Agenda 27 April - 03 Mei 2014
Zondag 27 April
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Last Hijack
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.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (film)
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).
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sexy Money - documentaire Karin Junger
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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Slavenschip Leusden - museumcollege
1 januari 1738: het slavenschip Leusden was met zijn lading, bestaande uit 714 slaven, op weg van Afrika naar Suriname. In de monding van de Surinaamse Marowijnerivier liep het schip vast op een zandbank. Het water drong het ruim binnen maar de kapitein liet de luiken dichtspijkeren en 680 slaven kwamen om het leven. Het is de grootste scheepsramp in de Nederlands geschiedenis. Jessica Dikmoet en Henry Strijk ontwikkelden het idee om met jongeren dit thema voor een groter publiek toegankelijk te maken. Dit resulteerde in de documentaire ‘Slavenschip Leusden’. Henry Strijk zal deze film inleiden en een toelichting geven.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 05 Maart 2014 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 April 2014
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Maandag 28 April
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Last Hijack
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.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (film)
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).
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sexy Money - documentaire Karin Junger
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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 05 Maart 2014 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 April 2014
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Dinsdag 29 April
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Last Hijack
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.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (film)
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).
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sexy Money - documentaire Karin Junger
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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
PhD defence: Gender Perspectives on Decentralization Reforms in Service Delivery in Rural Tanzania
Dinsdag 29 April 2014 16:00
PhD candidate ZS (Zacharia) Masanyiwa. Title: Decision Making Under the Tree: Gender Perspectives on Decentralization Reforms in Service Delivery in Rural Tanzania. In recent decades, decentralization has been upheld by governments, donors and policy makers in many developing countries as a means of improving people’s participation and public services delivery. This study examines the impact of decentralization reforms on service delivery in rural Tanzania using a gender perspective.
inleiding en debat: Anti-homowet in Oeganda: een westers export product?
Dinsdag 29 April 2014 20:00
In Oeganda tekende president Museveni op 24 februari de controversiële anti-homowet. Een homoseksueel die voor zijn geaardheid uitkomt, hangt vanaf nu levenslang boven het hoofd.
Dit is niet de enige vrees waar homo’s in Oeganda mee kampen; geweld tegen homoseksuelen is aan de orde van de dag. Tijdens deze avond nemen we de historische context waarbinnen de wet tot stand kwam onder de loep. Daarnaast gaan we in gesprek met politici, een wetenschapper, een journalist, en ontwikkelingsorganisaties die homoseksuelen in Oeganda ondersteunen.
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 05 Maart 2014 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 April 2014
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Woensdag 30 April
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Full Moon, Vuyani Maqoma’s 25-man epic dance show, soon at Nelson Mandela Theatre
Vuyani Maqoma, South Africa’s legendary choreographer, is a contemporary dance genius. Full Moon, directed by Maqoma with co-choreographer Luyanda Sidiya, features 25 dancers and the South African National Youth Orchestra (SANYO), and its original music was composed by Isaac Molelekoa. The costumes were designed by the Black Coffee label, which is headed by designer Jacques van der Watt. The show is a dance odyssey that is meant to take the audience on a stirring, surreal journey from outer space to the landscapes of earth, drawing on ancestral memories and myths, the organisers said.
Last Hijack
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.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (film)
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).
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sexy Money - documentaire Karin Junger
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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
promotie: P.C. Kalenga - Bunkeya et ses chefs
Woensdag 30 April 2014 13:45
Promotie van dhr. P.C. Kalenga - Bunkeya et ses chefs: évolution sociale dúne ville précoloniale (1870 – 1992). Promotor: Prof.dr. R.J. Ross
The Mandingo Ambassadors - Music from Guinea
Woensdag 05 Maart 2014 22:00
t/m Woensdag 30 April 2014
This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.
Donderdag 01 Mei
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Full Moon, Vuyani Maqoma’s 25-man epic dance show, soon at Nelson Mandela Theatre
Vuyani Maqoma, South Africa’s legendary choreographer, is a contemporary dance genius. Full Moon, directed by Maqoma with co-choreographer Luyanda Sidiya, features 25 dancers and the South African National Youth Orchestra (SANYO), and its original music was composed by Isaac Molelekoa. The costumes were designed by the Black Coffee label, which is headed by designer Jacques van der Watt. The show is a dance odyssey that is meant to take the audience on a stirring, surreal journey from outer space to the landscapes of earth, drawing on ancestral memories and myths, the organisers said.
Ibrahim El-Salahi - Selected Works 1962-2010
Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Selected Works 1962-2010 by Ibrahim El Salahi, an exhibition of dynamic drawings and paintings by the Sudanese-born artist. This will be his second solo show at the gallery and the first U.S presentation of his work since his highly-acclaimed retrospective at the Tate Modern, London in 2013.
Last Hijack
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.
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
ASC Seminar: Aan de goede kant - De lessen van de Nederlandse anti-apartheidsbeweging
Donderdag 01 Mei 2014 15:30
De Nederlandse anti-apartheidsbeweging is vanaf 1960 tot de vrijlating van Mandela in 1990 uitgegroeid tot een van de sterkste sociale bewegingen van Nederland. In de loop der jaren hebben miljoenen Nederlanders zich op een of andere manier ingezet tegen de apartheid. De kracht van de anti-apartheidsbeweging is dat ze erin is geslaagd de discussie over wat Nederland tegen de apartheid kon doen, te verpakken tot dagelijkse kwesties. Ondanks de massale publieksmobilisatie heeft de beweging echter slechts beperkte invloed gehad op het Nederlandse (overheids)beleid ten aanzien van Zuid-Afrika. Nederland weigerde voorop te lopen. Spreker: Roeland Muskens. Reserveren verplicht.
Vrijdag 02 Mei
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Fatoumata Diawara - concert
Ze werd bekend door de rol van Prinses Karaba in de musical Kirikou Et Karaba, maar in Nederland maakte ze in 2010 grote indruk tijdens de World Sessions en het Amsterdam Roots Festival. Als een gedreven vernieuwster van de moderne wassoulou- muziek trad de jonge Diaware al op met onder anderen Youssou N'dour en zelfs Herbie Hancock!
Full Moon, Vuyani Maqoma’s 25-man epic dance show, soon at Nelson Mandela Theatre
Vuyani Maqoma, South Africa’s legendary choreographer, is a contemporary dance genius. Full Moon, directed by Maqoma with co-choreographer Luyanda Sidiya, features 25 dancers and the South African National Youth Orchestra (SANYO), and its original music was composed by Isaac Molelekoa. The costumes were designed by the Black Coffee label, which is headed by designer Jacques van der Watt. The show is a dance odyssey that is meant to take the audience on a stirring, surreal journey from outer space to the landscapes of earth, drawing on ancestral memories and myths, the organisers said.
Ibrahim El-Salahi - Selected Works 1962-2010
Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Selected Works 1962-2010 by Ibrahim El Salahi, an exhibition of dynamic drawings and paintings by the Sudanese-born artist. This will be his second solo show at the gallery and the first U.S presentation of his work since his highly-acclaimed retrospective at the Tate Modern, London in 2013.
Last Hijack
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.
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
1e editie van L'Afrique - African House Music
Vrijdag 02 Mei 2014 23:00
L'Afrique is ontstaan uit liefde voor African house music. Deze sound en de African culture staan voor energie en positiviteit, de perfecte combinatie voor een warme, dansbare avond. De eerste editie van L’Afrique heeft twee primeurs, want Afrikaanse grootheden Black Motion en Shimza worden speciaal ingevlogen vanuit Zuid Afrika voor hun allereerste optreden in Nederland. Verder draait Gregor Salto een speciale afro house set en zorgen Cincity en "Mr. Deep Journey" himself Rancido voor een heerlijke vibe.
Zaterdag 03 Mei
A Nomad’s Harvest - a retrospective of photographs by George Hallett
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.
Africa Junctions - exhibition is the result of the photographic project on African cities
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.
African Masterpieces - The Story of the Kingdom of Ife
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.
AfrikaBurn Festival 2014
2014 festival edition: AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!
Ana Ana - Photo Exhibition by Wafaa Samir
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.
Apartheid and After - 13 Zuid-Afrikaanse fotografen
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.
Facing Form - vorm als verbinding ...
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.”
Fatoumata Diawara - concert
Ze werd bekend door de rol van Prinses Karaba in de musical Kirikou Et Karaba, maar in Nederland maakte ze in 2010 grote indruk tijdens de World Sessions en het Amsterdam Roots Festival. Als een gedreven vernieuwster van de moderne wassoulou- muziek trad de jonge Diaware al op met onder anderen Youssou N'dour en zelfs Herbie Hancock!
Full Moon, Vuyani Maqoma’s 25-man epic dance show, soon at Nelson Mandela Theatre
Vuyani Maqoma, South Africa’s legendary choreographer, is a contemporary dance genius. Full Moon, directed by Maqoma with co-choreographer Luyanda Sidiya, features 25 dancers and the South African National Youth Orchestra (SANYO), and its original music was composed by Isaac Molelekoa. The costumes were designed by the Black Coffee label, which is headed by designer Jacques van der Watt. The show is a dance odyssey that is meant to take the audience on a stirring, surreal journey from outer space to the landscapes of earth, drawing on ancestral memories and myths, the organisers said.
Ibrahim El-Salahi - Selected Works 1962-2010
Skoto Gallery is pleased to present Selected Works 1962-2010 by Ibrahim El Salahi, an exhibition of dynamic drawings and paintings by the Sudanese-born artist. This will be his second solo show at the gallery and the first U.S presentation of his work since his highly-acclaimed retrospective at the Tate Modern, London in 2013.
Last Hijack
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.
Multi-media installation: Richard Mosse - The Enclave
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.
Running - photographs by Thabiso Sekgala
Photographic exhibition bringing together three series: ‘Running Amman’, ‘Running Bulawayo’ and ‘Paradise’. Although shot in highly disparate places – the cities of Amman, Bulawayo and Berlin – all three series are viewed by Sekgala as part of a similar trajectory of movement, displacement, transition; each photograph displaying a veneer of calm, that may or may not be on the verge of catastrophe. Considering both the notion of running towards and away from, Sekgala confronts perceptions surrounding place, influenced by sentiments such as aspiration and assumption, and ultimately destabilises these.
Rwanda 20 Years - photographs by Pieter Hugo and Lana Mesić
On April 7th 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.
Sightings if the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar - photographs by Daniel Naudé
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.
Such, Such were the joys - drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer
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.
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists
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.
The Needle and the Damage Done - prints by Diane Victor
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.
Traces of Ecstasy - Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
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’.
Vrouwen van het water - foto's van Angèle Etoundi Essamba
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.
World Presss Photo
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.
Jaarvergadering NZAV - lezing Martin Bossenbroek
Zaterdag 03 Mei 2014 14:00
Na de vergadering houdt Martin Bossenbroek, winnaar van de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2013 met zijn boek De Boerenoorlog, een lezing.
Afrikaans Maanlicht - dansen op Afrikaanse muziek
Zaterdag 03 Mei 2014 21:30
Bij gebrek aan elektriciteit vieren Afrikanen feest in het maanlicht! Gezellig dansen op vrolijke muziek uit alle windstreken van Afrika. Na optredens wordt er lekker gedanst op vrolijke muziek van alle windstreken van Afrika met DJ Sam.
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate
Zaterdag 03 Mei 2014 22:00
De rapper/singer-songwriter Joe Driscoll (USA) staat bekend als ‘the gangster with the iron lungs’. Sekou Kouyate (Guinee-Conakry) is ook niet de minste naam. Hij speelt met effecten zoals Jimi Hendrix dat deed, en heeft een vrij unieke en intensieve stijl. Joe en Sekou treffen elkaar voor het eerst in Marseille, voor een samenwerking op festival ‘Nuit Metis’. Ze verstonden elkaar niet, dus de communicatie liep geheel volgens muzikale regels. Na een paar weken jammen, zitten ze helemaal op dezelfde golflengte. Het succes vertaalt zich in het debuutalbum ‘Faya’, waarop een waanzinnige mengeling van afrobeat, hiphop, folk en reggae te vinden is. Live resulteert dat in een levendige, ongeëvenaarde jamsessie van twee meestermuzikanten.