Gallery News
Alfredo Jaar on group show at Cample Line in Scotland
Alfredo Jaar’s film An Introduction to a Distant World features on There’s Talk of Gold film programme at Cample Line in Scotland (17 – 19 August). Shot in Serra Pelada, a remote hand-dug opencast mine in Brazil, the 10-minute film gives a brief but powerful insight into the hazardous conditions of the mine and the arduous labour undertaken by the 80,000 prospectors who left their homes and families to look for gold.
Candice Breitz’s 'Profile' acquired and exhibited by New York’s Jewish Museum
The prestigious Jewish Museum in New York has acquired Profile, a film installation by Candice Breitz first shown at the 57th Venice Biennale. Profile features ten prominent artists who introduce themselves as Breitz, blurring personal and shared biographical details to create a composite self-portrait that problematises the idea of a single person representing a diverse nation. The film is being screened as part of the museum’s ongoing exhibition, Scenes from the Collection, which brings together work that affirms ‘universal values that are shared among people of all faiths and backgrounds’.
Kudzanai Chiurai on 'Now and Then' exhibition series at Zeitz MOCAA
Work by Kudzanai Chiurai and the seventeenth century Italian painter Guercino are currently exhibited side-by-side at Zeitz MOCAA as part of the ongoing exhibition series, titled Now and Then (until 24 September). The series brings artists from different time periods into dialogue with one another, exploring how the past resonates with the present through contrasting mediums, forms and processes. By creating this contrast, viewers are urged to consider the unseen, overlooked and silenced histories that shadow each of their respective contexts.
Misheck Masamvu’s 'Taxi' included on the Braunsfelder Family Collection's latest group show in Cologne
Misheck Masamvu is currently on a group exhibition hosted by the Braunsfelder Family Collection in Cologne, Germany, which features work by a group of contemporary artists originating from Europe and Africa (until 26 August). Titled Jeepers Creepers, the exhibition brings together artists who interrogate their environment, questioning whether this can result in the creation of a constructive dialogue?
Yinka Shonibare, Kudzanai Chiurai and Sam Nhlengethwa on group exhibition in Michigan, USA
The University of Michigan Museum of Art’s exhibition Beyond Borders: Global Africa reflects on the globalised world by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the centre of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries (11 August – 25 November). Bringing together works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and its diaspora. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by artists including Kudzanai Chiurai, Yinka Shonibare, MBE and Sam Nhlengethwa.
Neliswe Xaba & Mocke J van Veuren Award-Winning Uncle & Angels at UJ
After travelling to over twenty cities across the world, Nelisiwe Xaba & Mocke J van Veuren’s Uncles & Angels will return to Johannesburg for a run at the UJ Art Centre Theatre (23 – 25 August). Winner of the FNB Art Prize in 2013, the interactive dance and video collaboration explores questions of chastity, virginity testing, purity and tradition. Altogether, the performance presents a compelling examination of the manipulation of cultural heritage, questioning how we look toward tradition for solutions to contemporary problems.
Tabita Rezaire on group show at Kunsthalle Mainz in Germany
Tabita Rezaire has been included on Virtual Insanity (3 August – 18 November), a major international group exhibition held at Kunsthalle Mainz in Germany, which examines the extension of reality and its shadowy underbelly. The artists included on Virtual Insanity address this subject by creating documents, writing reports and narratives, and developing scenarios. What unites the work on the exhibition is the unique approach each artist takes to the technical innovations and lifestyles brought about by the digital revolution.
mounir fatmi on group show in Texas and Japan’s Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale
The Ellen Noel Art Museum in Texas will play host to the travelling group show Cut Up/Cut Out, which includes work by mounir fatmi (19 July – 14 October). The exhibition includes an international roster of artists who incorporate decorative piercing and cutting into their work through various media such as paper, plastic, rubber and in fatmi’s case, metal. Concurrently in Japan, fatmi will be one of fifty artists selected to create site-specific artwork for the 7th Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale (29 July – 17 September).
Congratulations to Carla Busuttil on being shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
Carla Busuttil is one of 60 artists to be nominated from 2,700 applicants for the 2018 John Moores Painting Prize – one of the highest accolades awarded to painters in the United Kingdom. As part of being nominated, Busuttil’s work, Trophy of a Dull Man, will be shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (14 July – 18 November) as part of the Liverpool Biennial.
Solo Exhibition for Hank Willis Thomas at the Delaware Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas’ Black Survival Guide: or How to Live Through a Police Riot is a series of 13 large-scale retroreflective screen prints commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum for a solo exhibition titled after the work (14 July – 30 September). For the series, Thomas collaged material drawn from the Delaware Historical Society with photographs taken of the 1868 National Guard occupation of Wilmington. The reflective surface of the prints make parts of the work only visible through the use of a torch – a conceptual conceit that refers to the searching required to uncover the unknown stories of our collective past.
Tabita Rezaire included on a curatorial project in Berlin
Rezaire participates in a new curatorial project, titled LUCKY and hosted by the Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, which invites queer cultural agents to unveil power structures shrouded in myth and illusion of luck (7 July – 2 September). As such, the curatorial project’s exhibition, and its accompanying performance event series, reacts to luck as a cultural myth that normalises privilege. Masked as luck, white supremacy and patriarchy weave narratives that dull movements of resistance and perpetuate the status quo.
Haroon Gunn-Salie on Frieze Sculpture 2018
Haroon Gunn-Salie’s sculptural memorial Senzenina has been selected for Frieze Sculpture, which opens in London’s Regent’s Park (5 July – 8 October). The work depicts 17 life-sized, hunched figures, modelled after the striking mine workers slain at Marikana in one of the most lethal uses of force by South African security forces against civilians since the 1960s. The work debuted earlier this year at the New Museum Triennial in New York. In an interview with the Cape Times, Gunn-Salie said that taking Senzenina to London is a crucial step given that the city is home to the head offices of Lonmin, the Marikana platinum mine operators. “This is an opportunity to take the unresolved issues to their doorstep,” said Gunn-Salie, “and it’s the next step of mobilisation, I believe.”
Candice Breitz and Hank Willis Thomas on major exhibition celebrating ‘the king of pop’ in London
Work by Breitz and Thomas feature on the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Michael Jackson: On the Wall, commemorating the contribution of Michael Jackson to popular and contemporary visual culture (28 June – 21 October). Taking an interesting angle on celebrating the life of Jackson, the exhibition explores how the singer inspired some of the leading names in contemporary art. Curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, this major new exhibition spans several generations of artists who each work across a diverse range of media. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to multiple art institutions including The Grand Palais and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, but opens at the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with what would have been Jackson’s 60th birthday.
Hank Willis Thomas on major group show at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Work by Thomas features on a major group exhibition, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, hosted by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo – organised in association with Instituto Tomie Ohtake – in Brazil (28 June – 21 October). The exhibition gathers a wide array of artworks and documents related to the ‘flows and re-flows’ between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. In showcasing a wide assortment of media, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas weaves and juxtaposes images from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries in order to present a variety of topics including portraiture, religious symbolism, activism and academic engagement from these four regions of the globe.
mounir fatmi holds a solo exhibition at CDAN, Spain
For his solo exhibition The Day of Awakening at CDAN in Spain, mounir fatmi explores the relationship between landscape, history and colonialism (28 June – 7 October). The exhibition presents twenty works made by fatmi between 2002 – 2016, which examine the foundations of history and social nature through drawing, photography, sculpture and video.
mounir fatmi, Hank Willis Thomas and Sue Williamson on BOZAR’s Summer of Photography 2018 exhibition
Works by mounir fatmi, Hank Willis Thomas and Sue Williamson form part of the BOZAR’s annual Summer of Photography exhibition in Brussels, Belgium (27 June – 26 August). Titled Resist: the 1960s Protests, Photography and Visual Legacy, and curated by Christine Eyene, this year’s exhibition explores the relationships between various resistance movements around the world, and the contributions and impacts that photography made on them.
Tabita Rezaire at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
Tabita Rezaire’s work features on a new group exhibition, I Was Raised on the Internet, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (23 June – 14 October). Curated by Omar Kholief, the exhibition explores how the internet has changed the way we experience the world, as well as the relationship between art and the internet today. Divided into five different sections, the exhibition documents a specific moment in time – beginning with 1998 and extending to the present – and focuses on the shifts that have occurred since the millennium. The nearly 100 works in the exhibition span photography, painting, sculpture, film, and video, as well as emerging technologies and interactive elements, which include interactive computer works and virtual reality.
Kendell Geers and Sue Williamson on new group exhibition at MAXXI in Rome
Geers’ T. W. Batons (Circle) and Sue Williamson’s It’s a pleasure to meet you…, feature on MAXXI’s latest group exhibition, Road to Justice (22 June – 14 October). Forming part of the museum’s major group show titled African Métropolis, an exhibition showcasing African art from its permanent collection and organised around the concept of the city, Road to Justice serves as an experimental curatorial project which looks at the social and political oppression and exploitation that has occurred and still takes place on the continent today. In presenting works by contemporary artists who attempt to recount these traumas and hardships, the exhibition asks whether or not reconciliation and healing is even possible.
Samson Kambalu and Kiluanji Kia Henda on group exhibition at MAXXI Museum
African Metropolis is a major exhibition at MAXXI Museum that reflects on the ongoing social and cultural transformations impacting art on the African continent (22 June – 4 November). Curated by Simon Njami and Elana Motisi, the exhibition features 34 celebrated and emerging African artists, including Samson Kambalu and Kiluanji Kia Henda. As its title suggests, African Metropolis brings together work focused on urban space as a location for diverse experiences that create dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity.
mounir fatmi’s first solo exhibition in Sweden
The Göteborgs Konsthall presents mounir fatmi’s first solo show in Sweden, titled 180° Behind Me (8 June – 16 September). Dealing with the multifaceted character of the written word, the works included on the exhibition expose the layers of interpretation and re-interpretation that make up our histories. Several of the works in the exhibition integrate Arabic calligraphy, both as language and patterns; looking at the beauty of words, and their power to both bring together and shatter, is consistently present in fatmi’s practice.
Two solo exhibitions and a grant from US-French Embassy for Kapwani Kiwanga
Two solo exhibitions of work by Kapwani Kiwanga are currently on at the Musée d’art de Joliette, in Quebec and at Jerome Poggi Gallery, in Paris. The former show, titled Sunlight by Fireside, features a series of new work by Kiwanga and runs at the prestigious Canadian cultural institution for two months (9 June – 9 September). Surface Tension, at Jerome Poggi (until 28 July), is Kiwanga’s fifth exhibition with the gallery and presents work that follow on from the artists research developed during her residency at Art Pace in San Antonio, Texas. Kiwanga was also recently awarded a grant from Étant donnés Contemporary Art, a French-American fund that supports cross-continental collaborations between visual artists, curators and institutions. As one of the 15 grantees selected this year, Kiwanga will use her funds to realize a solo show at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
First French solo exhibition for Ghada Amer since 2000
The Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré – in Tours, France – hosts a solo exhibition for Ghada Amer, titled Dark Continent (2 June – 4 November); Amer’s first solo museum exhibition in France since 2000 and features a selection of paintings, sculptural works and two outdoor garden installations in its presentation. The title of the exhibition, curated by Elodie Stroecken, is a reference to The Question of Lay Analysis by Sigmund Freud, a text in which he wrote that ‘[t]he sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology’.
Alfredo Jaar on group exhibition at the MAK in Vienna
Jaar’s 2004 Red Vienna is mounted on a group exhibition, Post Otto Wagner: From the Postal Savings Bank to Post-Modernism, currently on view at the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art – in Vienna (30 May – 30 September). To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Otto Wagner (1841–1918), the exhibition investigates Wagner’s role as the “Father of Modernism”. In showcasing a variety of works in different mediums, Post Otto Wagner points out not only the context and the interaction between Wagner and other protagonists of early Modernism, but also the influence his epochal work had on his contemporaries, students, and following generations of architects and designers.
Kentridge’s ‘More Sweetly Play the Dance’ on exhibition in Miami
William Kentridge’s eight-channel video installation, titled More Sweetly Play the Dance is on exhibition at the Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design in Florida (19 May – 30 September). Hosted in Freedom Tower, the exhibition – William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance – showcases one of the artist’s most immersive and performative video artworks to date. Serving as an update of the danse macabre, Kentridge’s artwork and parade of death includes a brass band in the lead; followed by people carrying possessions or shrouded bodies, priests, patients dragging their IV drips, skeletons, and a live ballerina who wears a military uniform and carries a rifle. In combining elements of medieval allegory with evocations of recent sights such as Syrian refugees and bodies felled by Ebola, Kentridge presents a never-ending carnivalesque reminder of people’s own mortality that is by turns morbid, chilling, comic, and political. However, in the artist’s hands, the triumph of death ultimately becomes a celebration of resilience and life.
Shirin Neshat and Yinka Shonibare MBE at MAXXI in Rome
Neshat’s Illusions and Mirrors video work, from the Dreamers trilogy, and The Invisible Man by Shonibare MBE are featured as part of MAXXI’s group exhibition, Eco e Narciso. Portrait and self-portrait from the MAXXI and Le Gallerie Barberini Corsini Collections (18 May – 28 October). With 37 works by 25 artists from the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini and MAXXI collections, the exhibition creates a dialogue between the work of old Masters and contemporary artists on the theme of the portrait and the self-portrait.
Shirin Neshat on major group exhibition at LACMA
Shirin Neshat participates on a group exhibition, In The Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (6 May – 9 September). The exhibition focuses on the continuous and inescapable presence of the past in Iranian society, a notion that reveals itself in art and literature in which long-ago kings and heroes are used in later context as paradigms of virtue or as objects of derision.
William Kentridge and Liza Lou on the Norval Foundation’s inaugural exhibition
Kentridge’s (produced in collaboration with Margueritte Stephens) City of Moscow and Lou’s Axis Defeat both feature on the Norval Foundation’s inaugural exhibition, titled Pulling at Threads, in Cape Town (28 April – 20 August). Curated by Owen Martin, the exhibition considers the role of craft in the practices of contemporary artists from South Africa and beyond. Bringing together artists that use techniques such as weaving, sewing, beading and collage, the artworks included in this exhibition challenge traditional art historical hierarchies that prefer painting and sculpture over craft-based media. In so doing, Pulling at Threads highlights the various social, political and religious meanings of the materials and techniques that these artists use.
mounir fatmi on group exhibition in Poland
mounir fatmi participates in a group exhibition, titled Motherland in Art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland (27 April – 30 September). According to the exhibition’s curatorial statement, ‘Contemporary artists have long adopted the model of a global motherland. They communicate in the global language of images and move between living in different countries with ease, in each finding fodder for their imagination… Their works become all the richer for acquiring the added flavour of the new “motherlands”’. In asking the participating artists what the ‘motherland’ might mean to them, the exhibition raises pertinent concerns about the possibilities and troubles associated with the dream of a universal nation state.
First museum show in the UK for Lisa Brice
Lisa Brice has her first solo institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom with Art Now: Lisa Brice at Tate Britain in London (26 April – 27 August). In this presentation Brice expands her recent use of a near single colour palette to include dynamic reds and deep greens to create large-scale paintings which address the art-historical tradition of the female nude. Shown alongside sketches, drawings and studies, her paintings reference art history with nods to works by historical painters such as Degas, Manet, Picasso and Vallooton. As Tate’s press release states, ‘Brice reverses the traditional portrayal of passive female figures by male artists for male viewers and returns the power to the women involved’.
William Kentridge and Hank Willis Thomas on group exhibition looking at tapestries
Works by William Kentridge (in collaboration with Margueritte Stephens) and Hank Willis Thomas are included on the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s current group exhibition, titled Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries (24 April – 21 October). In looking at how artists today have increasingly incorporated tapestry into their respective oeuvres, no matter the medium for which they are known, the exhibition charts the history of the tapestry as a work of art. From Reubens to Picasso, the tapestry has played a significant and important role in the development of fine art. The exhibition’s title is borrowed from from an essay about tapestry by the modernist architect Le Corbusier.
William Kentridge and Gerald Machona on exhibition celebrating the Friends of the Iziko South African National Gallery
To celebrate a fifty-year relationship and partnership with the Friends of the Iziko South African National Gallery, the Iziko Museums of South Africa hosts a group exhibition titled Friends50, which features works by William Kentridge and Gerald Machona, to mark the occasion (15 April – 4 November). The Friends of Iziko SA National Gallery, a not-for-profit membership-based organisation, has supported the institution in its role as South Africa’s premier public national art museum, through full or partial funding of acquisitions, as well as a variety of educational and conservation initiatives since 1968.
Hank Willis Thomas’ work features on exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami
Thomas’ Hand of God is currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum’s group exhibition, The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art (13 April – 2 September). This exhibition responds to the multilayered aspects of soccer, also known as football, by depicting the role of the game in society and engaging with the idea of a common humanity built around the sport. The show brings together works by more than 40 artists who share in diverse and intersecting dialogues formed around the sport. Featuring a variety of mediums – including painting, sculpture, photography, and video – the exhibition aims to create an experience in which the viewer employs the universal game to engage with the works of contemporary artists from around the world.
Kiluanji Kia Henda on major group exhibition about environmental transformation at MAAT
Work by Kia Henda is included on MAAT’s latest group exhibition, Eco-Visionaries, in Lisbon (11 April – 8 October). Forming part of the institution’s ongoing project, ‘Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene’, the exhibition is centred on current practices that propose critical and creative visions on the environment and its transformation. With contributions from over 35 artists and architects, the show in Lisbon is the first of four exhibitions; all of which will appear simultaneously in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden.
Ghada Amer features on a group exhibition at the Speed Art Museum
Ghada Amer is one of seventeen artists, including Barbara Kruger and Kehinde Wiley, included on the Speed Art Museum’s latest group exhibition, titled Breaking the Mold, in Kentucky (7 April – 9 September). Drawing chiefly from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores depictions of gender identity through the body, dress, objects, and history. In so doing, Breaking the Mold addresses gender and sexuality through a multitude of perspectives; questioning how we define ‘ideal’ body types, gendered societal roles, how gender intersects with race and the perceived differences between male and female.
mounir fatmi on exhibition about Arab music in Paris
Work by mounir fatmi is included on the Cité de la Musique’s first-ever exhibition, titled Al Musica, dedicated to Arabic music (6 April – 19 August). Oragnised by the Philharmonie de Paris,the exhibition celebrates the richness of Arabic heritage and the creativity of contemporary artists, all of whom are from one of the 22 countries which make up the Arab world. The exhibition features material from musical instruments to music album covers, paintings and calligraphy, as well as photographs, travel diaries, comics and rare sound archives. In exhibiting the diverse range of works together, the exhibition offers an unique visual and sound journey to its viewers.
Various Goodman Gallery artists on exhibition about fashion in San Francisco
Five Goodman Gallery artists – Kudzanai Chiurai, Hasan and Husain Essop, Gabrielle Goliath, Haroon Gunn-Salie and Gerald Machona – exhibit work on the travelling exhibition, After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion, Politics, and Culture in Contemporary South African Art, at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (28 March – 26 August). The exhibition features 14 artists who are using fashion, textile, and clothing to comment on social and political landscapes since 1994, to consider a feeling of lacking social change within the country, and to imagine new alternatives for South Africa’s future.
Kudzanai Chiurai and Yinka Shonibare MBE are included on 21c Museum Hotel’s latest group exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky
Kudzanai Chiurai and Yinka Shonibare MBE feature on 21c Museum Hotel’s new group exhibition, Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, in Louisville (1 April – 31 March). The exhibition explores the role that costume plays in constructing one’s identity and confronting history. With over 35 participating artists from 22 countries, Dress Up, Speak Up offers a global investigation into such concepts, whilst reconfiguring, reimagining, and reconstituting history in order to examine the legacy and effects of European colonialism.
Alfredo Jaar at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum
Jaar’s (Kindness) of (Strangers) forms part of the group exhibition, Hello World. Revisioning a collection., hosted by the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (23 March – 19 August). The exhibition, conceptualised by Udo Kittelmann with guest curatorial input from various art professionals, serves as a critical inquiry into the collection of the Nationalgalerie and its predominantly Western focus. As such, Hello World. Revisioning a collection. asks the question, ‘[w]hat could the collection look like today, had an understanding characterised its concept of art, and consequently also its genesis, that was more open to the world?’ As a result, the exhibition places the focus on transnational artistic networks and cross-cultural entanglements from the late nineteenth century to the present. This provides points of departure wherein viewers are invited into an exploration of hidden stories and new perspectives on the collection and its history.
Alfredo Jaar on group exhibition at the Museo Jumex
Alfredo Jaar’s 1981 work, Studies on Happiness, Public interventions, forms part of the Museo Jumex’s group exhibition – Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960-1985 – currently on view in Mexico (22 March – 9 September). The exhibition examines a major paradigm shift in Latin American culture and visual arts produced during the early 1960s and the mid-1980s; a period characterised by the articulation of a counter-narrative to the dominant rhetoric of developmentalism and the emergence of decolonial thought in the artistic practices produced in the region.
Solo museum show for William Kentridge in Frankfurt
Frankfurt’s The Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung presents a comprehensive and unusual exhibition, titled William Kentridge. O Sentimental Machine, of Kentridge’s artworks (22 March – 26 August). The curatorial premise for the exhibition centres around the artist’s work being in conversation with the institution’s sculptural collection which includes artefacts and works spanning 5000 years. The exhibition comprises more than thirty, partly space-filling installations exemplifying the range of Kentridge’s approach. Curated by Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Brinkmann and Kristin Schrader, the exhibition presents the artist’s work on a stage that combines with the artist’s conceptual, narrative and aesthetic intentions in a close and fertile way.
Kentridge’s ‘The Refusal of Time’ travels to Denmark
The Refusal of Time by William Kentridge is currently on view at the KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg in Denmark (21 March – 19 August). The exhibition invites viewers to consider and grapple with issues like ‘how does we make the world they live in’ and ‘how do they remember the story?’. Through the installation’s immersive black and white stop-motion ‘world’, the gallery space becomes packed with a mixture of nostalgic memories, dreams and future visions that ‘go hand-in-hand’ with a sense of historical deja-vu and a flattering insurgency.
Major solo exhibition for Shirin Neshat in Copenhagen
The Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen presents Shirin Neshat: I Looking for Oum Kulthum, a solo exhibition for Shirin Neshat, which delves deeply into the process of creating an artistic feature-length film (20 March – 7 September). As a ‘film within a film’, Neshat’s Looking for Oum Kulthum renders the journey of an Iranian woman, who is making a film about the most famous singer of the Arab world; the Egyptian singer, Oum Kulthum, often referred to as ‘the Queen of the Arabs’, owing to her ability of culturally uniting a diverse group of nations.
Tracey Rose on a group show in San Antonio, Texas
Work by Tracey Rose is featured on the Linda Pace Foundation’s group exhibition, Reclaimed, showcasing 25 monochromatic works by some of the most influential contemporary female artists working today (9 March – 26 January). As its title implies, the exhibition addresses the concept of ownership – both literally and figuratively – and the notion of “reclaiming” what belongs to a person and their communities, from their lands and governments to their physical bodies and basic human rights. Drawn from the Foundation’s collection, the exhibition serves as a departure from the institution’s typical spotlight on experimental and new media works, and provides insight into the depth and variedness of its permanent collection.
Candice Breitz’s ‘Love Story’ travels to various museums around the world
Breitz’s seven-channel video installation Love Story continues its travels around the globe. Having moved from Venice to Melbourne, and on to South Africa, the video now features at the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (8 March – 9 September), as well as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (31 March – 25 June) and Norway’s Stavanger Art Museum (6 April – 27 May).
Colorful Shonibare “Wind Sculpture” blows its way into Central Park
As a specially commissioned project funded by the Public Art Fund in New York, Yinka Shonibare MBE presents his first outdoor sculpture in New York City . Titled Wind Sculpture (SG) I, the sculpture is on exhibition in Central Park at Doris C. Freedman Plaza (7 March – 14 October). Continuing in a similar vein to the Wind Sculpture series initiated in 2013, this particular sculpture begins a second generation within the body of work, with a much larger and more complex structure and rippled surface, painted in turquoise, red, and orange.
Sue Williamson work included in the Birmingham Museum of Art’s permanent exhibition of contemporary art
Sue Williamson’s Mementoes of District Six forms part of the latest installment of the Birmingham Museum of Art’s permanent exhibition, Third Space /shifting conversations about contemporary art, the museum’s first large exhibition of contemporary art from its own collection (until 6 January). Mementoes of District Six is an immersive installation that humanises the destruction of an entire area in South Africa during Apartheid. Within the context of the exhibition, the work highlights similarities between post-apartheid conditions and the result of segregation in the American South.
Kambalu, Shonibare and Thomas exhibit at the Taub Museum of Art in Virginia
Works by Samson Kambalu, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Hank Willis Thomas are included on a major group exhibition, titled Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, at the Taubman Museum of Art (3 March – 2 September). Featuring over 100 artworks created from various media, the exhibition seeks to investigates the universal conversation surrounding migration, history, race and representation in art being made today. The artworks illustrate how artists use their art to reference their own home countries whilst developing narratives that embrace global histories.
Breitz’s ‘Profile’ on exhibition in Finland
Having recently been acquired by the Saastamoinen Foundation, Candice Breitz’s Profile is included on an exhibition of the Foundation’s collection, titled Touch / Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland (13 February – 16 September 2018). The exhibition is made up of three different sections – Human, space and encounters; Human, identity and body; and Human and power respectively – with the overarching theme of humanity at its core. As a permanent exhibition at the institution, the works on show will change periodically to feature new acquisitions in the collection.
Oltmann, Nhlengethwa and Thomas feature on a group exhibition at 21c Museum Hotels
Work by Walter Oltmann, Sam Nhlengethwa (in collaboration with Marguerite Stephens) and Hank Willis Thomas feature on the 21c Museum Hotel’s group exhibition, SEEING NOW, in Nashville, USA (1 February – 31 December). The exhibition, curated by Alice Gray Stites, aims to explore and reveal the visible and hidden forces shaping what the contemporary world looks like.