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  • Ibrahim Mahama during his talk at Design Indaba Conference 2020. Photographer: Jonx Pillemer
    Communal Spirit Ibrahim Mahama during his talk at Design Indaba Conference 2020. Photographer: Jonx Pillemer Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1987 where he currently lives and works. Mahama obtained a MFA in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a BFA in Painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. His work was shown...
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    Ibrahim Mahama: Parliament of Ghosts
  • Owanto, Flowers Vll, (detail) 2020, UV print on aluminum with cold porcelain flower, 182 x 130 x 17cm. All images courtesy of the artist.
    Owanto, Detail of Flowers VI, 2019. UV print on aluminium with cold porcelain flower, 125 x 176 x 17cm. All images courtesy of the artist. Today, few Ohioans know that, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, James Burt – a physician whose name should maybe not be cited, but words, like time, bear witness – performed what he dubbed “surgeries of...
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    Owanto: A Thousand Voices, But Two Thousand Feet
  • How do different metropolises deal with the corona pandemic and the value of arts & culture in these cities? A series organised between DutchCulture and Pakhuis de Zwijger.   The COVID-19 pandemic has an enormous impact worldwide on areas such as employment, health care, social services and the economy, both now and in the coming period. While it is clear that...
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    Infected Cities: a Series of Nine LIVECASTS about the Impact of COVID-19
  • Lamyne M., 04 04 2020 Bolsonaro dédié au morts du COVID-19 Brasil (Bolsonaro to the death of COVID-19 Brazil) All images courtesy of the artist & Axis Gallery.
    “Since the French government’s decision to quarantine the whole country, I’ve decided to make a mask per day in response to the geopolitical impact on 167 countries of contamination with COVID-19, which I title “Corona curius.” Lamyne M., 04 04 2020 Bolsonaro dédié au morts du COVID-19 Brasil (Bolsonaro to the death of COVID-19 Brazil). All images courtesy of the...
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    'Corona Curius': Lamyne M. talks to Gary van Wyk
  • HAU 1 theatre, Berlin, Germany. Photo: Marcus Lieberenz
    COVID-19 urges us to re-establish the legitimation of working abroad and to reformulate ambitions regarding the moral and artistic challenges of globalisation. Writing from my new, somewhat hastily arranged home office in the otherwise so crowded city centre of Amsterdam, I can hear construction workers performing the probably long-postponed renovation activities of the empty hotels and restaurants down the street....
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    Translocality: Artistic Internationalisation After the Corona Crisis
  • Legendary South African photographer George Hallett has passed away at the age of 78. His daughter, Maymoena Hallett, posted on Facebook: My father died peacefully in his sleep today, after a long illness. We will always remember him for his light, his laughter, his boisterous personality, his outrageous jokes and being the life and soul of many a party. Nobody can doubt his...
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    George Hallett will be missed!
  • Portait of Hachalu Hundessa. Ethiopian protest artist Hachalu Hundessa was shot dead in Addis Ababa's Gelan Condominiums area on Monday by unknown assailants. He was 34 and is survived by his wife and 2 daughters. Born in 1986 in Ambo (approximately 100 km from Addis Abba) to an Oromo family, he grew up singing while tending cattle. He was passionate about music...
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    Rest in peace Hachalu Hundessa
  • Batoul S’Himi (b. 1974, Asilah, Morocco), Untitled, from the series World Under Pressure, 2011. Aluminum. Museum purchase, 2014-15-1. All images courtesy of Smithsonian.
    https://vimeo.com/432092276In the context of our MACAAL Friends At Home series, we were pleased to invite Odile Tevie, Director of the Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Adama Sanneh, Co-founder & CEO of the Moleskine Foundation (Milan, Italy) and Moataz Nasr, artist & Founder of Darb 1718 (Cairo, Egypt), to our fifth ZOOM Webinar. Moderated by Janine Dieudji, Exhibitions Director at MACAAL,...
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    Watch! Makers of Meaning: How to build a community?
  • The photographer Dana Scruggs at home. Her self-portrait is part of the collection “Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America.”Credit...Dana Scruggs for The New York Times
    A collection produced by the Culture desk offers a perspective of the country through the way artists are framing themselves. The photographer Dana Scruggs at home. Her self-portrait is part of the collection “Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America.” Dana Scruggs for The New York Times. A quiet moment on a sofa, isolated from the world with...
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    In Self-Portraits, 27 Black Photographers Reflect Themselves and America
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COLLECTOR. magazine

  • Siwa Mgoboza, Bitch, You Betta Werk, 2017.
    Spotlighting Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa as excitement builds for dedicated auction in Paris. Aspire Art Auctions presents a co-curated auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art in collaboration with French auction house Piasa, to take place in Paris on Wednesday, 24 June.The debut of an African based auction house presenting a dedicated sale in Europe marks an industry...
    COLLECTING, COLLECTION, COLLECTOR
    Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris
  • Abstractly Ours: Amel Bennys & Osi Audu While African figuration continues to dominate the headlines of contemporary art on the continent, much remains to be said about the depth of tradition and history of abstraction on the continent. Philosophically nuanced and culturally complex abstraction gives each one of us the agency to interpret and reflect personally and intimately on and...
    COLLECTING, COLLECTION, COLLECTOR
    Masters we need to master
  • The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today Pitika Ntuli with one of his monumental sculptures, Madiba and the Rainbow Children, 2016. Carved out of wood. Photographer: Refilwe Modise “I started as a traditional healer, and that...
    COLLECTING, COLLECTION, COLLECTOR
    Pitika Ntuli
  • Aspire X Piasa excels with unprecedented offering while accessing new global markets The landmark Aspire X Piasa Auction: Modern & Contemporary African Art, took place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. With a curated collection of 198 artworks, the large-scale Africa-focused auction offered collectors a diversity of works (painting, photography sculpture and mixed-media) by artists from...
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    Top Results for Modern and Contemporary African Art
  • Jane Alexander | something's going down, 1993-94 | Synthetic clay, oil paint, wood, aluminium, leather and prints | 135 x 132 x 38,5cm | R 800 000 - 1 000 000
    A new wave of internationally celebrated South African artists, among them Nicholas Hlobo, Athi-Patra Ruga and Simphiwe Ndzube, lead Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated Contemporary Art auction, due to be held in Cape Town on 15 February Nicholas Hlobo | Umphokoqo | Ribbon and rubber on Fabriano paper | 71 x 99cm | R 400 000 – 600 000 | All...
    COLLECTOR
    Strauss & Co’s 2020 Contemporary Art Sale is a bumper offering of pan-African talent
  • JH Pierneef, Baobabs with Soutpansberg in the distance, 1920, R – 9 million
    Ever-increasing global interest in art from Africa is changing the art market. To meet the growing demand, Aspire has partnered with Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction that presents some of the best examples of modern and contemporary art produced on this continent. This collaboration is unprecedented and represents the first time an African and European auction...
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    Aspire & Piasa collaborate for an unprecedented sale of African art
  • Mohamed Melehi, Composition, 1970 Acrylic on panel, 120 x 100 cm Collection MACAAL
    Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School Archives is a celebration of the visual heritage that was wrongly overshadowed for the global art scene A student preparing the exhibition of students' works in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Arab League Park, organised by the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, June 1968. Photo M. Melehi. Archives Chabâa family. All images...
    COLLECTING, COLLECTION, COLLECTOR
    Retrospective of a Modern Moroccan Master
  • Ben Enwonwu's earliest masterpiece soars to £1.1M after thirteen-minute bidding battle – more than seven times above its pre-sale estimate Ben Enwonwu, Christine, 1971. Oil on canvas, 76,3 x 61cm. All images courtesy of the artists & Sotheby's. Sotheby’s fifth sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art, on the 15th of October 2019, surpassed pre-sale expectations to realise £4 million (pre-sale...
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    £4 million: The highest total ever achieved for a sale of modern and contemporary African art
  • Marlene Dumas, The Benefit of the Doubt: Triptych, 2000. Fibre
    The Constitutional Court Trust has been selected as a 2019 Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant recipient that will enable the trust to restore Marlene Dumas's signature 28-metre art work, The Benefit of the Doubt and re-install it in the Court building  by the end of the year Marlene Dumas, The Benefit of the Doubt: Triptych, 2000. Fibre. Courtesy...
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    Constitutional Court Trust to receive Art Conservation Project Grant
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BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

  • FRUIT SALADRETURNING TO CAPE TOWN AFTER A SIX-YEAR ABSENCE, YOUNG PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND CHOREOGRAPHER GAVIN KRASTIN SPOKE TO GENNA GARDINI ABOUT ART, FRUIT AND HOMECOMINGS.top - bottom Gavin Krastin, Lady Exhibiting Satirical Fruit Salad, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance, National Arts Festival; Gavin Krastin, sub-, 2011, performance. Photo: Dianne Jordan; Gavin Krastin, The Pied Piper Pipe Bomber, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance....
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    Gavin Krastin
  • AA BYT BihlebeziSiwani1
    By Anna Stielau Buhlebezwe Siwani, detail from the series 'Inzilo: ngihlahla kwa bafileyo', 2014. Photographer: Raymond du Toit “Someone always cries during my performances,” Buhlebezwe Siwani tells me, adding, “There’s always at least one.” She isn’t bragging – it’s an observation delivered more as a statement of fact than a badge of pride. I ask why she...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    Buhlebezwe Siwani
  • Art South Africa Volume 3: Issue 03Nandi Mntambo; Dineo Seshee Bopape; Stefanus Rademeyer; Langa Magwa; Jacki McInnesHIRSUTE DIVASNandi Mntambo, Idle, 2004, cow hide, fibreglass, resin and steel, 900 x 470 x 590mm.Emerging sculptors who buck the current trend towards installation and cutting-edge new media still need to keep one foot firmly enough in the avant-garde camp to remain on the...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2005
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 03Monique Pelser; Sabelo Mlangeni; Zander BlomIDENTITY SWAPAN ELEMENT OF ROLE-PLAY IS CENTRAL TO ALL PORTRAITURE, ARGUES MONIQUE PELSER, THIS UNPUBLISHED PORTFOLIO OF WORK UNDERSCORING HER POINT. BY SEAN O’TOOLE.On one level, her photographs are easily explained. In the manner of the German photographer August Sander, Monique Pelser, a Rhodes University MFA graduate, sought...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 04 Pierre Fouché; Lawrence Lemoana; Ruth SacksEMOTIONAL EXORCISMPIERRE FOUCHÉ ENGAGES IN PART WITH ISSUES OF SEXUALITY BUT DOES NOT WANT HIS WORK LABELLED FOR ANY SPECIFIC AUDIENCE, WRITES KIM GURNEY.left - right Pierre Fouché, The distance between us I, 2003, acrylic and pen on found cardboard puzzle, 135 x 195cm; Pierre Fouché, The distance between us III,...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    June 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 01 Nelson Makamo; Nyaniso Lindi; Colleen AlboroughVOICES OF THE FAMILYNELSON MAKAMO SPEAKS WITH ROBYN SASSEN ABOUT HOW THE WISDOM OF HIS GRANDFATHER UNDERLIES HIS ART MAKING, WHICH RECENTLY CAUGHT THE EYE OF ITALIAN COLLECTORS.At heart a painter, Nelson Makamo became associated with the Artists’ Proof Studio (APS) in Newtown, Johannesburg, in order to gain a sense...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    September 2007
  • First published in Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 02 Anthea Moys; Simon GushPLAY WITH MEFOR ANTHEA MOYS MAKING ART IS A MEANS TO CAPTURE, DEMONSTRATE AND REMIND ALL WILLING SOULS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO SIMPLY PLAY, WRITES TEGAN BRISTOW. Anthea Moys, 94.7 Cycle Challenge, 2007, still from performance staged in Johannesburg.Earlier this year, on a weekday evening in August, the Bag Factory...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    December 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 03Alhyrian Laue; Dead Revolutionaries Club; Doing it for Daddy; Lerato Shadi  HAUNTED CUPBOARDSALHYRIAN LAUE’S SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS, WHILE INVITING CLOSER INSPECTION, RARELY OFFER CLUES TO THEIR MEANING. BY TIM HOPWOOD.left - right Alhyrian Laue, Hypocaustic Grotto, Latrine Larder, An Evening of Social Tightrope Walking, all 2007, all found objects and mixed media. Photos Tim Hopwood.Alhyrian Laue’s astonishing and deeply...
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    March 2008
  • Art South Africa Volume 7: Issue 01Gabrielle Goliath; Hasan and Husain Essop; Reshma Chhiba; Rowan SmithWHODUNIT? SHE DID!GABRIELLE GOLIATH’S RECENT WORK IS AS MUCH ABOUT THE POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL MEANINGS OF THE BODY AS IT IS ABOUT SELF-LOVE AND SELF-LOATHING, WRITES ANTHEA BUYS.top - bottom Bouquet III, (left panel), (middle panel), (right panel), 2007, archival print, 130 x 26cm.Gabrielle Goliath’s first significant...
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    September 2008
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The best of art and creativity from the continent and the diaspora

ART AFRICA
Follow the link below to @bongani_njalo and his @t Follow the link below to @bongani_njalo and his @tedxpretoria talk here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xEr5KAwC0QI
#AbafanaAbafani by @bongani_njaloPrints availab #AbafanaAbafani by @bongani_njaloPrints available for sale. Contact the artist directly for further information
Challenging the norms of traditional Xhosa masculi Challenging the norms of traditional Xhosa masculinity, @bongani_njalo staged #AbafanaAbafani in defiance of the banning of the globally successful movie #Inxeba in the Eastern Cape where the movie was produced.
#AbafanaAbafani intervention by @bongani_njalo# #AbafanaAbafani intervention by @bongani_njalo#QueerXhosa #queer #queerafrican #queerart #queerartist #xhosa #masculinity #africanart #africanartist #artafricatakeover #art #contemporaryafricanart #intervention #publicart #intersectionality
From his early works @bongani_njalo experimented w From his early works @bongani_njalo experimented with the idea of elevating his #drawing from the flat two-dimensional surface by sewing through the paper (Fabriano) and lifting the works from the wall, allowing them to be free-standing objects that engage with their environments and viewers. His intention was to bend the reality and our understanding and approach to drawing, to reimagine it as lively and expandable in the three-dimensional world. These drawings are his investigation on death as a transcendental shift in consciousness.The works are from the Shapes of my Soul series (2009-2018). Images courtesy of the artist's private and commercial collectors as well as the artist's archive.Kindly contact the artist directly for available artworks via email bongani.njalo13@gmail.com
The Undoing of Soga (2017) Performance 📍Cape T The Undoing of Soga (2017) Performance 📍Cape Town Harbour 📸: @noncedocharmaineCurated by @khanyi007In 2017, @bongani_njalo was invited and commissioned to participate in the #puncturepoints exhibition where he reflected on the influence of his ancestor, Tiyo Soga who was responsible for the translation and effective import of Christianity into South Africa. Through the performative act, the artist symbolically cleanses himself of this heritage in an attempt to revert to African spirituality which has thrived on the continent for centuries - predating colonialism.An interview with the artist about this work can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=785tgokgdDMLimited prints and video available for purchase. Kindly contact the artist directly for more information via DM or email: bongani.njalo13@gmail.com
Daddy's Lap (2012) by @bongani_njalo explores the Daddy's Lap (2012) by @bongani_njalo explores the extremes of comfort and discomfort in the Home. Within the context of "Home//an experiment" an exhibition curated by @u_badu the artist brings focus to the violence perpetuated by male (father) figures in the Home and how the violence cannot be concealed behind the invisible walls as evidence of the violence is carried through trauma and permanent emotional scarring. The work questions the assumption that daddy's lap is a place of comfort and security.#sculpture #installation #queerartist #artafrica #artafricatakeover #contemporaryafricanart #africanart #southafrican #southafricanart
Text by the artist @bongani_njalo :He Does Not S Text by the artist @bongani_njalo :He Does Not See With His Eyes (2018)The restaging of the work at Ponte, speaks of the perpetual regeneration of the building, the neighborhood of Hilbrow and Johannesburg at large. The hollow core of Ponte Towers was for years used as nothing more than a dump site by its residents until the refuse, including used diapers, human limbs and faeces rose to a staggering 14 storeys! Eventually, after many years of battles with the landlords, the core was cleaned over a three year period and even after the excavation of rubbish, the core remained stained with the stench of death and everything undesirable. The performance deals with the notion of death as a transcendental shift in consciousness and echoes the moment of engagement between Moses and God - when God reveals to Moses that I AM WHAT I AM - All that ever has been, all that is around us and all that ever will be. God to Moses we are all nothing more than a part of the greater whole which transcends time and space, that we are pure consciousness incarnate. And although I am not a devoted Christian, this is a poignant moment for me to reflect on in the Bible. A moment from which this work emanates, not only as documentation of consciousness and the self-awareness of the universe but also of ourselves and our creative purpose.📷: @dlalanje @ Ponte City Apartments
He Does Not See With His Eyes (2018) by @bongani_n He Does Not See With His Eyes (2018) by @bongani_njaloPrints available for sale. DM artist for artwork details.
From the 8th until the 14th of August, the multidi From the 8th until the 14th of August, the multidisciplinary artist @bongani_njalo (b. 1987) will be taking over our Instagram page.Over the next few days we will explore the world of this 'Weaver of Time' whose work connects the dots between past, present and future using traditional Xhosa beadmaking. Through drawing, installation and performance, Njalo produces sensory experiences which force the individual or the collective to reimagine their own existence through his eyes as a queer Xhosa man. Njalo addresses issues of African spirituality, colonisation, sexuality and gender expression.Trained in Fine Art at the Nelson Mandela University, he majored in Stained Glass and graduated with a National Diploma in 2011. Njalo is a recipient of the David Koloane Award (2014), he was named one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the @mailandguardian (2016) and went on to become a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2017. He will be pursuing his Master's degree at Birkbeck University of London and has been awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award 2020/21
issue 19: Suspended Reality, read, watch, listen o issue 19: Suspended Reality, read, watch, listen on us! Link in bio>>
https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/the-rebirt https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/the-rebirth-of-iqhawestill available till the 16th of July @oupa_sibeko #artafricaartiststakeover #RitualisticPerformance#ReturntotheWomb #Dance #film #Impromptu #artafrica #challenge #heteronormativity #masculinity #contradiction #Rebirth #Womb

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