Agenda 13 - 19 Oktober 2013

Voor de tweede keer programmeert het AFFR samen met Africa in the Picture en African Architecture Matters een reeks films over actuele ontwikkelingen in Afrikaanse steden. Africa Shafted: onthullend portret van de bewoners van Ponte Tower, het hoogste gebouw in de beruchte wijk Hillbrow in Johannesburg. Jerusalema: spectaculaire actiefilm over Lucky Kunene die zich als jonge kruimeldief opwerkt tot vastgoedkoning van Hillbrow. Jonah:  verbluffende animatiefilm waarin twee jongens op Zanzibar het toerisme een boost geven door bij toeval een enorme vis te fotograferen.

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Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

Pas op 25-jarige leeftijd leerde regisseur Alex Pitstra zijn Tunesische vader kennen. Zijn ontdekkingstocht naar oorsprong en identiteit, die uit de eerste ontmoeting met zijn vader volgde, vormde de inspiratie voor zijn boeiende en prachtig geschoten fictie-debuut over het personage Abdallah, Pitstras Tunesische alter ego, en diens dromen over Europa.

cinema rialto lantarenvenster

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

Once a month, singer and guitarist Omar Ka hosts this African dance fest in The Hague. This afternoon you can hear the best in African live music, attend dance workshops, children's activities, and see surprising guest musicians perform. The afternoon's proceedings will be linked together with the juiciest tracks, African and crossover, by the hottest DJs. Special guest on October 13 - Eric Vloeimans, one of the best trumpet players in The Netherlands.

korzo

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

Pas op 25-jarige leeftijd leerde regisseur Alex Pitstra zijn Tunesische vader kennen. Zijn ontdekkingstocht naar oorsprong en identiteit, die uit de eerste ontmoeting met zijn vader volgde, vormde de inspiratie voor zijn boeiende en prachtig geschoten fictie-debuut over het personage Abdallah, Pitstras Tunesische alter ego, en diens dromen over Europa.

cinema rialto lantarenvenster

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

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SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

Pas op 25-jarige leeftijd leerde regisseur Alex Pitstra zijn Tunesische vader kennen. Zijn ontdekkingstocht naar oorsprong en identiteit, die uit de eerste ontmoeting met zijn vader volgde, vormde de inspiratie voor zijn boeiende en prachtig geschoten fictie-debuut over het personage Abdallah, Pitstras Tunesische alter ego, en diens dromen over Europa.

cinema rialto lantarenvenster

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

website artslink

SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

Miriam Makeba, bijgenaamd Mama Africa, werd in 1932 geboren in Johannesburg. Ze was naast zangeres ook mensenrechtenactiviste en actief tegenstandster van de Zuid-Afrikaanse apartheidspolitiek. Vanaf 1959 leefde ze gedurende 30 jaar in ballingschap. In 1963 bracht haar politiek activisme haar bij de Verenigde Naties waar ze pleitte tegen Apartheid. Haar huwelijk met Stokely Carmichael, de leider van Black Panther Party, zorgde voor controverse in Amerika en een boycot van haar internationale carrière. Discussie, met muzikale omkadering door Zimbabwaanse zangeres Vimbai Zimuto.

decentrale

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

Pas op 25-jarige leeftijd leerde regisseur Alex Pitstra zijn Tunesische vader kennen. Zijn ontdekkingstocht naar oorsprong en identiteit, die uit de eerste ontmoeting met zijn vader volgde, vormde de inspiratie voor zijn boeiende en prachtig geschoten fictie-debuut over het personage Abdallah, Pitstras Tunesische alter ego, en diens dromen over Europa.

cinema rialto lantarenvenster

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

website artslink

SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

Prachtig vormgegeven en elegant vertelde animatie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal over de eerste giraffe die in 1827 naar Parijs kwam en voor een rage zorgde in de lokale dierentuin. De kleine Maki ontsnapt aan een Franse slavenhandelaar en beleeft vele avonturen voordat hij zijn belofte kan inlossen om de giraffe Zarafa terug te brengen naar Afrika. Zonder een moment opdringerig te zijn biedt Zarafa naast stilistisch meesterschap en Maki's spannende avontuur ook een blik op Frankrijks gewelddadige verleden en de koninklijke freakshow die toen de boel bestuurde.

cinema rialtofilm

Promovendus: mw. M.C. Aalders Grool. Titel proefschrift: Verbal art of the Fon (Benin). Promotor: Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous

leidenuniv boek

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

Acteur Raymi Sambo vertelt in een muzikale monoloog het indrukwekkende verhaal van de gevluchte Congolese professor Kanouté, die probeerde zijn studenten tot kritisch nadenken te inspireren. Maar door deze kritische blik belandde hij in de gevangenis, waar hij werd vernederd en bedreigd. Congolees onderzoeker Felix Kaputu, als gastprofessor verbonden aan het Afrika-Studiecentrum en aan de Universiteit Gent, en op wiens levensverhaal de monoloog is gebaseerd, gaat in gesprek met Evelien Groenink, African Investigations editor voor ZAM Chronicle.

ascleiden

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

website artslink

SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

Prachtig vormgegeven en elegant vertelde animatie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal over de eerste giraffe die in 1827 naar Parijs kwam en voor een rage zorgde in de lokale dierentuin. De kleine Maki ontsnapt aan een Franse slavenhandelaar en beleeft vele avonturen voordat hij zijn belofte kan inlossen om de giraffe Zarafa terug te brengen naar Afrika. Zonder een moment opdringerig te zijn biedt Zarafa naast stilistisch meesterschap en Maki's spannende avontuur ook een blik op Frankrijks gewelddadige verleden en de koninklijke freakshow die toen de boel bestuurde.

cinema rialtofilm

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

Corporate Social Responsibility and the New South African Dream. In recent years transnational corporations have become increasingly important players in the development arena under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on a multi-sited ethnography of the world’s third biggest mining company, from their headquarters in London to the platinum mines of South Africa, this paper examines how new forms of moral authority are exercised and authenticated through CSR. Dinah Rajak, University of Sussex. Please register.

ascleiden

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Bass met een tropische vibe is het recept van deze Portugees-Angolese band. De combinatie van Europese dancebeats met Afrikaanse varianten van het genre als Kuduro en Zouk Love is een geslaagde cross-over. In 2010 won Buraka Som Sistema (Buraka sound system) een European Border Breakers Award, en ook een Europese MTV Award staat al op het erelijst van de band.

bitterzoet

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

africa-si

A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

artthrob

A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

iziko

The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

website artslink

SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

sbk

3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

donthitmama speellijst

Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

staedtischegaleriebremen

Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

princeclausfund

Prachtig vormgegeven en elegant vertelde animatie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal over de eerste giraffe die in 1827 naar Parijs kwam en voor een rage zorgde in de lokale dierentuin. De kleine Maki ontsnapt aan een Franse slavenhandelaar en beleeft vele avonturen voordat hij zijn belofte kan inlossen om de giraffe Zarafa terug te brengen naar Afrika. Zonder een moment opdringerig te zijn biedt Zarafa naast stilistisch meesterschap en Maki's spannende avontuur ook een blik op Frankrijks gewelddadige verleden en de koninklijke freakshow die toen de boel bestuurde.

cinema rialtofilm

Yasmina el Haddad brengt de Spaanstalige literatuur van Noordwest-Marokko vanaf 1951 tot en met 2009 in kaart op basis van de thema’s geschiedenis, herinnering en diaspora. Ze wil hiermee de Spaanstalige literatuur verkennen die buiten Spanje geschreven is. Mw. Y. el Haddad: Le patrimoine revisité. Histoire, mémoire et diaspora dans la littérature marocaine d’expression espagnole 1951-2009. Promotor is prof. dr. I.M. van der Poel.

universiteitvanamsterdam

Presentatie door auteur Fred van der Kraaij van Liberia: van vrijheidsideaal naar verloren paradijs. Reacties op het boek door panel: Consul van Liberia in Nederland, mevr. Donkersloot, Prof. Erwin Bulte, WUR en anderen, publieksreactie, videodocumentaire, presentatie van Nederlandse handelsmissie naar Liberia 2012 door NABC en vertegenwoordiger Nederlandse bedrijfsleven in Liberia, presentatie Nederlandse ontwikkelingssamenwerking en Liberia, presentatie universitaire samenwerking Nederland – Liberia. Aanmelden via site.

ascleiden

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

ascleiden

Ghalia Benali, geboren in België en getogen in het zuiden van Tunesië, brengt een hommage aan de grote Oum Kalthoum. De in 1975 overleden Egyptische zangeres staat vandaag de dag nog steeds bekend als de stem van de Arabische wereld. “Oum Kalthoum was mijn eerste muzikale leerschool” vertelt Ghalia. Op vierjarige leeftijd luisterde ze op een 33-toerenplaat onvermoeibaar naar ‘Al Altlal’, waarschijnlijk mede gefascineerd door het hypnotisch ronddraaien van de schijf.

decentrale

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Op dit moment is het fascinerende werk van de Ethiopische kunstenaar Mickael Bethe Selassie niet alleen te zien op Artzuid in Amsterdam, maar ook bij galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck in Groenlo, in een kleine stock-expositie met een aantal van zijn recente beelden. Allemaal even kleurrijk als wij van Bethe Selassie gewend zijn, maar wel kleiner (van 30 tot 70 cm.) en daardoor ook beduidend minder kostbaar dan zijn beide beelden in Amsterdam. Daarnaast een overzicht van schilderijen en grafisch werk van de Nigeriaanse/Nederlandse kunstenaar Toyin Loyé.

huijsbastenasbeck

Ginsburg's latest series of works is an experiment in figuration and the conversation between pattern, drawing and object. Odd, erotic ink monoprints and carbon copy drawings are developed into outsized sculptures of body parts, manufactured from pieces of canvas that are stitched together and stuffed. These soft body parts trigger more drawing, so that the process is an endless movement from drawing to object and back again. Offcuts from the sculptures in turn form large-scale abstract compositions on canvas.

blankprojects

Brings together works by four photographic artists where camouflage serves as the binding theme. In a literal sense camouflage indicates the combination of colours, materials or illumination in order to conceal humans, animals or objects, or to disguise them as something else. We often associate this phenomenon with images of animals miraculously vanishing in front of our eyes, due to the perfect visual synchronicity between their own outer appearance and that of their immediate environments.

circagallery

Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

foam

Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

pascalpolar

First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

africa-si

About a hundred metres from artist Helmut Starcke’s home in the seaside hamlet of Betty’s Bay is the Harold Porter National Botanical Garden. It is cocooned in the heart of the Cape Fynbos region. Fynbos frames Starcke’s house. Seamless fields of scrub – in yellow, lilac, gold and green – snake along the scenic ocean, with around 1 600 plant species, the fynbos appears ubiquitously spread across the region, displaying an enormous floral diversity. It makes sense therefore that fynbos, or ‘slender scrub’ as it is translated, literally, from Dutch, should comprise the principal iconography of Starcke’s current body of works.

circagallery

Van 1 september t/m 31 oktober 2013 is in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal de bijzondere fototentoonstelling ‘Verdeeld Verleden: een reis langs de slavenhandel in Brazilië, Angola en Zeeland’ te zien. Fotograaf Hans van Rhoon en journalist Jeroen Junte maakten hiervoor afgelopen voorjaar een reis langs deze drie locaties, waar de oorsprong ligt van de Nederlandse slavenhandel. Met indringende foto’s en reportages hebben ze vastgelegd hoe 350 jaar later in Brazilië, Angola en Middelburg verdeeld wordt omgegaan met een gedeeld verleden.

afrikamuseum

Het Afrika Museum neemt deel aan de Museumdag en organiseert bijzondere workshops, voorstellingen en rondleidingen voor bezoekers van alle leeftijden. Entree 1 euro per persoon. Onder andere kleimaskers maken voor kinderen, voorstelling 'Vorstelijke verhalen', rondleiding door het buitenmuseum langs woonerven uit o.a. Ghana en Mali, workshop 'Bodypercussie' met Afrikaanse ritmes.

afrikamuseum

A culmination of Chiurai’s projects around public acts of violence as documented and represented by the media. The exhibition interrogates a contemporary African notion of sacrifice, though not enquiring into its necessity. Violence and sacrifice are evidenced through Chiurai’s use of sheepskin, bandages, wood, blood-red beads and bronzed horns. Chiurai alludes to ritual practices of war, cleansing and burial.

goodman

Ifeoma Anyaeji’s recent sculpture employs a virtuosic ability to create elegant forms drawn from architecture and domestic furniture design through the reconstruction of found objects such as the ubiquitous plastic bags and bottles. She utilizes a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history and the passage of time to create work that radically puts into question conventional notions of what sculpture is.

skotogallery

In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

nubukefoundation

Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

afrikamuseum

Beklemmende psychologische thriller van de makers van Jagten, Submarino en Borgen. Het Deense vrachtschip MV Rozen koerst richting de haven als het wordt gekaapt door Somalische piraten, met aan boord onder andere scheepskok Mikkel en boordwerktuigkundige Jan. Ze worden gevangen gezet en betrokken in een cynisch spel op leven en dood. De miljoeneneis aan losgeld is de start van dramatische en psychologische onderhandelingen tussen de directeur van de rederij en de Somalische piraten.

lantarenvenster cinema

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

stevenson

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

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A multi-media traveling contemporary art exhibition that utilizes works by world-class artists to promote awareness of the root causes of violence against women; create empathy for women’s stories; foster a dialogue about the pervasiveness of violence against women; and inspire the belief that women and girls can be empowered with new behavioral choices. Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb.

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A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

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The popularity of the spoken word is evident in the powerful performance arc that threads through the Poetry Africa festival. Music is also a prominent presence in this landmark festival organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Poetry Africa runs in Durban from 14 to 18 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with the festival finale at BAT Centre on 19 October.

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SBK Amsterdam KNSM organiseert in het kader van de Maand van de Grafiek (G13) de groepsexpositie Prints made visible, met werk van kunstenaars die autonoom gebruik maken van grafische technieken en daarnaast een selectie van grafisch werk uit de rijke collectie van SBK. De nadruk ligt op de verscheidenheid van grafische discipline. Binnen dit raamwerk presenteert Galerie 23 werken van  Meschac Gaba, Remy Jungerman, Admire Kamudzengerere, Abe Mathabe, Lucas Nkgweng en Victor Ekpuk. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van Rob Voerman, Harald Vlugt, Annesas Appel, Elma Oosterhoff en Carola Rombouts.

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3 Nederlandse en 4 Senegalese dansers met een hiphop achtergrond dansen alsof hun leven ervan afhangt. Behalve de gemeenschappelijke liefde voor de dans, inspireren de makers en dansers zich op hun directe omgeving, op de pijnlijke maar ook mooie contrasten tussen het leven van een hiphop danser in Dakar en in Amsterdam. Een coproductie van het Nederlandse danstheater Don’t Hit Mama van choreografe Nita Liem en dramaturg Bart Deuss en het Senegalese Ecole des Sables, opgezet door de internationaal befaamde Germaine Acogny-Vogt.

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Owusu-Ankomah (Sekondi, Ghana, 1956) is one of the best known representatives of contemporary African art. At the age of 15 he started his studies at the Ghanatta College of Art in Acra. In 1986 he moved to Bremen, where he has lived and worked for 27 years now. His lage-format and vividly colored works depict a spiritual world occupied by people and symbols. Owusu-Ankomah equally finds his inspiration in Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in the philosophy of his own Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana.

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Selected works of South African photographer and LGBTQI activist Zanele Muholi will be exhibited at the Prince Claus Fund. Muholi herself will be present at the opening on 6 September. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and LGBTQI activist. Her work often focuses on black lesbians in South Africa as she seeks to postively represent her community in the midst of news stories of the 'curative rapes' and murders that plague the South African queer community. Among the selection of works to be shown at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery are Faces and Phases, Crime Scenes, the documentary Difficult Love.

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Prachtig vormgegeven en elegant vertelde animatie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal over de eerste giraffe die in 1827 naar Parijs kwam en voor een rage zorgde in de lokale dierentuin. De kleine Maki ontsnapt aan een Franse slavenhandelaar en beleeft vele avonturen voordat hij zijn belofte kan inlossen om de giraffe Zarafa terug te brengen naar Afrika. Zonder een moment opdringerig te zijn biedt Zarafa naast stilistisch meesterschap en Maki's spannende avontuur ook een blik op Frankrijks gewelddadige verleden en de koninklijke freakshow die toen de boel bestuurde.

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A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

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De Malinese zanger-gitarist Sidi Touré bracht in 2011 het album ‘Sahel folk’ uit. Een rake titel, want met zijn bezwerende stem en tokkelende gitaarspel roept Touré moeiteloos beelden op van dit woestijngebied. Als kleine jongen bouwde hij al eigenhandig zijn eerste gitaar uit sloophout en meldde zich aan bij de schoolband. Als twintiger trad hij toe tot Songhaï Stars, het belangrijkste orkest van Gao. Nadat een Franse regisseur in 2011 een film over hem maakte, werd Touré ook bekend buiten Mali.

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This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

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