July 2014

  • Tuesday, 15. July 2014 - 11:00 to Sunday, 31. August 2014 - 18:00
    BEHIND THE BLADE
    Green Room
    Curated by Farzanah Badsha (ZA), fellow of the programme "Curators in Residence - Curating Collections" of the foundation KfW Stiftung.
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    Curated by Farzanah Badsha (ZA), fellow of the programme "Curators in Residence - Curating Collections" of the foundation KfW Stiftung.

    In the exhibition “BEHIND THE BLADE”, the South African guest curator Farzanah Badsha experiments with contemporary art from the Weltkulturen Museum’s South Africa collection. She is the first recipient of a fellowship from the KfW Stiftung “Curators in Residence: Curating Collections” programme.

    Drawing on prints from the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection of art made by Black artists in South Africa in the 1970s and 80s, this exhibition offers ways to experience the work from a contemporary perspective. This vantage point takes into account the fraught political context of South Africa in the latter years of Apartheid during which these artists lived and made art. It invites the viewer to read their practice in a continuum between then and now.

    The exhibition focuses on the work of three artists from the museum’s collection: John Muafangejo (1943-1987), Azaria Mbatha (*1941) and Dan Rakgoathe (1937-2004). One work of each of these elder artists is shown in full in the exhibition, as well as enlarged extracts of other prints by them. An additional layer can be found in the work of contemporary print maker, Vulindlela Nyoni (1976), and in the carpet woven at Rorke's Drift.  The print by Nyoni shows how the work and lives of these pioneering Black artists still influence contemporary artists and provide them with important art historical anchors and personal inspiration.

    Farzanah Badsha (ZA) is an independent curator and arts manager.
    From 2012-2013 she was Programme Manager of “Creative Cape Town” at the “Cape Town Partnership”. During her time at “Creative Cape Town” her focus was on the “City Hall and City All Concert” series and policy discussions on public art in the City of Cape Town. Related to this she worked as a member of the curatorial panel and an adviser to the City of Cape Town on the “art54” project, to place temporary public art in Ward 54. From 2008-2010 she was project manager and part of the curatorial team for the “Spier Contemporary 2010” exhibition organised by the Africa Centre. 2006-2008 she worked as the Visual Arts Manager of the Africa Centre. Currently she is a Board member and Secretary of the Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) and her latest curatorial project before starting her residency was entitled “Shop Front and Centre” where she curated contemporary Sout h African art in empty shop windows along one of the busiest commuter routes in Cape Towns city centre.

    “Curators in Residence: Curating Collections"
    A programme of the foundation KfW Stiftung
    The KfW Stiftung’s “Curators in Residence” programme offers outstanding young curators from Latin America, Africa and Asia the opportunity to spend several months in Germany, with the objective of promoting intellectual exchange in exhibition practice. There are fellowships in Berlin and Frankfurt, each with a specific profile oriented on curators’ differing needs and approaches.

    The Frankfurt “Curating Collections” programme enables one curator per year to spend three months working at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, in order to create links between contemporary art and the debate around the ethnographic collection. The programme aims to professionalise curatorial training, enhance sensitivity to cultural and historical heritage, and deepen critical awareness of contemporary artistic discourses.

    15th July until 31st August 2014
    Weltkulturen Labor, Green Room
    Schaumainkai 37, 60594 Frankfurt
    Tues-Sun 11am-6pm, Wed 11am-8pm
    €3 / reduced €1.50





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  • Thursday, 16. January 2014 - 11:00 to Sunday, 4. January 2015 - 18:00
    FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    (or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)
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    (or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)

    16th January 2014 until 4th January 2015

    An exhibition on the relationship between anthropology, colonialim and trade.

    FOREIGN EXCHANGE is an account of certain disturbing ways of visualising human beings in the name of science; of the transformation of the human body into that of an object; of the fascination with the Other; of the passion for collecting; of the mission to preserve remote cultures for all eternity; of the need to find systems for that task. And it’s an account of the role that is ultimately always played by money and trade.

    With more than 1,000 historic artefacts and photographs from Angola, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Melanesia, Mexico, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, New Britain, New Guinea, New Ireland, Nigeria, Russia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tierra del Fuego, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    Combined with artistic research produced in the Weltkulturen Labor during 2013 by Peggy Buth (DE), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Luke Willis Thompson(NZ) and David Weber-Krebs (BE), as well as new texts by writers in residence Gabriel Gbadamosi (GB), David Lau (US), and Tom McCarthy (GB). Additional artworks by Marie Angeletti (FR), Lothar Baumgarten (DE), Benedikte Bjerre (DK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE), Clegg & Guttmann (US), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (NG), Armin Linke (IT), Otobong Nkanga (NG), Pushpamala N (IN) and Olivier Richon (CH).

    The accompanying catalogue is published in German and English by diaphanes Verlag and includes contributions from Bruce J. Altshuler (US), Kokou Azamede (TG), Patricia Falguières (FR), Michael Fehr (DE), Ros Gray (GB), Charlotte Klonk (DE), Karl-Heinz Kohl (DE), Pramod Kumar KG (IN), Renée Mussai (GB), Michael Oppitz (DE), Peter Osborne (GB), Ciraj Rassool (ZA), Markus Schindlbeck (DE) and many others.

    Curated by Dr. Clémentine Deliss and Dr. Yvette Mutumba.

    Weltkulturen Museum
    Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt

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