- 03/07/09 Kenya Inside Afrika
- 02/07/09 Zimbabwe Mercy Moyo Curriculum Vitae
- 02/07/09 Zimbabwe Mercy Moyo Portfolio Page
- 02/07/09 Zimbabwe Mercy Moyo Press Support
- 02/07/09 Zimbabwe Mercy Moyo Main Introduction
- 02/07/09 HOME page Alot Of Whys & Alot Of Whats: Ato Malinda’s Prison Sex II
Ato Malinda is in a war. In Prison Sex II she is fighting two wars - the first is for better treatment of women; the second is selling a “new” art form to mesmerized audiences whom she says are simultaneously “confused and receptive.” Her message is a powerful one – and you have to contend with performance arts’ magisterial force – to appreciate that its elevations and condemnations are like final judgment
- 02/07/09 Kenya Alot Of Whys & Alot Of Whats: Ato Malinda’s Prison Sex II
Ato Malinda is in a war. In Prison Sex II she is fighting two wars - the first is for better treatment of women; the second is selling a “new” art form to mesmerized audiences whom she says are simultaneously “confused and receptive.” Her message is a powerful one – and you have to contend with performance arts’ magisterial force – to appreciate that its elevations and condemnations are like final judgment
- 02/07/09 HOME page the ac experience
- 01/07/09 International ART TECH MEDIA
- 30/06/09 HOME page Jimnah Kimani Potrait
- 30/06/09 HOME page art auctions
- 30/06/09 HOME page In Pictures: Congo Migrant Fashion Show
The cult of appearance
- 30/06/09 South Africa In Pictures: Congo Migrant Fashion Show
The cult of appearance
- 30/06/09 HOME page Arlette Vandeneycken: Showing Recent Works In Rwanda
Inganzo gallery
- 30/06/09 Rwanda Arlette Vandeneycken: Showing Recent Works In Rwanda
Inganzo gallery
- 30/06/09 Zimbabwe Letter from Zimbabwe
- 18/06/09 International Peterson Kamwathi's Constitutional Referendum Bull
Peterson Kamwathi was born in Nairobi in 1980 and began practicing at the Kuona Trust and Museum Art Studio. He has exhibited internationally and is considered one of Kenya’s best regarded young artists.
- 18/06/09 Burkina Faso standart issa K
standart issa K
- 17/06/09 Zimbabwe STONE SCULPTURE AND CULTURAL RECLAMATION
STONE SCULPTURE AND CULTURAL RECLAMATION
- 15/06/09 Kenya Richard Onyango: Art For Sale
Investment Opportunity….Sale of the highly prestigious and acclaimed art of Richard Onyango
Direct Inquiries to ed.r.cross@gmail.com or go to www.africanworks.co.uk Sale of works duly Authorised by the artist himself.
- 15/06/09 Zimbabwe The Impact of Art Education in Zimbabwe
impact of art education in zimbabwe
- 15/06/09 Zambia Solace of A Migrant
Zambian artist Stary Mwaba has done a lot of soul-searching and not shied away from showing emotions in his exhibition titled ‘Solace of a Migrant’ that has just concluded at Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa. His works present relocation as a process that can be quite stressful and it is only by taking a moment to stop and think about who you are that support can be found.
- 09/06/09 Mauritania MoMA Focuses on African Director Abderrahmane Sissako
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, named after the pioneer documentarian filmmaker, is a long-established lecture and screening symposium that focuses on the art of nonfiction film. In conjunction with the annual seminar, The Museum of Modern Art presents a more extensive focus of one of the filmmakers whose work is screened and discussed at the seminar. This year, MoMA has selected noted filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritanian, b.1961), and will present a seven-film, mid-career retrospective from June 26 through July 2, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
- 09/06/09 Zimbabwe Quixote’s life African perspective
Quixote’s life African perspective
- 09/06/09 Nigeria Exploring artistic dimensions
- 09/06/09 HOME page Michael Soi
- 09/06/09 South Africa Long Live The Dead Queen
Gallery MOMO is proud to present Mary Sibande, opening Thursday 9 July @ 18h00 – 20h00 and concluding 3 August 2009.
This show is a collection of fantasies and imagined narratives centering round the character Sophie, a maid. Sibande is not looking at the negatives of being a domestic worker, but rather the humanity and commonalities of people despite the boxes we find ourselves in. The modern fabric is moulded into many forms that are combined with Victorian references, making the pieces completely foreign and at the same time Sophie’s own. By subverting the simple maids’ uniform in the creation of Sophie’s hybrid dress she/it has become the canvas for storytelling.
- 08/06/09 International Album Sleeves, Pop Art & Fela Kuti
It's the exposition of artist Lemi Ghariokwu’s who's colourful paintings were found wrapped around the music of Nigeria’s most charismatic and notorious musician, Fela Kuti. Lemi’s distinctive images of Africa – angry, sexy, cheeky, righteous – were known and owned by hundreds of thousands of people across three continents.
- 08/06/09 Ghana African Animation Film Festival 2009
ANIMAFRIK, designed to be Africa’s leading animation event seeks to promote African art and animation over a five day period with regional tours in six cities through the month of October 2009. The festival hopes to showcase animation films from the continent of Africa and from black animation film makers around the world. The festival will use this platform to screen films from cultures that have associations with Africa or black communities.
- 04/06/09 International Perspectives: Women, Art & Islam
BROOKLYN, NY- The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Museum for African Art are proud to present Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam, an exhibition of five female artists whose major connection is their personal relationship with Islam. Perspectives, curated by Kimberli Gant and Lisa Binder, will be on view at MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from June 4 - September 13, 2009, and is presented in conjunction with Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas, a multi-institutional celebration of the extraordinary range of artistic expression in the Muslim world.
- 02/06/09 South Africa Past And Present: Andrew Versters Retrospective in Durban
The exhibition “Past/Present” is a survey of works by Andrew Verster who turns 72 this year. The artist has been given two retrospectives by the Durban Art Gallery in 1987 and 1997. This exhibition takes the time frame from 1994 – the start of democracy in South Africa - and shows works from that time to the present. The artist places significance on this particular period as it has been a milestone in his life mainly due to the freedom which was enshrined in the new Constitution which gave equal rights to all. Speaking as a gay man Verster claims that “For the first time in my life I became legal”.
- 01/06/09 Kenya New Artist Studios at Kuona Trust
Kenyan based organisation Kuona Trust’s six new studios are near completion. Kuona Trust is still taking applications for one shared studio (4m x 4m) whose rent will be approximately 6,000 per studio per month for Kenyan citizens, and a little more for residents. Supporters of the arts in Kenya are encouraged to sponsor an artist or two at the new facility. Visit us to or click here see the space or send an email with your application to programmes@kuonatrust.org
- 01/06/09 Algeria 2nd Pan-African Cultural Festival
48 member states of the African Union (AU) announced their participation in the 2nd Panafrican Cultural Festival which will be held in Algeria from the 5th to the 10th of July 2009. 32 countries confirmed their participation by sending the lists of their delegations, indicated the Minister of Culture, Mrs. Khalida Toumi in Algiers.
- 26/05/09 International Drosie’s Man, Richard Onyango soon to “retire”
Superstar Kenyan artist Richard Onyango has intimated that he might soon be "retiring”. East Africa’s contemporary art promoter Ed Cross, based in Nairobi, says now is the time to take the opportunity to buy one of his latest works. “These are whacky and very interesting works” says Ed. “Recently Onyango’s bus painting sold at Bonham’s in London so buying his work should be a good investment as well as giving pleasure” Click here to view a slide show by Ed Cross of the artists latest works for sale. For more information on how to purchase visit africanworks.blogspot.com
- 26/05/09 Kenya Bird of Peace for Sheila and Joe Murumbi
Elkana Ongesa's Bird of peace in honour and remebarance of Joe and Sheila Murumbi
- 25/05/09 Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Art History & Its Global Trends.
From ancient times African Art has been considered primitive and less intelligent by outsiders who misunderstood the African people's way of life and the things they created. The African people's way of life inspired them to create mostly that was functional and they identified themselves with their work as it enhanced their pride in who they really are. Their naturally sculptural work brought incorrect perception from the non Africans who found them either barbaric or strange in form as well as their spirituality. The idea of art is changed with decidedly subjective overtones. Fundamentally it is a western idea developed in the mental climate of western philosophy and applied to the expression of western culture.
- 18/05/09 International UNESCO: New AudioVisual E-Website
The new website of the UNESCO Audiovisual E-Platform has been uploaded with new functionalities. Its initiative has as priority to support independent audiovisual producers and has nearly 600 audiovisual works from around 80 countries that you can view thanks to the stream system. At the end of 2008 and thanks to a contribution of the Spanish government, the management of this project was decentralized from Paris and it is currently managed by the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia-UNESCOCAT.
- 15/05/09 Kenya Kitengela BushGlass Women's Workshop 2009
Kitengela glass research and training trust is inviting women artists to participate in a 10 day workshop of creating art at their glass studios from 14th to 23rd June 2009. This is the 4th women bush glass workshop to be held in Kitengela glass. Depending on the outcome of the workshop an exhibition or a sculpture will be unveiled at Kitengela glass. The studios are located on Maasai land – Kitengela Plains adjacent to the Nairobi National Park which is an hour’s drive from Nairobi. Other available studios include stained glass, Dalle de verre, Bead hut, metal workshop and pottery studio. AfricanColours, Nani Croze, Women's Workshop
- 15/05/09 International Post Modern Immigrant: Lost And Found
Galerie 23 presents an installation including video of Oumar Mbengue Atakosso (Amsterdam / Senegal).The exhibition will be opened on Sunday 24th May at 16.00 hours by writer Vamba Sherif (Netherlands / Liberia) in the presence of the artist.
- 13/05/09 Kenya Photos from the godown
- 13/05/09 South Africa Call For Applications: Women’s Art Residency
Castle of GoodHope, AfricanColours, Women art residency, Cape Town, Emerging Female Artists
- 12/05/09 Nigeria Top African TV Producers/Filmmakers Coming To UCSC For week of Events
Isaac Moses and Nneka Isaac-Moses produce, direct, and star in the television series "Goge Africa," an award-winning travel show seen by almost 50 million viewers worldwide. The popular series explores African arts and culture, focusing on performance, festivals, and events. Created as a response to negative stereotypes of Africa that the Moses saw in both international and local media, the show airs throughout the African continent, plus parts of the United Kingdom and the U.S.
- 07/05/09 Egypt Lara Baladi - 'Roba Vecchia'
- 07/05/09 International David Adjaye: A Rising star in the World of Architecture
The New York Times writer Nicolai Ouroussof admits that his expectations are quite low when it comes to new architecture in Washington. So the reaction, a big round of applause that was accorded the announcement that the Ghanaian designer David Adjaye would be the lead designer of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum is no big surprise. Adjaye, The 42 year old designer is a rising star in the architecture world. Read more here courtesy of the New York Times
- 07/05/09 International Chance Encounters: From Sabo to SoBO
Sakshi Gallery in collaboration with The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos) is pleased to present its special projects initiative, “Chance Encounters, Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa” starting April 17 till May 14. Curated by Bisi Silva, the exhibition consists of works by acclaimed artists El Anatsui (Ghana), J.D. Okhai Ojeikere (Nigeria), Berry Bickle (Zimbabwe), Safaa Erruas (Morocco), Myriam Mihindou (Gabon), Nnenna Okore (Nigeria), and Uche Iroha (Nigeria).
- 07/05/09 Egypt Huda Lutfi - 'Arayis'
- 05/05/09 International Okwui Enwezor's Award For Curatorial Excellence
Okwui Enwezor's Award for Curatorial Excellence, AfricaColours, curators, curatorial, art awards
- 05/05/09 International The Brussels Declaration By Artists, Cultural Professionals And Entrepreneurs
In April 2009 delegates converged in Brussels for a meeting on Culture & Development at the invitation of Council of the ACP Group and the European Commission. The aim of the meeting was to highlight the importance of the creative and cultural economies for the identity of people, peace, and stability of societies and the economic development of AC P countries. As a result artists, professionals, and cultural entrepreneurs from all the countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific crafted the Brussels Declaration.
- 04/05/09 Kenya Changamoto Arts Fund
Changamoto supports work that is innovative, transforming, spectacular, revolutionary, magical, haunting, overwhelming, beautiful, powerful, unexpected, unconventional, brilliant, moving, visionary, barrier –shattering, risk taking, empowering, positive, disturbing, profound, resonating, mesmerizing, radiant, influential, critical, iconoclastic, fearless, illuminating while building new audiences in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. AfricanColours, Kenya
- 04/05/09 International Somewhere in Africa
- 04/05/09 South Africa Sacred Legacy
Sacred Legacy, Mosa Mohave photogravure, AfricanColours, Durban Art Gallery, A FASCINATING exhibition comes to the Durban Art Gallery in May. Sacred Legacy features reproductions of historical photographs of the native people of North America by legendary photographer/ethnographer Edward Curtis whose life spanned both the old West and its final destruction in the twentieth century. The result is a unique photographic record of an era and broad group of people whose representation is more usually rendered in American television and cinema. After seeing so many fictionalised images of America’s indigenous people, it is remarkable to see the people and landscape free of the biases of modernism.Christopher Cardozo
- 04/05/09 South Africa SACRED LEGACY
SACRED LEGACY, Mosa Mohave photogravure, Art Gallery in May, AfricanColours, Edward Curtis, Christopher Cardozo
- 04/05/09 Burkina Faso vernissage ca veut dire quoi 2eme edition
- 04/05/09 South Africa Press Release: "Solace of a Migrant"
Solace of a Migrant, Stary Mwamba, Johannesburg art fair, AfricanColours, Momo Gallery, Zambia
- 04/05/09 Burkina Faso preparation ca veut dire quoi 2eme edition
preparation ca veut dire quoi 2eme edition
- 29/04/09 South Africa The SA Art Information Directory '09
AfricanColours, The SA Art Information Directory '09, The largest verified source of information regarding SA art infrastructure such as: art schools, museums, galleries, studios, framing, material manufacture, material retailers, publicity companies etc
- 27/04/09 South Africa Mbongeni Buthelezi First National Exhibition
Seippel Gallery, in association with the Pretoria Art Museum, are pleased to launch the opening of Mbongeni Buthelezi's first national touring exhibition.
- 27/04/09 Ghana The Kumasi Symposium: Tapping Local Resources For Sustainable Education Through Art
The Department of General Arts and Art Education of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is organizing a conference on Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art, to be held in Kumasi, Ghana, on 31 July – 14 August, 2009. A call is made for contributions addressing one or more of the symposium strands and topics: Art Education Practice, Studio Practice, Curatorial/Museum/Community Arts Practice, Art History/Criticism, Arts Administration/Management/Marketing Practice, and Open Session.
- 27/04/09 South Africa 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture
4th world summit on arts & culture 2009
johannesburg, south africa,Africancolours
- 23/04/09 Zambia Motifs Of Zambia
Opening at Iseni House on May 28, 2009 is an exhibition by one of Zambia’s foremost artists Lawrence Yombwe. Motifs of Zambia is the theme of the exhibition which in this show refers to traditional ideas, images and objectives that have formed patterns in Zambian society in times of either celebration or mourning. Inspired by the Mbusa culture, the artist employs in some of his work symbols such as dots, lines, clay pots, shapes etc. borrowed from the initiation ceremony practiced by the Bemba tribe of Northern Province
- 22/04/09 Algeria A Cultural Renaissance: The Algiers Pan-African Festival
The upcoming Pan-African Festival is being fêted as a major event marking Africa’s return to the international cultural stage. For the first time in forty years, African nations will join together to celebrate the continent's artistic revival
- 21/04/09 Nigeria Woodcarving A Dying African Art Tradition
At the just concluded Africa art exhibition entitled “voices from within” held in Enugu Nigeria, Out of the over 300 major artists across Nigeria that had their works on display, 85 per cent of them had works in painting. While it must be said that they were very impressive works of art, woodcarving took a small portion of the stands competing with ceramics and metal works to make up the remaining 15 per cent. Ironically, though small, somehow managed to steal the show
- 21/04/09 Tanzania Tuongee Sanaa
Tuongee sanaa is a monthly talk that aims at stressing the relevance and contribution of the creative sector to human development while attempting to find solutions to the vast number of problems that has inhibited the sustenance, growth and development of the Arts in Tanzania. The talk which will be launched by rafiki art trust and mawazo contemporary art centre on Saturday April 25, 2009, is meant to provide a forum for dialogue among stakeholders from the Tanzania creative and cultural sector where artists can talk and discuss about their works, marketing to creative process.
- 20/04/09 South Africa Salvaged Plastic: Exquisite Designs
South African designer Heath Nash uses unusual materials for his designs and work to save the environment at the same time.
- 20/04/09 International Artificial Afrika
- 20/04/09 Mozambique Maputo: Kalashnikovs No Longer Call The Shots
As is the case in many African countries, the cultural centres of several diplomatic missions in Mozambique serve as focal points for the plastic as well as the performing and musical arts
- 16/04/09 Cameroon Creating A Directory for Arts and Culture
Angêle Etoundi Essamba: “Figuracións da árbore”, The Collective Resources for the Arts & Talents Enrichment (CREATE, AfricanColours, Cameroon, DIRECTORY,ARTS
- 15/04/09 Kenya Greenroom alert
- 15/04/09 Nigeria Nnenna Okorie: The Face of Africa At UK Art Auction
Access Bank sponsored “Private View” of contemporary African art at the prestigious Bonham’s arts gallery on Old Bond Street, London. Access Bank’s involvement signposts the emergence of a serious and groundbreaking African Art initiative in Europe and internationally. The sponsorship is consistent with the bank’s strategic CSR focus on the arts which seeks to promote arts by creating platforms for the identification and exposure of arts talents and the projection of unique African art and culture.
- 14/04/09 Kenya Firms Turn To Art As a Form Of Investment
Firms Turn To Art As a Form Of Investment,
AfricanColours, CBA collecting art, Patrick Mukabi, Jimna Kimani, Emily Odongo
- 09/04/09 South Africa Neighbours Revisited
Neighbours revisited, Johannes Phokela, art africa, south african artists, african colours, Standard bank gallery,
- 08/04/09 South Africa Neighbours Revisited
Johannes Phokela, African art, South Africa artist, I like my neighbours, Caroline Kaminju, AfricanColours, contemporary art South Africa, Standard Bank Gallery.
- 08/04/09 Zimbabwe Luke Bezuidenhout: Strange Boy of Stone Sculpture
Luke was able to get beyond the appearance of a stone sculpture and divine its meaning, the way it was grounded in the realities of African culture and life at a universal level.
- 06/04/09 Nigeria Art House Contemporary Offers Artworks For Auction
As the whole world is smarting from the biting crunches of world economic break down, Nigeria has surprisingly joined some notable European countries like France and Britain in re-directing economic interest in the direction of Visual arts. Pioneering this effort in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigerian art is the Art House Contemporary, a company committed to establishing regular venue for the sale of Nigerian and West African art, bringing in works by Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ben Enwonwu, the young US based Nnenna Okore amongst others.
- 03/04/09 Kenya Art at the Museum
- 02/04/09 Kenya April Fools Prank: Work of Art Threatens to Tear Coalition Apart
April fools prank, kenya government, mwai kibaki, dutch masters, vermeer
- 30/03/09 HOME page Abushariaa Ahmed
- 30/03/09 greenroom January 2006
FORUM # 002 Drawing a realistic picture of Africa
- 30/03/09 Ghana Animafrik Animation Festival 2009
Animafrik is an animation festival dedicated to African animation and designed to promote African art and animation. The festival is liaising with the International Animated filmmakers Association, ASIFA, National Animation Associations, Individual practitioners and producers from the African continent to submit films for the event. The festival will be held in Accra and regional screenings in the coastal city of Cape Coast, Takoradi and Kumasi, the Ashanti Kingdom. Events include film screenings, an art exhibition, animation workshops and panel discussion: "Prospect and Challenges of the Animation Industry in West Africa."
- 30/03/09 International Africa Comes to Brooklyn Heights
The Museum for African Art and BRIC Arts/Media/Bklyn present El Anatsui: Process and Project from March 25th to May 2nd. The showcase piece (pictured above) titled ‘ The Peak Project’, is small mountains of gold, approximately two feet high, in the center of the gallery. In this sculpture, he has created a glittering fabric using recycled metal— at once so dangerous, says Lisa Binder, curator, that the staff at the Smithsonian had to have tetanus shots, but also so beautiful it evokes gold as well as the sun or stars, manipulated to form three dimensional peaks. El Anatsui has made his name by creating delicate, yet monumentally scaled, gorgeous, shining tapestry from aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wires.
- 30/03/09 Burkina Faso Memory, History and Culture in Ouagadougou
Art, africa, cinema, burkina faso
Kenyan film director, Judy Kibinge recently visited Ouagadougou to attend and to present her film “The killer Necklace” at the Fespaco film festival. She discovers that the dust choked city is the undisputed film capital of Africa and its residents are simply possessed by the silver screen, a place that all African artists can go and have their belief in the future of art and Africa is renewed. If you did not know, no other festival in the world holds its opening and closing ceremony in a football stadium with a 35,000 person capacity.
Judy Kibinge shares her impressions of Fespaco.
- 25/03/09 greenroom greenroom center
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- 25/03/09 International Art Enclosures- Residencies for Visiting International Artists in Venice
Fondazione di Venezia is about to launch the second phase of the project “Art Enclosures – Confini d’arte – Residencies for visiting international artists in Venice”. The upcoming 3 month residency programme, offers the opportunity and a series of activities for two emerging artists up to the age of 40 coming from the African continent, from May to July 2009. The project covers travelling expenses, material and studio costs for the visiting artist for the duration of the residency.
- 24/03/09 International Documentary Film Grants
The Alter-Ciné Foundation offers a yearly grant to young film and video makers from Africa, Asia and Latin America to direct a documentary film on the theme of rights and freedoms, including social and economic rights, women’s rights, the right to culture and artistic creation. This year, the Foundation will award a grant of 10,000 Canadian dollars to a video or filmmaker to assist in the production of a documentary project. The grant is aimed at young video and filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America who want to direct a film in the language of their choice.
- 24/03/09 Nigeria Chuka Machie Main Introduction
- 24/03/09 Kenya Lola Kenya Screen 2009 Call for Film Entries for Youth
The Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media initiative for children and youth in eastern Africa is calling for film entries in all genres, lengths, and formats from all over the world for the 4th Lola Kenya Screen scheduled for August 10-15, 2009. Eligible films are those made by children and youth. Entries made by professionals, amateurs, youth, and children that focus on children, youth and family are also accepted. Film submission details, entry form and regulations are online.
- 24/03/09 Kenya Remy Seth Musindi Main Introduction
- 24/03/09 Nigeria Chuka Machie Portfolio Page
- 23/03/09 Nigeria Pictorial Naratives: Intrinsic Beauty of an African People
Chukz Okonkwo, a prolific artist finds his voice through various media, creating pictorial narratives that showcase the intrinsic beauty of the African society, where the love of living shines through everything we do. Chukz Okonkwo takes us on a journey of self discovery, through colours, strokes and passionate expressions that culminates in an experience worthy of celebration. In Chukz's works, pure elements of his African origins are transformed into sophisticated abstraction of contemporary art through an individual technique and the natural use of modern vocabulary of style and form.
- 23/03/09 Tanzania RAFIKI 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 2006
- 23/03/09 Kenya Saikolojia ya Sanaa
- 23/03/09 South Africa Visual Arts Conference in South Africa
- 18/03/09 Kenya Art at the Museum 2006
- 18/03/09 Ghana Artists Contribute To Dialogue On Mental Health
The show, which is in five sections, comprise “perceptions”, “encounters”, “explorations”, “collaboration” and “transformation”, was organized by the Nubuke Foundation to announce its arrival on the arts scene in Ghana – a presence that is set to change the face of the arts in the country.
- 17/03/09 South Africa 'Smokin Cheese'
Obert contemporary at Melrose arch presents "Smokin Cheese" from 12-31 march 2009 by Vusi Beauchamp. Beauchamp is a recent graduate in painting from the Tshwane University of Technology. Inspired by classic comics and cartoons, Beauchamp has developed his own cast of characters who offer cutting commentary on present day South African society. His work is often infused with graphic text that challenges outdated stereotypes and racial profiles. "smokin cheese" features 15 mixed media works on board.
- 16/03/09 Ethiopia Elias Sime's Art: The Trash Of Life
Enter the boutique museum space, which nestles in a converted subway station, and in the words of filmmakers Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton ("Little Miss Sunshine"), "you immediately feel the power and love and connection Elias has to his materials and his community." Among the 56 works culled from his 20-year career: a series of meticulously decorated goatskins; large canvases featuring a range of "found" materials such as threads, buttons, and bottle caps in both abstract and realistic designs; a parade of tiny monkeys, frogs, and TV sets made of mud; and carved walking sticks.
- 12/03/09 redbook redbook left column
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- 12/03/09 redbook redbook right column
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- 12/03/09 redbook redbook center column
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- 11/03/09 Tanzania contemporary art & culture
- 11/03/09 International Yinka Shonibare: Between The Real & The Imagined
By mixing and stretching ideas regarding African history, Shonibare undermines the classic canons by which African culture and its artists are judged. So-called traditional African art has been depicted and characterized as sculptural. It is often made of wood, sometimes shaped as a mask and other times, represents bodily figures. Resourcefulness is also a common attribute assigned to African artists since they commonly use recycled materials such as wire, cans, packaging and even weapons.
- 10/03/09 Ethiopia Golden Stallion for Teza at Fespaco 2009
Teza, an Ethiopian film about the ruthless regime of the former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was in power in Ethiopia from 1974 until 1991, won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, the top prize at the 2009 Fespaco film festival
- 09/03/09 Kenya Remy Seth Musindi Press Support
- 09/03/09 South Africa Kay Hassan’s Urbanation
Kay Hassan occupies an intriguing place amongst artists of his generation. A generation heavily influenced by Polly Street modernists including Lucas Sithole, Leonard Matsoso, Alfred Khumalo and Ezrom Legae , artists who emerged from the harsh urban areas of apartheid environment and created works of art that defied prejudices and self pity. Their works were notable for having escaped from European modernism, naiveté and primitivism. Hassan distinguished himself with work that reconsiders Conceptual and post-Conceptual art practices from an intensely personal and emotional art perspective. His work moves beyond surface issues of identity to explore issues related to time, memory, displacement and cultural balkanization that was apartheid forte.
- 06/03/09 Kenya Remy Seth Musindi Curriculum Vitae
- 06/03/09 Kenya Remy Seth Musindi Portfolio Page
- 06/03/09 South Africa Repatriated Art: Two Gems Returned to SA
The items scheduled to go under the hammer include an important early still life by Erik Laubscher. “Still Life with Mandolin, Music Score and Fruit” (estimate R200 000 – R300 000) is a fine example of the artist’s work produced on his return to South Africa in a strong Parisian language. While in Paris, Laubscher studied under Fernand Léger and it was this influence, as well as that of John Minton, Alfred Krenz and Maurice van Essche, that we see in this painting.
- 06/03/09 Algeria Algiers to Host 2nd Pan-African Culture Festival
Algeria is preparing to host the second Pan-African Culture Festival, and the first in 40 years. The event hopes to draw hundreds of thousands of people to Algiers this July to celebrate Africa's artistic renaissance.
- 05/03/09 Kenya Objects Of Inherent Beauty
Ed Cross’s work celebrates inherent beauty in objects that are considered valueless by many and sometimes “taken for granted” by those whose culture they come from. It is also a celebration of the beauty of nature uninterrupted by man, as in the often exquisite forms that the actions of the sea and sand, the Toledo beetle and later termites create on the abandoned boats that Cross works with. At the base of Cross’s work is a reverence for renewal of self – the necessity of “recycling” the elements of ones life in a life affirming “hand made” way rather than trying to obtain ready made solutions. Read more on the artist
- 05/03/09 Rwanda Rwanda: The Rebirth Of Contemporary Art
After traveling to more than 15 countries on the African continent as Rwanda's representative for artistic study tours, exhibitions, and international workshops, founder and director Sekajugo felt the need to turn his talent into a more extensive project, one that would nurture the talent of Rwanda's young artists, thus the conception of Ivuka Arts Kigali in 2007.
Ivuka, the Kinyarwanda word for 'birth', became the most sought-after fine arts destination for expatriates and diplomats in Rwanda. Sekajugo's dream is of a studio where art changes lives.
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- 03/03/09 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe: Varsity to Celebrate International Art Fete
Harare — AFRICA University will this year celebrate the university's unique Pan African and international art fete with residents of Mutare and beyond in their fifth edition of the Manica Festival scheduled for March 27 - 28."The festival is an opportunity for students in the arts as well as those interested in the arts to show the products of their works from their community projects or their own artistic talents", said dean of the faculty of humanities at Africa University Tambudzai Zindi.
- 03/03/09 blueprint blueprint page editor press support
- 03/03/09 blueprint blueprint page editor Front Page
- 02/03/09 Uganda How Wood Learnt To Sing At Makerere
Henry Ssegamwenge is a young man only 28, who has also established his name in the city of Kampala as a mould maker of some talent, he is the kind of product you will find coming out of this art school – energetic, confident and technically gifted. The woodwork is extremely rare. It is an interpretation of the mostly coastal (East African) old art of door-carving. But the techniques they are experimenting are so far being done by only three artists. The man who started it, Mr. Romano Lutwama, died in 2004. Read more here from AfricanColours.net
- 27/02/09 International Call For Entries: A Camera in The Pocket
It’s been 5 years that cell phones in France have been equipped with a camera and a screen. Recognized today throughout the world for its pioneering effort and expertise in the exploration of audiovisual creation with mobile technologies, the Forum des images opens its call for entries to all creators for the 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival. Film directors, photographers, artistes, performers and amateurs of new technologies are invited to send their films, made with a video cell phone.
- 27/02/09 Burkina Faso « Ça veut dire quoi ? » ( 2eme Edition) LISTES
« Ça veut dire quoi ? » ( 2006) LITES DES PARTICIPANTS
- 25/02/09 Cameroon Prisoners as Cultural Practitioners
For a long time, economic models paid less attention to the organic link between poverty reduction and cultural development. Yet that link has become so vital that agencies and cultural professionals have been awakened to the reality that cultural investment is not only beneficial to the agencies themselves but serve as an income-generating spiral of wealth creation and self-employment among the vulnerable sectors of society (women and youths) and in the case of this article, prisoners.
- 25/02/09 South Africa Sometimes I Forget That You Exist
Sometimes i forget that you exist an exhibition curated by Trasi Henen is a collaborative research project around desire and heterotopia.
- 25/02/09 International The Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship
As the founder of the West African Museums Programme (1982-87) and Chief Curator of the National Museum of African Art (1987-97), Philip L. Ravenhill was a major creative force in the study, collection,
preservation, and exhibition of African art. The Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship is awarded to an art historian, cultural anthropologist, museum curator, or visual artist of African heritage. The Fellowship
is intended to give deserving individuals the opportunity to travel, conduct research, or practice their art in North American or European museums or educational institutions. Preference is given to young or mid-career scholars or artists who have not recently had the opportunity to travel internationally. Applicants must secure the agreement of a potential host institution in advance of their application to be considered for the Ravenhill Fellowship. Such affiliation could also provide the recipient with matching funds.
- 23/02/09 Kenya Margaret Otieno Perkin Press Support
- 23/02/09 Kenya Margaret Otieno Perkin Curriculum Vitae
- 23/02/09 Kenya Maggie Otieno Main Introduction
- 19/02/09 Nigeria “Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist”
During the period from 1950 to 1965, Ben Enwonwu was the most famous artist of African ancestry anywhere in the world. He produced a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II, traveled to the United States as a guest of the Harmon Foundation and the State Department, and exhibited his work alongside those of Pablo Picasso and other prominent modernists. More than 45 years later, however, Enwonwu has fallen into relative obscurity.
- 19/02/09 Algeria New Museum Brings Art to War-Weary Algerians
ALGIERS (Reuters Life!) - A new modern art museum in Algiers aims to spearhead cultural renewal in a city where only 10 years ago artists were targets for assassins. A state of emergency shoved artistic life to the margins in the 1990s as Islamic insurgents battled government forces and massacres, bombings and murders traumatized the population.
- 18/02/09 Ethiopia addis seminars
- 18/02/09 Burkina Faso Telefilms: An Artistic Vista for African Films
The rampant closure of cinemas in most cities in Africa today may be harmful to the growth of celluloid cinema and the future of the film festival (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso. On the other hand this may open a window of opportunity to the new wave of television films (Telefilms) now becoming a permanent feature in our cultural landscape.
- 17/02/09 HOME page Nuwa Wamala – Nnyanzi
- 17/02/09 Cameroon Telefilms: Telling Our Own Tales
Cinema has a vital role in our development because it is a means of education, information and consciousness raising as well as a stimulus to creativity. But in the African context our cinema should be inspired by our own realities and our own needs. The rampant closure of cinemas in most cities in Africa today may be harmful to the growth of celluloid cinema and the future of the film festival (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso. On the other hand this may open a window of opportunity to the new wave of television films (telefilms) now becoming a permanent feature in our cultural landscape. Read more here from Mwalimu George Ngwane.
- 17/02/09 Nigeria African Movie Academy Award (AMAA) Call for Entries 2009
Organisers of the AMAA have released guidelines for the 2009 edition of the awards billed to hold in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, Nigeria, on April 4 2009. Entries can be done online at amaaaward.com and submitted with the entry (ies) at the secretariat or at designated points and submission receipt obtained. Only films produced between December 2007 and December 2008 should be entered for the 2009 awards. Films by Africans in Africa or the Diaspora, with a particular focus on Africa, are accepted.
- 13/02/09 Nigeria Like a Virgin....Showing for the First Time at Yaba
The ongoing visual art exhibition, Like a Virgin at the Centre for Contemporary arts , Yaba Lagos, features the works of Nigerian female artist, Lucy Azubuike and her South African counterpart, Zanele Muholi is an attempt to use the visual art communication medium in furthering the post modern debates as they affect the woman gender in Africa. Azubuike has created a large, ongoing body of work of her menstruation cycle. These simple images of menstrual blood serve as a diary, a book of visual narratives containing insights into personal reflections and experiences. Zanele Muholi’s conceptual strategies are similar to Azubuike, however the physicality of the black female body is brought to the fore in her work towards the attitude of black lesbians, especially in the townships.
- 11/02/09 International AMATERAS Annual Paper Art Exhibition/Competition 2009
The Art Studio AMATERAS in Sofia, Bulgaria, has the pleasure to launch a series of international paper art events, first in Bulgaria thereafter for exhibitions in other countries. The first exhibition is in 2D and 3D paper art created by artists from all over the world without restrictions on techniques, styles or materials. This exhibition is for small paper works (no larger than A4 size) and will be held from June 5 – July 5, 2009 at Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria. An international jury of selection will award cash prizes for Best of Show Award, Young Artist Award and Innovation Award.
- 10/02/09 HOME page Unesco animation initiative
- 09/02/09 Kenya Art Safari: AfricanColours 2009 GalleryWalk
Kenya is one of the principle producers of art on the African continent and Nairobi has more than its fair share of iconic names in the business. Some of the more important debates about the meaning and nature of “African Art” have taken place in the country. We only have to think of names like Jak Katarikawe or Kioko Mwitiki or Gallery Watatu. There’s wealth. But there’s critical engagement too, and the GalleryWalk provides a communal interface with this heritage. “It’s a time well spent with family and friends exploring the available variety of talent that Nairobi has nurtured over the years. For the artist it’s an opportunity to show the public what they have been creating and to get feedback,” Says Mr. Andrew Njoroge. Read more here on how to take part.
- 06/02/09 South Africa Vusi Mfupi the Paper Boy
His “Jozi”, a street scene of peddlers with fruits and umbrellas is a busy, lively congestion; but the subject registers only momentarily. Soon it is the technique that you see: His adeptness at making connections, choosing the right shades to fit in (he needs an awful lot of paper) is what surely makes the magic. Again it’s the minuteness of it all.
All of these, the line of buildings, people, their shadows, how he catches the time of day, all using paper still does not jar the eye. A calm, naturalness, springs out of this all. It is after considering these that the true beauty of his work emerges and from there that the fulfillment from watching him starts.
- 05/02/09 South Africa Vusi Mfupi the Paper Boy
His “Jozi”, a street scene of peddlers with fruits and umbrellas is a busy, lively congestion; but the subject registers only momentarily. Soon it is the technique that you see: His adeptness at making connections, choosing the right sheds to fit in (he needs an awful lot of paper) is what surely makes the magic. Again it’s the minuteness of it all.
All of these, the line of buildings, people, their shadows, how he catches the time of day, all using paper still does not jar the eye. A calm, naturalness, springs out of this all. It is after considering these that the true beauty of his work emerges and from there that the fulfillment from watching him starts.
- 04/02/09 HOME page Encounters
- 03/02/09 International International Sidebar
International Sidebar
- 29/01/09 Sudan Hussin Halfawi Press Support
- 29/01/09 Senegal Refined Obsessive
The earthiness of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago’s females is perhaps too full, and maybe call to the themes too readily. But they are fulfilling to look at and the earthiness calls to eternal themes. He covers the women with their hair, styles them with clay and mud; also bringing out curves, he casts his women in the statuesque pose. A commentator calls his work “obsessive”, found in it “refined eroticism” and wondered about this “theatre of cruelty” in which he depicts his women. But Dago’s show in Orvieto, Italy titled “femme-terre” was a worthy celebration of a timeless subject.
- 29/01/09 Kenya Macharia Gaitho
- 29/01/09 South Africa Cry, the Beloved Freedom
Freedom - infectious freedom - and the abandon that comes with, leap up literary in Andrew Verster’s “Bodyworks” series. The 71-year old South African, who speaking as a gay man makes a statement that elsewhere might sound enigmatic when he says “For the first time in my life I became legal”. But he is South Africa; this statement and the joy expressed in his work celebrate the post-1994 South Africa. His works are traveling through the country, a journey that started at the National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown in July 2008.
- 28/01/09 Sudan Hussin Halfawi Curriculum Vitae
- 28/01/09 Sudan Hussin Halfawi Portfolio Page
- 28/01/09 Zimbabwe Cultural Content Props Zim Stone Sculpture
Cultural Content Props Zim Stone Sculpture
- 28/01/09 Sudan Hussin Halfawi Main Introduction
- 28/01/09 Zimbabwe Awards help evaluate progress in arts sector
Awards help evaluate progress in arts sector
- 28/01/09 Egypt Mutaz @ the Kunst Gallery
Mutaz Elemam at the Kuntz Gallery
- 27/01/09 Somalia Somalia photos
- 27/01/09 South Africa South African Riches
The works by Wayne Barker, Pat Muatloe and Dinkies Sithole transformed through soft colour images into subtle symbols. Barker through his tradition of neon lights and markings recreated consideration relating to despair and plight of displaced émigré souls in “Luggage and Clandestine”. This is to say nothing of the fact that luminaries Marlene Dumas and William Kentridge who have wowed audiences the world over were also on show at the same exhibition: The art show at the Polokwane Art Museum was perhaps one of the most star-studded in South Africa, reports Andile Magengelele.
- 26/01/09 Kenya John Kamicha Press Support
- 26/01/09 Kenya John Kamicha Main Introduction
- 26/01/09 Kenya John Kamicha Curriculum Vitae
- 26/01/09 HOME page kwamevideo art
- 26/01/09 Zimbabwe Sculpture Industry in decline.
Sculpture Industry in decline.
- 26/01/09 Liberia leslie lumeh Main Introduction
Leslie lumeh is a cartoon journalist at the daily observer in Liberia. He derives his subject matter in the news about Liberia, Africa and the rest of the world.
- 26/01/09 Liberia leslie lumeh Curriculum Vitae
leslie Lumeh is a cartoon journalist with the daily observer in liberia. He illustrates various subjects in the news about Liberia, Africa and the rest of the world.
- 26/01/09 International George Washington University Call-out for new filmmakers
Success in 2008 is translating into a sequel for emerging filmmakers; the George Washington University which in 2008 hosted emerging filmmakers from Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan, India, Kyrgystan, Somalia, Malaysia, and Kenya, has this year sent a call-out for applicants for its 2009 International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship Program. The program’s stated aims are to: To encourage the development of documentary filmmakers from around the globe; To heighten the awareness of the work of these individuals in front of program executives from the US and other Western broadcast and funding outlets; and to engage these non-fiction innovators in an international dialogue to enhance the development, production, and distribution of documentary film throughout the world. Click here on application procedure.
- 26/01/09 Togo Obidie Koukou Main Introduction
- 26/01/09 Togo Obidie Koukou Press Support
- 26/01/09 Togo Obidie Koukou Curriculum Vitae
- 26/01/09 Togo Obidie Koukou Portfolio Page
- 24/01/09 Kenya Obama superstar
Not since Stalin, Lenin, Mao and – yes, Hitler – has a politician been depicted in art this much. The images created of Obama number in the millions. But is it still acceptable when an art student in Chicago represents the new US president as Jesus Christ or the Buddha? And is it proper that kanga printers raise the price of their wares by more than 100% selling the image of a man who stands for humility? We may be just at the beginning of a veneration that may well outlast our generation, writes David Kaiza/AfricanColours
- 23/01/09 Kenya Obama: The living Ancestor
Not since Stalin, Lenin, Mao and – yes, Hitler – has a politician been depicted in art this much. The images created of Obama number in the millions. But is it still acceptable when an art student in Chicago represents the new US president as Jesus Christ or the Buddha? And is it proper that the Khanga (traditional East African wrapper) printers raise the price of their wares by more than 100% selling the image of a man who stands for humility? We may be just at the beginning of a veneration that may well outlast our generation, writes David Kaiza/AfricanColours
- 22/01/09 Zimbabwe A Dream come true for some.
A Dream come true for some.
- 22/01/09 Cameroon Make Art, Not Waste
Tons and tons of bottle-tops, shopping bags, and plastic water bottles turn our neighborhoods into stink-factories, while African governments and city councils watch. Yet the potential for art is enormous. But more than that is it not about time that large corporations thought of using artworks to promote their products rather than using environmentally risky and ugly billboards? Mwalimu George Ngwane asks.
- 22/01/09 International Another Kenyan in America
He has arrived! After struggles with documents and Oregon snow we are so pleased to say our Facets of Africa Resident Artist has arrived! Jacob Wachira Ezigbo landed from Kenya just in time for our momentous Presidential inauguration. He has been all abuzz with a unique Kenyan perspective on our democratic process as well as on our new president. No doubt these topics will find their way into his paintings as his work draws heavily from immediate issues of his community. Jacob is pleased to call Portland his adopted community for the Spring of 2009. IFCC had expected to present his photographs alone but since his arrival he has been caught in a frenzy of inspired creation. We are looking forward to sharing this new work!
- 22/01/09 International Another Kenyan in America
He has arrived! After struggles with documents and Oregon snow we are so pleased to say our Facets of Africa Resident Artist has arrived! Jacob Wachira Ezigbo landed from Kenya just in time for our momentous Presidential inauguration. He has been all abuzz with a unique Kenyan perspective on our democratic process as well as on our new president. No doubt these topics will find their way into his paintings as his work draws heavily from immediate issues of his community. Jacob is pleased to call Portland his adopted community for the Spring of 2009. IFCC had expected to present his photographs alone but since his arrival he has been caught in a frenzy of inspired creation. We are looking forward to sharing this new work!
- 20/01/09 International U la l’art! France Does it Again for Art
France has raised the bar for art promotion, again, this time a whole 7 years. All the country’s "emblematic great monuments, cathedrals, abbeys and small town monuments," used to admit under 18s free of charge. Now, President Sarokozy has extended this privilege to youths under 25, added teachers to the bracket and thrown an additional 100 million euros into the offer.
- 19/01/09 Nigeria 2008 Was A Very Good Year
2008 was a very significant year in the visual art history of Nigeria, according to The Vanguard newspaper. The paper argues in this article that the Nigerian National Gallery of Art’s decision to send 18 young, untested artists – a decision criticized in the Nigerian press, was sign of seriousness. On the whole, the paper continues, 2008 was a touching year which saw veteran artists such as the renown print-maker, Onobrakpeya and Okeke now in his wheel chair and considered one of the fathers of contemporary African art, continue to shine.
- 19/01/09 HOME page Wawi Amasha
- 19/01/09 International The Art World's Global View
South Africa will present the continent’s only major contemporary art fair, the Joburg Art Fair in Johannesburg, on 2-5 April. South African art stars such as Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge and Robin Rhode showed works during last year’s inaugural fair. Organizer Ross Douglas says this year’s draws will include an exhibition of Malian photography and Jane Alexander’s installation, Security. In Alexander’s piece, uniformed guards will be posted around a razor-wire fence that cages in a pile of machetes, sickles, workers’ gloves and wheat
- 14/01/09 Eritrea Necks with a Mind of their Own:
Fitsum’s latest exhibition in Nairobi
“The love of blue takes you to red,” Fitsum says, paradoxically “red is the other blue.”
For an artist who sees red and blue everywhere, the current show running from January 13 to February 3 at Talisman in Nairobi can be safely described as a red and blue show, since he has give it no title. He renders his subject as if to intentionally hypnotize. But he is an artist whose innovative use of the human face as a slate on which to write history and geography is engaging, writes David Kaiza/Africancolours.net
- 14/01/09 Cameroon Every Pound and Pence
The arts and culture sector in Africa is in dire straits. The mass media pay scant attention to it. Talents remain undeveloped. Policies do not offer much. This analytical Op Ed piece on how the arts remain underdeveloped in Cameroon by George Ngwane, offers an intimate insight into how unequal national development, inattentiveness suffocates the arts and culture sectors, which could be earning billions of dollars for these economies. It is true of Cameroon, but it is a statement that rings true for just about any other country on the continent.
- 14/01/09 Cameroon Every Pound and Pence
The mass media in Africa pay scant attention to the arts and culture while public policies do not offer help and talent while vibrant remains poorly paid. In this Op Ed piece on how the arts remain underdeveloped in Cameroon by George Ngwane, offers an intimate insight into how unequal national development, inattentiveness suffocates the arts and culture sectors, which could be earning billions of dollars for these economies. It is true of Cameroon, but it is a statement that rings true for just about any other country on the continent.
- 14/01/09 Eritrea Necks with a Mind of Their Own: Fitsum’s Latest Exhibition in Nairobi
“The love of blue takes you to red,” Fitsum says, paradoxically “red is the other blue.”
For an artist who sees red and blue everywhere, the current show running from January 13 to February 3 at Talisman in Nairobi can be safely described as a red and blue show, since he has given it no title. Fitsum renders his subject as if to intentionally hypnotize. But he is an artist whose innovative use of the human face as a slate on which to write history and geography is engaging, writes David Kaiza/Africancolours.net
- 14/01/09 Zimbabwe Yellow Lines from Zimbabwe to Johannesburg
YELLOW LINES FROM HARARE TO JOHANNESBURG
By Caroline Kaminju
As a black student at the University of Pretoria, “Kudzi” was not expected to finish his course. But he has since emerged as a serious artist who has so far sold out at each exhibition he has had. A Zimbabwean now a virtual exile in South African, Kudzi cannot go back home, let alone exhibit his work there. In this piece, he spoke to AfricanColours setting out his approach to work and encouraging artists in his situation to “balance between paranoia and saying what is on your mind.”
Read more by Caroline Kaminju/AfricanColours.net
- 12/01/09 International Obama-Related Visual Culture in Africa
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC is gearing up for Inauguration
- 07/01/09 Sudan Dirty Faces of War: Abusharia’s Grand Anti-Darfur War Exhibition
Inferno is a scream, a loud, plaintive cry, nearly demented: the pressure and closeness to the subject threatened to torpedo the entire project. “It was too much and I put it aside,” Abusharia says. In this collection of anti-war paintings, the tempo starts high – high themes, high emotions, high compositions – and never relents. The show at Tulifanya Gallery in Kampala was arguably one of the best exhibitions Abusharia has had in years. But it was one whose high achievements were marched only by the emotional and psychological dislocation of the subject that gave it birth – the Darfur war in Western Sudan.
- 05/01/09 Nigeria 3 Million Naira…....5 Million Naira…...9 Million Naira
The direction for art sales in Nigeria seems to be pointing northwards as prices paid for works of art continue to fetch in millions of Naira a piece. A receding stock market maybe rearing its ugly head but that did not stop top collectors in the country from digging deep into their wallets.
Is this because of the holiday season, a passing high or is it something that will be sustained in the future?
- 05/01/09 International Meek gichugu
- 05/01/09 International Voices of the African Diaspora Make Themselves Heard in Bristol
A showcase of contemporary artwork by eight emerging and established African, African-Caribbean and American artists made itself seen, heard and above all listened to in the heart of the UK’s south-west between September and Christmas this year
- 05/01/09 Ghana The Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project
The Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project is a project session of "The Kumasi Symposium: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art". The arts-based social experiment is designed to provide a context that will stimulate the artist, scholar and activist participants to place themselves and their practice into question and possibly resolutions through collaboration and cultural/artistic interchange.
- 05/01/09 South Africa Misplaced Nostalgia and Embryonic Forms on a Johannesburg Third Floor
“All the sculptures and the frames are plain white or bleached out - as it were, evoking the sense of absence or reconstruction, perhaps simplicity, neutrality or restraint and vagueness or simply incompleteness of the work itself.”
This is the kind of reaction that South African Artist, Marco Cianfanelli seems to inspire. The son of printers, who grew up in an industrial area and who is himself working out in an industrial area in Johannesburg, he has been described as an artist who “romanticizes space and its inverse”. The intensity that Cianfanelli inspires is not incidental but forms some coherence, at any rate, of the excitement his works bring to the art world and that power which does not leave his audience untouched.
- 15/12/08 Cameroon The Lion and the Historian: Towards an Arts and Culture Market in Africa
From the King of Afro-design, Malian designer Chris Seydou who starting in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s gave Africans the right to wear their own cloths, to the cinematic genius of the late Senegalese Sembene Ousmane, and the myriad sculptors, architects, painters and writers down and up the length and width of the continent, Africa’s arts and cultural sectors always seem on the point of breaking out into real economics. But this won’t happen until the continent gets its act in order, argues Mwalimu George Ngwane.
- 15/12/08 International African Art Museum Founder Dies
Warren M. Robbins, founder of the Museum of African Art, forerunner to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, died Thursday at George Washington University Hospital of complications from a fall at his home last month. He was 85.
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When he started the Museum of African Art in 1964, Mr. Robbins, a native of Worcester, had never been to Africa, never worked in a museum, never been involved with the arts, and never raised money.
His vision of a museum of African art for Washington grew out of a trip he took in the early 1960s, when he was a cultural attache with the US Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
- 11/12/08 South Africa Museum Africa Gets New Curator
MUSEUM Africa in Newtown has a new chief curator, and he's encouraging his staff to have tantrums as a way of creating a lot of noise around badly needed new vision for the museum. He is Ali Hlongwane, formerly the curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial in Orlando West, and he has been in the post since 1 November. The museum has been rudderless for some years, with curators coming and going.
- 09/12/08 Kenya Kueua Mtoto Msanii
- 09/12/08 South Africa Asleep Inside You
At the heart of Kate Gottgens’ latest body of work lies a sense of entrapment; a quiet dissonance that emerges in the use of evocative imagery, painted in ash.
Gottgens started photographing the contents of a props warehouse in Voortrekker Road – that grim, grey, modernist trash-can of a road that runs through some of the bleakest mid-century suburbs of Cape Town.
- 08/12/08 Kenya Fund Raising Exhibition
Maasai Mbili Art Center (M2) is a community art group from Kibera initiated in 2001. The group works from a studio situated along Kibera Drive and has used the premises for community outreach projects, working with children as well as women in Kibera workshops where fine arts, and culture in general, are turned into effective tools for community cooperation. Today Masai Mbili faces a crucial challenge. The plot where the center works is for sale and needs urgent funds to purchase the plot and secure its future for the Community. The exhibition at Le Rustique aims at raising money to help the center carry on its very important work in Kibera. The exhibition opens on Friday 12th Dec at Le’rustique Restaurant, General Mathenge drive, Westlands. from 6-9pm and continues through to the 15th Jan 2009
- 04/12/08 HOME page Kueua Mtoto Msanii
- 04/12/08 South Africa Exhibition at Gallery on the Square
Gallery on the Square invites you to an ongoing exhibition featuring Phillemon Hlungwani, Vusi Mfupi and Thabo Molapo. The artists who are from South Africa have a background in Fine Arts. Philemon’s work is predominately self-expressive in light of his background and Christian beliefs while Vusi’s work portrays a celebration of youth and mobility. Thabo employs the medium of traditional weaving as an expression of his creative talents. The exhibition runs until the 10th of December at the Gallery of the Square, Johannesburg.
- 04/12/08 International Emerging Talents From a Continent On The Move
Africa Now! Emerging talents from a continent on the move.
December 9,2008
150 Artists/ 10 designers/ 34 countries
Opening Reception and Symposium
World Bank Main Complex (MC) Tuesday December 9 in room MC 13-121
- 01/12/08 South Africa Give My Regards To 'Wonderland'
artist Lolo Veleko’s exhibition “Wonderland”, which she produced as Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year and which opened at the Durban Art Gallery on Thursday night. And truly, Lolo Veleko is not afraid. “Wonderland” constitutes a gloriously open-ended paean to the bravery of being defiantly one’s self.
Graffiti, clouds, incidental landscapes of the heart: “Wonderland”, suggests Veleko, both is and isn’t a place. And at the shimmering centre of Veleko’s fluid, technicoloured world are a series of portraits of young South Africans from Cape Town, Durban and Jozi, all radiating an idiosyncratic style that could come from nowhere but the periphery of contemporary South Africa.
- 01/12/08 Zimbabwe The changing nature of art
The changing nature of art
- 01/12/08 Kenya John Ngugi Main Introduction
- 28/11/08 South Africa World Cup of African Art, Cape Town
CAPE Africa Platform rounds off its 2008 programme with Sessions eKapa 08, a 3-day discussion and networking session in Cape Town from December 4 – 6. The event reflects back on CAPE’s activities over the past year and looks ahead to CAPE 09, a ground-breaking contemporary African art exhibition to be hosted in Cape Town in May 2009.
The culmination of a research programme that has seen the organisation host exciting sessions in Luanda and Maputo, the event begins on December 4 with a key note address by Rodrigo Bueno of recent São Paulo Art Biennial infamy at the Wash Houses, in Oranjezicht, Cape Town.
- 28/11/08 Zimbabwe NZIRA part II
NZIRA part II
- 28/11/08 Zimbabwe Bernard Matemera
Bernard Matemera
- 28/11/08 Zimbabwe DESIRES OF AGES II
DESIRES OF AGES II
- 28/11/08 International There's An Elephant In My Yard
ZIMBABWEAN sculptor Lysiase Nyamurova is hiding what could be one of the biggest steel and iron sheet elephant artworks in East London in the backyard of his Southernwood flat.
The rusty 2.5m high and 3m wide structure takes up most of the space in the yard, and the view has been a spectacle for those who visit his flat to watch him weld and grind the imposing artwork together.
- 27/11/08 Nigeria Auctions Redefining Art Markets
G RADUALLY, change appears to creeping into the visual art landscape as artists seek better value for their works outside the regular outlets such as art galleries and dealers.
And that alternative outlet is the good old art auction so suggested recent developments in Europe and Nigeria. While it is just morning for art auction in Nigeria, in the United Kingdom, U.K., what has been recorded as the biggest art sales of the century happened about two months before the former recorded its largest art sale in history.
As two auctions in Lagos, April and November 2008 involving 200 lots of about 50 artists recorded a total sale of N149 million (according to official figures released by Lagos based auction house, Arthouse Contemporary), 223 lots from British artist, Damien Hirst made a record sale of 111 million Pounds at one of the world's leading auction house, Sotheby's, last September.
- 25/11/08 International portugal
- 25/11/08 HOME page Cheri samba
- 25/11/08 South Africa Two Exhibitions at Blanks Project
Esther Ernst, and Jörg Laue are artists-in-residence of IAAB (international studio and exchange program Bale, Switzerland). At blankprojects, they are presenting works that are the direct result of their experiences of Johannesburg and Cape Town. Their main focus is the relationship between varied modes of production, media and techniques in a compact, homogeneous installation. Pippa Stalker on the other hand presents animations that encompasses violence is an extremely contentious factor in the playing and marketing of games in the global market. The artists will be showing their most recent works from 4th December – 19th December 2008.
- 21/11/08 Uganda Lest we forget
- 21/11/08 South Africa Advancing The Arts and Culture in Africa
For the preservation and promotion of African arts and culture, several African governments have through various means, been funding and supporting various activities and projects in the arts sector. Therefore in order to highlight common areas of interest and potential growth, the National Arts Council of South Africa recently initiated and invited representatives from various African nations to participate in the first-ever cross-national dialogue on arts and culture funding and support agencies from across Africa.
- 20/11/08 International The 5th International Painting Biennial of the Islamic World
Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute under supervision of Iranian Academy of Arts is organizing the Fifth International Biennial of Painting in the Islamic World on 19th of June, 2009. Interested participants are required to send 3 images of their works on a CD to Saba as soon as possible before the deadline on 20th Dec 2008. Any works (CD) received late will not be sent to the selection committee for judging
- 20/11/08 Kenya Contemporary Art in Kenya
- 20/11/08 HOME page Contemporary Kenyan Art
Alliance and Goethe set for major exhibition
- 20/11/08 South Africa Drawings by Mark Kannemeyer
Mark Kannemeyer’s pen and ink landscape drawings occupy a creative space between gesture and concept. These drawings, subtly and ironically referencing the work of such diverse artists as Van Gogh, Cezanne and El Greco, render landscapes in gestural, impressionist marks by applying black ink in broad dashes and generous waves and swirls on the paper. In each drawing the landscape seems to swell out and culminate in an organic outcrop, similar in shape to Cezanne’s ubiquitous, cubist Mount Sainte-Victoire, and El Greco’s undulating Toledo hills.
- 20/11/08 South Africa Drawings by Mark Kannemeyer
Mark Kannemeyer’s pen and ink landscape drawings occupy a creative space between gesture and concept. These drawings, subtly and ironically referencing the work of such diverse artists as Van Gogh, Cezanne and El Greco, render landscapes in gestural, impressionist marks by applying black ink in broad dashes and generous waves and swirls on the paper. In each drawing the landscape seems to swell out and culminate in an organic outcrop, similar in shape to Cezanne’s ubiquitous, cubist Mount Sainte-Victoire, and El Greco’s undulating Toledo hills.
- 18/11/08 Kenya The Grass is Singing
The Kenyan Rift Valley is Big Earth, and in his painting, The Grass is Singing, painter Timothy Brooke captures the motions of this magnificent part of the Earth. His brilliant colours capture a certain season – a high season when the rains are coming in and clouds are exploding and the light’s brilliance is like teargas in the eyes.
- 18/11/08 International From the Archives: Pink Declines Whiteness
Princess Akinyi’s masterly essay, Pink Declines Whiteness is one of those
articles – perhaps better thought of as a think piece – that remains with
you long afterwards.
These are lives of Africans who lived through struggle and betrayal in
medieval and ancient Europe, whose very presence on that continent has all
but been banished from the history books.
Akinyi’s searing analysis brings them back to life and we re-live their
triumphs and failures, the racial ignorance, suspicion and fear Europeans
learnt to approach them through.
Her fresh perspective, her language clear as morning light, makes this hard
to stop reading.
This is a must read article, for anyone living through these times, and not
just those interested in Black History.
- 17/11/08 Kenya Emily Odongo Portfolio Page
Emily Odongo is a painter who specialises in colour. Her work is composed of Randomn strokes, bright colours and untiled subjects.
- 17/11/08 South Africa Art Courses at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery
Fried Contemporary Art Gallery and Studio, cordially invites you to the opening of an exhibition of their Studio students on Sunday evening 23 November at 17h00. The exhibition opens on Monday November 24th to Wednesday November 26th 2008 from 10h00 – 18h00. The Fried Gallery provides art courses for beginners who want to learn how to make art, and for experienced artists looking for different or advanced techniques and new ideas in the arts. Click here to read more.
- 17/11/08 HOME page unesce animation workshop SA
This is the product of the sa unesco animation workshops
- 17/11/08 South Africa Suss'tainable Design
The inaugural SUSS'T exhibition, which takes place at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban for two months from November 16, 2008, is the result of a partnership between the KZNSA and Design Indaba. Curated by Brenton Maart, the exhibition catalogues and exhibits the broad wealth of design and creativity inherent in South Africa, most of whom regularly participate in the annual Design Indaba Expo. Exhibitors and objects have been selected based on their relevancy to sustainability (the concept from which the exhibition derives its name).
- 13/11/08 HOME page letters and opinion
moved to http://greenroom.africancolours.net/content/8642
- 13/11/08 Kenya Peter Ngugi, Kenyan Artist in Residence - UK
The University of Kentucky Department of Art has invited to campus for the eighth year an emerging Kenyan artist through the UK Kenyan Artist-in-Residence program funded by the Ruth Hunt Wood Foundation Inc. Peter Ngugi, one of Kenya's talented young artists, will present a solo exhibition of his work and deliver a public lecture on his art this November as part of the program. "Images from Kenya: New Work by Peter Ngugi" opens Nov. 20, at the Tuska Center for Contemporary Art.
- 12/11/08 Mali Hama Goro Main Introduction
- 12/11/08 Mali Modibo Doumbia Press Support
- 11/11/08 Zimbabwe Mambakwedza .H. Mutasa Curriculum Vitae
- 11/11/08 Uganda Eria Nsebuga Portfolio Page
- 11/11/08 HOME page reggie Pedro's
artist of the week
- 11/11/08 International 19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts
19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts – Gabrovo 2009
The Museum HOUSE OF HUMOUR AND SATIRE in Gabrovo, Bulgaria will inaugurate the 19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the arts. The Biennial exhibition has got six categories: cartoons, graphics & drawings, paintings, sculpture, photographs and posters that are open to humour artists from the world over without entry fee, but with all the freedom of technique. The competition subject matter is THE WORLD LASTS BECAUSE IT LAUGHS.
- 11/11/08 HOME page photography on AfricanColours
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- 11/11/08 Nigeria Ndidi Dike page 3
- 10/11/08 Nigeria Art is Everywhere
The just concluded Art is Everywhere, waste-to-art international workshop at the FCT Art and Culture Cyprain Ekwensi Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, celebrated art works from five visiting artists from Uganda, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Zambia and other local artists. The workshop which was declared open by the Director, Social Development Secretariat Hajia Nana Sokwa was all about opening up the creative minds of young artists to the endless possibilities in their immediate environment, provide an avenue to train artists and the less privileged in the society on how to make a living from recycled materials. Click here to read more.
- 10/11/08 Nigeria Ndidi Dike page 2
- 10/11/08 Nigeria Ndidi Dike press support
- 10/11/08 Nigeria Ndidi Dike Front Page
- 10/11/08 Swaziland online network
- 07/11/08 South Africa Hodgins at Goodman Gallery Cape 2008
Robert Hodgins, one of South Africa’s most loved and admired artists, shows new paintings and prints that bring together a sensual aesthetics of heightened colour and expressive form with his trade-mark intelligent humour and searing insights. At a time notable for a dearth of painting, Hodgins celebrates the medium with increasing freedom and confidence. Glorious colour and rich tactility produce sensational and seductive effects. The exhibition opens Saturday 8 November at 12 noon and ends on Saturday 29 November 2008.
- 07/11/08 Burkina Faso africancolours à la rencontre de certains Artistes à l'ANAPAP
africancolours à la rencontre de certains Artistes à l'ANAPAP
- 05/11/08 Burkina Faso Africancolours chez Guy Compaore
Africancolours chez Guy Compaore
- 05/11/08 Kenya Change has come To America
The America flag hangs on a wall in the Nairobi suburb of Westlands moments after Barack Hussein Obama was declared President elect of The United State of America.
Photograph by Andrew Njoroge/AfricanColours.net
- 04/11/08 South Africa Two Un/related Stories
The title of the exhibition is captured in the cover that enfolds this catalogue – two children in front of their humble shack, strangely observed by a swan from an Aubusson carton (a preparatory drawing for the tapestry). They represent the vicissitudes of contemporary township life in South Africa, photographed by Zwelethu Mthethwa, against an idealised, pre-modern rural scene created in nineteenth-century France. Past and present, imagined and real, mass-production and the mark of the individual artist are brought together by the hand and artistry of Louis Jansen van Vuuren, a South African living in France. And of course by the visual dialogue that has emerged from the collaboration between Jansen van Vuuren and Mthethwa, who have been friends since the early 1990s.
- 04/11/08 International Regardez-moi by Malick Sidibé
Regardez-moi! Photographs by Malick Sidibé is the Malian artist's first exhibition on the West Coast. It features 333 gelatin silver prints created between 1962 and 2003. This retrospective includes examples from Sidibé's signature bodies of work. The title of the exhibition, Regardez-moi! (Look at Me!), pays homage to Sidibé's own use of the phrase as a recurring image title and highlights the importance of self-identity in his portraiture, while honoring the patrons who have fueled his life's work. Read more here from SDSUniverse.
- 03/11/08 South Africa STUDIO, a Solo Exhibition by Cameron Platter
The KZNSA gallery is pleased to present STUDIO, a solo exhibition by Cameron Platter, composed for the Main, Mezzanine, and Electric Galleries.
The main gallery will, for the duration of the exhibition, recreate a working sculpture studio, in which the public is invited and encouraged to participate. In this space, Platter and a team of sculptors will work on, assemble, chop up and customize a large sculptural installation of carved wooden objects, collectively entitled Sculptures for New Living.
- 03/11/08 Burkina Faso Africancolours à l'hangard 11
Africancolours à l'hangard 11
- 03/11/08 South Africa Sakhisizwe Mental Health Project Exhibition
The brainchild of the Sakhisizwe (“we are building a nation”) Mental Health Project was an inmate of Westville Correctional Services who has subsequently been released. While in prison he observed and experienced a great deal of depression and mental ill health suffered by inmates. He believed that in order to see effective rehabilitation, help was needed for theses troubled men. He approached other inmates and they began meeting regularly to share their stories, challenges, hopes and dreams. This resulted in the formation of Sakhisizwe Mental Health Project within the Medium C Section which houses approximately 800 offenders serving sentences up to 15 years.
- 03/11/08 Kenya Helping Artists Overcome Their Challenges
Changamoto, an arts fund based at The GoDown Arts Centre, is prepared to make grants of between Sh100,000 and Sh350,000 to individual artists or art groups that can demonstrate they can put the money to good use in promoting art in public places. But it seems that very few artists with genuine ideas are applying for these funds.
Changamoto, which was set up through a partnership between the Kenya Community Development Foundation and the GoDown, is interested supporting new, innovative and bold Kenyan art that can reach beyond the traditional audiences for visual and performing arts.
- 31/10/08 South Africa 10th Year Anniversary Raffle at Greatmore Studios
On its tenth birthday, Greatmore Studios is proud to extend an invitation to share in a time of reflection over the achievements of the past decade. To mark this event the committee at Greatmore Studios has selected work on paper from the collection of images donated by local and international artists which will serve as prizes this raffle draw. The draw will take place at the Greatmore Studios in Woodstock during an evening of celebration on the 14th of November. Click here for more information on this event.
- 29/10/08 Egypt Life In a Picture
After the smashing success of Taha El-Qurani's mural Friday Market, which hung at the Al-Hanager Art Centre last year in an event that caught the interest of art lovers, critics and media alike El-Qurani has surprised his audience with a piece even more adventurous than Friday Market, this time depicting the rituals of moulids throughout Egypt. The artist's emotional interaction with the Sufi followers when working on The Moulid, meanwhile, was different. Here his religious passion drove him to become more involved in the moulids' rituals and people.
- 29/10/08 Uganda Local Art Mirrors the Emotions of Independence
As Uganda celebrated her 46th Independence anniversary slightly over two weeks ago, the country's contemporary artists convened at Nommo Gallery and exhibited works depicting the emotions that followed the attainment of self-rule. On display was an intriguing repertoire of abstract and semi-abstract paintings, metal and wooden sculptures that evoked the deep sorrows of what the country endured on her road to independence, and of course, the revelry that accompanied this achievement.
- 27/10/08 Kenya Beatrice Njoroge Curriculum Vitae
- 23/10/08 International Call for Applications
The Centre of Visual, Electronic Arts & Multimedia will organize the 2nd edition of the International Festival of Visual Arts and New Medias (FAN). The festival will take place on from the 30th of March to the 4th of April 2009 in Casablanca.
- 21/10/08 South Africa Production Marks: Geometry, Psychology, and the Electronic Age
Brenton Maart, curator of the KZNSA Gallery in Durban selected works of contemporary South African artists namely Stephen Hobbs, Retha Erasmus, Zander Blom, Marco Cianfanelli, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Paul Edmunds and Andrew Verster. Their work demonstrated that mathematics and art are intertwined because they used numbers, space and creativity. Caroline Kaminju visited the show and talked to the artist. Read more here
- 15/10/08 Kenya Call For Exhibition Proposals
Are you confident that your artwork can be exhibited in a world class gallery? The National Museums of Kenya invites artists to submit exhibition proposals. Application from artists working on paintings, sculptures, photography, multimedia, prints, etches, fashion design and drawings are all welcome. For more information contact psenewa@museums.or.ke or write to National Museums of Kenya P.O Box 40658-00100 Nairobi, or call the curators office +254 20 3742131- 4 ext 2266.
- 14/10/08 International Baltimore vs. The World
Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres - experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc. Works selected from this call will be featured in Baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out 2009. Baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland.
- 14/10/08 South Africa Opening of Disturbance - Contemporay Art from Scandinavia and South Africa
The Johannesburg Art Gallery cordially invites you to the official opening of DISTURBANCE CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SCANDINAVIA AND SOUTH AFRICA on Sunday 26th October at 6.30 pm. The evening will include a performance of “THIS IS NO DREAM”, a documentary opera by Goksøyr & Martens and Lars Petter Hagen, Performed by Barnato Park High School Choir. The exhibition comprises of artists such as Bodil Furu, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Nandipha Mntambo among others. The exhibition which is curated by Clive Kellner and Maria Fidel Regueros will close on 1 March next year. For any enquiries, click here mariafr@joburg.org.za
- 02/10/08 South Africa Call For Proposals For Cape 09
The CAPE AFRICA PLATFORM (CAPE) is a groundbreaking cultural project located in Cape Town, South Africa. CAPE 09 aims to explore networks that accentuate the contemporary characteristics of Africa and provide a stage for communications between communities and citizens’ activities. CAPE is seeking multiple proposals from artists for CAPE 09, its second biennale exhibition of contemporary African Culture, to take place from 2 May till 19 June 2009.
- 02/10/08 Rwanda Collin Sekajuko Main Introduction
- 02/10/08 Rwanda Collin Sekajuko Portfolio Page
- 02/10/08 Rwanda Collin Sekajuko Curriculum Vitae
- 30/09/08 Burkina Faso Africancolours chez l'Artiste Abdramane Bamba
Africancolours chez l'Artiste Abdramane Bamba 26/12/2005
- 30/09/08 South Africa Two exhibitions at AVA
THE AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to two solo exhibitions
MICHAEL PETTIT
FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS - Part 1 of Pettit's double exhibition at the AVA
LYRICAL ABSTRACTS - Part 2 will be held at the João Ferreira Gallery
and
IAN ENGELBRECHT
- 30/09/08 South Africa Two Exhibitions at AVA
Michael Pettit will be showing his new paintings in a double exhibition at two Cape Town galleries in October. Michael has exhibited widely over many years, receiving extensive recognition. His academic background provides an intellectual base to fully developed, intuitive works of art. Ian Engelbrecht's first Solo exhibition Seed of Memory showcases in Cape Town and promises to be a subtle and evocative body of contemporary photographic work.
- 29/09/08 Kenya Fostering Nationhood
Two important cultural institutions, the National Museum of Kenya and the RaMoMa Gallery have reopened in the past few months with little pomp, circumstance or media attention. But it seems that serious discussion on the arts has been overtaken by politics to such an extent that no provision for it had been made in the last budget a short-sighted calculation since, if wisely handled, the arts can make big money. Yet contemporary art in Kenya has been flourishing in the past few years in spite of government indifference.
- 29/09/08 Egypt ‘Contemporaries Views’ from Egypt’s finest artists
Featuring some of the best works showcased in Cairo in months, Masar’s current show “Contemporary Views” created a niche for itself and the gallery hosting it among the repetitive theme of collective exhibitions. The gallery, located in Zamalek has displays of artworks that are handpicked, belonging to what director of the gallery Waleed Abdel Khalek calls the “pioneers of the third generation” of contemporary Egyptian artists.
- 29/09/08 Senegal Africa Plural 3 + 3 Exhibition
Three African photographers from Dakar, Senegal, launched the exhibition, "Africa plural 3 + 3" that will take them to three countries on the continent. Djibril Sy, Pelagie Gbaguidi and Obie Oberholzer are showcasing their most recent work in a travel exhibition that will see them exhibit their works in Senegal, Benin and South Africa respectively.
- 19/09/08 Kenya Vina Kaur Curriculum Vitae
“I have always loved to draw & paint, I took up art as one of the chosen subjects in school. I later went ahead to horn my talent studying drawing, painting and portraits paintings course at the Creative Art Centre which earned me a certificate.”
Most of my work which is nature inspired include paintings on glass kinds of fabric, clay pot decorations, Paintings on clay, pots, glass and different kinds of fabric.
- 19/09/08 Zimbabwe Summer exhibition
Summer exhibition
- 19/09/08 International Surprising Africa – Picnic Crossmedia Week
Butterfly Works and SICA present the “Surprising Africa Special” at Picnic 2008. This one day event puts the spotlight on the vibrant and fast moving technological and creative developments from cities across Africa. You think you know what's happening in Africa? Find out why Google, Vodafone and Nokia are developing new businesses there. How Africans are building peace using mobile tools and how young artists are investigating their changing cultures through new media. Click here to read more.
- 18/09/08 Zimbabwe Awards help evaluate progress in arts sector.
Awards help evaluate progress in arts sector.
- 17/09/08 Kenya Yassir Ali Mohammed Portfolio Page
- 16/09/08 South Africa 'Born Of Stone' Sculpture Exhibition 2008
The 2008 ‘BORN OF STONE’ annual sculpture exhibition in Johannesburg features 155 contemporary sculptures by 53 artists currently working in Zimbabwe. The sculptures which are on display in a beautiful indigenous South African garden, showcases an array of extremely diverse work, featuring artists such as Walter Mariga, the son of Joram Mariga - widely considered the 'father' of the stone sculpture movement in Zimbabwe, Authur Manyengedzo, among others. Read more here by Carolyn Dempster
- 16/09/08 Rwanda Advancing The Rwandan Art Scene
After traveling to more than 15 countries on the African continent as Rwanda’s representative for artistic study tours, exhibitions, and international workshops, Collins Sekajugo, felt the need to turn his creativity, skills, and inspiration toward a more extensive project: one that would nurture the talent of Rwanda’s young artists, and launch Rwandan contemporary art to global heights. He formed the Ivuka Arts in Kigali
- 16/09/08 Rwanda Advancing The Rwandan Art Scene
After traveling to more than 15 countries on the African continent as Rwanda’s representative for artistic study tours, exhibitions, and international workshops, Collins Sekajugo, felt the need to turn his creativity, skills, and inspiration toward a more extensive project: one that would nurture the talent of Rwanda’s young artists, and launch Rwandan contemporary art to global heights. He formed the Ivuka Arts in Kigali.
- 12/09/08 South Africa humzah goolam Curriculum Vitae
- 12/09/08 Zimbabwe Chenjerai Mutasa Main Introduction
- 11/09/08 Kenya John Ngugi Press Support
- 10/09/08 Zimbabwe Africancolours Artists' Association {AAA}
Africancolours Artists' Association {AAA}
- 08/09/08 Nigeria Abuja Hosts First African Summit on Visual Arts
The stage is now set for the opening of the week-long First African Regional Summit and Exhibition on Visual Arts (ARESUVA), which opens 07th Sep 2008 in Abuja. The Nigerian government has invested about US$1.8 million to ensure the success of the event. The one week show is the brainchild of Chief Joe Musa-led National Gallery of Art, NGA. Works of over 40 renowned Nigerian artists, both old and upcoming, will equally be exhibited.
- 08/09/08 Uganda UIFF Website Launch in Kampala
Founded in 2004, The Uganda International Film Foundation (UIFF) which is based in Kampala was set in response to a situation where there was a vacuum of a film industry in East Africa.
- 05/09/08 South Africa An Exhibition of New Works by Sam Nhlengethwa
Sam Nhlengethwa explores a range of themes that encompass everyday urban life both in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent. Alternately sombre or playful, his works may focus on serious social, political and cultural commentary or on the sheer enjoyment of life. As a devotee of jazz, Nhlengethwa draws much of his inspiration from music, which features prominently throughout an oeuvre noted for its strong sense of design, syncopated rhythm and luminosity of colour. Nhlengethwa was Standard Bank Young Artists Award Winner in 1994. Read more here from the Goodman Gallery Cape
- 05/09/08 Mali Hama Goro Portfolio Page
- 05/09/08 Kenya Digging Deep
- 04/09/08 Zambia Ruwenzori Mountain Ranges Captured on Camera
Dr. Musonda Mumba, an avid photographer will be exhibiting her work at RaMoMa, the Museum of Modern Art from the 10 September – 11 October. Dr. Mumba who is originally from Zambia is currently based in Nairobi.
- 04/09/08 Malawi Malawi to Host Arts Festival
For the first time in many years, Malawi is expected to host an arts festival from June 13 to 21 next year under the theme Democracy and Freedom. According to Bilimankhwe Arts, a sister group to Nanzikambe Arts Theatre, the festival has been organised to celebrate Malawi as a place of artistic freedom. “Artists from across Africa and Europe will present work which remembers the history and honours the artists whose commitment, integrity and courage have helped to make Malawi safe, democratic and free,”
- 03/09/08 International Culture For Development
Culture for Development (C4D) is an information portal that provides to 375 free, full-text electronic resources on the role of culture for development, both as a concept and development tool, with particular focus on museums, theatre and cultural heritage.
- 01/09/08 Uganda Art in Kampala Takes New Direction
A review of prevalent activity around artist-centred grounds in Kampala shows that art continues to explore new horizons to reach out to the public. The latest attempts depict joint efforts to marry one or more kinds from each of the performing and visual categories.
- 26/08/08 Zimbabwe Vigital Arts Students Graduate
Vigital Arts Students Graduate
- 26/08/08 Nigeria Nigeria Art Expo Joins the World
As part of its outlined programmes to reposition Nigerian art and artists, the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with Art Galleries Association of Nigeria, (AGAN), will host the first ever Art Expo Nigeria at the National Museum in Onikan Lagos be held from the 26th August through to 31st Aug 2008. Art Expo Nigeria is an opportunity for all those who love art to come and see the richness of Nigeria's robust visual arts culture. In this show, over 750 art works will be on display and much like ArtExpo New York which is the world's largest fine and popular art fair.
- 26/08/08 Zimbabwe Sculpture Workshop for Young Artists.
Sculpture Workshop for Young Artists.
- 26/08/08 Zimbabwe Stone sculpture becomes a career choice
Stone sculpture becomes a career choice
- 25/08/08 Kenya AfricanColours 2008 Writer's Workshop
Applications are now invited for the AfricanColours 2008 Critical Writer's Workshop as part of its partnership with the DOEN and HIVOS Foundations.
- 25/08/08 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Art of Stone
While the art on display at the San Diego Natural History Museum is from Zimbabwe, it's not made for Zimbabweans. The sculptures, known as "Shona art," are made purely for Westerners.
- 15/08/08 Zimbabwe AAA-Bulawayo art seminar.
AAA-Bulawayo art seminar.
- 15/08/08 International 3ème Symposium International de Sculpture sur Marbre
La Ville de GRASSE organise du 22 juin au 10 juillet 2009 le 3eme
Symposium de Sculpture International sur marbre dont le thème est
Fleurs et Parfums ». Sculpteurs : n’attendez plus pour vous inscrire.
Les candidatures sont ouvertes du 1er août 2008 au 23 janvier 2009
Nous sollicitons votre aide pour communiquer l’information sur ce
Symposium aux sculpteurs et écoles de votre pays afin qu’ils puissant participer à ce concours. Nous vous serions reconnaissants si vous aviez l’amabilité de nous transmettre le nom ou le fichier d’artistes à
contacter.
- 14/08/08 South Africa Cecil Skotnes: A Private View
An exhibition to celebrate eight-two year old artist Cecil Skotnes art is showing at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg South Africa. The exhibition with the theme Cecil Skotnes: A Private View, showcased a private view of Skotnes work including his intimate works like drawings, cartoons, prints and painting on paper, that has molded him into an iconic legend in the South African art world. Also on display were Skotnes’ letters and documents which were collected by his wife Thelma (for the last ten years), sketchbooks, notes from fellow artists, stamp designs from 1966. Skotnes, a pioneer in print making in South Africa, contribution to art has seen him receive many awards like the Chamber of Mines and South Africa Gold Medals in 1965 and 1968 respectively. Read more here.
- 14/08/08 South Africa Toys For Africa Exhibition
Imagine this. You are in South Africa in the year 2010. You are a spectator at the final soccer game of the FIFA World Cup. Which team do you expect to be at the final? Who will form part of the dignified guests? Well, a Mozambican toymaker, Samuel Baloyi seems to have an idea. His carefully detailed piece of art labeled - Soccer Scene- was on display at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Johannesburg South Africa alongside those of various artists like Auguy Kakase of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lekemu Seleman of Malawi, UniquEco project from Kenya, South Africa’s MaxNormal and the children of Zola. In it, South Africa national soccer team Bafana Bafana was playing against the Mozambican team Mamba. South African President Thambo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel were among dignitaries that grace the occasion. The Toys for Africa exhibition of handmade toys from Africa was presented by the African Toyshop which is perhaps the first shop of its kind in the world to stock such toys.
- 14/08/08 South Africa Toys For Africa
Imagine this. You are in South Africa in the year 2010. You are a spectator at the final soccer game of the FIFA World Cup. Which team do you expect to be at the final? Who will form part of the dignified guests? Well, a Mozambican toymaker, Samuel Baloyi seems to have an idea. His carefully detailed piece of art labeled /Soccer Scene/ was on display at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Johannesburg South Africa alongside those of various artists like Auguy Kakase of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lekemu Seleman of Malawi, UniquEco project from Kenya, South Africa's MaxNormal and the children of Zola.Read more here.
- 13/08/08 South Africa Cecil Skotnes, A Private View
An exhibition to celebrate eight-two year old artist Cecil Skotnes art
is showing at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg South Africa.
The exhibition with the theme /Cecil Skotnes: A Private View/,
showcased a private view of Skotnes work including his intimate works
like drawings, cartoons, prints and painting on paper, that has molded
him into an iconic legend in the South African art world.
- 07/08/08 South Africa NOW and THEN, South Africa Yesterday and Today
On Wednesday, 25 June, NOMAD welcomes two internationally acclaimed South African photographers depicting their country in Now and Then. Jürgen Schadeberg, sometimes known as “The Father of South African Photography”, captured pivotal moments in the lives of South Africans during the Apartheid and afterwards. Pierre Crocquet successfully manages to portray images that transcend race, religion, gender and nationality.
- 06/08/08 HOME page flash movie test
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- 05/08/08 International What's Culture got to do with it?
Nordic African Institute invites researchers and artists to present papers for a conference dubbed 'What's culture got to do with it”?. The conference aims to discuss the role of culture – here creative cultural expressions – in understanding change in contemporary Africa. Discussions emphasis is on how to continue and strengthen the Nordic-African network created by the Cultural Images programme. We invite reflection papers and essayistic overviews rather than academic research results. Papers should not be previously published. Read more here
- 05/08/08 Somalia online network
- 05/08/08 Sierra Leone online network
- 05/08/08 Nigeria Call for Entries
The Art Republic (Centre for Arts and Cultural Democracy) invites entries from youth and art students in Nigerian universities and polytechnics to submit entries for her third Peace Poster competition and exhibition.
- 05/08/08 Seychelles online network
- 05/08/08 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya online network
- 05/08/08 Sao Tome and Principe online network
- 04/08/08 Niger online network
- 04/08/08 Mauritania online network
- 04/08/08 Malawi online network
- 04/08/08 Egypt Symposium El-Bahr - Alexandria 2008
Symposium EL-BAHR is an intense ten days studio session with an international group of professional painters and photographers organized by The Fine Art Sector in Egypt and the Alexandria Government. The curator, Reem Hassan a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Art will facilitate the symposium, whose mission is to create an environment designed to maximize exchange, stimulate new ideas and encourage experimentation as well as produce a 15 square meter painting.
- 04/08/08 International ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize
1 July 2008, London - A unique creative-prize has been established to recognise artists who use their talents to promote creative freedom, empathy, understanding and to confront discrimination and oppression.
The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize will carry a total prize of US$ 100,000 and be judged by a panel of eminent artists and human rights experts. It will consist of three categories, including one for imprisoned artists.
- 31/07/08 HOME page Standpoint on UNESCO Convention
- 31/07/08 Kenya Art: Road to Riches
Is there room for the creative arts in Vision 2030, Kenya’s blueprint to becoming a middle-income country within two decades? This is a question that was recently raised by a number of people on a writers’ group.
- 28/07/08 International 'Comforts of Heritage' Exhibition
Resident artist Maria Onyegbule has just concluded a month long residency in Nairobi, Kenya, courtesy of AfricanColours and Arts Council, England. Her exhibition dubbed 'Comforts of Heritage' opened at RaMoMa, Rahimtullah Museum of modern art, Nairobi on Friday 25th July 2008, attracting a crowd of art supporters and enthusiasts. The work on display was an intentional blend of geometry and rich colour that drew one's curiosity to the artist subjects, whose concept was less obvious, leaving the viewer to interact with the forms and the theme in order to draw one's own conclusion.
- 28/07/08 International salt licked map
- 25/07/08 Egypt The History of African Animation
African animation, as it is, started about 70 years ago in Egypt, whose founders were Frenkel brothers. The most interesting thing is that pioneers of animation in Africa were not professional artists or animators.
- 23/07/08 Benin boulevart2005
- 21/07/08 Zimbabwe News Photographers attend Gwanza Photographic Workshop
The Annual Gwanza Photographic Workshop, which attracts some of the country's leading and upcoming photo journalists in Zimbabwe and the Southern African region, ended on Friday 18 July in Harare with a full house of over 20 participants.
- 18/07/08 South Africa “You Are As Good As Your Last Project”
Her name has over six thousand hits on Google search, some of her pictures were exhibited alongside those of the great Malian photographer Seydou Keita, she has had over forty photographic exhibitions since 2000, and she was recently named the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts 2008. These are just a few of the achievements that mark thirty one year old Nontsikelelo ‘Lolo’ Veleko stardom rise in her career as a photographer. Meeting her for the first time in Rosebank Johannesburg, Lolo came across to me as an ambitious, creative and talented photographer yet humble. For a person who has achieved quite a lot at her age, I was quite impressed by the fact that she has been able to remain focused.
- 17/07/08 International Territory, Memory and Identity
Territory, Memory and Identity
The exhibition is a vast multi-sensorial ‘panorama’ of projects completed in Africa and Italy since 2000 by visual artist Virginia Ryan, around the three core themes of territory, memory and identity. Since 2001 Ryan has developed a body of work which investigates aspects of the West Africa reality from her position as foreigner and artist.
Sound environments have been created in collaboration with American anthropologist and sound artist Steven Feld.
The work is concerned with both the violent history and beauty of the coastline – the once named ‘Gold Coast’- and contemporary, trans-national questions concerning race ,ecology and environment.
- 15/07/08 Ghana Celebrating Eighty @ The Loom
An exhibition of paintings dotted by linear and pyramidal progressions as well as subdued colours in honour of Frances Ademola, one of the foremost promoters of Ghanaian art is underway at The Loom Gallery in Accra.
- 15/07/08 Ghana Print Workshop at ArtHaus
A print making workshop aimed at initiating an awakening of the opportunities available in the area of print making for selected artists from Ghana and other countries ended last week at the ArtHaus in Accra
- 11/07/08 Kenya Dixon Machina Portfolio Page
- 11/07/08 Kenya Dixon Machina Main Introduction
- 11/07/08 Kenya Maggie Otieno Portfolio Page
- 11/07/08 Zimbabwe artistic bridges
- 11/07/08 Ethiopia Mulugeta Gebrekidan Curriculum Vitae
- 11/07/08 Ethiopia Mulugeta Gebrekidan Portfolio Page
- 11/07/08 Ethiopia Mulugeta Gebrekidan Main Introduction
- 11/07/08 Zambia Pam Guhrs-Carr Main Introduction
- 10/07/08 Zambia Regeneration
Pam Guhrs born in Malawi and raised in Zambia in one of Africa’s prolific wildlife area the Luangwa valley. Living in Luangwa’s remote wilderness environment has informed her work on multiple levels as she draws on its history, indigenous cultures and biodiversity. In this context she was exposed to and deeply immersed into the Kunda subsistence way of life which has become part of her lived experience and has shaped her identity, so much so that her two daughters are both initiated as Kunda.
The Kunda people who live in Luangwa River valley, are outnumbered by an abundant population of wild animals including lions and elephants. Unable to keep livestock due to sleeping sickness, and isolated by flooding for half the year, they have historically survived by hunting and subsistence farming. There are six Kunda chiefs, one of whom is Paramount.
- 10/07/08 Somalia Somalia sidebar
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- 04/07/08 South Africa Mustafa Maluka Portfolio Page
- 04/07/08 Ghana Kwame Bakoji Curriculum Vitae
- 04/07/08 Ethiopia Sultan Mohamed Press Support
- 04/07/08 Tanzania Tanzania's botanical illustrator
Working under a garden umbrella, Riziki Kateya painstakingly dissects her subject in an almost surgical manner. In her newly learned art, precision is paramount. Any departure in size and colour from the real thing could mean her drawings could be classified incorrectly.
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- 04/07/08 International Transforming war into peace
- 04/07/08 Kenya sidebar back-up page
- 04/07/08 Togo Xavier Sitti Portfolio Page
- 04/07/08 Angola Miguel Petchkovsky Press Support
- 04/07/08 South Africa humzah goolam Main Introduction
- 04/07/08 International Taxis-Zinkpè
l’artiste béninois Dominique Zinkpè invite le public à venir découvrir des goûts, des images, des odeurs et des sons aux couleurs de l’Afrique. Le projet " Taxis-Zinkpè " prend d’abord forme au Bénin avec le taxi "Tais-toi jaloux !", poursuit sa route au Niger et au Sénégal pour perdre pieds au Québec avec uneproposition toute nord-américaine. Les taxis signés Zinkpè prennent la forme d’installations mobiles extravagantes, arborant quantité de passagers, téléviseurs, klaxons et débats animés, bagages empilés avec soin et désinvolture à l’intérieur et sur le toit du véhicule.
- 04/07/08 Uganda Ben Bukenya Main Introduction
- 04/07/08 Kenya Clay Art & Function
The Conference Organizing Committee for ISCAEE 2008 invites you to participate in the 2008 International Society for Ceramics Art Education and Exchange Symposium (ISCAEE) to be hosted by the Department of Fine Art, Kenyatta University, Nairobi Kenya in conjunction with The National Museums' of Kenya from 28th July to 17th August 2008.
Magdalene Odundo Africa’s most recognised Ceramist will be attending the symposium as a guest speaker.
- 03/07/08 HOME page test
- 03/07/08 International Angaza Afrika - African Art Now
The exhibition brings together major works by 12 artists who best represent the innovative and dynamic artistic practices across the African continent and the African diasporas and launches the book, Angaza Afrika – African Art Now - a highly visual survey of contemporary African art compiled by Christopher Spring, curator of the African Galleries at The British Museum, and published by Laurence King.
- 01/07/08 Zimbabwe SA artists tour US
- 30/06/08 Burkina Faso Saliou Traore Main Introduction
- 30/06/08 Kenya Ya Afrika Art Group !
A Nairobi-based art group is bringing together disfranchised artists and sculptors. Solely inspired by a common goal to pool individual creative resources, the artists primarily also seek to express independent artistic muses in a friendly environment.
- 30/06/08 International African Artist Blog: Magdalene Odundo
Magdelene Odundo has had no problem getting her work noticed. Long before Odundo graduated from RCA in 1982 she was being heralded by some as being the greatest potter to emerge since Elizabeth Fritsch. She has had the dubious distinction of being the most hyped ceramic artist in Britain. Prices for her work, which were very high when she was a student, have now reached a point where she is the most expensive potter of her generation in Britain.
- 30/06/08 Uganda Kampala City Streets gets “Scrappy” with Art
The Kampala Street Art Festival once again came to the attention of the art world in June with a stunning visual display of contemporary Ugandan art. More than 100 guests gathered on Saturday the 14th of June for the Pre-Party presided over by the German Ambassador in Uganda.
First in the Cycle
The Kampala Street Art festival was initiated in 2007 by Uganda Artists Association (UAA) in collaboration with the Uganda German Cultural Society (UGCS). The idea was to stimulate the public’s interest in the arts. The programme was branded “LABA!” (meaning ‘to see’) with a graphic symbol of the eye to signify vision.
- 30/06/08 Kenya Contemporary Art in Kenya… Two Years On
Why would conciliatory comradeship between two continental European countries have an impact on culture thousands of miles away? two years ago, such an alliance led to a juried competition and exhibition to showcase the best in Kenyan contemporary art, a pinnacle of the contemporary art in Kenya 2006 project (CAK 2006) http://kenya.africancolours.net/content/8252.
Now, a multimedia cd rom cataloguing the 2006 exhibition has finally been made available and artists selected for the original event showed their recent works at the Goethe Institut and alliance Française, Nairobi, between 24 April and 9 may 2008.
- 30/06/08 International back-up side bar
- 30/06/08 HOME page pressreleasesHOMEPAGE
- 30/06/08 Zimbabwe Museum and Monuments Exhibition
Museum and Monuments Exhibition
- 23/06/08 Kenya Contemporary Art in Kenya
Contemporary Art in Kenya
- 20/06/08 Zimbabwe Coster Mkoki Press Support
- 20/06/08 Zimbabwe Coster Mkoki Main Introduction
- 20/06/08 Zimbabwe Coster Mkoki Curriculum Vitae
- 20/06/08 Zimbabwe Coster Mkoki Portfolio Page
- 17/06/08 Zimbabwe Sculptures From Zimbabwe Featured at Powell Gardens This Summer
Powell Gardens has brought 54 monumental stone sculptures from the Chapungu Sculpture Park from Harare, Zimbabwe, as its major exhibition this summer and fall. The hand made sculptures, some of which tower up to 11 feet in height and weigh from 500 to 5,000 pounds, are shaped in the form of animals, families and creatures of legend…. Read more from digitalBURG.com
- 17/06/08 South Africa Home is Where the Heart Is
recent xenophobic attack on foreigners has led to mass exodus of foreigners back to their countries while some have been relocated to various refugee camps. This prompts the question as to the true meaning of the word ‘home’. While for many it might mean their country of birth, for others it could be an environment where ones creativity flourishes.
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok couldn’t agree more with that statement. In 2006, this young Kenyan-born photographer chose to document immigrants from different African countries living in Cape Town, South Africa. Her interest in this project was sparked by the attacks of the Somali community who were living in Cape Town in 2006.
- 17/06/08 Zimbabwe Leading local sculptor
Leading local sculptor
- 17/06/08 Zimbabwe Lieros holds art exhibition
Lieros holds art exhibition
- 16/06/08 International "The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit"
The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit: Photo’s, paintings and objects of 10 Nigerian artists
The exhibition will be opened on Thursday 26 June 17.30 hours by
Tom de Man, Regional President Africa & Middle East, Heineken International,
in the presence of artists: Gerald Chukwuma, Yomi Momoh, Tola Wewe, Emmanuel Dudu
And a representatives of AAF.
Also the new catalogue The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit will be released
- 16/06/08 Nigeria The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit
From 26 June - 27 July 2008 Galerie 23 presents in cooperation with African Artists' Foundation (AAF) in Lagos en sponsored by Nigerian Breweries, part of Heineken International
The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit
Photo’s, paintings and objects of 10 Nigerian artists
The exhibition will be opened on Thursday 26 June 17.30 hours by
Tom de Man, Regional President Africa & Middle East, Heineken International,
in the presence of artists:
Gerald Chukwuma, Yomi Momoh, Tola Wewe, Emmanuel Dudu
Anda representatives of AAF.
Also the new catalogue The Unbreakable Nigerian Spirit will be released.
- 10/06/08 International ACP-EU cooperation support programme for the ACP cinema and audiovisual sectors
The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Secretariat (ACP Secretariat) launches a call for proposals financed by the “ACP-EU cooperation support programme for the ACP cinema and audiovisual sectors”, to support projects in the intra-ACP cinema and audiovisual fields, aiming at contributing to the development and structuring of the ACP States’ cinema and audiovisual industries, so that they can create and distribute their own images more effectively. It also aims to enable more promotion of cultural diversity, the networking of ACP cultural identities and intercultural dialogue.
- 10/06/08 HOME page pressreleaseFEBRUARI2005
- 10/06/08 South Africa Helena Hugo: KZN @ Work
In painting and drawing the portraits of ordinary workers who play a vital role in society and the economy, and yet are often overlooked and taken for granted, and exhibiting them in a gallery, Helena Hugo presents her subjects to the viewer as individuals with reconsidered significance and status.
"This is an exhibition of breathtaking work of masterful finesse by the finalist in the esteemed international BP Portrait Award."
HELENA HUGO: KZN @ WORK is presented in association with the Art Room, Umhlanga Rocks.
- 09/06/08 Friends Friends Page
- 09/06/08 HOME page pressreleaseNOVEMBER/ftG/2005
- 09/06/08 Kenya Lola Kenya Screen 2008 Changes Festival Dates
Lola Kenya Screen 2008 Changes Festival Dates
- 09/06/08 HOME page pressreleaseNOVEMBER2005
- 04/06/08 Burkina Faso Ali Kere Portfolio Page
- 04/06/08 Burkina Faso Ali Kere Main Introduction
- 04/06/08 Ghana Akindiya Rasheed: The Master Technician
By John Owoo
Whether portraying the menace of HIV, devastation of the environment or creating awareness of the Millennium Development Goals, young artist Akindiya Rasheed Olaniyi’s works evoke diverse characteristics that suggest mankind’s lost intimacy with reality.
- 03/06/08 South Africa Expired Trading Products / Nuclear Garden of Mr Young
"Expired Trading Products" is a mixed media exhibition that deals with refugees. The title refers to the fact that, like products that have passed their sell-by date, refugees are discarded or destroyed after their period of usefulness has expired. South Africa is currently undergoing its worst human rights abuses since the fall of Apartheid and this timely exhibition, presented by an Angolan national currently on a two month residency here, promises to present a unique perspective on the issue. Significantly this project was conceived prior to Kia Henda's arrival and before the recent crisis escalated to its current levels.
- 03/06/08 Zimbabwe TENGENENGE A CULLING FIELD
TENGENENGE A CULLING FIELD
- 03/06/08 International African Artists Lure Collectors, Fail to Make Auction
Africa is the best-kept secret in the contemporary-art market, dealers say.
Works by the artists El Anatsui and Romuald Hazoume have sold to U.S. and European museums and private collectors for as much as $450,000 at the October Gallery, London, and the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. At auction, neither artist has fetched more than $10,000, according to Artnet, which tracks salesroom results. Read more by Bloomberg.com
- 30/05/08 Zimbabwe IRVING’S BOOK A HIT
IRVING’S BOOK A HIT
- 28/05/08 Zimbabwe GALLERY FLOORS NOT ALWAYS PRISTINE
GALLERY FLOORS NOT ALWAYS PRISTINE
- 28/05/08 Zimbabwe Art for Hope
Art for Hope
- 27/05/08 South Africa I am an African
The genesis of creating this work lies embedded in searching for what it means to be white and African. By requesting that my skin be smeared in with black shoe-polish by a fellow African artist (Assane Sar (Senegal)), I hope to raise issues regarding identity within a diverse African cultural environment. Being a soundless video I attempt to force occular engagement of the work, thereby accentuating the visual surface of skin, and by it being looped I am addressing identity as an ongoing and (as yet), unresolved issue.
Sonya Rademeyer was one of five South African artists selected to participate in Dakart 2008. This is the first screening of ‘I am an African’ in South Africa.
- 26/05/08 Zimbabwe Arts Events Galore in Midst of a Crisis
In the midst of a deepening crisis in Zimbabwe, there is a wider creative arts progress taking place as the industry welcomes several new art events, projects, and personalities.
This phenomenon has been largely responsible for an ecstatic mood gripping the country’s artists, art organizations and private sponsors who have until recently attracted criticism from cultural stakeholder and artists for lacking the action to bankroll the arts
- 26/05/08 Uganda Peter Oloya: Art Saved My Life
The award-winning Ugandan designer, Peter Oloya, has been chosen by BBC Swahili to design and cast the winning trophies for its young entrepreneur competition. Faidika na BBC (Prosper with the BBC) is looking for a 16 to 24 year-old who has a promising business idea that would have a positive impact on their community. The prize is US $5,000.
Peter will create trophies to be awarded at the regional heats in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and at the final award ceremony in Kampala in late June.
- 23/05/08 Zimbabwe Granete Ngirandi Curriculum Vitae
- 23/05/08 South Africa Zamani .R. Makhanya Press Support
- 23/05/08 Tunisia Raouff Karray Curriculum Vitae
- 21/05/08 Nigeria Online Exhibition : Maria Onyegbule
Online Exhibition : Maria Onyegbule
- 21/05/08 International Scholars Discuss Contemporary African Art
Clark/Mellon workshop "Contemporary African Art," scholars from Africa, Europe, and North
America will gather for lively 2 day conversation and debate about contemporary African
art. The workshop will be held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and will
include scholars working on key artists and art movements from Egypt to South Africa,
from Senegal to Kenya. Admission to the event is free. Read more by Media Newswire
- 21/05/08 Cape Verde Mito Elias Curriculum Vitae
- 20/05/08 International Reggie Pedro Press Support
- 20/05/08 International Reggie Pedro Curriculum Vitae
- 20/05/08 International Reggie Pedro Portfolio Page
- 20/05/08 International Reggie Pedro Main Introduction
- 20/05/08 Uganda Paul Obonyo Press Support
- 20/05/08 South Africa Gary Frier Main Introduction
- 20/05/08 Zimbabwe Peter Rabvukwa Press Support
- 20/05/08 International Online Exhibition: Maria Onyegbule
Online Exhibition: Maria Onyegbule
- 20/05/08 Senegal Dame Lo Portfolio Page
- 20/05/08 Kenya new page
- 20/05/08 Cameroon walking mirror
THE WALKING MIRROR, by Goddy Leye This short video: 01'31", produced in 2001 has been selected for two festivals: Videoformes 2002 in Clermont Ferrant France and The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. 'The Walking Mirror' has also been shown on TV in Germany, by the Edith Russ Site for media art and it is soon going to be screened on the internet by Zazoo TV in Clermont Ferrant. This is the story of the man who walks around with a mirror. A man carrying a mirror, crosses the street.
- 20/05/08 Nigeria Online Exhibition: Maria Onyegbule
Online Exhibition: Maria Onyegbule
- 20/05/08 Nigeria ARESUVA - New Face of a Visual Art Economy
When the Chief Executive Officer of the National Gallery of Art, Chief Joe Musa, assumed office two years ago, he made it very clear that his target for the visual art sub-sector of the Culture Ministry was, among other things, the repositioning of the visual art as one of the economic drivers of the national economy and wealth.
- 20/05/08 South Africa Lyn Cookson Portfolio Page
- 20/05/08 Burkina Faso Alassane Drabo Press Support
- 20/05/08 Zimbabwe Raphael Chikukwa: Scaling the Heights of Contemporary African Art.
Zimbabwe continues to be isolated from the International Contemporary Art World but we will continue to fight to reclaim our position in the International Art World”, wrote rising Zimbabwean curator Raphael Chikukwa from Dakar, Senegal a couple of days ago.
- 20/05/08 DR of the Congo Jean Paul Wabotai Main Introduction
- 19/05/08 South Africa Floating and Falling: Exhibition by Bronwen Findlay
Floating and Falling: Exhibition by Bronwen Findlay
- 15/05/08 Kenya Job Opportunities at AFRICOM, Nairobi, Kenya
Job Opportunities at AFRICOM, Nairobi, Kenya
- 14/05/08 Burkina Faso test
- 13/05/08 International CASA Africa presents AFRICALLS?
CASA Africa presents AFRICALLS?
- 13/05/08 South Africa Contemporary South African Art Space
Contemporary South African Art Space
- 13/05/08 Ghana Project Earth-To-Art
Project Earth-to-Art
- 13/05/08 Nigeria Position magazine: A mirror on African arts
Position magazine: A mirror on African arts
- 12/05/08 Kenya Online exhibition : Larissa Hoops
Larissa was born in 1981 in Nairobi and has spent most of her life in the capital. Her works focuses on life in Kenya. She depicts her subjects with the simplicity and realism of what the subjects portray. Larissa is a former student of Fine Arts at the University of Gloucestershire in England. She has experience in working at the Grant Bradley Gallery, UK where she has co-curated several exhibitions including ‘Platforms 2006’. Click here to see Larrisa’s virtual exhibition.
- 12/05/08 Kenya Online Exhibition: Larissa Hoops
Online Exhibition: Larissa Hoops
- 07/05/08 Kenya Bird of Peace
Bird of Peace: With only one week to go before the unveiling of the 'Bird of peace', Kenyan artist Elkana Ongesa has been working on the finishing touches to the 3 ton sculpture before its made public mid May 2008. AFricanColours gives you a glimpse of the work in progress. Click here to view images.
- 07/05/08 Kenya Bird of Peace by Elkana Ongesa
With only one week to go before the unvailing of the 'Bird of peace', Elkana Ongesa has been busy giving the finishing touches to this monumental sculpture before its grand unvailing scheduled in mid May. We give you a glimpse of the work in progress. Click here to view images.
- 06/05/08 HOME page discussion1
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- 05/05/08 Zambia installations
- 05/05/08 South Africa Coming up at Blank Projects for May 2008
Coming up at Blank Projects for May 2008
- 05/05/08 Zimbabwe Arts and Travel Expo 2005
Arts and Travel Expo 2005
- 05/05/08 Zimbabwe Mary Ogembo Exhibition at Bulawayo Art Gallery
Mary Ogembo Exhibition at Bulawayo Art Gallery
- 05/05/08 South Africa Walter Oltmann & Peter Schutz at the Goodman Gallery Cape
Walter Oltmann & Peter Schutz at the Goodman Gallery Cape
- 05/05/08 Kenya Faces of IDP's Photo Exhibition: Call for Photo Submission
Faces of IDP's Photo Exhibition: Call for Photo Submission
- 05/05/08 International Video Correspondents Wanted for Project Timbuktu.tv
Video Correspondents Wanted for Project Timbuktu.tv
- 05/05/08 Kenya The Artist Grapevine
The Artist Grapevine
- 05/05/08 Kenya Internships and Volunteers
Internships and Volunteers
- 05/05/08 Kenya passion for sculpting
- 30/04/08 Ethiopia Abro International Artist Workshops
The Abro International workshop held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for two weeks has just concluded. The theme of the workshop titled 'Embryo' was a symbol of a new beginning for Abro who have officially joined the Triangle Arts Trust. “The Embryo idea came about during the planning of the workshop. It is all about giving visual artists the chance to express their experience in finding oneself in a common womb where they can revisit their fantasy and feeling of being in the original home of mankind.” Konjit Seyoum, explains. Read more
- 30/04/08 Zimbabwe Letmotif Art Exhibition: The Sixth Sense
The drawing, Crossing Over is my attempt to portray a woman who has
renounced the physical world of the senses in the desire to seek a spiritual
world of love and understanding. In this I wish to explore the question: How
do we explain, the political and violent events that happen in our lives and in
the world, now that we no longer believe in the power of ‘divine
intervention’?
- 29/04/08 International foto8 Award and Summer Show 2008
The Foto8 Awards and Summer Show is open to all photographers. We’d like to see your personal or political work from the past 18 months.
- 28/04/08 Zimbabwe The Harare International Festival Of The Arts
The Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) has grown into one of the most substantial and diverse international arts events in Africa. The dates of this year’s Festival are 29th April to 4th May and HIFA 2008 promises to be the most prestigious since the Festival’s inauguration in 1999.
- 28/04/08 South Africa Put Something In To Take Something Out
Put Something In To Take Something Out
Alison Kearney is based in Johannesburg, and holds a BA and MA in Fine Arts, both achieved with distinction, from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the recipient of the Maude Catherine Bird Scholarship, the E.J.A. Loerincz Scholarship and the Standard Bank History of Art Award. In 2003 she was a finalist in the MTN New Contemporaries Art Award, in 2004 awarded an artist's residency in Switzerland and in 2006 invited as artist-in-residence at the 2006 NEXT WAVE festival in Melbourne, Australia.
- 28/04/08 Angola V Éme Amostra Internationale D´Arte Des Approches Esthetiques Á Visage Humain
V Éme Amostra Internationale D´Arte Des Approches Esthetiques Á Visage Humain
- 28/04/08 Zimbabwe
- 17/04/08 Sudan Contemporary Art in Sudan
Contemporary Art in Sudan
- 17/04/08 Kenya Online exhibition: Samuel Githui
Online exhibition: Samuel Githui
- 16/04/08 South Africa Skin-to-Skin Exhibition at the Standard Bank
Skin-to-Skin Exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery Opening Tonight
- 16/04/08 Egypt Mohamed Ghazala: Selected as Jury of the Animabasauri Animation Festival
The Egyptian Animation director Mohamed Ghazala will participate as a member of Jury to the 4th edition of Animabasauri animation festival which will take place in Bilbao, Spain between the 18th and the 25th of April 2008. He will present lectures about African animation with screening of a selection of best animated films since 70 years ago until now.
- 16/04/08 International The Africa in Motion Film Festival (AiM)
The Africa in Motion film festival (AiM), which takes place annually in October at Edinburgh Filmhouse, is officially inviting African filmmakers to submit short films for a new AiM competition. In order to target the competition specifically towards young and emerging African talent, filmmakers who enter a film for consideration must not have completed a feature-length film previously. Films entered must have been completed in 2005 or after, and must be no longer than 30 minutes.
- 15/04/08 International University of Providence to offer BA in Designing and implementing of cultural projects
University of Providence to offer BA in Designing and implementing of cultural projects
- 14/04/08 South Africa Applications Invited: 2008 Critical Writer's Workshop and Seminar Series
Applications Invited: 2008 Critical Writer's Workshop and Seminar Series
- 11/04/08 South Africa Put something in to get something out exhibition by Alison Kearney
Put something in to get something out
- 10/04/08 Kenya Keeping Murumbi's Legacy Alive
The Murumbi memorial park in Nairobi's City Park is host to Artist Elkana Ongesa who is working on a 3 tonne sculpture in honour of his mentor, friend and a pioneer African art collector Joseph Murumbi
- 10/04/08 International Art in a dimension beyond measure
Throughout history science has informed art and art has inspired science, as this show demonstrates
- 09/04/08 South Africa dearth of art institutions?
- 09/04/08 International COLONIALISM WITHOUT COLONIES?
- 09/04/08 Zimbabwe Hifa -the Art of Determination
ZIMBABWE'S celebrated arts festival, Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) will premiere local and international artistic talent on April 29. Launching the artistic showcase, Hifa chairperson, Angeline Kamba said this year's six-day event is inspired by the resilience exhibited by local artists and the corporate sector over the past nine years of existence.
- 09/04/08 Kenya Reflections from the GalleryWalk
It’s true that a bird at hand is better than two in the bush. But we at AfricanColours thought that keeping the bird at hand and going out to get the other two in the bush is an even better way of experiencing life! So keeping with a tradition that we started in 2006, we rolled out the fourth GalleryWalk – an art and nature affair to be experienced by lovers of art and nature. It was this past Saturday 5th April, and the art tour took the participants to the new RaMoMa gallery on 2nd Parklands avenue, and on to the world famed Kitengela Glass and finally to the artist Jimna Kimani’s studio.
- 03/04/08 Zimbabwe Focus on stone scuplture
- 03/04/08 Zimbabwe Female Artworks On Sale At National Gallery
Female artworks on display to mark the on-going Celebrating Womanhood Exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe are now on sale.
In an interview, gallery press officer, Rutendo Mutadzapasi said the sale of the artworks was aimed at empowering women and creating an income for them.
- 03/04/08 Zimbabwe Blomefield to Publish Book On Sculpture
"There is something about Tengenenge that is beyond art, a positive feeling that has to do with harmony and a belief in the spirits" Tom Blomefield said in his forthcoming book titled Stone Rich in Africa
- 03/04/08 Kenya Jimmy Ogonga on Kenyan art and the Jo’Burg Art Fair
Jimmy Ogonga is a pariah on the Kenyan art scene. So he says of himself. But it is easy to see how this would be at the end of my interview with him: His enthusiasm for what he does, his lack of patience for anything he sees as mediocre, and his unrelenting belief in himself and what he does - a trait he is well aware that his contemporaries and the main players on the Kenyan art market interpret as arrogant.
- 03/04/08 Kenya Jimmy Ogonga on Kenyan art and the Jo’Burg Art Fair
Jimmy Ogonga is a pariah on the Kenyan art scene. So he says of himself. But it is easy to see how this would be at the end of my interview with him: His enthusiasm for what he does, his lack of patience for anything he sees as mediocre, and his unrelenting belief in himself and what he does - a trait he is well aware that his contemporaries and the main players on the Kenyan art market interpret as arrogant.
- 03/04/08 International Online exhibition : Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art
“Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art,” is currently on exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, US, since the 22 December 2007 and runs to 20 April 2008, featuring approximately 70 works of art. The exhibition explores the many dimensions of spirituality of Yoruba art, including its complex network of deities, the relationship between the human body and creative expression, and the head as the theoretical seat of intelligence.
- 03/04/08 South Africa One on One with Dr. Michael Durst
One on One with Dr. Michael Durst
- 01/04/08 Congo A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art features Congolese urban art, or popular painting, that portrays the life and tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo after its independence from Belgium in 1960. A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art is available for travel.
- 26/03/08 South Africa A call to young Cape Town creatives
A call to young Cape Town creatives
- 26/03/08 International African icons in European museums : The thin edge of European Morality.
Nefertiti, Idia and other African Icons in European Museums : The thin edge of European Morality.
- 26/03/08 Zimbabwe Artist criticises Mugabe
Artist criticises Mugabe
- 25/03/08 Angola Retrouvailles et Emotions Féminines
Retrouvailles et Emotions Féminines
- 25/03/08 International Hollywood Welcomes Olympic Artists
Hollywood Welcomes Olympic Artists
- 25/03/08 International One on One with Wawi Amasha
One on One with Wawi Amasha
- 19/03/08 Kenya Urban Wasanii international workshop 2008
Urban Wasanii international workshop 2008
- 19/03/08 Kenya Register now: The AfricanColours GalleryWalk.
The AfricanColours GalleryWalk is planned for the 5th of April 2008! This time the participants have the opportunity to discover the new RaMoMa gallery then bus out to the Kitengela plains to visit Nani Croze of the world famous Kitengela glass studios.
Jimnah Kimani of the famed Java Coffee house paintings also in Kitengela will open his new studio doors especially for the gallery walk participants. Click here to read more and register. Space is limited.
- 18/03/08 Angola Bienalle Ensarte 2008
Bienalle Ensarte 2008
- 18/03/08 Zimbabwe Dominic Benhura takes over Tengenenge directorship
Dominic Benhura takes over Tengenenge directorship
- 17/03/08 International Our Positive Bodies: From Kenya to London
Our Positive Bodies: From Kenya to London
- 17/03/08 Kenya Our Positive Bodies: From Kenya to London
Our Positive Bodies: From Kenya to London
- 14/03/08 Botswana Visual artists form umbrella body
Visual artists form umbrella body
- 13/03/08 Kenya RaMoMa moves to Parklands…
Ramoma moves to Parklands…
Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art – better known as RaMoMa is finally moving from the Rahimtulla towers offices in Nairobi’s Upperhill district where they have been based since 2001. The new, expansive, state of the art and conveniently located museum officially opens this Saturday, 15th March with an open day for artists, art lovers and supporters. The museum will also stage its first exhibition showcasing artworks submitted by local based artists.
- 13/03/08 Mozambique One on One : Miguel Petchkovsky
One on One : Miguel Petchkovsky
Art is everything but a definition, one can argue that it is the transformation of one thing into another. The exercise of definition about art is only rooted on the necessity to classify in order to supply international art markets, and food for thought for art critics that are the conceptual suppliers of those markets. So art is the way you articulate your own self and the way you can transmit knowledge and creative vision to others, in sharing experiences and knowledge.
- 12/03/08 South Africa Skin-to-Skin exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery
Skin-to-Skin exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery
- 12/03/08 International Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art
Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art
- 12/03/08 South Africa Two new exhibitions at the KZNSA gallery
Two new exhibitions at the KZNSA gallery
- 12/03/08 South Africa Urban Space : Call for artists and photographers
Urban Space : Call for artists and photographers
- 10/03/08 Kenya Yassir Ali Mohammed Main Introduction
- 07/03/08 South Africa Scratching the surface of South African art
Scratching the surface of South African art
- 06/03/08 Kenya Breaking the Time Warp
Breaking the Time Warp
- 06/03/08 South Africa The Spier Contemporary moves to Jo’burg
The Spier Contemporary moves to Jo’burg
- 06/03/08 Zimbabwe Chitungwiza to Host Variety Arts Festival
Chitungwiza to Host Variety Arts Festival
- 04/03/08 Zimbabwe Gallery Hosts Lungu's One-Man Exhibition
Gallery Hosts Lungu's One-Man Exhibition
- 04/03/08 Cote d'Ivoire Mensah .K. Ignace Press Support
- 04/03/08 Uganda GandaArt.com "Virtual art gallery" launched
GandaArt.com "Virtual art gallery" launched
- 04/03/08 Uganda Meet 3D Artist/Animator Solomon Jagwe
Meet 3D Artist/Animator Solomon Jagwe
- 04/03/08 Uganda Promoting modern art in Uganda
Promoting modern art in Uganda
- 04/03/08 Nigeria Nigeria Breweries Sends 10 Artists to Holland
Nigeria Breweries Sends 10 Artists to Holland
- 01/03/08 International UNESCO competition 2008 convention
UNESCO competition 2003 convention
- 29/02/08 Kenya FACES : AfricanColours online exhibition
FACES : AfricanColours online exhibition
- 29/02/08 Uganda Painting It Real And Simple
Painting It Real And Simple
- 29/02/08 Nigeria Bronze Festival Benin City - Re- Bronze Made in Berlin.
Bronze Festival Benin City - Re- Bronze Made in Berlin.
- 27/02/08 Zimbabwe IntrAfrika 2005
IntrAfrika 2005
- 27/02/08 International The changing face of China's art scene
The changing face of China's art scene
- 26/02/08 South Africa The art of investing in art
The art of investing in art
- 26/02/08 South Africa Artspace Gallery Relocates
Artspace gallery relocates to the heart of the ’artstrip’ in Johannesburg. Artspace gallery has relocated from Fairlands to a new home in Rosebank. Established in 2001, by Teresa Lizamore, Artspace has been showing the work of new and established contemporary South African artists for seven years.
- 26/02/08 South Africa The Art of investing in Art
The Art of investing in Art
- 25/02/08 Ghana Language of Symbols
Language of Symbols
- 21/02/08 Burkina Faso Tales of Globalisation From Burkina Faso
Tales of Globalisation From Burkina Faso
- 21/02/08 Burkina Faso Tales of a Globalising World in Burkina Faso
Tales of a Globalising World in Burkina Faso
- 21/02/08 Ghana Art Exhibition in Aid of Malaria Prevention ends in Accra
Art Exhibition in Aid of Malaria Prevention ends in Accra
- 20/02/08 Kenya Sam Kimemia Press Support
- 20/02/08 Kenya Sam Kimemia Curriculum Vitae
- 20/02/08 Kenya Leave it to the Arts
Leave it to the Arts
- 20/02/08 Kenya Sam Kimemia Portfolio Page
- 20/02/08 Kenya Sam Kimemia Main Introduction
- 20/02/08 South Africa Invitation : Urban Concerns Project launch
Invitation : Urban Concerns Project launch
- 20/02/08 Shop terms of use
- 20/02/08 Sudan Moving pictures
The elaborate headwear spun from nature by two African tribes, and recorded by the photographer Hans Silvester, has left even a leading milliner open-mouthed in wonder. Eithne Farry reports
At the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan lies the Omo Valley, one of the wildest places in Africa. It is home to the nomadic Surma and Mursi tribes, who use the surrounding flora and fauna to fashion the most beautiful accessories: from ephemeral headdresses garlanded with flowers, to hats woven from feathered grasses and decorated with delicate mushrooms, snail shells and brightly coloured fruits.
- 19/02/08 South Africa World Renowned SA-Artist Exhibits Locally
World Renowned SA-Artist Exhibits Locally
- 18/02/08 Ethiopia Final call : ABRO International artists workshop
Final call: ABRO international artists workshop
- 18/02/08 International Art and Aid: Bono raises Funds for Africa through Art
Art and Aid: Bono raises Funds for Africa through Art
- 15/02/08 Zimbabwe Hifa Invites Artists for 2008 Postcard Exhibition, Auction
Hifa Invites Artists for 2008 Postcard Exhibition, Auction
- 14/02/08 South Africa Press release: Cape Africa Platform
Press release: Cape Africa Platform
- 13/02/08 South Africa David Krut Publishing releases book on Diane Victor
David Krut Publishing releases book on Diane Victor
- 12/02/08 HOME page FAQ back-up page
- 11/02/08 South Africa Gary Frier Curriculum Vitae
1995
· Part of group at the Caledon museum
1996
· Completed an apprenticeship in stop action animation at Jack Russel studios
· Part of group at the Jol (club and restraurant)
1997
· Took part in the Thupelo workshop
· Tutored for Sanlams annual children’s art competition
· Participated in the District Six Public sculpture Festival
1998
· Tutored for Sanlams annual children’s art competition
· Participated in a 10 day residency program on Robben Island as part of Swedish artist exchange program
1999
· Nominated for a residency program at the Fordsburg art studios (Bag factory) in Johannesburg
· Participated in an etching workshop and artist exchange program facilitated by the Alliance Francaise de Michelles Plain
· Participated group etching exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Michelles Plain
· Part of group exhibition at Le bon ton gallery
· Part of group exhibition Battswood Art Centre
· Worked as a professional artist at Greatmore Studios
· Participated in group exhibition at Institute For Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
· Received 1st prize for best designed poster competition for Cape Town Art festival
2000
· I have run workshops at the Somerset library and the Foundation School of Art.
· Worked as a professional artist at Greatmore Studios (1999 - 2000)
· Part of group exhibition at Durbanville Cultural Society (Rust en Vrede)
· Participated group exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Michelles Plain
2001
· participated in an artist exchange program which involved a group exhibition with etchings of 12 South African artists and running workshops in Brest ,Jarsey and Tulle
· Part of group exhibition at Durbanville Cultural Society (Rust en Vrede)
2002
· Exhibition of banners done for cultural festival in Brest ,Banners of Africa
· Took part in 4th Biennale of Pan-African Circle of Artists (Afrika Heritage)
· Exhibited in Barcelona for charities (UNISEF, Save the children)
· Took part in the national Thupelo workshop and exhibited at the Annex of the South African National Gallery
2003
· Took part in the International Thupelo workshop and exhibited at the Annex of the South African National Gallery
· Exhibited in Barcelona for charities (UNISEF, Save the children)
· Part of Group exhibition at Durbanville Cultural Society (Rust en Vrede)
2004
· Part of Group exhibition (Identity) at Fortis Circustheater Holland celebrating the opening of the Lion King
· Solo exhibition at the Association for Visual arts Cape Town
· Exhibited at the International Congress of Conservation (Bellville Civic Centre)
· Part of group exhibition at the Nonjingi gallery- Cape Town
2005
· Participated in exhibition - First Decade of Democracy at Art.b – The Arts Association of Bellville
· Participated in The Cape Gallery Annual Wildlife Exhibition
· Participated in group Wildlife Exhibition at Kühne Boekkooi Gallery in Port Elizabeth
· Invited to participate in ABSOLUT Finale fundraising exhibition for the AVA artreach fund
· Participated in group show at Walter Batiss Gallery in Somerset East
2006
· Group show with Garth Erasmus at the Alliance Française du cap entiteled - Similiar similarities and strange attractors
· Participated in The Cape Gallery Annual Wildlife Exhibition
· Group show at the KKNK festival in Oudshoorn - Branding Me
· P O S I + I V E “HOPE” Art Exhibition-Proceeds from this watershed event will go to the Tapologo Aids Hospice, which is performing an invaluable service in the fight against HIV/AIDS
· Commissioned by the Western Cape Department of economic development to do a artwork celebrating craft culture and local trade
· Participated in ABSA bank Vuleka competition
2007
· Exhibited at the Design indaba with Jeanette Unite, Nico Phooko, Madi Phala, Estie Fourie, Tyrrel Thaysen, Lee-Ann January organized by the Western Cape Department of economic development
· Exhibit at the ITECED (Institute of Training and Education for Capacity Building)
· Invited to participate in Baboon Art Exhibition 24th August at the Sanlam Hall, Kirstenbosch Gardens
· Invited to participate in the DRAWING-MAIL-project AFRICA( part of the African film festival Cinemaf ) at the The Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp
· Invited to participate in the DBSA”s (The Development Bank of Southern Africa) third exhibition - “SOUL OF AFRICA” art as a cornerstone for development
· Invited to participate in the Koekenaap Regional Workshop hosted by the Wesland art Society in association with the Department of Cultural affairs in the Matzikama District
· Invited to contribute to art auction “Art with Heart” hosted at The Rotunda at The Bay Hotel, Camps Bay
· Invited to participate in exhibition entitled Four seasons at “These four walls” gallery with Mary Visser, Jenny Parsons, Karen Jay, Thelma Mort, Philippa Allen, Angela Briggs, Tamsyn Lancaster, Gabrielle Raaff, Judy Woodborne, Sarah Pratt
- 07/02/08 Mozambique Linhaimaginaria II : Video art workshop
Linhaimaginaria II : Video art workshop
- 06/02/08 Kenya Celebrating Kenya's success
Celebrating Kenya's success
- 05/02/08 Zimbabwe IIFF 2005 Women's Exhibition
IIFF 2005
- 05/02/08 Mali Hama Goro Curriculum Vitae
- 04/02/08 Kenya I Cry For Peace
I Cry For Peace
- 04/02/08 International Thamgidi Studio
- 04/02/08 Burkina Faso Realising MDGs through Culture
A four-day seminar that brought together several organisations and institutions from different countries with a common goal of contributing to the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) through culture ended last week in the Burkinabe town of Koudougou.
- 30/01/08 International The Olympics of Art : Call to Artists
The Olympics of Art : Call to Artists
- 30/01/08 South Africa South African art goes global
South African art goes global
- 29/01/08 Egypt DWAYER's International workshop for women - visual arts
DWAYER's International workshop for women - visual arts
- 29/01/08 Zimbabwe Fake art dealers hit Zimbabwe
Fake art dealers hit Zimbabwe
- 29/01/08 International The world's first contemporary art fair to be held in Johannesburg
The world's first contemporary art fair to be held in Johannesburg
- 29/01/08 South Africa The world's first contemporary art fair to be held in Johannesburg
The world's first contemporary art fair to be held in Johannesburg
- 29/01/08 Kenya Theodora Stone Main Introduction
- 29/01/08 Kenya The way we like it - Art exhibition
The way we like it - Art exhibition
- 28/01/08 Kenya Theodora Stone Press Support
- 28/01/08 Kenya Theodora Stone Curriculum Vitae
- 28/01/08 Kenya Theodora Stone Portfolio Page
- 25/01/08 Kenya Muturi Njee Portfolio Page
- 23/01/08 International Pocket Films Festival calls for films and projects
Pocket Films Festival calls for films and projects
- 22/01/08 Uganda Ngoma Workshop – Final call for applications
Ngoma Workshop – Final call for applications
- 22/01/08 International TreasurePostcards08 Project: Call for Participation
TreasurePostcards08 Project: Call for Participation
- 21/01/08 South Africa Invitation from the KZNSA gallery
Invitation from the KZNSA gallery
- 21/01/08 International Lola Kenya Screen shows in Finland
Lola Kenya Screen shows in Finland
- 18/01/08 International True value of expensive Art ?
True Value Of Expensive Art ?
There has been an interesting article released in the past week by researchers at the Stanford Graduate school of Business and the California Institute of technology about people’s association of the price of wine and its quality. According to the scientists’ findings, people subconsciously expect wines that cost more to be of a higher quality than cheap wine. Of course that is not always the case, as wine connoisseurs would attest, but the same kind of analogy seem to apply to collectors of works of art.
- 15/01/08 International Prussian Blind Love
Prussian Blind Love
- 15/01/08 Zimbabwe Who do painter paint for ? Part 2
Who do painter paint for ? Part 2
- 14/01/08 International Topographies of the dark - press release
Topographies of the dark - press release
- 14/01/08 Zimbabwe Domboramwari Art Village Residency - Judgement (Kutongwa)
Domboramwari Art Village Residency - Judgement (Kutongwa)
- 14/01/08 Ghana New Art Gallery opens in Accra
New Art Gallery opens
- 10/01/08 Zimbabwe Artists Against AIDS
Artists Against AIDS
- 10/01/08 Kenya Call for submissions: the museum debate
Call for submissions: the museum debate
- 09/01/08 Kenya Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
- 08/01/08 South Africa Transformasie
Transformasie
- 08/01/08 Uganda Talking Compounds II – international workshop
Talking Compounds II – international workshop
- 08/01/08 Zimbabwe Residency at the Domboramwari Art Village
Residency at the Domboramwari Art Village
- 20/12/07 Zimbabwe Battered but not Beaten
Battered but not Beaten
- 20/12/07 Kenya Kenya Museum officials destroy art work
The people involved in painting over the mural have committed cultural treason. The museum is charged in our Constitution with protecting our cultural heritage. We need to trust that there are systems in place that are larger than the corporate interests and personal aesthetics of egos working in the museum, funding it, or advising it. They have failed their constitutional responsibility, and have spat in the faces of all artists and cultural producers in Kenya.
- 20/12/07 International Evolution of the Modern BATIK Technique
As an enthusiast of the Modern Batik style, we are inviting you on an historical journey in art, which visits the past, pauses in the present, and continues long into the future. On this voyage, you’re going to discover how, over millenniums, a simple traditional art craft has evolved into an art form embraced by respected artists and collectors around the world.
- 10/12/07 Nigeria Artfacts Tourism – When not to play to the gallery
Artfacts Tourism – When not to play to the gallery
- 06/12/07 International Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art
Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art
- 05/12/07 Zimbabwe zimtest page 3
- 05/12/07 Zimbabwe zimtest page 2
- 04/12/07 South Africa Invitation and Notice: About Beauty
Invitation and Notice: About Beauty
- 04/12/07 Zimbabwe zimtest press support
- 04/12/07 South Africa Two exhibitions opening at blank projects
Two exhibitions opening at blank projects
- 04/12/07 South Africa Two exhibitions opening at blank projects
Two exhibitions opening at blank projects
- 04/12/07 Zimbabwe zimtest Front Page
- 30/11/07 Kenya Seminar invitation for visual artists
Seminar invitation for visual artists
- 28/11/07 Uganda Nuwa Nnyanzi: The king of batik
Nuwa Nnyanzi: The king of batik
- 27/11/07 Zimbabwe Eighteen Countries to Participate in Women Film Festival
Eighteen Countries to Participate in Women Film Festival
- 26/11/07 International Culture: A key method of combating poverty
Culture: A key method of combating poverty
- 26/11/07 Cameroon Doual’art (Douala, Cameroon)
Doual’art (Douala, Cameroon)
- 26/11/07 Uganda Uganda: Tracing country's history through art
Uganda: Tracing country's history through art
- 23/11/07 South Africa The Spier Arts Festivals: an exciting re-birth
The Spier Arts Festivals: an exciting re-birth
- 21/11/07 Ghana 2nd Sansa International Art Workshop Opens
2nd Sansa International Art Workshop Opens
- 16/11/07 Kenya Kamal Shah’s exhibition opening at the Alliance Francaise
One of Kenya’s most prominent visual artists Kamal Shah presented a collection of his latest works at a colourful opening ceremony at the Alliance Francaise in Nairobi, Kenya on the 14th of November 2007. The show includes works in acrylics on canvas assorted with mixed media work on hardboard. He has been working using this new style for the last one year and the paintings on show are results of continuous experimentation with objects that are common in everyday life in Nairobi. Some of the works are ornamented with beads from the Maasai, brass and silver jewellery from India and even Keys. The show at the Alliance Francaise runs through to the 30th of November 2007. Scroll down to view images of the Opening and some of the works on show.
- 16/11/07 Burkina Faso Vivier Deogratias Tapsoba Curriculum Vitae
2007 : expo collectifs a lalliance francaise(ghana. accra)
- 15/11/07 Kenya Noted Kenyan artist Mukabi to exhibit, lecture
Noted Kenyan artist Mukabi to exhibit, lecture
- 14/11/07 Senegal Dak’Art 2008 : call for application
Dak’Art 2008 : call for application
- 14/11/07 South Africa Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent
- 14/11/07 Kenya Beth Chomba Press Support
- 13/11/07 Egypt Cairo International Film Festival: CIFF
Cairo International Film Festival: CIFF
- 13/11/07 South Africa Press release: prints books lights
Press release: prints books lights
- 13/11/07 Kenya Beth Chomba Curriculum Vitae
- 13/11/07 Kenya Beth Chomba Portfolio Page
- 13/11/07 Kenya Beth Chomba Main Introduction
- 12/11/07 South Africa Intermission presents : the JHB night of a 1000 Drawings.
Intermission presents : the JHB night of a 1000 Drawings.
- 12/11/07 South Africa Excerpts from reviews of the Compendium
Excerpts from reviews of the Compendium
- 08/11/07 Zimbabwe Batapata 2005 workshop
- 05/11/07 Cameroon Cameroonian Cultural Industries: potentials and promises
Cameroonian Cultural Industries: potentials and promises
- 05/11/07 International Deadline for submission of articles for art'ishake
Deadline for submission of articles for art'ishake
- 05/11/07 Tanzania The East Africa Art Biennale – EASTAFAB 2007 : Press release
The East Africa Art Biennale – EASTAFAB 2007 : Press release
- 05/11/07 South Africa Visual Century: South African art in context, 1907-2007
Visual Century: South African art in context, 1907-2007
- 31/10/07 International land and memory ghana
- 31/10/07 Zimbabwe SOUTHERN AFRICAN ARTISTS TOUR THE USA
A 40-strong delegation of southern African artists, cultural workers and government representatives recently returned from a nine day international cultural exchange tour of the USA’s New Mexico State. The group represented five countries namely Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. New Mexico is a state of the USA inhabited by Native American Indians.
- 30/10/07 Zimbabwe Pabvute opens exhibition
Pabvute opens exhibition
- 29/10/07 Kenya Kenya has been selected to represent the International Centre of Film for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) in Africa.
Kenya has been selected to represent the International Centre of Film for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) in Africa.
- 29/10/07 Kenya Art lessons in Naivasha
- 29/10/07 Nigeria Strengthening the place of visual arts in the development of African countries
Strengthening the place of visual arts in the development of African countries
- 29/10/07 Nigeria Strengthening the place of visual arts in the development of African countries
Strengthening the place of visual arts in the development of African countries
- 29/10/07 Botswana Botswana: United in Praise
Botswana: United in Praise
- 24/10/07 Burkina Faso expo fusion
expo fusion
- 23/10/07 International Bristol’s Empire and Commonwealth Museum – apology, art or identity in the making?
Bristol’s Empire and Commonwealth Museum – apology, art or identity in the making?
- 22/10/07 International digiarts
- 22/10/07 International Kenyan photographers diary in Amsterdam.
Andrew Njoroge, a Kenyan photographer, has been capturing bits of the aesthetic European capital of Amsterdam during August. Famed for its canals and bicycle-peddling residents, it is said to be the most liberal city in the world and has a population of 800,000. Amsterdam is popular with tourists for the Van Gogh museum, Rembrandt's house and other art galleries, but also for its coffee shops that sell marijuana. View his selection of colour and black & white walkabout images here untll 20 September 2005.
- 18/10/07 International Sarkozy’s ‘Eurafrique’ – whose history, exactly?
Sarkozy’s ‘Eurafrique’ – whose history, exactly?
- 17/10/07 South Africa New Director General of Culture and Arts in SA
New Director General of Culture and Arts in SA
- 17/10/07 Kenya FCA photo exhibition 2008
FCA photo exhibition 2008
- 17/10/07 Zimbabwe Future depends on peace: Children's art
Future depends on peace: Children's art
- 17/10/07 Zimbabwe Future depends on peace: Children's art
Future depends on peace: Children's art
- 17/10/07 Angola Project biennale of SADC
Project biennale of SADC
- 17/10/07 South Africa Johannes Phokela: Compendium
Johannes Phokela: Compendium
- 16/10/07 Zimbabwe Sculptures Strip Christ's Birth to Bare Essentials
Sculptures Strip Christ's Birth to Bare Essentials
- 16/10/07 Zimbabwe Recurring idea crucial in sculpture
Recurring idea crucial in sculpture
- 16/10/07 International Myriam Mihindou | Panel of experts
Myriam Mihindou - Panel of experts
- 16/10/07 International Myriam Mihindou - Panel of experts
Myriam Mihindou - Panel of experts
- 16/10/07 Zimbabwe
- 15/10/07 International Congo: Itinerari di una passione
Congo: Itinerari di una passione
- 11/10/07 South Africa Call for applications for Thupelo International Art and Craft Workshop
Call for applications for Thupelo International Art and Craft Workshop
- 11/10/07 South Africa Lisa Brice - Base one two three
Lisa Brice - Base one two three
- 11/10/07 Angola Artistas plásticos devem encontrar formas adequadas para venda de obras
Artistas plásticos devem encontrar formas adequadas para venda de obras
- 11/10/07 South Africa Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe revisited
Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe revisited
- 11/10/07 International Mbongeni Buthelezi
- 08/10/07 Zimbabwe The changing nature of art
The changing nature of art
- 08/10/07 Zimbabwe Who do painters paint for?
Who do painters paint for?
- 05/10/07 South Africa An exciting new opportunity for aspiring & emerging curators
An exciting new opportunity for aspiring & emerging curators
- 05/10/07 International From Fishing Village to Forest Gardens...
According to the BBC, ‘Africa 05 is the biggest celebration of African culture ever organised in Britain’ [1]. So, given the number of African artists that deserve attention, I was somewhat bemused to discover that the current Africa 05 artist-in-residence is Jamaican.
- 03/10/07 International Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
- 03/10/07 International Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
- 03/10/07 South Africa SADC Artists AIDS Festival
SADC Artists AIDS Festival
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Zoungrana Sylvestre Press Support
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Zoungrana Sylvestre Curriculum Vitae
- 02/10/07 Kenya African Renaissance: Born or Created?
African Renaissance: Born or Created?
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Adama Pacode Press Support
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Zoungrana Sylvestre Portfolio Page
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso zoom photoshop indesign
zoom photoshop indesign
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Zoungrana Sylvestre Main Introduction
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Adama Pacode Curriculum Vitae
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Adama Pacode Portfolio Page
- 02/10/07 Burkina Faso Adama Pacode Main Introduction
presentation
- 01/10/07 Ethiopia Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists
Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists
- 01/10/07 Kenya The third African Heritage day
The third African Heritage day
- 01/10/07 International Documenta 12 – A Public Exhibition Contra A Biennale
Documenta 12 – A Public Exhibition Contra A Biennale
- 28/09/07 Nigeria Matters arising from NAFEST (National Arts Festival) 2007
Matters arising from NAFEST(National Arts Festival)2007
- 28/09/07 Zimbabwe FEAST of ARTS
FEAST of ARTS
- 28/09/07 International Documenta 12 – A Public Exhibition Contra A Biennale
Documenta 12 – A Public Exhibition Contra A Biennale By Akinyi Princess K’Orinda-Yimbo
- 27/09/07 Zimbabwe Two Day Forum.
Two Day Forum.
- 27/09/07 International Afrikan Tähti: Digging for Gold
Afrikan Tähti: Digging for Gold
- 27/09/07 Zimbabwe Beyond Freedom.
Beyond Freedom.
- 25/09/07 Tanzania The 3rd East African Biennale
The 3rd East African Biennale
- 24/09/07 South Africa Museums and exhibitions in Africa
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS IN AFRICA
- 21/09/07 Zimbabwe National Gallery of Zimbabwe Jubilee Year Exhibition -December 2007
National Gallery of Zimbabwe Jubilee Year Exhibition -December 2007
- 19/09/07 South Africa The 2nd Cape Town Biennale
The 2nd Cape Town Biennale
- 17/09/07 Algeria L'INTERDITE - COMPOSITION #1
L'INTERDITE - COMPOSITION #1
- 17/09/07 Zimbabwe Art in Crisis Situations
Art in Crisis Situations
- 14/09/07 Kenya Kibacia Gatu's exhibition at Paa ya Paa
Kibacia Gatu's exhibition at Paa ya Paa
- 13/09/07 Kenya Third AfricanColours Gallery Walk
Third AfricanColours Gallery Walk
- 13/09/07 Zimbabwe Artist on the Rise : Zuze
Artist on the Rise : Zuze
- 13/09/07 Uganda Marketing Uganda through art
Marketing Uganda through art
- 13/09/07 Kenya Filmshows "Images of Kenya"
Filmshows "Images of Kenya"
- 13/09/07 South Africa New Exhibition at Smac Gallery
New Exhibition at Smac Gallery
- 13/09/07 Burkina Faso vincent de paul sympo de les Avins
vincent de paul sympo de les Avins
- 13/09/07 Burkina Faso stand espace Gontewana
stand espace Gontewana
- 13/09/07 South Africa Fourth World Summit on arts and culture
Fourth World Summit on arts and culture
- 12/09/07 International HUGEAUX MEMORIAL: Master Artist ALLEN ROHAN CRITE
HUGEAUX MEMORIAL: Master Artist ALLEN ROHAN CRITE
- 12/09/07 International E-BLAST: Blackwomen Video Art
E-BLAST: Blackwomen Video Art
- 11/09/07 South Africa Making waves - a selection from the SABC art collection
Making waves - a selection from the SABC art collection
- 10/09/07 International GallerieGora Exhibitions
GallerieGora Exhibitions
- 06/09/07 Zimbabwe Information technology seminars for visual artists.
Information technology seminars for visual artists.
- 06/09/07 HOME page Information technology seminars for visual artists.
Visual arts seminars.Information technology seminars for visual artists.
- 05/09/07 South Africa Countdown for ACT Awards 2007 Nominations
Countdown for ACT Awards 2007 Nominations
- 05/09/07 HOME page HOME page sidebar
sidebar for HOME page
- 05/09/07 Nigeria Culture will no longer be relegated
Culture will no longer be relegated
- 05/09/07 Nigeria Culture will no longer be relegated
Culture will no longer be relegated
- 04/09/07 South Africa Polish up your local art knowledge
Polish up your local art knowledge
- 04/09/07 South Africa PRESS RELEASE - NEW EXHIBITION AT KZNSA GALLERY
PRESS RELEASE - NEW EXHIBITION AT KZNSA GALLERY
- 04/09/07 International Zimbabwean sculpture on show in the Czech Republic
Zimbabwean Sculpture on show in the Czech Republic
- 04/09/07 South Africa RWAVHI FINE ART - 'The 3rd Generation' Stone Sculpture Exhibition
RWAVHI FINE ART - 'The 3rd Generation' Stone Sculpture Exhibition
- 03/09/07 Zimbabwe Domboramwari Art Village and Workshop
Domboramwari Art Village and Workshop
- 31/08/07 International Juxtaposition of Rural South Africa with Township Life
Juxtaposition of Rural South Africa with Township Life
- 30/08/07 South Africa Johann Louw - A mid-career retrospective
Over the past twenty years Louw has stood out as one of the foremost painters in South Africa. His ability to manipulate, model paint and engage the inner psyche of the viewer has placed Louw as one of the few painters that have transcended the parochial self-indulgence that has characterised contemporary art in South Africa. Louw’s exhibition will be opened by Melvyn Minnaar, arts writer, at 19:00 on 18 September 2007 in the Sanlam Art Gallery. Read more
- 28/08/07 Kenya Multi-disciplinary artistic expressions
- 28/08/07 Zimbabwe Funding the arts with billions
The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust will this year disburse $40 billion to organisations, institutions and individuals who applied for funding to engage in cultural activities.
The money will be given to 140 projects that were selected under eight sub-sectors, namely cultural heritage, fine arts and crafts, cultural industries, literature and languages, the performing arts, combined, film audio and multimedia as well as strategic projects.
The performing arts received $9 690 171 330. Read more
- 28/08/07 Zimbabwe Funding the arts with billions
The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust will this year disburse $40 billion to organisations, institutions and individuals who applied for funding to engage in cultural activities.
- 27/08/07 Burkina Faso Numeriser03
- 27/08/07 Egypt Animae caribe - animation, film and new media festival
The Egyptian animation artist , Mohamed Ghazala , will participate in Animae Caribe Animation Film and New Media Festival in the Caribbean island ,Trinidad and Tobago. This festival is due to take place on 25th – 27th of October 2007 at The University of The West Indies, Trinidad. Ghazala will give presentations about African animation , and how the industry is like in the Continent.
- 25/08/07 Burkina Faso arsenal du feticheur
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- 24/08/07 International Open call for collaborations: The last book
The Last Book is a project to compile written as well as visual statements in which the authors may leave a legacy for future generations. The premise of the project is that book-based culture is coming to an end. On one hand, new technologies have introduced cultural mutations by transferring information to television and the Internet.
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- 24/08/07 International The last book
The Last Book is a project aimed at compiling written stories and visual statements by different authors, for future generations. With book culture coming to an end and new technologies lending cultural mutations by transferring information to television and the Internet, the Last Book will be on show as an installation at the entrance of the Museum of the National Library of Spain in Madrid to serve as a stimulus for possible reactivation of culture.
- 24/08/07 Kenya Children make films as Lola Kenya Screen 2007 ends
Israeli films made away with the two main awards at the closing ceremony of the second Lola Kenya Screen as eastern Africa's only film festival for children and youth experienced a 7.5% growth in attendance, 29.1% in film submission, 24.3% in number of participating countries, 60% expansion of participation in the four official programmes, and 100% growth in production workshops.
- 24/08/07 Kenya Children make films as Lola Kenya Screen 2007 ends
Israeli films made away with the two main awards at the closing ceremony of the second Lola Kenya Screen as Eastern Africa's only film festival for children and youth experienced a 7.5% growth in attendance. The ceremony was presided over by Kenya's Director of Culture Silverse Anami and child rights activist Catherine Mumma at Goethe-Institut in Nairobi. Winning the Creativity Award was ‘LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS’ by Samora Michelle
- 24/08/07 Namibia EU backs Namibian art
The Government of the Republic of Namibia developed an Arts and Culture Policy in 2001 to ensure that the livelihood of artists in Namibia was supported by the state. "This is a good opportunity for Namibian artists to exhibit their talents and skills through their artwork”, said the Director-General of the National Planning Commission (NPC) Helmeth Angula, in his opening speech at an exhibition which was generously supported by the European Commission.
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- 23/08/07 Zimbabwe afriCa/afriKa(H)
The year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of The National Gallery in Harare. This modernist building was opened with an extraordinary exhibition that brought a collection of highly prized European art works. The Jubilee Show, afriCa/afriKa[H], is designed in response to the opening show in 1957 that attracted donation of works from “our” European friends. The aim of the show, 50 years later is to invite works from OUR African friends.
- 22/08/07 South Africa Ernest Cole exhibition
The photographs of Ernest Cole will be on display at Iziko South African
National Gallery from 4 September until year end. Cole was an extraordinarily courageous young photographer who spent five years documenting everyday experiences of black South Africans under Apartheid in the 1960s.
- 22/08/07 South Africa Live Your Dream
An exhibition of exquisite art by South African women entitled “Live Your Dream” opens at the Fresh Paint Gallery in Glenwood on Wed 29 August. The exhibition comprises of new work by this eclectic group of five women artists featuring works by mixed media collage artist Fran Jex, Heidi-Marie Smallwood’s beautiful jewellery, Michelle Nigrini, Rosendal and Dahla Hulme, a sculptor and metalworker now exploring her talent as a photographer.
- 21/08/07 Zimbabwe ZIFF 10th anniversary call for entries
The Zimbabwe International Film festival, which is celebrating its tenth year, is calling for film submissions for this year’s event, which will be held under the theme ‘A Fiesta of Film, A Decade of Cinema.’ “We are inviting film-makers to submit feature films, documentaries or short films produced in or after 2005,” said Isabel Manuel, the Festival Manager.
- 20/08/07 International African Art for Africa's sake
By Aarti wa Njoroge
Art and the arts more generally, are often considered to be of secondary importance in the modern African education system. Certainly missionaries and colonialism did not help: it is widely acknowledged that ‘wherever art did feature in the colonial curriculum, it was restricted to the notion of craft’ . In fact ‘the inclusion of art in the syllabus began only when educated Africans demanded it’ . Aina Onabolu (1882 1963), the first recognised Nigerian modern artist, convinced the colonial administration to introduce art education into schools in Nigeria in the early 1920s.
- 17/08/07 Kenya "An African harmony"
Caroline Mbirua and Yassir Ali both painters working at the Kuona Trust artists’ studios, the GoDown Arts Centre, in Nairobi’s Dunga road, have been showing their latest works at the Village Market exhibition hall. The hall is located in one of the busiest shopping malls in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a location visited by many art lovers. It provided an ideal space for a large audience to experience the artists’ exhibition dubbed ‘African Harmony’
- 17/08/07 Kenya An African harmony
Caroline Mbirua and Yassir Ali both painters working at the Kuona Trust artists’ studios, the GoDown Arts Centre, in Nairobi’s Dunga road, have been showing their latest works at the Village Market exhibition hall. The hall is located in one of the busiest shopping malls in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a location visited by many art lovers. It provided an ideal space for a large audience to experience the artists’ exhibition dubbed ‘African Harmony’
- 16/08/07 South Africa Ball sports at AVA
The Association For Visual Arts (AVA) in partnership with Spier, is one of Cape town’s oldest non-profit art galleries, showcasing contemporary south African art in all media. In the run up to the 2010 World Cup, all eyes focus on sports. Ball Sports calls for artists to engage sport as a starting block for the interrogation of serious and not so serious social dynamics. This will take the form of a curated exhibition at AVA and will employ all four gallery spaces. Read more from AVA
- 16/08/07 South Africa Africa Remix: Showing a modern Africa
The tribal masks and figures that inspired Picasso remain the West's traditional view of African art. But, as the Africa Remix exhibition in South Africa shows, contemporary art from the continent is branching out in radical ways. Mark Hudson of the Daily Telegraph reviewed the show two years ago while it was on tour in Europe
- 15/08/07 South Africa Beads: Ritual and ornamentation
“Beads: Ritual and Ornamentation” illustrates the use of beads as grave goods, ritual gifts and personal adornment as well as the role of beads in expressing social and cultural identity. A fascinating and historically important exhibition depicting the versatile role of beads in southern Africa has opened in the foyer outside the TH Barry Lecture Theatre of the Iziko South African Museum, and is running on until 31 July 2008. Read more from Iziko
- 14/08/07 Kenya Carol and Yassir virtual exhibition
Carol Mbirua and Yassir Ali with the support of AfricanColours, will be exhibiting their paintings in an exhibition titled “An African Harmony” at the Village Market exhibition hall, Nairobi - Kenya. The show runs from 2nd to the 15th of August 2007. To view the exhibition online and purchase the works
- 13/08/07 Zimbabwe Kenyan photographer shows stunning work
Antony Kaminju’s portfolio at Gwanza 2007 is a tale of Africa’s hidden secrets.
“For the first time in my career my pictures have attracted buyers in an exhibition situation.
- 09/08/07 International I dream things that never were
At the end of an intense two weeks I cannot help but quote George Bernard Shaw who said, “Some men see things as they are and ask, “Why”? I dream things that never were and say why not?” It is my conclusion that no matter our background all artists speak the same language regardless of race or creed. Our different cultural backgrounds or language is not a barrier but an inspiration to see ourselves as similar, bent on achieving the same goals.
- 08/08/07 South Africa AfricanColours board member on AfricaRemix panel...
The second Africa Remix panel discussion – Digital Africa - took place at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on Saturday, July 28 from 10am to 3pm. Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent – which is on at the Johannesburg Art Gallery until September 30 – features the work of more than 85 artists from 25 countries on the African continent and the Diaspora.
- 08/08/07 Kenya How fares the Kenyan artist?
What more can I do over and above satisfying the desire of the enlightened few who would by chance stumble upon my work. How will I, in what I create, contribute to the mental, social and financial growth of my audience? And for that matter who then do I classify as my audience? Looking at it from another perspective: who I’m I accountable to? Is it myself or the society?
- 07/08/07 International Irenes Wanjiru's Web Journal
Irene Wanjiru, a Kenyan sculptor is about to conclude her first foreign residency at the Carving Studio in Vermont. She has recorded the most important moments of her stay in the United States.
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- 02/08/07 Tanzania Tanzania's botanical illustrator
- 02/08/07 International UNnecessary homework @ 198 gallery
Larry Achiampong’s first solo exhibition, UNnecessary Homework, is a compilation of sharp, ironic and playful observations of the troubled relationship between "youths", education system, establishment and Bourgeois classes.
- 02/08/07 South Africa Call for nominations: ACT Awards 2007
Nominations are open for The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Awards 2007 presented by Nedbank and supported by CLASSICfeel Magazine. The Cape Town radio partner is Fine Music Radio 101.3 and the Gauteng radio partner is 102.7 Classic FM.
- 01/08/07 Kenya African Pentecost, Artistic Version
- 31/07/07 Uganda One on one with Ronex Ahimbisibwe
Visionary painter, printmaker and sculpture. With controversial thoughts on women’s rights, what is erotic and who supports African Art in Uganda.
- 31/07/07 Uganda One on one with Ronex Ahimbisibwe
Visionary painter, printmaker and sculpture, Ronex Ahimbisibwe views his controversial thoughts on women’s rights, what is erotic and who supports African Art in Uganda.
- 31/07/07 Zimbabwe Zimbabwean photographer wins CNN award
The 2007 Mohamed Amin Photographic Award in the CNN African Journalists Awards held in Cape Town, SA, on Friday 20 July 2007 was won by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi from Zimbabwe. The 30 year old Zimbabwean has made local history by scooping the coveted award for the second time in less than five years.
- 31/07/07 Kenya Carving out a living: A corner of Africa that's forever Springfield
The master carvers of a Kenyan village were eking out a living from soapstone statues.
- 26/07/07 DR of the Congo Artists impressions: DRC elections 2007
Artists in DRC have found a new way to characterize political issues in Congo. Through colourful and in-depth paintings they have been able to center Congo’s political scene into a familiar visual language.
- 26/07/07 Kenya African Pentecost, Artistic Version
Many Africans have subconsciously allowed themselves to be culturally exiled. So it is a welcome wake-up call when you are pointed not only to a rich, flourishing contemporary art scene, but are given a rich crash course in everything that has led to it.
Dr P L O Lumumba speechifies at the opening of the African Cultures, African Colours art exhibition in Nairobi, Kenya.
Today is the day of art and, as my good friend Tom Mshindi was speaking, I was transported back to 1978. I was then a form 4 student and I was being taken through the rigours of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart… I remembered that at that time Chinua Achebe had been exiled to Mbaino and.
on his way back, he had hosted a big dinner, his uncle Uchendu had been invited to make the opening speech and he said among other things that ‘if I say that I did not expect that my nephew would organize a big feast, it would be as if I did not know he was generous, but I want to state that when a person organizes a big feast it is not because people cannot see the moonlight from their houses, they can. It is not because he is saving his people from starvation we have food in our homes. But it is because it is good that people should be together…’ it is good that we are together. I was also transported to 1982 when I used to engage in drama. Wakanyote may not remember this but I remember Joe de Craft’s Muntu ‘some things we know, some things we do not know, but this one we know, that Ottoman Komar created the world and when Ottoman Komar had created the world, he created hence the arts’
Ladies and gentlemen, when African scholars and educated people talk about the arts, if it is in the realm of music and they want to appear sophisticated, they will say that they love Mozart, that they love Mendelssohn, that they love Beethoven; in the realm of paintings they will claim that they like Michelangelo, that they love Van Gogh, that they like Leonardo de Vinci. This is what Africans are in the business of doing…but time has come that we must liberate ourselves from that mental colonization because I believe those who claim that they love Mozart or Mendelssohn or Beethoven, don’t even know what the tones are…it is a status symbol. I also refuse to believe that they even know the paintings of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci or Van Gogh; it is once again a status symbol.
But I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, that sometimes we behave as if Africa was a continent that did not know the arts…but my own historical survey, and I invite you to read Cheikh Ante Diop’s ‘The book of the dead’ and you will be able to appreciate that Africa had a history. If you went to the Zulu of South Africa, they painted, if you came to the great Monomotapa Empire, they painted; if you came to east Africa the Ethiopians are here, the great Lalibella was a centre not only of a pilgrimage for modern Christianity but a place of pilgrimage for the arts. If you went to Sundiata Keita’s Mali and Songhai they painted. If you went to the Ovambo and Ovimbundu of Angola, they painted. If you went to the pyramids in Egypt, they painted. If you went to the Ashanti and Fanti in Nigeria, they painted. If you came to east Africa, the Kikuyu of Kenya painted as did the Wanyamwezi in Tanzania as did the Baganda in Uganda, we did these things.
So today it is a renaissance, it is not as if we are starting in a manner of speaking, on what the Latin people call the tabula rasa – we are merely re-igniting something that is innately African, and this is something that has to be celebrated.
The Swahili have a beautiful saying, ‘mwachamila ni mtumwa’. For a long time, we the Africans have abandoned our cultures, this is why - I don’t know whether Tanya van Gool is here, if she has left, she will tell you that her country is a small country…but wherever they go, they have a Dutch school, wherever the Swedish go, they have a Swedish school, when the Italians come to Kenya, they have the Italian Cultural Centre, when the British come here they have the British Cultural Centre, when Americans come here they have an American Cultural Centre…when the Germans come here they have a cultural centre, yet when Kenyans go to New York or Washington, they don’t have a cultural centre…we must ask ourselves what is it that we must do?
What African Colours is trying to do here is to rudely awaken the African spirit, because it is necessary to shake us from our slumber…I would like to see in our middle class and upper middle class walls in our Cinderella houses in the Cinderella estates that we live in, in this part of the world to be adorned with paintings from Africa. Not that you will not have a painting of Michelangelo because art knows no boundaries, but let it be juxtaposed with an African artist. This is what we are asking of you because many of us here are pretenders. I like to speak my mind and you will excuse me for it, because part of the African problem is pretence. What we say at forums such as these, is what we don’t do, until the day that the African learns to bridge the gulf between what he says and what he does, Africa will always be the Third World. I have since discovered that the only way to liberate ourselves from being called the Third World is to liberate our minds….when you liberate your mind, you begin to express yourselves.
Njoroge, today, you are imbued with the spirit of Sundiata Keita. You are imbued with the spirit of Shaka, the Amazulu. You are imbued with the spirit of great Africans…what one can say therefore is that this is the day of an African Pentecost of an artistic nature…you are being charged to go yonder into the world and paint things that are African. We want to see the walls of our parliament adorned with murals done by Africans. I would love to see the walls of the East African Community adorned with paintings of Africans and that is when we will be able to say that truly we are Africans.
The only thing that am saying ladies and gentlemen is that time must come that the Africans must begin to realize that his and her salvation lies in what is essentially an African renaissance and that renaissance must be in the arts because history teaches me that before the agrarian and industrial revolution, it is the Leonardo da Vincis that invaded Europe with the arts. It is the Michelangelos that invaded Europe with the arts, it is the Van Gogh, and it is Wolfgang Amadeus and Goethe that invaded Europe with their arts. I want to hear that it is Njoroge, Kamau, Musyoka, and it is ole Kaparo who are invading the arts and then Africa will begin to industrialize.
Lastly, I want to remind you that he or she who does not appreciate art, if even he or she claims to be an intellectual, it is intellectual dwarfism of the most absurd kind…all intellectual giants must appreciate the arts. So let the spirit of the artistic Pentecost descend upon you and go yonder into the world and celebrate the arts.
Dr PLO Lumumba
3rd August 2005
Dr PLO Lumumba is a senior Kenyan constitutional lawyer, currently serving as secretary of the constitutional review commission of Kenya
- 26/07/07 Nigeria The mystery of hope, peace and joy
Nigerian born artist, Yisa Akinbolaji is participating in a group exhibition at the Mennonite Heritage Centre; Winnipeg, Canada titled “Invisible Dignity”. Yisa has engaged in numerous solo and group art exhibitions (local and international) for more than two decades.
- 25/07/07 DR of the Congo DRC elections: Artists impressions
33 candidates ran in the Congolese presidential election on July 30th, 2006. Frontrunner was President Joseph Kabila (depicted as a rat with a number-1-sign in the above painting). Jean-Pierre Bembas main campaign slogan "One Hundred Percent Congolese" was widely perceived as an attack on the president. Kabila won 44% of the vote and Bemba (the lion in the painting) won 20%.
- 25/07/07 South Africa tangencya
16 December 2004 Durban: Tangencya (Thinta, in Zulu that means touch)
organization:
Andries Botha,
Janine Zagel,
Ruston Barrucha,
Miguel Petchkovsku
a group of 6 artists from Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique. These artists will be assigned to 6 public sites in the townships, Indian comunity, Colored comunity, centre Durban, to
develope and build their artist projects.
Andries Botha has made life size sculptures of ANC leaders and
funders
- 25/07/07 Burkina Faso Saliou Traore Press Support
- 24/07/07 South Africa Durban artist Nanda Soobben wins three international awards
Internationally recognised graphic artist, muralist and political cartoonist Nanda Soobben has scooped three impressive awards, the latest triumphs in a career that has spanned more than 27 years.
- 24/07/07 South Africa Durban artist Nanda Soobben wins three international awards
Internationally recognised graphic artist, muralist and political cartoonist Nanda Soobben has scooped three impressive awards, the latest triumphs in a career that has spanned more than 27 years.
- 20/07/07 South Africa Two new exhibitions at the KZNSA gallery
Two new exhibitions opening at the KZNSA gallery
- 18/07/07 South Africa Steeling the show
What’s two metres by four metres in size, made of steel and breaks down into 14 pieces? It’s van der Merwe art and it has been designed specially for the Simonsberg Ward - a collection of some of the best wine farms in South Africa.
- 17/07/07 Zimbabwe vibrant stone sculpture movement
- 17/07/07 South Africa Call for young concrete sculptor awards entries
PPC is calling on all artists “young” in the art of sculpting to enter the 2007 PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards.
- 17/07/07 South Africa Call for young concrete sculptor awards entries
PPC is calling on all artists “young” in the art of sculpting to enter the 2007 PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards.
- 16/07/07 Nigeria Prince Twins Seven Seven in Bavaria
Prince Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyekale Osuntoki, also known as Twins Seven Seven is one of the most well known contemporary African artists.
- 16/07/07 Egypt Atelier of Alexandria
Assembly of Artists and writers, is honored to invite you to participate in the next installation and video workshop in atelier of Alexandria's hall exhibitions places. The workshop will start on July 9, 2007 until July 18, 2007.
- 13/07/07 Egypt AAW Atelier of Alexandria
Installation and video workshop in atelier of Alexandria's hall exhibitions places the workshop will start on July 9, 2007 until July 18, 2007
- 13/07/07 South Africa THE NIVEA ART AWARD” “
Getting STARTED – NIVEA’s Finalists Selected
The Nivea Art Award 2007 was funded by Beiersdorf based in South Africa. The award which is taking place on 10th to 29th July 2007 is bringing together artist who have not yet established their careers and are finalist of the award. Read More
- 13/07/07 Zimbabwe When sculpture emerges as protest art
Today sculptors use ancient and' modern detritus to make telling futuristic, apocalyptic works, voicing what lies inside rather than what is spoken.
- 12/07/07 Zimbabwe Arts now a respectable profession
In Zimbabwe today there is much emphasis on the benefits of the arts to youths and how the arts take up time which otherwise might be frittered away. Art at school is no longer a pleasure but rather it has to do with examinations.
- 11/07/07 Shop african book collective
- 10/07/07 South Africa Studio conversation with Jill Trappler
Studio Conversation marks the first time that Jill Trappler exhibits an extensive collection of work that results in a mid-career retrospective.
- 10/07/07 International School of arts, histories and cultures
On Sunday 1st of July 2007, the author of 'The Atlantic Sound' Caryl Phillips took part in a lunchtime discussion with the artist Virginia Ryan, about the exhibition 'Castaways' which was being staged at the Whitworth art gallery, with a sound environment and film by Steven Feld, also invited to speak.
- 09/07/07 International School of arts, history and cultures
On Sunday 1st of July 2007, the author of 'The Atlantic Sound' Caryl Phillips
took part in a lunchtime discussion with the artist Virginia Ryan, about the exhibition 'Castaways' which is being staged at the Whitworth art gallery,
with a sound environment and film by Steven Feld, also invited to speak .Circa three hundred members of the public, including internationally respected anthropologists and art historians were present.
- 06/07/07 Kenya Caro Mbirua Press Support
- 06/07/07 Kenya Caro Mbirua Curriculum Vitae
- 06/07/07 Kenya Caro Mbirua Portfolio Page
- 06/07/07 Kenya Caro Mbirua Main Introduction
- 06/07/07 Zimbabwe CAPTURED IN DOCUMENTARY
CAPTURED IN DOCUMENTARY
- 06/07/07 Zimbabwe Visual artists’ ideas must be original
The career visual artists must choose materials which allow them to say what they want to say, by the stones, scrap metal, odd bits of glass, the rays of the sun, the light of the moon, the desert sands, found objects, paints, canvas, boards.
- 06/07/07 Zimbabwe Book chronicles development of Zimbabwean stone sculpture.
Book chronicles development of Zimbabwean stone sculpture.
- 06/07/07 Ghana AfriCOAE artist-teacher workshop
African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) is inviting applications for its 2-week workshop residency program for art teachers and art teacher educators at a suburb of Accra in Ghana, from the 17th until the 31st of July 2008.
- 05/07/07 Zimbabwe Website set up to promote artistes
Website set up to promote artistes
- 05/07/07 Zimbabwe 'THE CONDITION OF SCULPTURE'
'THE CONDITION OF SCULPTURE'
- 05/07/07 Tanzania Rafiki international workshop 2007 Dar es Salaam
Rafiki International workshop 2007 that took place at Nyumba ya Sanaa, a vibrant Arts Centre and social space from the 8th to 22nd June; was organised by the Rafiki Trust, an art organization based in Dar es Salaam central Business.
- 05/07/07 Tanzania Rafiki International workshop 2007 Dar es Salaam
Rafiki International workshop 2007 was organised by the Rafiki Trust, an art organization based in Dar es Salaam central Business District. The workshop which took place from the 8th to 22nd June brought together artist from Tanzania, Fred Halla Haji Chilonga, Robino Ntila, Lutengano Mwakisopile, Phidelice Gervacy, Omari Kanyaki, Kenyan artist Beatrice Njoroge and Dr. Philip Kwesiga from Uganda.
- 05/07/07 Ghana AfriCOAE Artist-Teacher Workshop
African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) is inviting applications for its 2-week workshop residency program for art teachers and art teacher educators at a suburb of Accra in Ghana, from the 17th until the 31st of July 2008.
- 04/07/07 International Update on 'Check List' in Venice
Almost three months ago, Artnet News published a brief report titled "Art and Corruption in Venice," on the controversy surrounding the business activity of Congolese businessman and art collector Sindika Dokolo, whose art holdings are featured in "Check List", the art show selected to represent Africa at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
- 04/07/07 South Africa Pitch your ideas to the TV broadcasters
Media Africa and Busvannah Communications are once again offering their unique pitching courses. ‘Pitching and Audience psychology’ are three day courses that will turn delegates into world-class pitchers of films and TV programmes and enables them to get into the mind of a mass audience and find out what makes them tick.
- 04/07/07 South Africa 28th Durban International Film Festival awards
Awards Night for the 28th Durban International Film Festival took place at NuMetro Cinecentre at Suncoast on Saturday June 30th, with 18 prizes, in form of traditional Zulu dolls, being awarded.
- 04/07/07 South Africa 28th Durban International Film Festival awards
Awards Night for the 28th Durban International Film Festival took place at NuMetro Cinecentre at Suncoast on Saturday June 30th, with 18 prizes being awarded, in form of traditional Zulu dolls.
- 04/07/07 International To be German, gifted & "black"
Living in the West awakened in me the realisation that Kenya in particular and Africa in general, had quite effectively protected me from being conscious of the fact that the colour of my skin was supposedly not on a par with the pink or out-of-Sub-Saharan-Africa light brown variety. In retrospect, I count myself exceptionally lucky to have made acquaintance with this “fact” when I was already well into adulthood.
- 04/07/07 International To be German gifted & black
Afroancestral artists in German film
On the 26 February 2007, I sat through a discussion in Munich’s GASTEIG – an enormous complex housing theatres, operas, libraries, the city’s adult education centre, congress halls, cafés and restaurants. In one of the halls was the discussion event organised by various organisations of Germans of mixed parentage, with at least one parent or grandparent having African blood. In the packed hall were six panellists from various African-German artists’ groups (an actress, a sculptor, a female lawyer, a German scholar & philosopher, a female radio commentator) on the podium including the German presenter.
The discussion was about “racial” discrimination in the professions. There were various examples given to prove the fact, such as having no African-German TV commentators and newsreaders in German TV channels, and when there was one (in the private channels) their work is pushed from prime time to programmes aired after midnight. The same went for public radio commentators. Other professionals in branches such as law, lecturing and medical health have a hard time practising their professions or winning the confidence of their clients and/or employers. Actors and actresses are perpetually cast in the roles of asylum seekers, drug dealers, prostitutes, illegal refugees, paid male lovers or mistresses of some wealthy “white” woman or man. The man as a rule earns his fortune by illegal means such as sales of weapons and “blood diamonds”, smuggling ivory or finding Western “clients” for African dictators murdering their citizens and robbing their countries blind.
All the African-German panelists insisted on the fact that they were Blacks. I later on wondered why aloud, during the podium discussion. Was it because it was easier to step into the African “turf” and be accepted as an equal human being? I provoked a snowball into rolling whose arguments are too long for an article.
- 03/07/07 HOME page Training programs and workshops in Africa
Training programs and workshops in Africa
- 02/07/07 Kenya Film: A creative and intellectual expression of a people
Lola Kenya Screen is an audiovisual media movement that seeks to place audiovisual media production tools in the hands of children and youth for the advancement of literacy, gender equity, self expression, and democracy in their world. Lola Kenya Screen comprises a production workshop, film exhibition, and audiovisual media platform for marketing, promoting and distributing films all rolled into one.
- 30/06/07 Burkina Faso Xavier Sayago Curriculum Vitae
- 30/06/07 Nigeria Yisa Akinbolaji Main Introduction
- 20/06/07 South Africa 'Water' exhibition by Angela Shaw
Water is my antidote to heat, fuss, noise and too much thinking.
Also to stalemates, sloth and passivity. Even looking at it is satisfying.
- 20/06/07 International unesco
- 20/06/07 HOME page BLACK LIST
- 19/06/07 Morocco Tibari Kantour's art
A well-established and respected mid-career artist, Tibari Kantour is considered one of Morocco's finest artists working with paper,
- 13/06/07 South Africa “Now and Then” exhibition by Andrew Verster
Now and Then is a tribute to a legend. The exhibition will attempt to look at Andrew’s activities outside of what he is known for which is painting. The works on exhibition will be from his own private collection.
- 12/06/07 Swaziland A solo exhibition by Nandipha Mntambo
Michael Stevenson is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of rising star Nandipha Mntambo. Born in Swaziland in 1982, Mntambo graduates in June with a Masters degree in Fine Art with distinction from the Michaelis School, University of Cape Town.
- 12/06/07 Kenya "Generational hopes"
Generational hopes
- 12/06/07 Kenya 'Art 4 change'
As part of its ‘Easter Programme’ Fairmont Hotels and resorts Kenya (FHRK) has initiated a project called ‘Art 4 Change aimed at raising funds in aid of Mt. Kenya’s reafforestation through auctioning painted Ostrich Eggs. The innovative project borrows from the old European tradition of painting and exchanging Easter eggs as a token of friendship, love and good will.
- 09/06/07 Nigeria Afrika heritage and politics of representation
The baggage of post-coloniality continues to weigh-in strongly in the discourse of contemporary African art, moreso when this discourse is coloured by the politics and economics of representation.
- 08/06/07 Uganda 'The world is the most beautiful piece of art'
“To me art is what you call it, it is the creative thinking of an artists mind, therefor, as long as our minds and creativity stretches our ability we should let it be…
- 08/06/07 International "Check-List Luanda Pop"
For the first time in its official programme, the 52nd Venice Biennale
International Contemporary Art Exhibition from 10 June to 21 November
2007 is presenting an African Pavilion.
- 08/06/07 South Africa Watercolour exhibition
The Watercolour Society of South Africa will be hosting their first regional exhibition at the Anton Benzon @ Crouse Art Gallery in 56 Adrain Road, Morningside from 29 June until 7 July, as a way of promoting and exposing gallery visitors to this form of art.
- 07/06/07 South Africa 'Common ground' at the KZNSA
- 07/06/07 Zimbabwe 'Uncomfortable truths' exhibition
Renowned Contemporary Zimbabwean sculptor Tapfuma Gutsa is among 11 international artists commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museums to produce work for an exhibition titled the Uncomfortable Truths that marks the bi-centenary ban of the British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
- 07/06/07 HOME page PRESS 1-8-2005
RE: 'AFRICAN CULTURES, AFRICAN COLOURS' visual arts
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AfricanColours, an established web portal that serves
as a Contemporary African arts resource database and
digital art archive - presents the occasion of its
first exhibition, at the new Fiesta Restaurant in
Nairobi from Wednesday August 3rd - 31st 2005.
- 06/06/07 International Sithabile Mlotshwa Main Introduction
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- 31/05/07 HOME page journal of a sculptor
I started on another piece of white marble to see how hard it is. I made a rabbit. So by now, I have begun three sculptures. I saw the work of another artist/instructor Jim Z. I worked on all three pieces.
- 31/05/07 South Africa Local artists expose the Dutch to SA art
Carina Claassens, an alumna of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), has organised an exhibition of contemporary South African art and ceramics to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July.
- 30/05/07 Burkina Faso Hamed Ouattara Press Support
- 30/05/07 Kenya Eccentric artist, riotous use of colour
Artist Wanyu Brush lives alone and paints in a woody shrine that also serves as his home. He literally paints in the dark gloom of his cave-like-dwelling, which a passerby could easily mistake for a witch doctor's den.
- 30/05/07 International Sithabile Mlotshwa Curriculum Vitae
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- 29/05/07 Zimbabwe Alice Tavaya-Artist Profile
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- 29/05/07 Zimbabwe Munyaradzi Scoops Agio Sculpture Award
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- 23/05/07 Namibia Nico Roos’ paintings
- 22/05/07 Cote d'Ivoire Mensah .K. Ignace Curriculum Vitae
- 21/05/07 Kenya Art exhibition
There will be an art exhibition, from the 12th to the 20th of June 2007
- 18/05/07 Tanzania ArchiAfrika
- 15/05/07 Kenya Martin Otieno Portfolio Page
- 14/05/07 Kenya Eccentric artist, riotous use of colour
Veteran Kenyan artist Wanyu Brush snugly fits the typecast sculptor and a painter, one who mirrors his society by being as mad as a hatter, writes Njuguna Wakanyote.
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- 08/05/07 South Africa 'Minutes' wins MNet EDiT competition 2007
A Multimedia lecturer at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and one of his graduate students from last year were recently named as the winners in two separate categories of the MNet EDiT Competition 2007.
- 08/05/07 South Africa Like father like son? by Churchill Madikida
Like Father Like Son? is an exhibition by Churchill Madikida, the 2006 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner.
- 08/05/07 South Africa Tintsaba crafts;The art of master weaving
In recent years women in Swaziland have transformed their traditional craft of basket weaving into a vehicle for artistic expression.
- 07/05/07 Kenya Martin Otieno Curriculum Vitae
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- 26/04/07 Zimbabwe Art Forever.
Art Forever.
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- 17/04/07 Kenya thelathini - 30 faces of art
Simply titled Thelathini, this new book breaks ground as a first-ever collection of indigenous works of art submitted by a section of East African artists mainly drawn for Kenya and Uganda.
- 10/04/07 Zimbabwe The Eye of the People
Since February 2007 the Zimbabwe-German Society / Goethe-Zetrum in Harare embarked on a workshop for Zimbabwe’s young and upcoming artist at the institution.
- 10/04/07 International Brothers' Keepers - "Yes I Am"
Fighting Neo-Nazi Racism With Music
- 10/04/07 Zimbabwe A Sculptural Diary
A new book titled A Sculptural Diary celebrates Dominic Benhura's steady rise from a young unknown artist to his present status as a globally renowned Zimbabwean sculptor.
- 05/04/07 Tanzania Hemed Mohammed Adam “Medi”
Medi, artist from Zanzibar
- 04/04/07 Kenya AfricanColours' gallery walk
Africancolours is planning another exciting Gallery Walk. The first gallery walk took place in Sep 23rd 2006.
- 29/03/07 South Africa KZNSA Gallery complex
‘Come’ is an exhibition of work by students currently studying towards their Masters degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art.
- 27/03/07 Kenya To the US with chisel and mallet
The highly individualistic work by Kenyan sculptor Irene Wanjiru is being recognised with a residency in the Carving Studio and Sculpture Centre in Vermont, US.
- 23/03/07 Egypt George Fikry at the Venice Biennal 52
Artist George Fikry together with five Egyptian
artists will participate in the Venice Biennale 52 International Art Exhibition.
- 22/03/07 Zimbabwe UMOJA CAMP - MAPUTO
UMOJA CAMP - MAPUTO
- 21/03/07 Uganda The complex story of Art and hostility in Gulu
The Complex Art and Design Studio is, to say the least, complex. Not that there is anything ambiguous about it, in fact it is the most basic art studio i ever saw: An old can of paint with water here, a thousand and one fine brushes all over the place, half done paintings and sculptures and that unmistakable smell of a mixture of paint and felt pen ink.
- 15/03/07 South Africa "Ingaphakathi Lami"
"Ingaphakathi Lami" derives from a series of drawings/ paintings that I started three years ago. I call this series paintings/drawings because I use paint to draw, which result to an outline with fewer details in odder to give the object the space to be more visible in canvas/paper, the outcome is an object floating in space. In some cases the drawings are done on fabriano paper with other object either stuck or drawn into the surface. The drawings mainly revolves around a number of objects which over the years have influenced me, I have not been able to evaluate to what extent has this objects influence my personality however they have over the years came back to me In different forms.
- 14/03/07 Kenya Fight against Cancer captured on video
Angelo Kinyua, a Kenyan freelance film maker and video journalist baggs CNN award.
- 09/03/07 South Africa Leon Kuhn Portfolio Page
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- 08/03/07 Kenya Alex Mbugua Press Support
- 08/03/07 Kenya Alex Mbugua Curriculum Vitae
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- 08/03/07 International Memory Lines: Art in the Pan African World
Working on the premise that culture-making is memory-making, this essay explores the cognitive character of memory in creative expression in the works of three artists whose visual language and politics of creation validate an African conceptual scheme. It examines the ways knowledge is preserved and historically transmitted through the artists' chosen processes and styles of production, their idiom of understanding, their usage of iconic forms, and their deployment of creative expression in reconstituting identities and announcing new realities.
- 08/03/07 Mali The Groupe Kasobané
An Essay by Essay by Janet Goldner and Kletigui Dembele
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- 27/02/07 Namibia Anita Heystek: A Woman's Journey
Anita Heystek: A Woman's Journey
- 23/02/07 Tanzania The visual arts at ZIFF
Providing artists with space to showcase their work at ZIFF, is a significant indicator visual arts is gradually edging closer to taking centre stage in East Africa.
- 19/02/07 Zimbabwe An open sculptural exhibition
“'THE CONDITION OF SCULPTURE”
- 16/02/07 Kenya Latest Works by James Mbuthia @ RaMoMa
Latest Works by James Mbuthia
- 15/02/07 Tanzania Yussuf Bayuu, Artist of the Month; Feb, 2007
Artist of the month of February 2007 - Yussuf Bayuu - from Zanzibar Island
- 13/02/07 Senegal Masterclasses FESPACO-AFRICALIA
Masterclasses FESPACO-AFRICALIA
- 13/02/07 Uganda altar to canvas
Visual art, for Ugandan artist Veroniccah Muwange, is effective as a medium of communication. She interprets experiences and even special moments in her day-to-day social life, through art.
- 13/02/07 Senegal La Fondation ECOBANK lance un Prix Sembène Ousmane
La Fondation ECOBANK lance un Prix Sembène Ousmane
- 07/02/07 HOME page The Diverse Nature of African Art
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- 05/02/07 Uganda The Exploitation of African Arts
The Exploitation of African Art
- 03/02/07 Ethiopia Rattling Color
Rattling Color
- 03/02/07 Tanzania Music Festival of Zanzibar
"Sauti Za Busara", Music Festival of Zanzibar, 9-14 February 2007
- 29/01/07 Nigeria Threading the commonwealth
- 28/01/07 Tanzania arms into art
DAR ES SALAAM 23-4-2004 > 15-5-2003 ARMS INTO ART at the Alliance française. The exhibition will feature about 23 sculptures. Gonçalo Armando Mabunda, sculptor of the Nucleo de Arte will present the exhibition himself, in collaboration with two young French artists Frédéric Miclet (musician) and Sylvain Moignoux (video director), who will display a sound track and movies for the opening of the exhibition. The Apopo project (mines detection rats / Morogoro) will present its research and the first results obtained along the Limpopo railway (Mozambique). ReadMore
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- 22/01/07 South Africa Three artists in symbolic discourse
KOPANO artists’ residency in South Africa spurs the ‘revival of African traditions’ through creative and symbolic re-connection of Bantu and San cultural and collaborative artistic elements. (read more)
- 22/01/07 Kenya A home for the Africana Collection
Joseph Murumbi’s African art collection has been described in glowing superlatives. But none captures the quintessence and perhaps true significance of this rare trove, as “…..Africa's best-known collection of priceless heritage and artifacts...”
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- 20/01/07 South Africa Revival of African traditions
The Bag Factory Artists Studios, situated along Mahlatini street in Newtown, Johannesburg is hosting the Kopano – Revival of African Traditions exhibition running between 14th – 22th June 2005.
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- 15/01/07 Ghana Three artists in symbolic discourse
KOPANO artists’ residency in South Africa spurs the ‘revival of African traditions’ through creative and symbolic re-connection of Bantu and San cultural and collaborative artistic elements. (read more)
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- 11/12/06 Uganda Through the eyes of Dr. Philip Kwesiga
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- 08/12/06 Kenya Close encounters !
Regular school attendance remains a pipe dream for hundreds of children resident in slums dotting Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
But an on-going art competition is opening up new horizons for pupils enrolled in low cost institutions in the city's sprawling ghettos.
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- 01/11/06 Botswana Bogosibokae. His story!
Bogosibokae Otsetswe is one artist who believes in his own dogma, and he puts it succinctly “I let my audience search for themselves, I will not give it all away, the audience is not stupid”.Bogosibokae Otsetswe is one artist who believes in his own dogma, and he puts it succinctly “I let my audience search for themselves, I will not give it all away, the audience is not stupid”.
- 01/11/06 Zimbabwe Joram Mariga- a tribute
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- 30/10/06 International digital art discussion list
The Unesco Digi-Arts Project is a community-driven web initiative which is aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and activities related to digital cultural practices. Unesco, in the context of this project, particularly attaches an important regional focus and are working towards building relations between role players in various development hubs (such as Kenya, Senegal and South Africa), so as to contribute to the possible development of an integrated digital arts programme, reflecting the specificities of cultural practises in Africa.
- 27/10/06 Kenya African women celebrated in art
It is impossible to resist the allure of Mary Ogembo's paintings, which pay homage to mothers of Africa.
- 27/10/06 Burkina Faso Pierre Garel Press Support
- 22/10/06 Burkina Faso Pierre Garel Curriculum Vitae
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- 07/10/06 Burkina Faso Expo memoire de peau
memoire de peau de Pierre Garel
- 03/10/06 Kenya Kamal Shah Main Introduction
- 02/10/06 Kenya Films for children & youth
- 27/09/06 South Africa "NIVEA ART AWARD"
The participants were required to create a unique two-dimensional artwork, commissioned by NIVEA. The theme was “reflections of people sharing a special moment/s”
- 25/09/06 Morocco Arts plastiques exposition!
FES, 23/06/2005 > 30/07/2005 Arts plastiques exposition Maroc. Institut Français "Sans conte, ni légende" L'exposition voyage en ce moment dans les Institut Français du Maroc.
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- 31/08/06 Uganda Gala Opening!
UGANDA: exhibition of artwork by Mugalu Edison, Opening 29th May 2005
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UGANDA: exhibition of artwork by Mugalu Edison, Opening 29th May 2005
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- 23/08/06 Kenya Mamba Village
A Nairobi-based art group is bringing together disfranchised artists and sculptors. Solely inspired by a common goal to pool individual creative resources, the artists primarily also seek to express independent artistic muses in a friendly environment.
- 14/08/06 South Africa The "other" in Ingrid Masondo's Photography
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- 12/07/06 Kenya Cartoon Exhibition
The exhibition shows impressions of the government's performance, as seen by amateur and professional cartoonists
- 11/07/06 Nigeria Smooth Ugochukwu Press Support
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- 19/06/06 Zimbabwe AFRICANCOLOURS ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION (AAA)
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- 16/06/06 Kenya Art Exhibition
Samuel Githui comes to town...his new artworks will be exhibited at the national museum of kenya
- 10/06/06 Uganda Ntare the film maker
- 09/06/06 Benin Boulevard by night !
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- 31/03/06 Burkina Faso Exposition à Huijs Basten Asbeck
Exposition des jeunes Artistes Burkinabés aux Pays-Bas
- 30/03/06 Kenya Art Studio
Out in the laid back greenery enchanted Banana Hill village in Kiambu district a group of forty-five artists are busy churning out oil and acrylics paintings 'due to a desire for paintings that last'.
- 30/03/06 Burkina Faso Workshop Image de l’Europe
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- 11/03/06 Burkina Faso exposition
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- 10/03/06 Nigeria overcoming maps
The 'Overcoming Maps' Tour, the third edition of the PACA study tour, organized by the Pan african Circle of Artists took place from 8-30 January 2004. A group of artists traveled from Nigeria to Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana. In each of the countries they met with lots of artists, they held round table disussions as well as exhibitions, exposing their work and interacting with artists.
- 10/03/06 Kenya Patrick Wilson Githinji Curriculum Vitae
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- 31/12/05 Burkina Faso Sambo Boly Curriculum Vitae
- 31/12/05 Burkina Faso Sambo Boly Main Introduction
- 31/12/05 Burkina Faso Michel Bamogo Press Support
- 31/12/05 Burkina Faso Michel Bamogo Portfolio Page
- 31/12/05 Burkina Faso Paul Darga Curriculum Vitae
- 30/12/05 Senegal quotes
- 30/12/05 Burkina Faso T. Michel Sam Press Support
- 29/12/05 Burkina Faso Guy Compaore Press Support
- 29/12/05 Burkina Faso T. Michel Sam Portfolio Page
- 29/12/05 Burkina Faso T. Michel Sam Main Introduction
- 29/12/05 HOME page calls
- 28/12/05 Burkina Faso Guy Compaore Main Introduction
- 28/12/05 Burkina Faso Sambo Boly Press Support
- 27/12/05 Burkina Faso Sambo Boly Portfolio Page
contoe de vite vitèsse
- 27/12/05 Burkina Faso Michel Bamogo Curriculum Vitae
- 23/12/05 Burkina Faso Michel Bamogo Main Introduction
- 22/12/05 Burkina Faso Boubakary Konseimbo Press Support
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- 22/12/05 Burkina Faso Boubakary Konseimbo Curriculum Vitae
CV
- 19/12/05 Burkina Faso Boubakary Konseimbo Main Introduction
- 19/12/05 Burkina Faso Abdramane Bamba Press Support
- 13/12/05 Burkina Faso Abdramane Bamba Curriculum Vitae
- 12/12/05 South Africa humzah goolam Press Support
- 09/12/05 Burkina Faso Paul Darga Press Support
- 09/12/05 Burkina Faso Paul Darga Portfolio Page
- 09/12/05 Burkina Faso Paul Darga Main Introduction
- 05/12/05 Togo network
- 05/12/05 Tanzania online network
- 05/12/05 Rwanda online
- 05/12/05 Mauritius network
- 05/12/05 Madagascar network
- 21/11/05 Burkina Faso Exposition Baratapas
Exposition Baratapas de Pierre Garel 02/05
- 20/11/05 Zimbabwe Chenjerai Mutasa Portfolio Page
- 16/11/05 Zimbabwe Charles Kamangwana Press Support
- 16/11/05 Zimbabwe Stephen Main Introduction
- 09/11/05 Burkina Faso cours dínternet / back-up
back-up page, in case the other one gets lost, while in process
- 07/11/05 South Africa Mustafa Maluka Curriculum Vitae
- 05/11/05 Togo Xavier Sitti Curriculum Vitae
- 05/11/05 Cape Verde Mito Elias Main Introduction
- 05/11/05 Togo Xavier Sitti Press Support
Art 's a fight against the misery
- 28/10/05 Burkina Faso rapportage cours
rapportage du cours d'internet au Production Centre Informatique a Ouaga février 2005
- 21/10/05 Zimbabwe Stephen Curriculum Vitae
- 19/10/05 Uganda Eria Nsebuga Curriculum Vitae
- 19/10/05 Uganda Eria Nsubuga Press Support
May 2004: Eria Nsubuga and Henry Mzili Mujunga are currently in Schwandorf, Germany at a Residency called the OBERPFALZER KUNSTLERHAUS
- 16/10/05 Kenya godown art centre
- 16/10/05 Uganda Enock Mukiibi Portfolio Page
- 16/10/05 Uganda Enock Mukiibi Curriculum Vitae
- 07/10/05 Angola Antonio Tomas Portfolio Page
- 06/10/05 Uganda Equation Cafe'
- 04/10/05 South Africa Jaco Sieberhagen Main Introduction
- 12/09/05 Ghana Kwame Bakoji Main Introduction
- 12/09/05 Botswana visual arts center Front Page
Contact:
Thapong coordinator: Reginald Bakwena
rbakwena@excite.com
Internet coordinator: Veryan Edwards
thapong@mega.bw
Address:
P. O. Box 10144, Gaborone, Botswana
Situated at Gaborone Village opposite village clinic and near Safeway Supermarket.
Phone/fax:
(267) 3161771
Website:
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- 10/09/05 HOME page friends support page
- 01/09/05 Uganda Paul Ssendagire Portfolio Page
- 30/08/05 Uganda sane on colour
- 26/08/05 Eritrea Gebrelu Gebremariam
- 25/08/05 South Africa minibus
- 25/08/05 Ghana FCAG
- 24/08/05 Ghana Virginia Ryan Press Support
- 24/08/05 Tunisia Raouff Karray Main Introduction
- 24/08/05 Tunisia Raouff Karray Portfolio Page
- 23/08/05 Uganda sanaa and epa 2
- 23/08/05 HOME page guidelines
- 23/08/05 Rwanda Epaphrodite Binamungu
- 09/08/05 South Africa salt on my skin
- 09/08/05 South Africa black
- 07/08/05 Kenya Patrick Mukabi
- 07/08/05 Tanzania women's panorama
At the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), held last month, there was one corner that was practically sizzling with feminine energy. The ZIFF Women’s Panorama, through its array of activities - film screenings of movies on women, by women, or for women; workshops and stage performances; aimed to increase awareness of gender equity and associated issues, giving agency to women as doers rather than as victims or objects.
One of the strongest deliveries of these messages was through an art exhibition titled ‘Look into my Soul’, a commentary on sisterhood compiled with input from women artists from all over the world. ZIFF had made a call for artistic works that portrayed spiritualism, feminism and culture, through advertisements on the event website, local and national newspapers and on the radio.
It is an approach that seems almost chancy: Are women all over the world that closely connected? Do the geographical distances, different political and social systems, politics, religious beliefs and even colour, disimilarise women’s view of specific issues?
And more importantly can art transgress these borders?
- 27/07/05 Uganda sanaa and epa
Epa and Sanaa are kindred spirits in their versatile use of materials and a deep-seated search for that new possibility in making use of the materials on hand to the best of results.
26-9-2004 Aidchild's Equation Cafe' & Gallery
*Epa Binamungu of Rwanda
& Sanaa Gateja of Uganda*
- 27/07/05 Uganda Fred Mutebi Main Introduction
- 27/07/05 Uganda Philip Kwesiga Press Support
- 27/07/05 Zimbabwe David Chinyama Press Support
- 27/07/05 Zimbabwe Cosmas Muchenje Press Support
- 26/07/05 Zimbabwe Cosmas Muchenje Portfolio Page
- 26/07/05 Zimbabwe Cosmas Muchenje Curriculum Vitae
- 26/07/05 Zimbabwe Cosmas Muchenje Main Introduction
- 21/07/05 South Africa Gary Frier Portfolio Page
- 21/07/05 Nigeria Portus Ojomo Main Introduction
- 21/07/05 Nigeria Portus Ojomo Portfolio Page
- 18/07/05 Zambia Patrick .M. Siabokoma Press Support
- 09/07/05 International placebo
- 09/07/05 Gabon sur les plateaux
- 07/07/05 Angola Antonio Tomas Main Introduction
- 04/07/05 Zimbabwe Walter Mariga Press Support
- 04/07/05 Zimbabwe Walter Mariga Curriculum Vitae
- 04/07/05 Zimbabwe Walter Mariga Portfolio Page
- 04/07/05 Zimbabwe Walter Mariga Main Introduction
- 29/06/05 South Africa ZWELETHU MTHETHWA
- 25/06/05 South Africa pangs of initiation
Bandile Gumbi
launch of the book 'pangs of inittaition' with discussion on 'home as metaphorical point of reference' with Gabi Ngcobo
- 24/06/05 South Africa Lyn Cookson Press Support
If you'd like me to paint your portrait
- 23/06/05 South Africa Gabi Ngcobo Main Introduction
- 22/06/05 South Africa Gabi Ngcobo Press Support
- 20/06/05 South Africa Gabi Ngcobo Curriculum Vitae
- 10/06/05 South Africa Gabi Ngcobo Portfolio Page
- 09/06/05 HOME page call for info
- 02/06/05 South Africa homecoming
- 30/05/05 Nigeria Ndidi Dike.
- 30/05/05 International morris foit
- 30/05/05 DR of the Congo Contemporary work DRC
More than 20 artists featured in "Contemporary Work from the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Harare: June 24 – 30, 2004),whose major themes touched on social messages and nation-building imagery.
- 20/05/05 Kenya Olympics of Visual Arts in Athens
13th of August - 25th of September 2004.
ARTIADE 2004 | PETROU RALLI STR 19 | 17778 TAVROS
- 18/05/05 Zimbabwe verandah gallery
- 17/05/05 Zimbabwe Tackson Muvezwa Portfolio Page
- 13/05/05 Zimbabwe Tackson Muvezwa Main Introduction
- 04/05/05 Uganda Paul Ssendagire Press Support
- 03/05/05 Uganda Paul Ssendagire Main Introduction
- 03/05/05 HOME page updates 2004
- 03/05/05 Gabon poto-poto
- 02/05/05 Uganda RONEX AHIMBISIBWE Curriculum Vitae
- 02/05/05 Uganda RONEX AHIMBISIBWE Press Support
- 02/05/05 Uganda RONEX AHIMBISIBWE Portfolio Page
- 02/05/05 Uganda RONEX AHIMBISIBWE Main Introduction
- 02/05/05 International ISEA 2004
- 28/04/05 Zambia Kenneth .Zenzele. Chulu Press Support
- 27/04/05 Zambia Kenneth .Zenzele. Chulu Curriculum Vitae
- 27/04/05 Zambia Kenneth .Zenzele. Chulu Portfolio Page
- 27/04/05 Zambia Kenneth .Zenzele. Chulu Main Introduction
- 25/04/05 Uganda Fred Mutebi Portfolio Page
- 07/04/05 Uganda Paulo Akiiki Portfolio Page
- 02/04/05 Uganda Paulo Akiiki Curriculum Vitae
- 18/03/05 Tanzania Ulindula Mwakisopile Press Support
- 17/03/05 Tanzania Ulindula Mwakisopile Portfolio Page
- 17/03/05 Tanzania Ulindula Mwakisopile Main Introduction
- 10/03/05 South Africa frank talk
- 10/03/05 HOME page artists payments
text for the INFO page
part on payment for artists
- 01/03/05 South Africa thando mama
- 28/02/05 Senegal Mohamadou M'baye Press Support
- 26/02/05 Uganda acholi story
- 24/02/05 Kenya four artists in one day
- 24/02/05 Uganda Enock Mukiibi Main Introduction
- 23/02/05 Zimbabwe Chenjerai Mutasa Press Support
- 21/02/05 Uganda Paulo Akiiki Press Support
- 21/02/05 Senegal Serge .A . M. Mienandi Portfolio Page
- 17/02/05 Senegal Serge .A . M. Mienandi Press Support
- 17/02/05 International african and arabic artists
- 10/02/05 Senegal narrating the real africa
- 02/02/05 Senegal fatoumata diop
Through her work, Fatoumata Diop acts as preacher, teacher and adviser. Sometimes she just creates leaving the viewers to come up with their own conclusions. In other instances she appears to be a proponent of women’s rights in a world were man has long pronounced his predominance.
"I see art as a means to communicate, sometimes difficult messages. It is easy to communicate through art rather than tell them what to do, face-to-face."
- 20/01/05 Senegal Mohamadou M'baye Curriculum Vitae
- 20/01/05 Senegal Mohamadou M'baye Portfolio Page
- 20/01/05 International building a collection
- 20/01/05 Senegal Serge .A . M. Mienandi Main Introduction
- 20/01/05 Ghana children exhibit
- 19/01/05 Senegal Serge .A . M. Mienandi Curriculum Vitae
- 13/12/04 Kenya perception of home
The launch of Artistic perception of home, a book on art in Kenya on December 6, 2003, generated a lively debate that is still going on.
While Gallery Watatu curator Morris Amboso dismissed the publication as "a French book that has little to do with Kenya," Xavier Verhoest, an expatriate promoter of art not only questioned the aim of the exhibition that led to the publication of the catalogue but also said some of the art works in the book were not relevant to the theme of the exhibition, home.
Still artist Geraldine Robarts said that although art is about feelings, "no feelings come through Artistic perception of home." Admitting that many artists had a problem interpreting the bilingual theme-Artistic perception of home--writer Jean-Michel Kasbarian simply said, "How do artists in East Africa respond to theme-guided exhibitions?"
- 13/12/04 HOME page identity, culture and tradition
LOOKING AT OURSELVES by Jimmy Ogonga
AFRICAN FEMINISM by Ngcobo
The "Heritage" by The National Gallery of Zimbabwe
WOMEN EMERGING Fine artists from East Africa (Uganda and Kenya)
PART OF EXISTENCE by Goddy Leye
"Black and White Copies by Miguel Petchkovsky.
Ncoakhoe (Bushmen)
symbolic values.
Africas: curated by Pep Subirós
perception of ‘land’
!Xoe
land artist, Strijdom van der Merwe
Billboard project by Rene Klarenbeek, Patrick Mukabi and Thom Ogonga
"African Art by Jennifer Wilkinson
stone sculpture by Billy Chidyausiku
Africa, a continent charged with contradictions by Pep Subiros
Africanity by Olivier Barlet
AFRICANISATION OR THE NEW EXOTICISM
by Sikhumbuzo Mngadi
"Authentic / Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa"
ART SPEAKS ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF LIVED EXPERIENCES
identity and the artist /
spirituality and religion /
telling and remembering /
politics, ideas and the emergence /
art and apartheid /
recycled materials /
return to roots /
personal introspection.
- 13/12/04 Ghana art seminar
- 21/11/04 South Africa Jaco Sieberhagen Portfolio Page
- 05/11/04 Zimbabwe Peter Rabvukwa Portfolio Page
- 03/11/04 HOME page 5 steps to get your work online
5 steps to get your work online
- 03/11/04 Zambia news
news later
- 03/11/04 Uganda Eria Nsubuga Main Introduction
- 01/11/04 Nigeria O. Kolawole Joseph Main Introduction
- 27/10/04 Kenya James Mutisya Press Support
- 24/10/04 Uganda Yoshio Portfolio Page
- 24/10/04 Uganda Yoshio Main Introduction
- 15/10/04 Kenya wasanii 2004
- 12/10/04 International yinka shonibare
In collaboration with the Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen organizes a large exhibition devoted to the work of Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare (London, 1962).
Installations, photography and paintings form part of this exhibition, which can be seen from February 21 until April 25, 2004.
The last couple of years, Yinka Shonibare has enjoyed increasing international renown with his tableaux vivants of historical figures dressed in African print. Although typically African, these fabrics have been made in factories in Helmond and Manchester. The fascinating origin of these fabrics runs from colonial history in the Dutch East Indies to the trade carried out by Dutch merchants in West Africa.
- 08/10/04 Uganda Yoshio Press Support
- 07/10/04 Uganda Henry Mzili Mujunga Portfolio Page
- 07/10/04 Uganda Enoch Mukiibi Press Support
He uses a traditional pot image to symbolise the importance of culture as a means of continuity.Mukiibi`s work depicts a free style of painting that he himself appears to have very little control over.He blends all types of colours with little or no regard, whether these colours match or clash.This explains his colour rich images showing all kinds of combinations in theirraw form.
Article by :Stephen Ssenkaaba
- 04/10/04 Kenya paa ya paa
- 04/10/04 Kenya James Mutisya Portfolio Page
- 30/09/04 Kenya James Mutisya Curriculum Vitae
- 30/09/04 Nigeria Portus Ojomo Press Support
- 16/09/04 Uganda Henry Mzili Mujunga Press Support
- 16/09/04 Uganda Henry Mzili Mujunga Curriculum Vitae
- 16/09/04 Uganda Henry Mzili Mujunga Main Introduction
- 14/09/04 Togo Adjodo Yawa Lieb Curriculum Vitae
- 14/09/04 Togo Adjodo Yawa Lieb Portfolio Page
- 14/09/04 Togo Djonda Akpehou Press Support
- 14/09/04 Togo Djonda Akpehou Portfolio Page
- 14/09/04 Togo Djonda Akpehou Main Introduction
- 05/09/04 Kenya James Mutisya Main Introduction
- 30/08/04 Sudan women artists
Suzan Ibrahim, Fatima Hassan, Najat Elmahi, Mai Abdalaziz Salih, Omima Hasabalrsoul, Samani M Alhassan, Taissir Abdalgadir, Nahla Mahdi, Naema Hussein, Fatima Ibnaof, Zeinab Tigani , Sana M Albashir
- 29/08/04 Nigeria Portus Ojomo Curriculum Vitae
- 27/08/04 International international art
discussions on contemporary art and culture in the 21st century. "Quote.....Unquote" on Culture Today.
The quest for identity and authentic voice has been the concern of African artists, curators and critics.
inIVA /
Krydz Ikwuemesi /
Samuel Olou /
Alain Quémin /
Berry Bickle /
Fons Geerlings /
Eduardo Portella /
Catharine David /
Gerardo Mosquera.
- 27/08/04 Kenya mural at Eastleigh
- 26/08/04 Tanzania ziff festival
Mud Mosques of Mali – Adobe mosques of the Inner Niger Delta by Sebastian Schutyser (Belgium)
Selected Works by The Banana Leaf Artist of Zanzibar – Naaman Ali Khamis
Selected Works by Women artists (Women’s Panorama)
This exhibition will use various media to bring to life the interesting history and creative process involved in Khanga – the material synonymous with East Africa and the Swahili coast.
- 26/08/04 Kenya David Mwaniki Curriculum Vitae
- 26/08/04 Kenya David Mwaniki Press Support
- 26/08/04 Kenya David Mwaniki Portfolio Page
- 26/08/04 Kenya David Mwaniki Main Introduction
- 23/08/04 Kenya william owusu
May 1st was a first for William Owusu, the promising young film director from Kenya who recently attended the ‘Berlinale Film Talent Campus' in Berlin. His entry, "The Epilogue", 15 minutes long, has been chosen as the only African film featuring at one of the most renowned short film festivals, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.
"The Epilogue" joins a host of innovative and original short films which have a tradition in Oberhausen. Most films entered there come from the numerous film academies like Munich, Berlin, Potsdam, Ludwigsburg and other art and media schools in Germany and the rest of the world. Today, about 800 short films are made in Germany alone. Others films have come from as far as Asia and the Americas. William is practically representing Africa as the sole director from the continent who will be in Oberhausen!
- 20/08/04 International William Owusu and the short film
May 1st was a first for William Owusu, the promising young film director from Kenya who recently attended the ‘Berlinale Film Talent Campus' in Berlin. His entry, "The Epilogue", 15 minutes long, has been chosen as the only African film featuring at one of the most renowned short film festivals, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.
"The Epilogue" joins a host of innovative and original short films which have a tradition in Oberhausen. Most films entered there come from the numerous film academies like Munich, Berlin, Potsdam, Ludwigsburg and other art and media schools in Germany and the rest of the world. Today, about 800 short films are made in Germany alone. Others films have come from as far as Asia and the Americas. William is practically representing Africa as the sole director from the continent who will be in Oberhausen!
- 15/08/04 Zimbabwe Peter Rabvukwa Main Introduction
- 15/08/04 Zimbabwe Granete Ngirandi Press Support
- 13/08/04 Ghana Samuel K Olou Press Support
ACCRA: DUBOIS CENTRE 15-5-2004 >29-5-2004 Art-in-Action was founded in 2002
- 13/08/04 Ghana Samuel K Olou Curriculum Vitae
- 13/08/04 Ghana Samuel K Olou Portfolio Page
- 13/08/04 Ghana Samuel K Olou Main Introduction
- 10/08/04 Namibia Helena Brandt Portfolio Page
- 09/08/04 Namibia Helena Brandt Press Support
- 08/08/04 Namibia Helena Brandt Main Introduction
- 31/07/04 Zimbabwe Mambakwedza .H. Mutasa Main Introduction
- 29/07/04 South Africa the painter
Netherlands artist, Rene Klarenbeek of De Haag will spend a month in Mamelodi township, where he will be doing political billboards. He visits Mamelodi courtesy of the Mamelodi Theatre Organisation (Mato). "We bring this opportunity to the residents of Mamelodi, the art students and art appreciators to attend and to contribute to the work that Rene will be doing." Rene wants to interact with and talk to the people of Mamelodi and he wants to paint what the people want on the billboards. The Netherlands Embassy is organising the trip.
- 29/07/04 Kenya the painter
August/September 1998 in Kenya passers-by and lookers-on were invited to write down their thoughts about what was on the billboard. These statements were pinned up until they covered the whole painting. In the evening the painter took down the statements and painted over his previous night's work. He is interacting like a medium, not on his own but working together with the local artists. The painter feels at home when he is far away from conventional art that he found out to be preserved, pretentious and lifeless. People do not have to visit the museums and art galleries to appreciate works of art. You can find the works of art on the street.
- 29/07/04 International the knot
The Knot shown on the picture belongs to Ndidi Dike (Nigeria) Other participating artists from Africa are: Bongi Bengu (South Africa) Lynda Cookson (South Africa) Ndidi Dike (Nigeria) Veryan Edwards (Botswana) Ann Gollifer (Botswana) Roselyn Marikasi (Zimbabwe) Stephanie Ndzinga (Cameroon) Granete Ngirandi (Zimbabwe) Odiola Vurinosara (Zimbabwe) Zodwa Juma (Zimbabwe) Gillian Rosselli (Zimbabwe) Lilian Nabulime (Uganda) Margaret Nagawa (Uganda)
- 29/07/04 Senegal dak'art 2004
dak'art.
An initiative of the Senegalese State, Dak’Art expresses the political will of placing culture at the heart of development strategies in Senegal and brings its contribution to the implementation of the African Union. Dak’Art is a major event for enhancing and promoting current African creativity
- 26/07/04 Uganda Ben Bukenya Curriculum Vitae
- 26/07/04 Uganda Ben Bukenya Portfolio Page
- 23/07/04 Uganda Ben Bukenya Press Support
- 12/07/04 Zimbabwe Peter Rabvukwa Curriculum Vitae
- 08/07/04 South Africa Lyn Cookson Main Introduction
- 07/07/04 Zimbabwe Keddy Cliff Tandi Portfolio Page
- 02/07/04 Senegal Mame Faguèye Bâ
- 01/07/04 Mali artist' platform R.A.I.N.
Centre Soleil d'Afrique, Mali
Pulse, south Africa
The Art Bakery, Cameroon
Trama, Argentina
CEIA, Brazil
Open Circle, India
El Despacho, Mexico
Ruangrupa, Indonesia
Rijksakademie, The Netherlands
- 30/06/04 International messages of kinship
When I acquire a head rest or a mask, I refer to African art books to learn about the origin, the significance of the posture, the headdress or beard. Having been brought up in Europe, where the artist is often revered as much as his or her work, it is strange not to know these artists' names. I am fascinated by a 7cm tall old man, arms holding a rotund belly almost as if to offer it to me, a square mouth about to talk, almond-shaped eyes, rope amulets and matted grass skirt. But I will never know who created him. Do other collectors opt for anonymous 'traditional' art or 'modern' art with identified artists?
Jeff Koinange, Lagos bureau chief for CNN and a Kenyan, has built up his own collection during extensive travels throughout the continent. His reasoning is simple: "Because it's art I can relate to. Our history, our everyday is documented in the eyes of these artists."
by Aarti wa Njoroge
- 29/06/04 International cultural industry
The issue of "Africa e Mediterraneo" on The Cultural Industry in Africa is linked to the first meeting of the Cultural Ministries of the "African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States" ACPSEC in Dakar 2003 and to their decision to strengthen the strategy of development based on the cultural industry. To plan a development in this field and to understand the implications which may have, it's necessary to analyse the current situation of the cultural industry in Africa.
In the Western post-industrial world the cultural sector is more and more developed; it grows around products such as publications, movies, artworks, information, communication and technology; those products are produced all over the world and include the African culture. In the promotion of the product "African culture", the competition between the Western and African cultural industry can generate a strong dependency of Africa toward Europe, the US and Japan, but at the same time can encourage the development of new and alternative solutions, based on a combination of global influences and local specificity.
- 20/06/04 South Africa Jaco Sieberhagen Curriculum Vitae
- 15/06/04 South Africa Tremor
The title of the show ‘Tremor’ makes me think of being heavily shaken, tortured, traumatized and gives some clues as to the direction the works represented lean towards. What could the curators have cooked up in bringing together works by contemporary South African artists confronting their country’s past and having them shown and read within the context of modern Belgium, a country still dealing with its own horrific colonial past.
- 13/06/04 South Africa Jaco Sieberhagen Press Support
- 12/06/04 South Africa Zamani .R. Makhanya Curriculum Vitae
- 12/06/04 South Africa Zamani .R.Makhanya Portfolio Page
- 12/06/04 South Africa Zamani .R. Makhanya Main Introduction
- 02/06/04 Zimbabwe Charles Kamangwana Main Introduction
- 02/06/04 Senegal artistic mind-blast
When AfricanColours arrived in Dakar, it was halfway through and the dust from the opening nights and ceremonies had died down, creating a perfect timing to sample works by Africa’s most gifted creative minds.
In the "Diasporic" mix of Dakar, AfricanColours could visualize a great artistic rendezvous, thus patiently waiting to be feted by Africa’s foremost creative voices.
At the centre of this yielding cultural maze was the telling digital presentation "Train Train Medina" (2001) by Senegalese artist and filmmaker Mohamadou Ndoye. His was a tale of the goings-on in the ordinary surrounds of Dakar, a tale that appeared common-place, yet poignant with powerful real-life imagery. Often humorous and dramatic in expression, the tale was simple, full of laughter while revealing the tact at which the artist captured his subject.
- 01/06/04 Zimbabwe Charles Kamangwana Curriculum Vitae
- 01/06/04 Zimbabwe Charles Kamangwana Portfolio Page
- 01/06/04 Gabon prix ciciba
Le Prix CICIBA « Chorégraphie traditionnelle » d’une valeur de 500.000 FCFA est attribué au groupe MAIKA de Mounana pour le remarquable agencement de l’ensemble de ses prestations et le caractère dynamique des danses présentées.
Le Prix CICIBA « Costume et maquillage traditionnels » d’une valeur de 500.000 FCFA est décerné à l’ensemble NKIELENDE de Masuku pour la qualité des costumes en raphia de ses membres, associée à une coiffure très festivalière.
Le Prix CICIBA « Exécution instrument traditionnel » d’une valeur de 250.000 FCFA est octroyé à Romaric MBOUMBA , 19 ans, originaire de Gamba, pour sa maîtrise de l’arc musical, instrument auquel il s’est attaché depuis sa tendre adolescence.
Le Prix CICIBA « Promotion Jeunes Talents » (Arts plastiques) d’une valeur de 250.000 FCFA est attribué à EKOMIE, étudiant à l’Ecole Nationale d’Art et de Manufacture de Libreville, pour la composition et l’ancrage thématique des ses deux peintures à l’huile sur toile, « Le masque en péril » et « La messagère».
Le Prix CICIBA « Promotion Féminine » (Arts plastiques) d’une valeur de 250.000 FCFA est décerné à Mme IBINGA NZAMBA de l’Ecole Nationale d’Art et de Manufacture de Libreville, pour ses deux modelages en argile, scellant des bustes qui mettent en relief, dans une remarquable rigueur technique, des coiffures tissées.
- 30/05/04 International Ars Electronica 2002: UNPLUGGED
A series of Symposium being presented throughout the festival week of Ars Electronica 2002: UNPLUGGED (taking place in Austria) will deal with the assessment of globalization, Africa between emancipation and cyber-colonialism on its way into Information Society, media as venues and battle zones of global conflicts, international educational standards in media art, art as a part of global systems, as well as the evidence for and the political power of Internet utopias
- 30/05/04 International day in the life of africa
Day in the Life of Africa unveils an array of vivid photographs portraying contemporary life on the African continent from the coast of Tunisia to the Cape of Good Hope. Each of the 150 photographs was taken earlier this year during a single 24-hour period by one hundred top photojournalists participating in a global photo-documentary project
- 24/05/04 Ghana openings speech
OPENING SPEECH ,4th May 2004, Goethe Institute
ARTHAUS REFLECTIONS
Virginia Ryan
Artist and writer
resident in Ghana
since 2001
Kofi Setordji
I was very happy when I was asked to officially open this show of the first interactive workshop by artists from Arthaus, tonight, here at the Goethe Institute.
And, although it is an honour for me, why, exactly, was I asked?
Because. Perhaps. I had seen the Arthaus project develop since 2001 when I had been first taken to Kofi’s space, then much more potential than realized, by fellow artist Glen Turner.
I remember the buildings, being impressed by Kofi’s courageous idea of an international atelier based in Accra, and by his own paintings and sculpture, especially the genocide cycle.
So to see the development of Kofihaus has been truly inspiring.
- 19/05/04 Ghana the beauty of ugliness
Ghana may be better off in waste management when compared with Nigeria, but it does have its fair share of urban madness and ugliness, which often owe their survival to lack of effective urban planning and waste management.
Having said this, one may also aver that Virginia’s current project would have done better in Nigeria where refuse lines the streets in major cities like tired guards. But Virginia does not live in Nigeria. And she does not pick her materials in the street. Metaphorically, her palette for the present exhibit is located in the ocean with its tidal rhythms. The beach and other such spots in Ghana have positively enlarged her vision. What emerges in the present exhibition is not a drab reinvention of ugliness, but a positivising re-representation of chaos and dissonance, as an interrogation of their very existence and a pointer to the possibilities that may be locked in apparent waste, ugliness, and the encoded emptiness.
- 18/05/04 Nigeria O. Kolawole Joseph Curriculum Vitae
- 18/05/04 South Africa Simphiwe Bele
- 16/05/04 Zimbabwe Doris Kamupira Press Support
Doris is one of the most hard working female artists in Zimbabwe.She is a leading element for the development of art in the country through showcasing her work in the form of paintings , sculptures dry points as well as monoprints at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and other relevant venues of her choice.
- 13/05/04 South Africa Gary Frier Press Support
- 13/05/04 South Africa Mustafa Maluka Main Introduction
- 13/05/04 Mauritius Steeve Philip Dubois Portfolio Page
- 11/05/04 Togo Laka Curriculum Vitae
- 11/05/04 Zimbabwe Albert Moyo Portfolio Page
- 10/05/04 Nigeria O. Kolawole Joseph Press Support
- 10/05/04 Uganda Lilian Nabulime Press Support
April 2004: Three sculptures made from the wood of a tree which used to stand on the site of the Devonshire Building, Newcastle University, England.
- 10/05/04 Togo Laka Press Support
- 10/05/04 Zimbabwe Mattheus Nyaungwa Press Support
Art is not a mere journey but a voyage
- 10/05/04 Angola Miguel Petchkovsky Curriculum Vitae
- 09/05/04 Nigeria Chuka Machie Curriculum Vitae
- 09/05/04 Angola Miguel Petchkovsky Portfolio Page
- 09/05/04 Uganda Lilian Nabulime Main Introduction
- 08/05/04 Zimbabwe Harry Mambakwedza Mutasa Press Support
Baraka meaning a blessing / a gift if abused can cause great suffering, if taken care of and respected, brings great wonders and joy.
- 06/05/04 Angola Miguel Petchkovsky Main Introduction
- 06/05/04 Cape Verde Mito Elias Press Support
- 06/05/04 DR of the Congo Jean Paul Wabotai Press Support
- 06/05/04 DR of the Congo Jean Paul Wabotai Portfolio Page
- 06/05/04 Mauritius Steeve Philip Dubois Curriculum Vitae
- 06/05/04 Mauritius Steeve Philip Dubois Main Introduction
- 06/05/04 Ethiopia Sultan Mohamed Portfolio Page
- 06/05/04 Ethiopia Sultan Mohamed Main Introduction
- 05/05/04 South Africa Lyn Cookson Curriculum Vitae
- 04/05/04 South Africa Mustafa Maluka Press Support
- 02/05/04 Ghana Kwame Bakoji Press Support
- 02/05/04 Ghana Kwame Akpokavi Curriculum Vitae
- 02/05/04 Ghana Kwame Akpokavi Portfolio Page
- 02/05/04 Ghana Kwame Akpokavi Main Introduction
- 02/05/04 Senegal Dame Lo Press Support
- 02/05/04 Senegal Dame Lo Curriculum Vitae
- 27/04/04 Zimbabwe Mattheus Nyaungwa Curriculum Vitae
- 27/04/04 Zimbabwe Mattheus Nyaungwa Main Introduction
- 27/04/04 Zimbabwe Keddy Cliff Tandi Press Support
- 27/04/04 Zimbabwe Keddy Cliff Tandi Curriculum Vitae
- 27/04/04 Zimbabwe Keddy Cliff Tandi Main Introduction
- 25/04/04 Uganda Paul Obonyo Portfolio Page
- 15/04/04 Zimbabwe Granete Ngirandi Portfolio Page
- 15/04/04 Zimbabwe Granete Ngirandi Main Introduction
- 15/04/04 Zimbabwe Waison Mupedza Press Support
- 10/04/04 Togo Laka Portfolio Page
- 07/04/04 Nigeria TEST page
- 07/04/04 Botswana test
- 07/04/04 South Africa mcunu
- 26/03/04 Nigeria Chuka Machie Press Support
- 24/03/04 Togo Laka Main Introduction
- 18/03/04 Tunisia Raouff Karray Press Support
Cet Art fait partie de la culture de notre Tunisie Plurielle, ce pays carrefour de toutes les cultures qui se sont jetées dans le bassin Méditerranéen […] C’est dans cette aurore que j’ai baigné mes toiles, dans une marée de couleurs chaudes qui dévore les formes pour ensuite se décliner en mille nuances…de carminé à l’ocreux, du safrané à l’ambré…et dans une plage de signes et de symboles
- 18/03/04 Ethiopia Sultan Mohamed Curriculum Vitae
- 18/03/04 Zimbabwe Zodwa Juma Mnkandla Press Support
- 14/03/04 Togo sublimation
"Au delà de la portée psychanalitique du terme, nous prendrons la dimension alchymique du mot pour mieux cerner notre pensée, celle de l'élevation à une dignité supérieure de la Matière déchue. Dans notre travail, nous préparons la -terre matérielle- des substances issues de la récupération que nous utilisons, pour les rendre aptes à être pénétrées du -feu spirituel- de l'Inspiration, et ainsi de donner une chair à nos émotions. Alors se dévoile le panorama coloré, parfois provoquant, mais toujours étonnant des oeuvres présentées qui ne laisseront pas indifférent!"
- 13/03/04 Zimbabwe Albert Moyo Press Support
- 11/03/04 Uganda Taga Nuwagaba
Taga paints endangered wildlife species as well as disappearing African cultures in a more or less realistic style. He works alone in a studio located in Kyanja off Gayaza Road - a quite rural setting with lovely music supplied by the abundant bird-life. He has been commissioned by major organizations in Uganda for instance, the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe to paint wildlife murals; the Uganda Post Office for a stamp collection on moth species; Mweya Safari Lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park for original artworks; Semliki Safari Lodge in Semliki National Park for murals and original artworks and FIDA Uganda to illustrate the Children’s Statute.
In this way Taga has made a major contribution to the awareness of wildlife in Uganda. He has participated in art exhibitions in Uganda and abroad and as a result his work is held in public and private collections both locally and internationally.
All at Equation's Gallery and Cafe'
On the Equator Line, Masaka Road
- 10/03/04 Zimbabwe Bulelwa Madekurozwa Portfolio Page
- 10/03/04 Zimbabwe Roselyn Marikasi Curriculum Vitae
- 08/03/04 Zimbabwe Bulelwa Madekurozwa Curriculum Vitae
- 08/03/04 Zimbabwe Bulelwa Madekurozwa Main Introduction
- 05/03/04 Zimbabwe Roselyn Marikasi Portfolio Page
- 05/03/04 Zimbabwe Doris Kamupira Portfolio Page
- 05/03/04 Zimbabwe Bulelwa Madekurozwa Press Support
- 04/03/04 Zimbabwe Doris Kamupira Curriculum Vitae
- 04/03/04 Zimbabwe Doris Kamupira Main Introduction
- 04/03/04 Zimbabwe Roselyn Marikasi Press Support
- 28/02/04 Gabon art et paix
- 18/02/04 Zimbabwe Danisile Ncube Curriculum Vitae
- 16/02/04 Mali Modibo Doumbia Curriculum Vitae
- 15/02/04 Zimbabwe Stephen Portfolio Page
- 11/02/04 Equatorial Guinea contemporary bantu art
MALABO 3-14 JULY 2004 The International Center for Bantu Civilizations (CICIBA), an interafrican institution of cultural cooperation, launched in April 1985, says “The Biennial of Contemporary Bantu Art” is one of the most significant cultural events in Africa : Already organized in seven editions, in Libreville (Gabon), Kinshasa (RDCongo), Bata (Equatorial Guinea) and in Brazzaville (R Congo), this Biennial has become privileged exhibition of appreciation of the evolution of plastic creativity in central, eastern and southern Africa. The VIII th Biennial aims at presenting works witness of the present plastic creativity in the bantu cultural area produced between 2003 and 2004 ReadMore
- 06/02/04 Uganda article test page
new article test page
- 06/02/04 Uganda joseph ntensibe
Joseph Ntensibe was born in 1953 in Masaka District, Uganda. he was educated at Masaka's famous Kitovu College later joining Makerere University School of Fine Art in 1973. On leaving the art school, Ntensibe taught art in various secondary schools including Ibanda Senior Secondary School where he was Taga Nuwagaba's teacher.
- 04/02/04 Uganda Art Un Uganda by HENRY ' MZILI ' MUJUNGA November 2003
