Broomberg & Chanarin at Tate Modern

The work of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin has been included in the exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography showing at the Tate Modern in London until 15 March 2015. As featured artists on the exhibition, on 26 January Broomberg and Chanarin will present a unique performance throughout the galleries of Conflict, Time, Photography in collaboration with the youth organisation, the Army Cadet Force. Using Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s unfinished opera War Primer as raw material, the performance responds to specific photographic works in this landmark exhibition through procession, poetry and military drumming. Titled War Primer 2, the one off event will include the participation of 18 army cadets aged between 14 and 17. Commencing at 6.30pm.

All the World's a Stage: Works from the Goetz Collection

Banco Santander Foundation will present in its Santander Art Gallery from February 21, 2015 a performance of works by the most important collection of contemporary art in Germany, the Sammlung Goetz. The theme that serves as leitmotiv to the selection of works by Commissioner Karsten Lockemann is theater. Thus the title of the exhibition All the World’s a Stage. Works from the Goetz Collection, has been borrowed from a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It” (As You Like It). The show is scheduled to showcase some of the most representative works of the German collection. A selection of 93 works by 27 artists, referring to the subject of theater and scenarios including all types of artistic media will be presented. Some of the artists that will be part of the exhibition are Matthew Barney, Janet Cardiff, Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset Jeff Wall, Ulrike Ottinger, Candice Breiz, Hans-Peter Feldman, Candida Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hans Op de Beek, Michael Kunze, Mike Kelley, Jonathan Meese and Laurie Simmons, among others.

Goodman Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach

The Goodman Gallery attends Art Basel Mail Beach from the 4th to 7th of December at the Miami Convention centre, exhibiting the works by Willem Boshoff, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mounir Fatmi, Kendell Geers, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Liza Lou, Mikhael Subotzky, Hank Willis Thomas and Jeremy Wafer. This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Public sector features work by Goodman Gallery artists Jaar and Thomas while young artists Haroon Gunn-Salie and Gerald Machona both have work on the film sector. Tracey Rose will present a continuous performance piece in the Positions sector where she will be represented by Dan Gunn.

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse are shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse are shortlisted for their publication Ponte City (Steidl, 2014) for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015. The publication comprises 17 booklets containing essays and personal stories that complete a narrative of the well-known Johannesburg landmark. The annual award of £30,000 rewards living photographers, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhibition or publication format, which is felt to have significantly contributed to photography in Europe between October 2013 and September 2014.

Carla Busuttil in London

The paintings of Carla Busuttil will be exhibited in the group show Figuratively Speaking at Heike Moras Art in London from 15 January to 11 February 2015. The exhibition is made up of artworks by a group of largely London-based artists who use the human body as their inspiration and playing field. Employing a more gestural or expressionistic style, the artists depict the human form using diverse approaches that question embodiment in our current post-Internet age. Busuttil will be one of the artists in conversation with Sacha Craddock on 29 January 2015.

Subotzky & Waterhouse in Scotland

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse’s photographic exploration of the changing fortunes of Ponte City, the tallest residential building in Africa, is exhibited at the Photography Gallery at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, from 6 December 2014 to 26 April 2015. The only scheduled showing of the Ponte City collection in the United Kingdom, the exhibition is accompanied by the Steidl publication Ponte City which was nominated for a Paris-Photo Aperture Foundation Photo book Award 2014.

Subotzky and Waterhouse nominated for Ponte City

Mikhale Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse’s photographic book Ponte City (Steidl) has been nominated for a Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook award for 2014. The shortlist for the award was announced by Todd Hido at the New York Art Book Fair on 26 September. Initiated in November 2011 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with two major categories: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year. For this, their fourth edition, the Awards introduced a new third category: Photography Catalogue of the Year. Subotzky was nominated in 2011 for his book Retinal Shift (Steidl).

Tracey Rose and race theory in Mexico City

Work by Tracey Rose is included in the exhibition Theory of Colour, curated by Cuauhtemoc Medina at the Museum of the National University of Mexico until 7 February 2015. According to the curator’s statement the exhibition showcases contemporary art produced over the past decade that deals with racism from a diversity of approaches: “nationalism, scientism, homogenisation, exoticisation, colonisation, exploitation and sexualisation”. Her work will also be included in the group exhibition Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of African Women Artists, curated by Koyo Kouoh at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, in Brussels, from 18 February 2015 until May 2015.

William Kentridge / Fortuna / opening Medellin 30 July 2014

William Kentridge’s first large-scale solo exhibition in South America, Fortuna, has been travelling since October 2012. This extensive retrospective – conceived in close collaboration with the artist and designed especially for this tour – highlights Kentridge’s unique artistic process rather than focussing on a particular theme. The exhibition features six to seven rooms or sections comprising works ranging from 1989 to 2012. The retrospective has travelled to Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) in Rio de Janeiro, Fundaçao Ibere Camargo (FIC), Porto Alegre, Pinacoteca Do Estado De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica, Bogota. It will run at Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin from 30 July to 03 November 2014.

Hank Willis Thomas / Africans in America

Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce Africans in America, a three-part project curated by Hank Willis Thomas. The focus of the project is on artists who are African immigrants or first generation Americans of African parents living in the United States. Africans in America will launch in 2015 and alternate between Goodman Gallery spaces in Johannesburg and Cape Town leading up to the Gallery’s 50th anniversary in 2016. Thomas is a photo-conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He has a longstanding interest in the strains and connections between Africa, America and related notions of diaspora and home.

Ponte City | Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse

Rising 54 storeys high, Ponte City is the tallest residential building in Africa. Since 1975 this iconic structure has punctuated the Johannesburg skyline, originally offering cosmopolitan living for white South Africa. In the post-apartheid years the building became more integrated, with many people relocating from townships and recently it has become home for immigrants from other African countries. In 2007 developers planned a major refurbishment of the tower block; although the renovation began it was never completed—leaving the structure in a semi-destructed state, while tenants, those who had not yet been evicted or were simply squatting, still occupied flats in the block.

It was during this time period that the tower became the subject of a creative collaboration between South African photographer, Mikhael Subotzky and British artist, Patrick Waterhouse. They interviewed the remaining tenants and recorded the half-occupied building through a series of photographs and a collection of documents and other debris from the abandoned units. They began working at the monolithic block in 2007 and over the next five years they returned repeatedly to document the building: photographing every door in the multi-level structure and the view from every window; archiving the lives of the residents, from capturing what they were watching on TV to gathering discarded belongings. Cumulatively the work provides a cross-section of an iconic South African landmark that continues to symbolize the hopes and fears of the country’s most populous city, and in turn, this post-apartheid nation.

These images of Ponte City are featured in an exhibition that will open at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on 6 December 2014 and will be the only UK showing. The exhibition is accompanied by the Steidl publication, Ponte City, which is nominated for a Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Award 2014.

Mikhael Subotzky (b.1981) graduated with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He is an associate of Magnum Photographs and his work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the South African National Gallery, Cape Town and Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Patrick Waterhouse (b. 1981) graduated with a BA from the Camberwell College of Art in 2003. He works in different media including drawings, prints, photographs, and artist’s books. He has published a fully illustrated version of Dante’s Inferno.

The exhibition is organized by Le Bal, Paris and Foto Museum, Antwerp.

William Kentridge at Marian Goodman New York

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, is showing an exhibition of recent work by South African artist William Kentridge until 26 November 2014.

The exhibition presents a selection of recent work by Kentridge and is organised to run concurrently with the U.S. premiere of Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by William Kentridge and Philip Miller at Carnegie Hall. Two new films from Paper Music — Emergency and Trio for 4 Hands — will be projected in the viewing room at the gallery. There are also drawings from the films: on the north wall there are drawings made from India ink and red pencil on paper sourced from old dictionaries, whilst on the east wall hangs a series of long narrow strips of Japanese rice paper, pinned alongside each other with calligraphic type ink markings on them.

William Kentridge was born in 1955 and studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. His work has featured at prestigious institutions such as: Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Louvre, Paris; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Goldblatt in Minneapolis

Until February 10 2015 the Perlman Gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents a selection of photographs from 1973 to 2014 by David Goldblatt. Titled New Pictures 10: David Goldblatt, Structures of Dominion and Democracy,” the photographs explore, “the quiet and commonplace, where nothing ‘happens’, and yet all is contained and immanent,” according to Goldblatt. The exhibition is loosely divided among Goldblatt’s photography before and after 1991. “The photographs exhibited,” writes Goldblatt of his exhibition at the MIA, “are from these two separate yet intimately connected bodies of work.” Goldblatt will make his first appearance in Minnesota on October 2 to discuss his exhibition.

Various artists at the Walther Collection in Ulm

Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive brings into dialogue various documents from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century and recent photographic and video work by contemporary artists engaged with photographic archives, to offer new perspectives on the legacy of anthropological and ethnographic visions of Africa. The exhibition, curated by Tamar Garb, is on view at the Walther Collection in Ulm, Germany until 2015, and features work by Candice Breitz, Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, and Sue Williamson. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Steidl.

War Primer 2 by Broomberg & Chanarin

Using Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s unfinished opera War Primer as raw material, artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin choreograph a performance of 18 Cadets, responding to specific photographic works in the Tate Modern exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography.
Broomberg and Chanarin received the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2013 for their publication also entitled War Primer 2.

Candice Breitz at Harvard and Peabody

Candice Breitz exhibits her work in a solo exhibition at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, from 11 October to 1 March 2015. Her video installation The Woods explores how we create, define and perform identities in a world of mass media saturation by portraying the cinematic culture of three centres of global filmmaking – Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood. Group shows that include works by Breitz take place in October at Stockholm’s Färgfabriken (exhibition titled UrSenses) and at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (exhibition titled She). Breitz will be giving a talk on 6 October at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.