binnenkort start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Sauti za Busara Music Festival
Sauti za Busara music festival, centred in Zanzibar’s historic Stone Town, features a dynamic variety of African music with more than four hundred musicians participating over five days.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community - 25 Years at The Caversham Press
Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
The art of revolution; Tunesia, Egypt, what's next?
Woensdag 09 Februari 2011 20:00 - 22:00
Kunstenaars, activisten en diverse specialisten uit Egypte, Tunesië, Nederland & Syrië spreken over de revolutie. Over de voorgeschiedenis en de toekomst van zowel Egypte als Tunesië vanuit de (underground) artscene in beide landen: kunstenaars laten middels hun werk al jarenlang een vernieuwend geluid horen. Met o.a. Abdelkader Benali en Frans Timmermans.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 09 Februari 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 Maart 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 10 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
Anouar Brahem Quartet met Arabische luit
Anouar Brahem vermengt traditionele Arabische en moderne muziek. Als 10-jarige begint hij een studie aan het conservatorium in Tunis. Ud-meester Ali Sriti leert hem het taqsim (improviseren) en de maqam (melodische structuren van de Arabische muziek).
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Hometime Attack - door Don't Hit Mama
Naar huis gaan staat centraal in het werk van Nita Liem. Terugkeren naar je bron, je oorsprong, jezelf. In dit stuk schakelt Liem met haar dansers tussen urban dance, Javaanse dansvormen & Afrikaanse dansinvloeden. Met Nita Liem, Nadia Souirti & Erick Lamba.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
It began in Africa - Tutu Puoane Quartet & Marcus Wyatt, Tony Paco
Met haar project It Began In Africa geeft zangeres Tutu Puoane ruimte aan fantastische solisten uit haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika, trompettist Marcus Wyatt en percussionist Tony Paco. Tutu Puoane werd geboren in een township bij Pretoria en groeide op in een muzikale familie, in een tijd dat jazz nog werd gezien als een vorm van rebellie tegen apartheid.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Maja Maljević - Bubble and Leak
Maljević's latest show sees her showing numerous large oil pantings, along with a selection of prints. Maljević's characteristic style meanders between abstraction and figuration, blending them with areas of deliberately obscure and confusing text.
Malcolm Payne - Pogonology
Malcolm Payne will present a series of paintings premised on the aesthetics, history and significance of facial hair. This is Payne's 18th solo exhibition. His previous solo exhibition, Illuminated Manuscripts - Third selection, was held at the Irma Stern Museum in 2005.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Missie
Oude, maar vitale missionaris in Oost-Congo blikt terug met verbazing, veerkracht en verdriet. In een verbrokkelde monoloog vol humor en horror denkt hij na over keuzes, engagement en vertrouwen. Gebaseerd op interviews met missionarissen in Congo vandaag. Tekst David van Reybrouck, spel Bruno Vanden Broecke.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Sauti za Busara Music Festival
Sauti za Busara music festival, centred in Zanzibar’s historic Stone Town, features a dynamic variety of African music with more than four hundred musicians participating over five days.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community - 25 Years at The Caversham Press
Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The New African Soul Event met Neema
Feestelijke avond vol met Afrikaanse soul en beats. Aanleiding was online battle tussen Keniaanse soulsterren Neema en Sauti Sol, waarbij bezoekers konden investeren in de artiesten. Er was 20.000 nodig om een optreden te winnen in Nederland. Na een spannende strijd is soulzangeres Neema winnaar geworden. Door Africa Unsigned ism ASN Bank.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Thea Soggot - Earth and Ink
The highly perceptive nature of her figure sketches using red earth and ink gives Soggot's art emotive gravitas. With great meaning and determination, Soggot applies marks to paper to render narratives between human figures. Her monochromatic palette sets a mood of calm and tenderness, drawing the view into these intimate scenes.
Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
Fela! - Pathé ArenA presents: National Theatre Live
Donderdag 10 Februari 2011 19:30
A provocative & wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre & music, Fela! explores the extravagant, decadent & rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Fela Kuti, born in Nigeria, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 09 Februari 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 Maart 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 11 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
Anouar Brahem Quartet met Arabische luit
Anouar Brahem vermengt traditionele Arabische en moderne muziek. Als 10-jarige begint hij een studie aan het conservatorium in Tunis. Ud-meester Ali Sriti leert hem het taqsim (improviseren) en de maqam (melodische structuren van de Arabische muziek).
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
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.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
It began in Africa - Tutu Puoane Quartet & Marcus Wyatt, Tony Paco
Met haar project It Began In Africa geeft zangeres Tutu Puoane ruimte aan fantastische solisten uit haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika, trompettist Marcus Wyatt en percussionist Tony Paco. Tutu Puoane werd geboren in een township bij Pretoria en groeide op in een muzikale familie, in een tijd dat jazz nog werd gezien als een vorm van rebellie tegen apartheid.
Kith, Kin & Khaya by David Goldblatt
Described as a contemporary master and South Africa's most distinguished photographer, Goldblatt, now 79, has for decades used the South African condition - its complexities, graces and obsessions - as material for his mesmerizing work. Recently on show at the Jewish Museum in New York, 'Kith, Kin and Khaya' is a showcase of David Goldblatt's black and white silver gelatin prints from 1948 through to 2009.
Maja Maljević - Bubble and Leak
Maljević's latest show sees her showing numerous large oil pantings, along with a selection of prints. Maljević's characteristic style meanders between abstraction and figuration, blending them with areas of deliberately obscure and confusing text.
Malcolm Payne - Pogonology
Malcolm Payne will present a series of paintings premised on the aesthetics, history and significance of facial hair. This is Payne's 18th solo exhibition. His previous solo exhibition, Illuminated Manuscripts - Third selection, was held at the Irma Stern Museum in 2005.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Missie
Oude, maar vitale missionaris in Oost-Congo blikt terug met verbazing, veerkracht en verdriet. In een verbrokkelde monoloog vol humor en horror denkt hij na over keuzes, engagement en vertrouwen. Gebaseerd op interviews met missionarissen in Congo vandaag. Tekst David van Reybrouck, spel Bruno Vanden Broecke.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Neco Novellas - verrassende universele muziek
Vermengt traditionele muziek uit zijn geboorteland Mozambique met de koortraditie van Zuid Afrika en de invloeden van westerse muziekstijlen. Neco zingt met zijn diepe basstem over de dingen van het leven in Afrikaanse talen, het Portugees of Engels.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Ouled el Bouazzaoui - Marokkaanse muziek
MusicDocMaroc is een multidisciplinair programma met film en muziek van o.a. Oulad El Bouazzaoui. Deze chaabi-groep is gespecialiseerd in de 'lown marsaoui'-stijl: van rustig begin naar climax. Na afloop is er een meet & greet met de artiesten. In Utrecht, Rotterdam en Amsterdam.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Safia Stodel - Removed
Relocation, displacement, impermanence, marginalisation constructed the social landscapings of Apartheid, these mappings have remained indelible. Stodel’s work references the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area near Delft on Cape Town’s flats and its thousand closely stacked corrugated tin shacks.
Sauti za Busara Music Festival
Sauti za Busara music festival, centred in Zanzibar’s historic Stone Town, features a dynamic variety of African music with more than four hundred musicians participating over five days.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community - 25 Years at The Caversham Press
Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Thea Soggot - Earth and Ink
The highly perceptive nature of her figure sketches using red earth and ink gives Soggot's art emotive gravitas. With great meaning and determination, Soggot applies marks to paper to render narratives between human figures. Her monochromatic palette sets a mood of calm and tenderness, drawing the view into these intimate scenes.
Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
World Social Forum 2011
Following days
06 Feb.: Opening March
07 Feb. : Day of Africa and Diasporas
08 Feb: Self-organized activities
09 Feb.: Self-organized activities
10 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
11 Feb.: Assemblies of Convergence
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 09 Februari 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 Maart 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 12 Februari
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
African One Minutes Competition
Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.
Afropolis: City, Media, Art
Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.
All This by Wim Botha
The show will feature two large-scale sculptural installations. The first installation, carved from polystyrene and incorporating clusters of fluorescent tubes. The second group is of composite figurative sculptures, carved from encyclopaedias and wood. Born in 1974, Botha has previously presented solo shows at Michael Stevenson in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Animal Farm by Daniel Naudé
Daniel Naudé's series of photographs focusses on the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals, and the way in which the histories of people, animals and the landscape have become entwined and indivisible over centuries. Begun during a road trip from Cape Town to Mozambique in 2008, Naudé's images locate the animal centrally in both idea and format.
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.
BOS - Constructed Images and the Memory of the South African Border War - Christo Doherty
Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.
Bird's Milk by Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is known for her playful, experimental video works and cluttered installations of found objects. These delve into the magic and mysteries of the metaphysical realm and disrupt our understanding of time and space. Bird's Milk began as a 'love letter', capturing everyday events in a relationship. When the affair ended, the footage was re-edited in a process of reconfiguring memory, allowing the descriptions of things to bleed into each other and dissolve into fields of colour.
Bopape Dumas Muholi
Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.
Brave New World II - Theo Eshetu
Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.
Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa
From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).
Broomberg and Chanarin
In a new photo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South African born and UK based Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin bring together three powerful series produced in the past four years. People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground (2010), The Day Nobody Died (2008) and The Red House (2007) are all located within zones of conflict – Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq respectively.
Cumulus by Gerhard Marx
In his first exhibition with the Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Marx presents new works that are born out of his own self-designed processes, which involve skillful manipulation of materials collected as part of an engagement with the artist’s physical urban context. Cumulus is Gerhard Marx’s fifth solo exhibition, and his works are featured in public and private collections.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.
Donso on live tour
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
Fally Sene Sow - collages achter glas op hout
De collages van Sow (1989) kijken neer op scènes in een grote, Afrikaanse stad. In zijn geval waarschijnlijk Dakar, al zouden veel andere Afrikaanse steden eveneens model kunnen hebben gestaan. Het is niet zozeer zijn bedoeling een ideale werkelijkheid te reconstrueren. Hij probeert zoveel en zo goed mogelijk recht te doen aan de werkelijkheid.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Ghalia Benali sings Om Kalthoum
Benali bezit een stem die je raakt en zingt terecht liederen van de legendarische Om Kalthoum. Ze groeide op met Franse chansons, Egyptische en Indiase musicals en melodieën uit Syrië en Irak. Al deze stijlen zijn terug te vinden in haar composities.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.
Inner Landscapes - Anneke Wilbrink en Barbara Polderman (Nederland) & Omar Ba (Senegal)
Schilderijen en beelden van drie kunstenaars waarin vervreemdende werelden en innerlijke en uiterlijke landschappen centraal staan. Met abstracte landschappen van Anneke Wilbrink, zinnenprikkelende beelden van Barbara Polderman en mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In zijn werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.
It began in Africa - Tutu Puoane Quartet & Marcus Wyatt, Tony Paco
Met haar project It Began In Africa geeft zangeres Tutu Puoane ruimte aan fantastische solisten uit haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika, trompettist Marcus Wyatt en percussionist Tony Paco. Tutu Puoane werd geboren in een township bij Pretoria en groeide op in een muzikale familie, in een tijd dat jazz nog werd gezien als een vorm van rebellie tegen apartheid.
Maja Maljević - Bubble and Leak
Maljević's latest show sees her showing numerous large oil pantings, along with a selection of prints. Maljević's characteristic style meanders between abstraction and figuration, blending them with areas of deliberately obscure and confusing text.
Malcolm Payne - Pogonology
Malcolm Payne will present a series of paintings premised on the aesthetics, history and significance of facial hair. This is Payne's 18th solo exhibition. His previous solo exhibition, Illuminated Manuscripts - Third selection, was held at the Irma Stern Museum in 2005.
Master of the Intimate - Abe Mathabe (Zuid-Afrika)
Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Missie
Oude, maar vitale missionaris in Oost-Congo blikt terug met verbazing, veerkracht en verdriet. In een verbrokkelde monoloog vol humor en horror denkt hij na over keuzes, engagement en vertrouwen. Gebaseerd op interviews met missionarissen in Congo vandaag. Tekst David van Reybrouck, spel Bruno Vanden Broecke.
Moshekwa Langa: Marhumbini-In Another Time
Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.
Nightclub Photographs by Billy Monk
This exhibit shows 47 of Billy Monk's photographs taken in nightclubs around Cape Town between 1967 and 1969. His close and long friendships with many of the people in the images allowed him to photograph them with extraordinary intimacy in all their states of joy and sadness.
Nollywood - Pieter Hugo
South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.
Open dag Afrikontact, gratis proefles djembé en djembédemonstratie
Spetterende show door leerlingen van de serie djembélessen in Hoofddorp najaar 2010. Proefles djembé voor enthousiaste mensen die graag bezig willen met Afrikaanse ritmes. Binnenkort start nieuwe cursus o.l.v. Senegalese meesterdrummer Saliou Kandé.
Ouled el Bouazzaoui - Marokkaanse muziek
MusicDocMaroc is een multidisciplinair programma met film en muziek van o.a. Oulad El Bouazzaoui. Deze chaabi-groep is gespecialiseerd in de 'lown marsaoui'-stijl: van rustig begin naar climax. Na afloop is er een meet & greet met de artiesten. In Utrecht, Rotterdam en Amsterdam.
Propaganda by Monuments
Exhibition seeks to reassess nostalgia as a globalised process; less as a helplessly melancholic reconstruction of an idealised moment, and more of a recasting and importation of desired ideologies and material residue. Dan Halter, Hasan and Husain Essop, Angela Ferreira (SA), Kiluanji Kia (Angola), Iman Issa, Ahmed Kamel (Egypt), Runa Islam (Bangladesh).
Safia Stodel - Removed
Relocation, displacement, impermanence, marginalisation constructed the social landscapings of Apartheid, these mappings have remained indelible. Stodel’s work references the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area near Delft on Cape Town’s flats and its thousand closely stacked corrugated tin shacks.
Sauti za Busara Music Festival
Sauti za Busara music festival, centred in Zanzibar’s historic Stone Town, features a dynamic variety of African music with more than four hundred musicians participating over five days.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community - 25 Years at The Caversham Press
Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.
Statement of Intent – A Generation Provoked
Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.
TJ, 1948-2010 - David Goldblatt
Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.
The African Queen
Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.
The Art of the Construction Site by Julie Mayo
This exhibition is a collection of digital photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The Global Africa Project - Meschac Gaba
Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.
The fabulous world of John Kilaka
Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.
Thea Soggot - Earth and Ink
The highly perceptive nature of her figure sketches using red earth and ink gives Soggot's art emotive gravitas. With great meaning and determination, Soggot applies marks to paper to render narratives between human figures. Her monochromatic palette sets a mood of calm and tenderness, drawing the view into these intimate scenes.
Three Artists at the Caversham Press: Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.
Wayne Barker: Super boring
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.
Works 2006 - 2010 by Petros Ghebrehiwot
The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.
11 songs
Zaterdag 12 Februari 2011 20:30
t/m Vrijdag 18 Februari 2011
Trevor Watts, Marockin' Brass, Adama Dramé, Foliba. De artiesten vermengen hun muzikale roots en kennis van de islamitische en Afrikaanse cultuur tot een uitzonderlijk geheel: een muzikaal rendez-vous tussen Burkina Faso, Marokko, Algerije en België. Traditionele mandingo en gnawa worden verbonden met de hedendaagse muziekschriftuur en een improvisatie voor het blazerensemble.In Brugge(Concertgebouw), Gent (De Centrale), Antwerpen (Zuiderpershuis), Brussel (KVS)
Kareyce Fotso
Zaterdag 12 Februari 2011 20:30
Het Nederlandse debut van deze Kameroense singer-songwriter. Warme, ingetogen liedjes vol herinneringen aan de aloude Beti-cultuur uit haar geboortestreek. Begiftigd met een eigenzinnige, licht hese en vooral krachtige stem en zichzelf begeleidend op gitaar, percussie en mbira (lamellofoon), vertelt Kareyce Fotso haar verhaal.
Afrikaans Maanlicht - dansen op Afrikaanse muziek
Zaterdag 12 Februari 2011 21:30
Bij gebrek aan elektriciteit vieren Afrikanen feest in het maanlicht! Gezellig dansen op vrolijke muziek uit alle windstreken van Afrika met de vernieuwde muziekcollectie van DJ Aziz. 5 euro voor 23:00, daarna 7,50.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 09 Februari 2011 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 Maart 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.