The City of Johannesburg in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture and Telkom will host an important African contemporary art exhibition from 11 MAY until 11 JULY 2010 at MUSEUM AFRICA, Newtown Johannesburg.

WEBSITE: http://www.theartistsofafrica.co.za/

The exhibition, titled Space, will showcase some of the leading artists, writers and curators from the Continent of Africa to the global audience focused on the continent during this period.
The organizers are eager to partner with SAfm in order to aggressively promote the exhibition as a must see for all people interested in the arts, Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.
This exhibition is not a commercial show i.e. the works will not be offered for sale.

It is our intension that we use this opportunity to showcase the African contemporary art industry to the enormous global audience focused on Africa during this period. African art is an integral part of the ultimate African experience for which the tourists are coming in search of.
An exhibition of this caliber is rich in content with human interest stories and photographs of the artists and their works.
I look forward to discussing various opportunities with the producers responsible for the shows in your stable in order to conceptualise potential opportunities for mutual benefit with the ultimate goal of promoting the exhibition and the artists of Africa.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup:
Each Host City will coordinate various events that are recognized as 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Host City Events.

Space has been recognized as such an event and is therefore endorsed by FIFA, the Local Organising Committee, the City of Johannesburg and The Department of Arts and Culture.

It is only one of two such events that have been recognized as official Host City Johannesburg events.

The Curators:
Space is curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe and Melissa Mboweni in collaboration with several respected curatorial consultants from the continent.

The Artists:
Berni Searle (South Africa)
Godfried Donkor (Ghana/England)
Barthelemy Toguo (Cameroon/France)
Willem Boshoff (South Africa)
Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe/South Africa)
David Koloane (South Africa)
Arlene Wandera (Kenya/England)
Miriam Syowia Kyambi (Kenya)
Nandipha Mntambo (Swaziland/South Africa)
Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa)
James Muriuki (Kenya)
Alison Kearney (South Africa)
Nathalie Bikoro (Kenya/England)
Berry Bickle (Zimbabwe/ Mozambique)
Zen Marie (South Africa)
Mary Sibande (South Africa)
Abdul Razaq Awofeso (Nigeria)
Steve Bandoma (Congo)
Elias Sime (Ethiopia)
Peterson Kamwathi Waweru (Kenya)
Gugulective (South Africa)
Chimurenga (South Africa)
Billie Zangewa (Malawi/London)
Dominique Zinkpe (Benin)

The Curatorial Consultants and Writers:
Simon Njami (Cameroon/France)
Abebe Zegeye (Ethiopia/South Africa)
Elvira Dyangani Osse (Spain/Guinea-Bissau)
Bongani Madondo (South Africa)
Bettina Malcomess (South Africa)
Jimmy Ogonga (Kenya)
Raphael Chikukwa (Zimbabwe)
Monica Arac de Nyeko (Uganda)

The Curatorial Concept:
Curators Thembinkosi Goniwe and Melissa Mboweni engaged in a dialogue with artists, writers and curators around several issues currently preoccupying cultural interactions and interventions on the continent of Africa, resulting in the curatorial concept of – Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art.

Space embodies two notions, space and pace, which signify sites/contexts and tempos/energies that are part of societal make up. Space is wherein ideas are negotiated and meaning produced through various human activities and social practices, while pace refers to speed, the rate at which change or advancement of such activities and practices takes place in society.

Currencies refer not only to movement fluidity or rhythm but also to currency of an economic nature. Artists have been invited to engage with various aspects of the curatorial concept with a view to reflecting personal yet shared interpretations of Africa and the Diaspora that are neither prescriptive nor restrictive.

The Catalogue:
Respected writers have been invited to put forward essays, poems and articles dealing with issues pertaining to the Continent of Africa and the curatorial concept.
These will be included in a rich, informative and interesting catalogue.

I am not me,
the horse is not mine
by William Kentridge.

Closes 1 August 2010.

A comic and visually dazzling video installation by artist William Kentridge, in “I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine,” who gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera “The Nose,” based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.

The work stems from Kentridge’s ongoing interest in the roots and trajectory of modernism: a mixture of the absurd, the self-reflective (and the ‘self-divided’) and the forms of fragmentation that one associates with modernism, its crushing in Russia in the 1930s and the long-term trajectory of the terrors of hierarchy.

In partnership with In Context – a series of exhibitions and interventions in the city of Johannesburg featuring local and international artists.

Johannesburg Art Gallery
King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park.

Top image: William Kentridge – ‘I am not me, the horse is not mine’, 2008. Video stills from installation.
Bottom image: ‘I am not me, the horse is not mine’ performance. New York.

UITPAK, ESTRELLA DE MAR and AMERICA MADE IN CHINA at JAG

Opening: Sunday 18 April 2010
Hannelie Coetzee’s Uitpak: 4pm
Nuria Mora’s Estrella de Mar : 5pm
Roelien Brink’s America made in China: 6pm

Once again there are three exciting exhibition openings at the Johannesburg Art Gallery to make your Sunday afternoon all the more enjoyable. Three women artists with three different angles on art and life:

Hannelie Coetzee’s exhibition Uitpak consists of 324 pieces of sandstone that had been engraved for installation at Freedom Park. These were subsequently rejected and discarded -condemned to wastage as landfill. The artist has salvaged the slabs, creating a memorial artwork outside JAG, which finds new life to speak of a community’s past and their particular, long-ago struggle.

Taking as her example the starfish that re-grows any limb that is severed, Nuria Mora´s Estrella de Mar project creates a multitude of works all stemming from the same nuclei. Starting with a simple cube in the gallery space, this is added to and then dismantled piece by piece. New street works, originating from the removable parts of the first work are then created within the city. http://albertodepedro.ekosystem.org/category/nuria-mora/

In an exhibition titled America made in China, the artist William Kentridge, formerly known as Roelien Brink, considers aesthetics ideals from within a consumerist and media saturated culture. She looks at how media confers value on mere symbols, such as artworks, through its idealization of youth and beauty. The exhibition challenges our value system, which the artist considers groundless.
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All of these exhibitions are short interventions but, in the case of Hannelie Coetzee and Nuria Mora, the product will remain behind – Hannelie in the form of her installation outside the JAG and Nuria in the form of murals around the city.

Exhibition enquiries: Ricky Burnett 0760379403

Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery, King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg
Secure parking is available
Open Tuesday to Sunday – 10am to 5pm.
Closed Mondays, Good Friday & Christmas Day

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The Johannesburg Art Gallery is located in Joubert Park and the entrance in King George Street off Wolmarans or Smith depending on the direction that you are coming from.

For further information, please contact: Tiny Malefane(t) +27(0)117203479 (f)+27(0)117203481 (e) tinym@joburg.org.za or jag@joburg.org.za

Group trip to Nirox Sculpture Park for the opening of an exhibition of sculptures, entitled ‘A Gentle Invasion’, by the dutch artist, Auke de Vries.

Date: Sunday, 28 February 2010
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Location: Nirox Sculpture Park
Route T9, Kromdraai Road, The Cradle Of Humankind, Lanseria

INVITATION
Auke de Vries (sculptor NL,1937)
‘A Gentle Invasion: Sculptures for South Africa’
NIROX SCULPTURE PARK, CRADLE OF HUMANKIND

Please join us in the NIROX SCULPTURE PARK
on sunday 28 February from 10 AM for the opening
of an exhibition of sculptures, entitled ‘A Gentle Invasion’,
by the dutch artist, Auke de Vries.

Tea will be served in the garden and Auke will walk guests through the show at 11 AM providing his unique insights into the spatial and other issues that drive the creation of his remarkable work.

NIROX is a private foundation set in 15 hectares of an extensive nature reserve in the heart of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. The complex lies 45 minutes outside Johannesburg.

NOTES ON THE ARTIST:

Auke de Vries is a leading Dutch sculptor who lives and works in The Hague. His iconic, monumental public sculptures are prominent in numerous European cities and he is widely collected, privately and publicly.

The illustration shows his work ‘Gelandet’ astride the Renzo Piano designed Daimler office on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.

‘A Gentle Invasion’ is Auke’s response to his enduring intrigue with South Africa, as a jury member of the annual Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art & Culture and through his residencies at the NIROX Foundation over the past two years.

The work for this exhibition has been produced in his studio in The Hague and shipped with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation and the Netherlands Embassy. The installation follows Auke’s carefully researched and articulate plan for the NIROX landscape and studios, revealing his intense examination of scale and the relationship between sculpture, man and nature – revealing his unique poetic vision and mastery of his materials.

The exhibition comprises 11 large new works and a collection of small sculptures and drawings which reflect the artist’s studio and workshop, providing an intimate insight into his working process and personal visual language.

Auke will be in residence at NIROX intermittently during the show.

Photo composite from our outing to the Sculpture Garden.

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Enrich your Sunday afternoon at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) with the launch of three events: travel with George Mahashe on his photographic journey, Gae Lebowa, that leads him to the wisdom of his ancestry; contemplate the dynamic time-based exhibition Time’s Arrow curated by Anthea Buys and consider the themes of freedom and violence with Berlin based artist Claudia Shneider.

GAE LEBOWA: Opens at 4pm

Gae Lebowa, sees Mahashe traveling north, a direction that symbolises a psychological space, a general direction, a genealogical origin and a point of knowledge. Here he finds old men and woman who are the metaphor for knowledge and wisdom and, with these, Mahasha explores the road that leads to his being.

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TIME’S ARROW: Opens at 5pm

Time’s Arrow is a time-based exhibition project starting on 21 Feb and ending on 18 April. It looks at the relationship between the formation of the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s collection of artworks and how this collection is viewed, read, imagined, forgotten, resented, buried and dug up again years later. One narrative strand of the JAG collection’s history will initiate the show and this will be followed by works by emerging and established artists and researchers that respond specifically or broadly to this initial selection. http://www.timesarrowatjag.blogspot.com/

SHOWMASTER: Opens  at 6pm

SHOWMASTER: Opens  at 6pm a Project Room exhibition by Claudia Shneider shows drawings and paintings engrossed with the general themes of freedom and violence, employing her favourite motives: women, animals and (South) Africa.

Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg. Secure parking is available.

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practice 365 / to be exchanged
interdisciplinary installation / encounter

19 February 2010

TIME: 6pm for 6:30pm

PLACE: The Canopy – Above Narina Trogan restaurant.
81 De Korte St. Braamfontein.
Parking at Arbour Square Parkade. info@narinatrogon.com / 011 339 6645
Map

ACT OF EXCHANGE
7pm – 8:30pm

This enactment will mark the final stage of
practice 365 / to be exchanged.

Preview installation from 4pm

For more info call 082 896 7112 or e-mail pamgrant@icon.co.za

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See a few of the works: Photo gallery

considering documentary
10 February – 2 April 2010
The Photo Workshop Gallery
considering documentary opens 6pm on Wednesday 10 February

The exhibition explores the social, personal and generic dimensions of a selection of contemporary documentary photographs, video and audio works. The works included in this exhibition approach documentary photography in a refreshing and often confrontational manner, while at the same time, photographers demonstrate a curious and considered approach to their subjects. Consisting of works drawn entirely from the Market Photo Workshop’s collection, the photographers included in the exhibition are all students and recent alumni of the institution.

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The Photo Workshop Gallery
2 President Street, Newtown, Johannesburg
www.marketphotoworkshop.co.za

In celebration of The Market Photo Workshop’s 20th anniversary,the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Camera Austria cordially invite you to the opening of:

I am not afraid. The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.

The exhibition opens at the Johannesburg Art Gallery at 4pm, Sunday 7 February 2010, and closes on 25 April 2010.

The exhibltion has been curated by Christine Frisingelli and Walter Seidl to celebrate the publication of No, 100 of the journal Camera Austria, which was dedicated to this exhibition.

There will be a panel discussion prior to the opening, at 2pm on Sunday 7 February 2010. Panalists include Christine Frisinghelli, John Fleetwood, Khwezi Gule, Zanale Muholi and Jo Ractliffe.

Exhibition enquiries Antoinette Murdoch (011) 725-3130, antoinettem@joburg.org.za

I am not afraid. The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.

Borile Barn
Jodi Beiber
Lerato Maduna
Sabelo Mlangeni
Zanele Muholi
Nontsikelelo Veleko
and others

JAG @ King George Street, between Wolmarans and
Noord Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg

Market Photo Workshop: Website
Johannesburg Art Gallery: Facebook group