Asen: Forged Memories of Iron in Dahomey Vodun Art
Rue Jean-Calvin, 10: Genève, Switzerland
November 21, 2018 - May 29, 2019ExhibitionNovember 21, 2018May 29, 2019Europe/LondonAsen: Forged Memories of Iron in Dahomey Vodun ArtRue Jean-Calvin, 10: Genève, Switzerland
From November 21, 2018, the Musée Barbier-Mueller will present an exhibition focused on asen, iron altars specifically those of the former kingdom of Dahomey. It will explore an array of issues important to our understanding of these striking sculptures. Key among these are artist hands, questions of use, the history of these arts, and how asen enhance our understanding of the broader regional history of the southern area of the Republic of Benin where they are found.
Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics
The Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
July 15, 2018 - June 02, 2019ExhibitionJuly 15, 2018June 02, 2019Europe/LondonSubverting Beauty: African Anti-AestheticsThe Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, MD, 21218: Baltimore, United States
Beauty stops us in our tracks. It makes us pause, look, consider. Sometimes it overwhelms us. We are often told art should aspire to this standard and be proportionate, symmetrical, naturalistic, and orderly. But what of work that is designed to revolt and terrify? Across Sub-Saharan Africa, artists working across a range of states, societies, and cultures deliberately created artwork that violated conceptions of beauty, symmetry, and grace—both ours and theirs. Subverting Beauty features approximately two dozen works from sub-Saharan African’s colonial period (c.1880-c. 1960) that are accumulative, composite, crude, counterintuitive, and disproportionate. More importantly still, it explores the reasons why artists working during this turbulent period in the continent’s history turned against beauty in order to express the meaning and vitality of their day-to-day existence.
Bourgogne Tribal Show
Galerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil F-71460: Bonnay, France
May 30, 2019 - June 02, 2019FairMay 30, 2019June 02, 2019Europe/LondonBourgogne Tribal ShowGalerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil F-71460: Bonnay, France
The Burgundy Tribal Show is the first international tribal art fair to be held in the countryside. In a rural setting, and a relaxed atmosphere conducive to discovery, the Burgundy Tribal Show offers its audience a distinctly different experience.
CULTURES
Rue Ernest Allard: Brussels, Belgium
June 12, 2019 - June 16, 2019FairJune 12, 2019June 16, 2019Europe/LondonCULTURESRue Ernest Allard: Brussels, Belgium
For several years now, the three organisations, AAB, BAAF and BRUNEAF, have instituted a dynamic synergy in relation to the June events to ensure their wide international recognition. With our successful record in this area all three organisations have decided to join forces and organise a single event in June while retaining their own specific mode of operation. CULTURES – The World Arts Fair will soon become a global reference for seasoned collectors as well as amateurs interested in Asian, antique and non-European art. A simple and ingenious colour code will be used to identify exhibitors and their respective specialities. Our enthusiasm is as great as ever and more than ever we will endeavour to turn Brussels into THE venue for the classical arts.
Sotheby’s Collection Marceau Rivière
76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré: Paris, France
June 19, 2019 - June 19, 2019AuctionJune 19, 2019June 19, 2019Europe/LondonSotheby’s Collection Marceau Rivière76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré: Paris, France
For Marceau Riviere, it was a case of love at first sight for the African continent, and his collection which was born in the early sixties would become one of the most comprehensive and striking within the field. Marceau Rivière has established during a half-century of collecting, a group of works which bring together many of the varying stylistic corpora of sub-Saharan Africa. The 250 artworks that will be offered in Paris on June 19 recall above all that during the last decades, Marceau Rivière has been one of the most fervent defenders of African Art; an art he has never ceased to promote and share with the greatest number of people.
Zemanek-Münster 92nd Tribal Art Auction
Hörleingasse 3-5 D-97070: Wurzburg, Germany
June 29, 2019 - June 29, 2019AuctionJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019Europe/LondonZemanek-Münster 92nd Tribal Art AuctionHörleingasse 3-5 D-97070: Wurzburg, Germany
African art works from the private european collections René Rickli (Olten), Alfred Angst (Zurich), Jürgen Peters (Nuremberg) and Alfred Klinkmüller (Berlin). Fine old Tribal Art from Africa, Australia, Oceania and Asia.
Masterpiece London
South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 4LW: London, United Kingdom
June 27, 2019 - July 03, 2019FairJune 27, 2019July 03, 2019Europe/LondonMasterpiece LondonSouth Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3 4LW: London, United Kingdom
Masterpiece London is the unmissable art fair at which visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery - from antiquity to the present day. The Fair offers an unparalleled opportunity for new and established collectors to discover exceptional works for sale across a range of price points from 160 international exhibitors and across every major market discipline.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston: Illinois, United States
January 26, 2019 - July 21, 2019ExhibitionJanuary 26, 2019July 21, 2019Europe/LondonCaravans of Gold, Fragments in TimeBlock Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston: Illinois, United States
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa is the first major exhibition addressing the scope of Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to sixteenth centuries. Weaving stories about interconnected histories, the exhibition showcases the objects and ideas that connected at the crossroads of the medieval Sahara and celebrates West Africa’s historic and under-recognised global significance. Presenting more than 250 artworks spanning five centuries and a vast geographic expanse, the exhibition features unprecedented loans from partner institutions in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria, many of which will be seen in North America for the first time.
One: Egúngún
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States
February 08, 2019 - August 18, 2019ExhibitionFebruary 08, 2019August 18, 2019Europe/LondonOne: Egúngún200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States
One: Egúngún tells the life story of a twentieth-century Yorùbá masquerade dance costume (egúngún), from its origins in Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́, Nigeria, to its current home in Brooklyn. Composed of over three hundred textiles from Africa, Europe, and Asia, this egúngún swirls into motion during festivals honouring departed ancestors. Centuries old, egúngún is still practised in Nigeria, the Republic of Benin, and in the Yorùbá diaspora. By highlighting a single egúngún, this exhibition emphasizes the global connections of African masquerades while challenging the misconception that cultural practices are static. At the request of the Lekewọgbẹ family—the makers of this egúngún—this exhibition honours their family name and masquerade heritage. One: Egúngún is curated by Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Sills Family Consulting Curator, African Arts, Brooklyn Museum.
Tribal Art London
The Mall Galleries: London, United Kingdom
September 03, 2019 - September 03, 2019FairSeptember 03, 2019September 03, 2019Europe/LondonTribal Art LondonThe Mall Galleries: London, United Kingdom
Tribal Art London is the only Tribal Art Fair of its kind in the UK,show casing a select group of exhibitors displaying tribal art from around the world.
Each piece has been chosen for its quality and authenticity.
Ex Africa: Stories and Identities of a Universal Art
Museo Civico Archeologico, Via dell’Archiginnasio: Bologna, Italy
March 29, 2019 - September 08, 2019ExhibitionMarch 29, 2019September 08, 2019Europe/LondonEx Africa: Stories and Identities of a Universal ArtMuseo Civico Archeologico, Via dell’Archiginnasio: Bologna, Italy
“Ex Africa semper aliquid novi”, wrote Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, and this is the start for our exhibition that shows us how African and European affairs have intermingled EVER since ancient times. This will be done through ‘stories’ of art, identity, journeys and encounters, beginning with travellers’ tales and the first contacts between Europeans and Africans. The exhibition is divided into a number of sections: from formal quality expressed by large and small works to ancient objects from famous African kingdoms, together with masks and figures representing rituals and power.
La Biennale
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill: Paris, France
September 12, 2019 - September 17, 2019FairSeptember 12, 2019September 17, 2019Europe/LondonLa BiennaleGrand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill: Paris, France
Renowned art fair, La Biennale Paris assembles this year national and international exhibitors under the roof of the Grand Palais presenting more than six millenniums of art. Annual since 2017, its visibility is rising. Equipped with a Biennale Committee, presided by Christopher Forbes, as well as the independent Vetting Commission (CAO), one of the most exigent in the world, it guarantees not only the selection of the participating galleries but also the highest level of authenticity, trust and transparency for the collectors. Great ephemeral museum, La Biennale Paris celebrates its 31th edition from September 13th to 17th 2019 with the Gala Dinner on September 11th and the Private Opening on September 12th.
Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)
37 Quai Branly, 75007: Paris, France
May 28, 2019 - September 29, 2019ExhibitionMay 28, 2019September 29, 2019Europe/LondonFélix Fénéon (1861-1944)37 Quai Branly, 75007: Paris, France
The Musée d’Orsay, the Musée de l’Orangerie, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pay tribute to Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), an important figure in the artistic world in the late 19th and early 20th century. Anarchist, art critic, editor, gallery director and collector, Fénéon espoused an open-minded vision of creation at a time when art was on the verge of the shift to modernity and strove for the recognition of non-western arts.
IncarNations. African Art as Philosophy
Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravensteinstraat: Brussels, Belgium
June 28, 2019 - October 06, 2019ExhibitionJune 28, 2019October 06, 2019Europe/LondonIncarNations. African Art as PhilosophyBozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravensteinstraat: Brussels, Belgium
IncarNations is an exhibition created by the South African artist Kendell Geers in dialogue with the Congolese collector Sindika Dokolo. A fascinating initiative that reflects the diversity of the African artistic heritage, from an Afrocentric point of view and including the itineraries of slaves, colonialism and independence movements. As the Senegalese philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne stresses: "Ethnographic museums are a negation of art because they prevent the objects on display from really looking at us. Because ethnography is constituted, at its colonial origins, as a science of what is radically other, it is in its nature to fabricate strangeness, otherness, separateness". Taken from Sindika Dokolo's impressive collection, the works of African artists enter into dialogue with those of the diaspora while contemporary works will be displayed alongside classical works. Incarnations looks at African art as a living philosophical practice.
Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art
34-35 New Bond Street: London, United Kingdom
October 15, 2019 - October 15, 2019AuctionOctober 15, 2019October 15, 2019Europe/LondonSotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art34-35 New Bond Street: London, United Kingdom
Since the inauguration of the dedicated sales of Modern and Contemporary African Art in 2017, Sotheby’s sales in the category have achieved over sixty world records, championing the work of artists from across the African diaspora and underscoring the rising global interest.
Dimensions of Power: African Art
100 Moose Krause Circle, Notre Dame: Indiana, United States
August 22, 2018 - December 31, 2019ExhibitionAugust 22, 2018December 31, 2019Europe/LondonDimensions of Power: African Art100 Moose Krause Circle, Notre Dame: Indiana, United States
The Snite Museum of Art African art collection will reopen this fall within a larger, more prestigious space on the main floor of the Museum. The reinstallation will explore themes of power. In the past, African art was often tied into the way African leaders promoted their agendas. Royalty and rulers used art to project their authority; religious groups promoted their faiths; while the wealthy desired to display their riches. Ordinary Africans also used art to enable them to wield their own forms of power. Since supernatural forces were thought to play a large role in determining events, it was important to own objects that could withstand or shape events that lay beyond ordinary control. Fifty-nine outstanding works from the Snite Museum collection will illustrate these ideas through themes of economic, political, social, and spiritual power in Africa. Most of these works have never been on public view before. Nearly a third belong to the Owen D. Mort Jr. Collection, with art primarily from Democratic Republic of Congo, where Mort worked for many years. As he said, “My hope is to educate people on Africa. It’s been a great love of mine… Ideally Notre Dame would use the collection for education, to get interest going in Africa.”
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
April 18, 2019 - December 31, 2019ExhibitionApril 18, 2019December 31, 2019Europe/LondonStriking Iron: The Art of African BlacksmithsSmithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
For more than two millennia, ironworking has shaped African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths reveals the history of invention and technical sophistication that led African blacksmiths to transform one of Earth’s most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry.
Striking Iron is an international travelling exhibition organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA that combines scholarship with objects of great aesthetic beauty to create the most comprehensive treatment of the blacksmith’s art in Africa to date. The exhibition includes over 225 artworks from across the African continent focusing on the region south of the Sahara and covering a time period spanning early archaeological evidence to the present day. Striking Iron features artworks from the Fowler collection as well as American and European public and private collections.
Felix Fénéon (1861-1944). The Modern Times, from Seurat to Matisse
Musées d'Orsay et de l’Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde: Paris, France
October 16, 2019 - January 27, 2020ExhibitionOctober 16, 2019January 27, 2020Europe/LondonFelix Fénéon (1861-1944). The Modern Times, from Seurat to MatisseMusées d'Orsay et de l’Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde: Paris, France
No exhibition has yet paid homage to Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), an important figure in the artistic world in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Musée de l’Orangerie, in association with the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is honouring this extraordinary man who remains unjustly unknown. The exhibition will demonstrate the different facets of this unusual character, with his Quaker-like appearance and deadpan humour, who combined an exemplary career as a civil servant with strong artistic and anarchist convictions. Columnist, editor at the Revue Blanche, art critic, publisher - he published Rimbaud’s ‘Illuminations’ -, and gallery owner, Fénéon was also an exceptional collector who amassed a large number of masterpieces including a unique set of African and Oceanian sculptures. The exhibition will bring together an exceptional array of paintings and drawings by Seurat, Signac, Degas, Bonnard, Modigliani, Matisse, Derain, Severini, Balla, etc., pieces from Africa and Oceania, as well as documents and archives.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Drive: Toronto, Canada
September 21, 2019 - February 23, 2020ExhibitionSeptember 21, 2019February 23, 2020Europe/LondonCaravans of Gold, Fragments in TimeAga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Drive: Toronto, Canada
Journey along the Sahara Desert’s trade routes during a time when West African gold directly impacted and connected peoples and cultures, arts and beliefs across continents. Experience the first major exhibition to reveal the shared history of West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe from the 8th to 16th centuries and see more than 250 artworks, many shown in North America for the first time.
Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street: New York, United States
March 22, 2020 - July 25, 2020ExhibitionMarch 22, 2020July 25, 2020Europe/LondonFélix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and BeyondThe Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street: New York, United States
The Museum of Modern Art announces Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond, the first exhibition devoted to the influential French art critic, editor, publisher, dealer, and collector Félix Fénéon (1861–1944), on view from March 22 through July 25, 2020. Though largely unknown today and always discreetly behind the scenes in his own era, Fénéon played a key role in the careers of leading artists from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac to Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, each of whom is featured prominently in the exhibition. Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond traces Fénéon’s career through approximately 150 works that highlight his initiatives to help artists via his reviews, exhibitions, and acquisitions; his commitment to anarchism; his literary engagements; and his contributions to the recognition of non-Western art. Bringing together a selection of major works that Fénéon admired, championed, and collected, alongside contemporary letters, documents, and photographs, the exhibition underscores the tremendous impact he had on the development of modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
April 08, 2020 - November 29, 2020ExhibitionApril 08, 2020November 29, 2020Europe/LondonCaravans of Gold, Fragments in TimeSmithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue: Washington, D.C., United States
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa is the first major exhibition addressing the scope of Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to sixteenth centuries. Weaving stories about interconnected histories, the exhibition showcases the objects and ideas that connected at the crossroads of the medieval Sahara and celebrates West Africa’s historic and under-recognised global significance. Presenting more than 250 artworks spanning five centuries and a vast geographic expanse, the exhibition features unprecedented loans from partner institutions in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria, many of which will be seen in North America for the first time.
Wo ist Afrika?
Linden-Museum, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Hegelplatz 1: Stuttgart, Germany
March 16, 2019 - December 31, 2020ExhibitionMarch 16, 2019December 31, 2020Europe/LondonWo ist Afrika?Linden-Museum, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Hegelplatz 1: Stuttgart, Germany
The Linden-Museum Stuttgart presents its new permanent exhibition "Wo ist Afrika?" from 16 March 2019. "Wo ist Afrika?" invites the visitor to critically explore and re-evaluate contexts and narratives associated to Linden-Museum Stuttgart’s collection of artefacts from the African continent. The exhibition shows how the collections were established, how they developed over time, and which rules of classification they adhered to. A large part of the objects on display were acquired from Cameroon, the Congo basin, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania between the end of 19th and the first half of the 20th, at the height of the European "Scramble for Africa". "Wo ist Afrika?" examines stories and histories inscribed into these objects and what they can mean for us today. The exhibition opens up a space of cultural creativity, which allows the visitors to near themselves to a wider understanding of culture. "Wo ist Afrika?" has a process-oriented approach, questioning the authority of the museum by showing a multitude of parallel narratives and asking important questions addressed to our contemporary societal cohabitation.
Clay—Modeling African Design
University Collections Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street: Cambridge, United States
November 17, 2018 - November 14, 2021ExhibitionNovember 17, 2018November 14, 2021Europe/LondonClay—Modeling African DesignUniversity Collections Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street: Cambridge, United States
This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, including those by newly discovered Nigerian artist Alice Osayewe, are shown alongside works from the Harvard Art Museums permanent collections, such as a recently acquired contemporary photograph by Afro-futurist artist Alexis Peskine.
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