Agenda 20 - 26 April 2014

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

De prachtige documentairereeks 'Africa' neemt je mee naar vijf uiteenlopende regio’s van Afrika en leert je haar landschappen en inwoners kennen. Vanuit de spanning tussen de wildernis en haar bewoners ontvouwt zich de dramatische schoonheid en kracht van dit majestueuze continent: prehistorisch ogende schoenbekooievaars strijden om de macht, dartele hagedissen verschalken letterlijk over de rug van leeuwen een maaltje en giraffen ontpoppen zich als meedogenloze vechters. Iedere aflevering belooft intieme oog-in-oog ontmoetingen met bijzondere dieren, betreedt nog onontdekte gebieden en toont nooit eerder gezien gedrag, zelfs van dieren die ons het meest bekend zijn. Vijf afleveringen, elke maandagavond één.

hollanddoc

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

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

facebook-creativecourt pieterhugo lanamesic

Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

De prachtige documentairereeks 'Africa' neemt je mee naar vijf uiteenlopende regio’s van Afrika en leert je haar landschappen en inwoners kennen. Vanuit de spanning tussen de wildernis en haar bewoners ontvouwt zich de dramatische schoonheid en kracht van dit majestueuze continent: prehistorisch ogende schoenbekooievaars strijden om de macht, dartele hagedissen verschalken letterlijk over de rug van leeuwen een maaltje en giraffen ontpoppen zich als meedogenloze vechters. Iedere aflevering belooft intieme oog-in-oog ontmoetingen met bijzondere dieren, betreedt nog onontdekte gebieden en toont nooit eerder gezien gedrag, zelfs van dieren die ons het meest bekend zijn. Vijf afleveringen, elke maandagavond één.

hollanddoc

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

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

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Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

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For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

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Keynote speaker, Susan Booysen, University of Witwatersrand. South Africans will go to the polls on 7 May in what promises to be the country’s most interesting election since 1994. There is no doubt that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will win again, but the polls suggest a much reduced majority.  The performance of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a new radical-populist movement founded by youth leader Julius Malema after his expulsion from the ANC, will be keenly watched. Of particular interest are the prospects for a new party on the left and the ruptures within the Tripartite Alliance of the ANC with the trade union movement COSATU and the South African Communist Party. Registration strictly required. In cooperation with NIMD.

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Mazwi, Zama en Mnikelo zijn bewoners van de nederzettingen rond de Zuid-Afrikaanse sloppenwijk Kennedy Road. Het is een van de vele slums die door de overheid ontruimd en vernietigd zullen worden. Er zijn echter geen plannen voor nieuwe huisvesting. De jonge Zuid-Afrikanen pikken het niet langer en komen in opstand. Ze verzetten zich tegen de Sloppenwet, die ze beschouwen als een nieuwe vorm van apartheid, en stappen naar de rechter. Het verhaal neemt een dramatische wending wanneer gewapende mannen Kennedy Road binnenvallen. Na de film is er de mogelijkheid om vragen te stellen. Aan de hand van de film zal er met een speciale gast worden vooruitgeblikt op de verkiezingen en de mogelijke uitkomsten.

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On the 22nd of April at 19.30, a special evening dedicated to the filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch will take place at the Nederlande Film Academie in Amsterdam, as part of the 4th edition of Festival Film & Science. His famous documentary “Cocorico Monsieur Poulet” will be screened, in the presence of filmmakers Jérôme Blumberg and Steef Meyknecht who has known him personally. Jean Rouch was among the first to make use of the docufiction method storytelling in film and is a pionner of ethnofiction. His work is closely tied with Africa where he directed ethnographic films for over sixty years, specifically in Niger where he is generally considered the father of Nigerian cinema.

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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.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space

Geschiedenisprogramma uit 2014. Twintig jaar geleden vonden er in Zuid-Afrika op 27 april de eerste democratische verkiezingen plaats. Niet iedereen schaarde zich achter het idee van een democratisch Zuid-Afrika. De documentaire 1994, The Bloody Miracle kijkt terug naar het verkiezingsjaar en onderzoekt welke krachten er speelden in het jaar voorafgaand aan de verkiezingen. Krachten die het land aan de rand van een burgeroorlog brachten. Het had niet veel gescheeld of er was helemaal niet gestemd in 1994. Zuid-Afrika bereidt zich voor op haar democratisch jubileum. Regie: Meg Rickards, Bert Haitsma.

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Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

Manecas Costa heeft niet alleen een van de mooiste stemmen die het Afrikaanse continent de laatste jaren voortbracht, hij is ook een begenadigd gitarist. Costa’s muziek ademt de rijke tradities van zijn geboorteland Guinee-Bissau en is vooral geïnspireerd op de pakkende gumbe. Prachtige melodieën en hypnotiserende ritmes worden hierin doorregen met sprankelende gitaarlijnen. World Sessions concerten beginnen met een film over en een interview met de artiest. Na afloop is er een meet & greet en een dj-set. Eerder concert februari 2014 in Podium Mozaïek was afgelast.

tivolivredenburg podiummozaiek africaserver

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

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Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

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

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

Manecas Costa heeft niet alleen een van de mooiste stemmen die het Afrikaanse continent de laatste jaren voortbracht, hij is ook een begenadigd gitarist. Costa’s muziek ademt de rijke tradities van zijn geboorteland Guinee-Bissau en is vooral geïnspireerd op de pakkende gumbe. Prachtige melodieën en hypnotiserende ritmes worden hierin doorregen met sprankelende gitaarlijnen. World Sessions concerten beginnen met een film over en een interview met de artiest. Na afloop is er een meet & greet en een dj-set. Eerder concert februari 2014 in Podium Mozaïek was afgelast.

tivolivredenburg podiummozaiek africaserver

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Waargebeurd verhaal over overleven in Somalië, gezien vanuit het perspectief van een piraat. In een kruising van animatie en documentaire biedt de film een innovatieve kijk op de manier waarop de Somalische piraat Mohamed in dit harde, gevaarlijke bestaan terecht is gekomen. Animaties van Mohameds herinneringen, angsten en dromen, gepresenteerd vanuit zijn eigen gezichtspunt, staan tegenover de rauwe beelden uit zijn dagelijks leven.

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Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

facebook-creativecourt pieterhugo lanamesic

Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

Thursday, 24th April, the three-months work period of Admire Kamudzengerere (Zimbabwe, 1981), in the Thami Mnele Foundation will be concluded with a performance evening in his studio. This informal presentation is based on his project the Lizzard Lounge. Several performances will by presented, among others by: Nathan Azhderian (Rijksakademie), Tanja Ritterbex  (De Arteliers), Lev Kazanchenko  (Rijksakademie), Ida Katinka Fridan Pederson (The Theatre School) and Toby Paul -aka Racketmanoby DJ- (Gerrit Rietveld Academy). As a guest speaker Edith Rijnja, art historian, publicist and cultural ambassador for artists and art projects in Africa and Asia, is invited to give an introduction.

thamimnyele

De Uitdaging: onverwachte muzikale performances van vocale muzikanten uit alle windstreken. Minyeshu met Thijs Borsten en Alberto Caicedo in De Uitdaging. Minyeshu Kifle Tedla combineert traditionele elementen uit de Hoorn van Afrika met invloeden uit de moderne westerse muziek. Sommige van haar liederen zijn op het ritme van de Ethiopische "schouderdans" Eskesta.

deuitdaging minyeshu walhalla

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

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Waargebeurd verhaal over overleven in Somalië, gezien vanuit het perspectief van een piraat. In een kruising van animatie en documentaire biedt de film een innovatieve kijk op de manier waarop de Somalische piraat Mohamed in dit harde, gevaarlijke bestaan terecht is gekomen. Animaties van Mohameds herinneringen, angsten en dromen, gepresenteerd vanuit zijn eigen gezichtspunt, staan tegenover de rauwe beelden uit zijn dagelijks leven.

filmladder cinemadelicatessen

Duo exhibition. Frouwkje Smit has been collecting images and text about the African continent from the media since 2008. Smit finds that the way the continent is portrayed is subject to many biased ideas and clichés, and her expanding archive reflects this. In Lagos (Nigeria), photographer Karine Versluis met a number of young women who had come from eastern Nigeria to Lagos to start a new life for themselves. Some of them dreamed of going further, to Europe, because they had heard great stories about it. Versluis photographed the posters that hung above their beds, with images of a perfect and romantic Western world.

ascleiden

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

facebook-creativecourt pieterhugo lanamesic

Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

The fourth edition of the International Festival of Film & Science, Amsterdam will take place from April 3rd to 30th, 2014 in Amsterdam, The Hague and Groningen. Over the course of one month, scientific films mainly from France and the Netherlands will be screened, with most being introduced and presented by the director. Two Africa-related films: "Congo business case": We follow Daniel Knoop and his attempt to set up a company in Congo to trade in agricultural products and to help professionalize agriculture. "Sexy money": A musical documentary about the emancipation of Nigerian women who have been exploited and humiliated as prostitutes in Europe.

festival programma

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

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

Aspects of a career spanning more than half a century. The works on show are from the collection of George Hallett and augmented by a comprehensive display of biographical information, as well as, book and record covers designed by Hallett. Included on this exhibition, amongst others, are recognisable images of Hout Bay, District Six, the Bo-Kaap, as well as immigrants and gypsies in London. His series of portraits of exiled South African writers, artists and musicians in London and France are of special interest.

iziko

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam – in cooperation with the new project space for art, design and architecture at the Looiersgracht 60 – proudly presents Lard Buurman – Africa Junctions. The exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities that Lard Buurman (b. 1969, Netherlands) started in the spring of 2008. Now, six years later, this project has been completed and crowned with the publication Africa Junctions. Capturing the City, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, including three essays by distinguished writers from Senegal, Nigeria and South-Africa, and an exhibition.

lardbuurman smba

The first exhibition to focus on the art of Ife, an ancient city in modern day Nigeria. The artists of Ife made sculptures from metal, stone and terracotta that have placed the region on the map in terms of world art history. The exhibition displays some of the world's most sophisticated historical art works – more than 100 sculptures of metal, stone and terracotta from the 12th to 16th centuries tell the story of the African civilisation of Ife, ancestors of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups of modern day Nigeria. The exhibition has previously been on view in the USA, Great Britain and Spain.

varldskulturmuseerna africanart

Wafaa Samir is a fine art photographer based in Cairo. She’s a graduate from the faculty of fine arts. She didn't study photography but with the help of internet and books she taught herself everything. She now works as a freelance photographer and a photo retoucher. She dedicates her spare time to create personal art projects. Wafaa is also a filmmaker (for the first time in Ana Ana) and a very personal artist. Photography is the way Wafaa has chosen to express herself. As she says in Ana Ana: she likes being behind her camera, where she can see everyone, but no one sees her. She says her camera is like her best friend.

abc behance-wafaasamir

Laten zien hoezeer het recente verleden de waarneming van nu kleurt. Dat lijkt de rode draad te zijn die het werk van de dertien deelnemende fotografen na 1990 verbindt. Hoe spectaculair de verschillende selecties ook zijn, het is fotografie met een dubbele agenda - maar dan wel een in de positieve zin van het woord. Hier wordt vanuit de kennis van toen nauwkeurig scherp gesteld op het heden - en andersom. Paul Alberts, Hugh Exton, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Naudé, Jo Ractliffe, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams en de Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.

huismarseille

De beelden van Hans van der Ham zijn in de eerste plaats vorm, ze bedekken en verhullen, en roepen vragen op over de mens achter het masker, verscholen in vorm. Victor Ekpuk tekent nieuwe vormen op basis van oude Afrikaanse symbolen en ontwikkelt zo een nieuwe unieke universele vormtaal. Obinna Makata maakt collages van Afrikaanse stof en inkt. De vormen zijn metaforen voor de mens, getekend op een elementaire manier. Zijn werk noemt hij wel “Broken pieces of African culture”. De tekeningen van Uche Uzorka zijn een oefening in hoe lijnen vorm worden, waarbij je de lijnen als mensen kunt zien. “Human beings who connect, disconnect and reconnect.”

galeriesanaa

Waargebeurd verhaal over overleven in Somalië, gezien vanuit het perspectief van een piraat. In een kruising van animatie en documentaire biedt de film een innovatieve kijk op de manier waarop de Somalische piraat Mohamed in dit harde, gevaarlijke bestaan terecht is gekomen. Animaties van Mohameds herinneringen, angsten en dromen, gepresenteerd vanuit zijn eigen gezichtspunt, staan tegenover de rauwe beelden uit zijn dagelijks leven.

filmladder cinemadelicatessen

De indrukwekkende levensreis van Nelson Madiba Mandela, een unieke visie op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van een modern icoon - vanaf zijn jeugd in een klein plattelandsdorp tot en met zijn presidentschap van Zuid-Afrika in de jaren 90. De film schetst een eerlijk portret van Mandela als jonge man met een voorkeur voor boksen, snelle auto's en mooie vrouwen, maar ook als een getalenteerd advocaat en vrijheidsstrijder die wapengeweld niet uit de weg ging om zijn politieke boodschap over te brengen. Regie Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), hoofdrollen Idris Elba (The Wire, Prometheus) en Naomie Harris (Skyfall).

paradisofilms cinema movienewz filmladder

Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

foam

Taking a thematic cue from materiality, PAPERWORK brings together more than 50 works by South African artists utilising paper in different ways across a range of various disciplines and techniques, from literal works such as drawing, printmaking and painting to collage, weaving, folding and digitization. The exhibition includes historical works from the mid-1970’s up until newly produced works from 2014, showing the diverse range of possibilities and influences of paper on art-making and how artists have found unique approaches to engaging with the material.

smacgallery

On April 7^th 2014, it will have been 20 years since the genocide started in Rwanda. The international community didn’t take action and the country was obliged to find justice on its own. 20 years later some of the survivors say they have forgiven the people who killed their family members. Creative Court wonders: What could forgiveness be in a genocide context and how would one visualize it? South African photographer Pieter Hugo and Dutch photographer Lana Mesić went to Butare, in the south of Rwanda, in an attempt to find out. Part of a series of exhibtiions and events.

facebook-creativecourt pieterhugo lanamesic

Een muzikale documentaire over de emancipatie van Nigeriaanse vrouwen die in Europa zijn uitgebuit en vernederd als prostituee en nu, terug in Nigeria, vol levenslust, aan een nieuw leven beginnen. In de film vertellen zes vrouwen ontluisterende verhalen over hun leven in Europa en worden twee vrouwen gevolgd die na terugkomst in Nigeria een nieuw leven proberen op te bouwen: Janet en Laura. Karin Junger: “Wat er ook gebeurt, deze vrouwen blijven lachen. Een harde, stralende lach die aangeeft: ‘ik ben niet kapot te krijgen’. Nneka componeerde en zong speciaal voor Sexy Money vijf nummers.

deproductie filmladder

For the past two years Naudé has focused on photographing cattle in societies where these animals are revered and venerated. This is a position far removed from the Western world where they are mostly seen as productive sources of milk, meat and skins. Naudé first photographed the Ankole cattle in Uganda, renowned for their majestic horns which ideally curve out and then inward. In Madagascar, the distinctive Zebu cattle form part of the Bara people's cosmology and ancestor worship. In India, the Brahmin culture sees cows, along with all other life forms, as manifestations of god.

stevenson

As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the 'rainbow nation' through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid's officials and bureaucrats. New works will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as 'politically incorrect', a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.

stevenson

On three floors, one each devoted to heaven, hell and purgatory, works of over 50 artists from all over Africa in a variety of media are presented: paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, installations and performances. Against the background of the many Africa-related exhibitions of the past years, the MMK perceives the need to investigate the significance of African art not only in the post-colonial context but also with regard to aesthetics. The exhibition concept transports the universal issues of the Divine Comedy, an incunable of European literature, into the present and places them in a transnational contemporary context.

mmk-frankfurt

For Diane Victor, making art ‘provides a way of working through troublesome images that lodge themselves persistently in her memory.’ The process is cathartic. The visual equivalent of psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, Victor draws her subject matter from far and wide, pulling information from the media and personal encounters, transforming them into rich and heavily populated compositions, full-blown narratives employing her grotesque and characteristic iconography. In this exhibition, one sees Victor still pre-occupied with ‘the big “catholic” sins – greed, lust, envy and excess.

davidkrutprojects

A provocative, multilayered photographic retrospective. This profoundly personal and political exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, and spirituality, imaginatively interprets the boundaries between spiritual and erotic fantasy, cultural and sexual difference. A seminal figure in 1980s black British and African contemporary art, Fani-Kayode’s timeless photographic tableaux make the black male body the focal point of enquiry.  Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures - inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.

iziko

In deze tentoonstelling nemen we u mee naar Ganvié, een vissersdorp aan de zuidkust van het West-Afrikaanse land Benin. Kenmerkend voor het dorp zijn de woningen op palen, zwevend boven het water van een lagune, het meer van Nokoué. Fotografe Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroun) bezocht Ganvié de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren, ging in gesprek met de vrouwen en volgde hen in het ritme van hun dagelijks leven, waarin water zo’n cruciale rol speelt. Want terwijl de bewoners, de Toffinou, volledig omringd worden door water, is drinkwater schaars. De vrouwen spelen een belangrijke rol in het watermanagement, beheren de grote vaten met drinkwater en zijn uiterst zuinig in het gebruik ervan.

afrikamuseum

Start van de lange wereldtour van de internationale persfotowedstrijd. Ruim 150 indrukwekkende persfoto’s van 53 prijswinnaars, in negen categorieën. De bezoeker maakt in de kerk een fotografische wereldreis door alle continenten en langs de meest uiteenlopende thema’s en historische gebeurtenissen uit 2013. De jaarwinnaar is John Stanmeyer, USA, met zijn foto Signal, gemaakt voor National Geographic. Dit mystieke beeld toont hoe Afrikaanse migranten op een strand bij de stad Djibouti met hun telefoons trachten signaal op te vangen uit buurland Somalië. Ook andere foto's met Afrikaanse onderwerpen zijn in de prijzen gevallen.

worldpressphoto nieuwekerk

Iedere laatste zaterdag van de maand. Host by DJ Seliko; Coupe Decalle - Zouk Waarba - Soukous - M’Balax - N’dombolo

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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.

barbes mandingo ambassadors at my space