Agenda 06 - 12 Mei 2012

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

In olieverf toont Asaph Batecereza krachtige Ugandese beelden van muzikanten, dansers en de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Het sterke licht- donker contrast in zijn werk laat ons meereizen naar een magische sfeer van kale bomen, dansende vrouwen met waterkruiken op hun hoofd en pijprokende eenzame mannen.

podiummozaiek

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

The central theme of the artist is social life in South Africa, both on the land and in the big cities. Cedric Nunn documents internal political confrontations among the black population, as well as the civil war of the 1980s and its effects. He is interested in the reality of apartheid, beyond the media-generated images and social prejudices. Over a long period of time he focused in particular on the people in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, and in the neighbouring country of Mozambique. This exhibition features photographs from the late 1970s to the present day.

kznsagallery

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Tijdens deze periode tonen we schilderijen van de jonge Zimbabwaanse kunstenaar Jonathan Madzinga, in combinatie met werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die het afgelopen jaar hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23.

galerie23

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

Hoe Nederlandse stoffen van het Helmondse bedrijf Vlisco onderdeel werden van verschillende West- en Centraal Afrikaanse culturen én hun weg vonden in de internationale mode, beeldende kunst en fotografie. Met werk van kunstenaars, fotografen en modeontwerpers. Uit Afrika onder meer Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Fatimah Tuggar, Seydou Keïta, Meschac Gaba en Bodys Isek Kingelez.

mmkarnhem vlisco

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Tijdens deze periode tonen we schilderijen van de jonge Zimbabwaanse kunstenaar Jonathan Madzinga, in combinatie met werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die het afgelopen jaar hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23.

galerie23

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Tijdens deze periode tonen we schilderijen van de jonge Zimbabwaanse kunstenaar Jonathan Madzinga, in combinatie met werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die het afgelopen jaar hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23.

galerie23

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Tijdens deze periode tonen we schilderijen van de jonge Zimbabwaanse kunstenaar Jonathan Madzinga, in combinatie met werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die het afgelopen jaar hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23.

galerie23

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

africa-si-edu

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

The show is loosely based on Eugene Marais’ book, The Soul of the White Ant, which draws parallels between the ant nest as a compound animal and the human body. White Termite is a mixed media installation consisting of a constructed space that interacts with the gallery’s interior and visitors moving through it. Digital projections and collaborative processes (the crocheting performance) will continuously redefine and transform the space; much like water, the viewer’s experience evolves over time as they negotiate the interior installations.

brundyngonsalves

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Tijdens deze periode tonen we schilderijen van de jonge Zimbabwaanse kunstenaar Jonathan Madzinga, in combinatie met werken van Afrikaanse kunstenaars die het afgelopen jaar hebben geëxposeerd in Galerie 23.

galerie23

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

africa-si-edu

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

The show is loosely based on Eugene Marais’ book, The Soul of the White Ant, which draws parallels between the ant nest as a compound animal and the human body. White Termite is a mixed media installation consisting of a constructed space that interacts with the gallery’s interior and visitors moving through it. Digital projections and collaborative processes (the crocheting performance) will continuously redefine and transform the space; much like water, the viewer’s experience evolves over time as they negotiate the interior installations.

brundyngonsalves

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic. Her work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

artspace-jhb artthrob

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

africa-si-edu

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

The show is loosely based on Eugene Marais’ book, The Soul of the White Ant, which draws parallels between the ant nest as a compound animal and the human body. White Termite is a mixed media installation consisting of a constructed space that interacts with the gallery’s interior and visitors moving through it. Digital projections and collaborative processes (the crocheting performance) will continuously redefine and transform the space; much like water, the viewer’s experience evolves over time as they negotiate the interior installations.

brundyngonsalves

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille

Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

iziko

Africa is booming! The Economist reported that over the ten years to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were situated in sub-Saharan Africa. The artistic vibe in many African cities attracts a growing interest from audiences in Africa and outside of it. With events like Design Indaba (Cape Town), the continental walhalla for design lovers and Bamako Rencontres (Bamako), a photography biennial manifested as as one of the foremost artistic happenings. AFRICAN OPTIONS! brings together a host of local and global creatives who are connected to Africa. A joint exhibition of the hottest African design & craftsmanship.

optionsamsterdam fromafricawithlove

Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

nasjonalmuseet

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique is proud and excited to display a selection of 30 pieces of the work of Ahmed Abushariaa, the Sudanese watercolours master and painter. The exhibition focus is on the Darfur war series, memories from Sudan and impressions of a medieval city called Suakin, on the South Coast of Port Sudan.

lumieresdafrique

De werken in de tentoonstelling zijn een spel met mensen en dieren – ambigue wezens die iets vertellen over hun fragiele relatie met de wereld. In de dynamische composities van Omar Ba (Senegal) vind je tegenovergestelde werelden: het rijk van de mensen en dat van de dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, Afrika en het westen. Daarnaast creëert Ba een neutraal terrein dat reflectie toestaat. Barbara Polderman voert haar sculpturen van stof uit in een virtuoze collagetechniek. Persoonlijke waarnemingen inspireren haar tot het ontwikkelen van sprekende symbolen. Met getekende dieren creëert Lenneke van der Goot een in scene gezette wereld; licht/schaduw, vorm/restvorm, op zoek naar eigenheid in een context.

galeriesanaa - omar ba

Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

walthercollection

New drawings. Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Her works function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

whatiftheworld artthrob

Solastalgia is the premise for this exhibition, the term was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2004 by combining the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek word algae (pain). It is used to describe the emotional distress experienced when one realises that one’s home environment is under threat or changing; a form of homesickness one gets while one is still at home. Paper sculpture, paper cutting, altered books, photography, animation and installation.

erdmanncontemporary

Coming of Age is a retrospective exhibition offering a unique opportunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio (APS) as well as other established artists who have supported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years. The exhibition will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlohonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include William Kentridge, Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kudzanai Chiurai and others.

artistproofstudio joburg-jag

De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

haarlemmutare youtube

The exhibition hangs like a poem of photographs in which Fourie explores her personal curiosities and fears. Gravitating towards content that scrutinizes the complexities of companionship, intimacy and the vulnerability of the human body, Fourie’s images capture how we share our thoughts, feelings, lives and bodies. Fourie and her subjects are at times perfumed with a spray of sentiment, emotion, fantasy, and in other instances they are stripped raw, reflecting realties of decay, mortality and ruin.

ava

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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the series, resonating as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. The resulting images are simultaneously thought provoking and uncomfortably amusing – raising questions about what it might mean to be white in the context of contemporary South Africa.

iziko

An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

extracitykunsthal

Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

afrikamuseum

El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

africanart

Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

africa-si-edu

The Land of Cockaigne was the medieval idea of a paradise of plenty. For Poynton, the act of painting is an attempt to enter this fantastical world - but in an unexpected way. As the artist writes: In the Land of Cockaigne every wish was granted. I have used this title not because I wanted to illustrate paradise, but because painting itself is that land of never-realised fulfillment. Every painting I do comes from the same need to inhabit this land, to create a sense of engulfment, of complete enclosure, to blind and deafen and numb myself through the senses in order to find some peace.

stevenson

Making Douala 2007-2013 shows the effects of inscribing contemporary art into public space on the daily life in and the perception of the city of Douala (Cameroon). Making Douala presents the work of SUD, the Salon Urbain de Douala, through the representation of a selection of the projects and events that contributed to the success of the international triennial’s editions in 2007 and 2010. It also introduces the preliminary ideas for SUD2013, entitled Douala Metamorphoses.

iabr

Portraiture is a favoured genre with subjects drawn from Gratrix’s personal and social world, as well as contemporary pop and celebrity culture. Imagery such as rainbows, flowers, exotic birds and puppies have a mischievous, ominous undertone. The paintings are fresh, energetic, witty, vibrant and colourful – yet melancholic. Despite numerous art-historical references, Gratrix is entirely original and completely immersed in the present. In the artist’s own words, My Show includes; “mythical grunge, good pop, bling jokes, sweaty Chanel, divorce flowers, tropical Maximalism, jungle nipples, rainbow poodles, the age of LOL and my friends”.

smacgallery

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

sun-ac

Osaretin Ighile’s recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks as conceptual totalities, multivalent narratives crafted from a variety of approaches, not just single images that express big ideas about humanity. His work is informed by a sophisticated discourse on traditional philosophical concepts, a deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent as well as an invigorating inclination and facility with various materials and methods.

skotogallery

A wide-ranging exploration of photography at a time when the medium is in the midst of a complicated but rich moment in its history and old assumptions are being challenged. The exhibits range from classic documentary to collaborative set pieces, with featured artists offering an international perspective on recent trends in photography. African pariticipants include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin) and Mohau Modisakeng, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa).

saatchi-gallery

De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

fotomuseum pieterhugo

In this series of works, Stephen Conroy (UK) continues his pre-occupation with the human figure in isolation and presents a single male figure posed in various standing positions. A number of the works are self portraits and these range from a series of head studies in which he portrays himself both frontally and in profile, as well as three-quarter length views with arms in various attitudes. This is a striking group of paintings, where the artist’s gaze is particularly poignant and enigmatic.

everard-read

When your arm stretched over your head, can touch your ear, then you can go to school. Throw your baby teeth onto the roof of the house, and then your grand mother will bring you new ones. These are the transient processes, child hood rituals, games and stories Sineyile remembers from his youth. Rewind is a body of paintings that rework the stylised visual language of the cartoons Sineyile watched as a child.

ava

Neil le Roux’s ballpoint pen drawings can be described as a series of obsessive, repetitive curved lines, forming peaks and dales in what appears to be topographic maps of imaginative land masses, or concentric circles resembling the year rings of hewn trees. The process of drawing is cardinal in his work. It is apt to use Richard Serra’s maxim ‘Drawing is a verb’ when describing Le Roux’s drawings. His drawing is, however, much more than process; it is as much an artifact, projective, not predictive, of its own aesthetic outcome, as it is of an act.

artonpaper

Naast de tentoonstelling van de Surinaamse kunstenaar George Struikelblok is in de galerie ook de tentoonstelling Out of Africa te zien met intrigerende houten beelden van Abou Sidibé uit Mali/Burkina Faso en kleurrijke sculpturen  van papier-maché, gemaakt door de internationaal bekende kunstenaar Mickaël Bethe-Selassie (Ethiopië / Frankrijk).

bastenasbeck

In Strange Days Booyens' structures evolve into isolated forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to completely undermine figurative representation adds to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a conflict between the order of recognisable forms and the vitality of chaos.

blankprojects

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

africanart

De tentoonstelling laat grenzeloze kunst zien. Kunst uit Kliptown. Met een grote varieteit aan bijzondere schilderijen, balpentekeningen, plastic collages, spraypaintings en prints willen Kliptown kunstenaars de grenzen van de hoop verleggen. In samenwerking met het Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square, het Funda Art College en de zeven kunstenaars.

iarte

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

si

Gretchen van der Byl's work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing.

commune1 artthrob

First installment of the gallery's Trade Routes Project, marking the 15th anniversary of the second - and last - Johannesburg Biennale. In this exhibition, some artists present the same works that they showed in 1997. These are works that are central to these artists' development but have not been widely seen. Other artists show works that might be familiar to international audiences but are not part of our local consciousness. The three South African artists present new works made especially for this exhibition.

stevenson

In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

africamuseum

In 1979 Scholtz's grandfather sold his farm Vlakplaas to the State Security Department. He did not know that it would become the headquarters of the C1 Unit from 1979 to 1993. Operating as a parliamentary hit squad, the C1 unit captured political opponents of the government, tortured them and then either turned them, making them Askaris or executed them. This exhibition examines the ways in which land can become transformed by the events that it bears witness to.

ava

The show is loosely based on Eugene Marais’ book, The Soul of the White Ant, which draws parallels between the ant nest as a compound animal and the human body. White Termite is a mixed media installation consisting of a constructed space that interacts with the gallery’s interior and visitors moving through it. Digital projections and collaborative processes (the crocheting performance) will continuously redefine and transform the space; much like water, the viewer’s experience evolves over time as they negotiate the interior installations.

brundyngonsalves

Nieuwe kunst & design uit Zuid-Afrika is aangekomen. Ook schilderijen, collages, tekeningen, prints van Kliptown Artists, maar die staan nog even in de wacht tot zondag 29 april - de opening van de nieuwe tentoonstelling: Expression without Borders - NL.

izart kunstenaars

Ina van Zyl was born in Ceres, South Africa, 1971. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

De opening van de tentoonstelling is 12 mei, om 15:30 uur.

galerieonrust

Opening van de mei-expositie in de Royal Gallery. De expositie zal bestaan uit figuratieve schilderijen van Christa Logman en Liesel Brune (Zuid-Afrika), abstracte schilderijen van Hanneke van Heusen en Jos Burcksen, beelden van Tineke van Laarhoven en foto's van Wim Visser. Tijdens de opening zal zanger/pianist Jordy de Leeuw optreden met covers en zelf geschreven liedjes. De expositie is te bezichtigen van 2 mei tot en met 27 mei, van woensdag tot en met zondag, van 12 tot 18 uur.

royalgallery

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

huismarseille