aug sept 2017 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
1 3 AUG -
A LABOUR OF LOVE
5 NOV
Johannesburg Art Gallery
24 AUG -
Future Africa Visions in Time
19 OCT
GOETHE-INSTITUT
28 AUG
Film Screening: Sonnenallee
Goethe-Institut
5 SEPT
Literary Crossroads with Rehana
Rossouw (SA) & Fiston Mujila (DRC)
GOETHE-INSTITUT Library-
Gamebox-Hub
8 SEPT - Berlin Biennale for Contemporary 10 SEPT Art at Joburg Art Fair
Sandton Convention Centre
16 SEPT - Games Creator Brunch
@ AMAZE Festival
GOETHE-INSTITUT
17 SEPT - The Big Hole counter-narrative 22 sept
Kimberley
25 sept
Film Screening: Solino
Goethe-Institut
Admission to all events is free of charge, unless otherwise stated
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EXHIBITION
A LABOUR OF LOVE
Opening: Sunday, 13 August 2017, 4 pm Johannesburg Art Gallery, Cnr Klein and King George Streets Runs until 5 November 2017 Panel Discussion with Hans Blum: Wednesday 6 September, 6pm for 6.30pm
Nathaniel Sheppard: Ke Dezemba Boss. 2015. Artist’s collection. Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel.
A LABOUR OF LOVE focuses on a key part of the contemporary art collection of the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main – 600 works from South Africa, which the museum acquired in 1986. A LABOUR OF LOVE came 28 years after the first exhibition of this collection was held in Frankfurt. It re-examines a selection of more than 150 works inspired by very different readings of the idea of love – prints, paintings, sculptures and to date unpublished archival materials reflect on the theme from interpersonal relations to the passion and commitment which influenced both the creation of the works and the history of the collection’s acquisition. At the JAG the exhibition will at certain moments be in conversation with works from the JAG collection, some of which were created by artists whose work forms part of the collection at the Weltkulturen Museum.
The exhibition also integrates a contemporary perspective on this special collection through ten new works produced by Gabi Ngcobo and four South African former art students, who have dealt with the collection and its specific history since mid-July 2014 when they were students at the Wits School of Arts. In this process of artistic reappraisal, the students have responded to the collection by creating new prints and videos. This perspective is further expanded by works created in the Weltkulturen Labor by Sam Nhlengethwa, during a residency in July 2015. Funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and supported by the Goethe-Institut. The Goethe-Institut is proud to support Hans Blum’s participation as part of the A Labour Of Love public programme. Having lived in South Africa from the early 1960s until the late 1970s, Blum became interested in contemporary art and was involved in the anti-Apartheid movement, bringing work to Germany to create awareness about Apartheid in South Africa. In 1986 he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to buy art works on behalf of the institution. He acquired 600 works only by black South African artists, which today form a crucial part of the museum’s contemporary art collection. Panel with participation of Hans Blum: 6 September, 6pm for 6.30pm
EXHIBITION
Future Africa Visions in Time
Opening & Performance: Thursday, 24 August, 6.30pm Goethe-Institut, Gallery Runs until 19 October 2017
Kitso Lynn Lelliott. Alzire of Bayreuth. Video installation 2015
The exhibition project FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time explores visions of future emerging from Africa and its diasporas. Its content
derives from discursive collaborations between artists and researchers, resulting in innovative conceptual works that traverse aesthetic and scientific approaches. Through intensive conversations, artworks and conceptual positions were developed that critically engage with, reflect on, interpret, imagine, intervene into, disturb, translate or anticipate the concepts of ‘Future‘ and ‘Africa‘. Concept by Dr. Katharina Fink, Storm Janse van Rensburg, Dr. Nadine Siegert. Johannesburg edition curated by Anisha Soff. With works by Emeka Alams, Rui Assubuji, Syowia Kyambi, Kitso Lynn Lelliott, kara lynch, Alex Mawimbi, Tumi Mogorosi, Zohra Opoku, Abdi Osman, Simon Rittmeier, Ruth Sacks, Kae Sun. Find out more on http://favt.blog.
FILM SCREENING
Sonnenallee
Monday, 28 August 2017, 7 pm Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
The film Sonnenallee takes a look back at GDR times – it is not a maudlin portrayal, but an unabashedly sentimental and fabulously exaggerated one. It is the story of young people, forbidden music and dances, and of that special love that changes everything. Comedy (1998 /99). Directed by Leander Haußmann. German with English subtitles. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 27 August 2017. Director: Daniel Carsenty Drama, 2014/15. 90 min. English Subtitles. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 23 June.
LITERATURE
Literary Crossroads with Rehana Rossouw (SA) & Fiston Mujila (DRC)
Tuesday, 5 September, 7 pm Goethe-Institut, Library-Gamebox-Hub Rehana Rossouw was born in Cape Town and lives in Johannesburg. She has been a journalist for 30 years and is currently employed at Business Day as a commissioning editor. She has a Masters degree in creative writing from Wits University. What Will People Say? is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Etisalat prize for African literature in 2016 and awarded the National Institute for Social Science and Humanities prize for fiction in 2017. She is currently completing her second novel.
Rehana Rossouw
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, where he studied Literature and Human Sciences at Lubumbashi University. He now lives in Graz, Austria and teaches African literature. His writing has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Gold Medal at the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut. His novel, Tram 83, was a French Voices 2014 grant recipient, and won The Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 and the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2017, as well as being longlisted for The Man Booker International Prize and the Best Translated Book Award (both 2016). His poetry, prose work, and plays are reactions to the political turbulence that has come in the wake of the independence of the Congo and its effect on day-to-day life. As he writes in one of his poems, his texts describe a “geography of hunger:� hunger for peace, freedom, and bread.
Fiston Mujila
Literary Crossroads is a series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The series is curated by Indra Wussow and Sine Buthelezi.
ART FAIR
Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art at Joburg Art Fair
8 - 10 September 2017 Sandton Convention Centre The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: I’m not who you think I’m not will be curated by South African Gabi Ngcobo in 2018. The GoetheInstitut will support the second event of the public program of the Berlin Biennale, with Moses Serubiri’s School of Anxiety featured as part of the Joburg Art Fair Talks programme. The Berlin Biennale is set to take place in 2018 from June 9 to September 9 at various venues in Berlin and is an important feature of the German contemporary art landscape. Tickets via fnbjoburgartfair.co.za
BREAKFAST RECEPTION
Games Creator Brunch @ AMAZE Festival
Saturday, 16 September, 10 – 12am Goethe-Institut, Library-Gamebox-Hub The 6th AMAZE./ Johannesburg International Games and Playful Media Festival will take place at the Tshimologong District in Braamfontein from 13 to 16 September 2017. The Goethe-Institut has been collaborating with AMAZE since its first South African Edition in 2011. We are pleased to see AMAZE continuing its relationship with the Fak’ugesi - African
Jonathan Dotse (Accra) – Spirit Robot, New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa
Digital Innovation Festival which, from 10 to 16 September, includes conferences, hacks and a block party at various Braamfontein venues. In order to synergise with both AMAZE and Fak’ugesi, we invite game creators and enthusiasts to join us for a Games Creator Brunch in our brand new Library-Gamebox-Hub, which is designed as a space for Joburg’s gamers, developers and creative professionals. Come try out some games on our new equipment and enjoy a late Saturday morning meal with guests from across the world. RSVP for the Indy brunch is essential. Please email Francois at venter@ johannesburg.goethe.org. To book tickets for AMAZE./ and Fak’ugesi, please see the websites amaze-johannesburg.co.za and fakugesi.co.za.
Also on show at the Fak’ugesi Festival’s Digital Africa Exhibition: New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa, a selection of Virtual Reality (VR) productions from Kenya, Senegal and Ghana. Presented by Electric South and the Goethe-Institut, supported by Big World Cinema, Blue Ice Docs and the Bertha Foundation.
Ng’endo Mukii (Nairobi) – Nairobi Berries, New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa
narrative
The Big Hole counter-narrative
17 – 22 September Kimberley, various venues The ‘Big Hole’ Counter-Narrative project takes its starting point from the misguided ‘Big Hole’ experience said to characterize Kimberley. The intervention will culminate in musical, drama and performance interventions that disrupt this overwrought colonial narrative. It will unfold from an ethnographic exploration that offers a more complex, current and detailed look at the historical background, myths, oral narratives and day-to-day lived experiences of the people marginilised both historically and at present. The partnership will take place between visual artist Francois Knoetze, librettist Mkhululi Mabija and multidisciplianry Artist and Community Art Facilitator Théogène Niwenshuti. Hosted at Sol Plaatje University and facilitated by Anthropology lecturer Carina Truyts in collaboration with her students, the project offers innovate opportunities to experiment with objects and space to surface new modes of expression, healing, and collaboration. This project is realised within the new iniative “Goethe-Institut Project Space” (GPS). More information on goethe.de/joburg/gps.
Open Call for 2018: APPLY TO REALISE YOUR IDEA AS PART OF OUR Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) PROGRAMME! Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) is a multi-disciplinary roving project space that supports work realised all over South Africa ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, dance and theatre projects. GPS is envisioned as a non-commercial, artist-centered free platform, designed to support not only the artists and their projects, but also the many structures, spaces and festivals that currently exist and need partnerships of this nature in order to continue their work. GPS enables actors, artists, performers, curators, choreographers, writers, dancers, composers, directors, and musicians to select the space and infrastructure they wish to work with. If awarded, a GPS grant would support both the hosting space and the project itself. The current call for proposals can be accessed on goethe.de/joburg/gps. Deadline for applications is 15 September 2017.
FILM SCREENING
Solino
Monday, 25 September 2017, 7 pm Goethe-Institut, Auditorium
This is the story of how the Amato family brought pizza and pasta to Germany’s Ruhr region in 1964. Swept along with the first wave of immigration to the “economic wonderland” of West Germany, the Amato family depart for Duisburg. Using picturesque and nostalgic images, Fatih Akin recounts an epic family tale spanning 20 years, a story of homesickness and coming of age, of professional success and personal unhappiness. But at its core lies one of Akin’s common motifs, a brotherly feud. Directed by Fatih Akin (2002). German with English subtitles. Please RSVP to bso@johannesburg.goethe.org by 27 August 2017.
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OTHER THINGS WE DO Photographers’ Master Class 2017 The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg with Simon Njami - writer and independent curator, initiated the prestigious Photographers’ Master Class in 2008, as a forum for African photographers to meet with museum directors and independent curators to critically engage with their own and others’ work. The workshop has been taking place annually as a closed portfolio reading, and a mentoring and peer review session for Sub-Saharan African photographers, with curators both from this region and further afield. The location is key in promoting networking: the meeting is always set to coincide with a cultural event on the African continent, which provides a further framework for engagement and exposure to other fellow photographers, art professionals and practitioners from other disciplines. In 2017, the meeting is set to continue during the literary festival, Story Moya in Nairobi. Participation on invite only.
Photographers’ Master Class 2015, Johannesburg Photo by Ala Kheir
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