Newsletter Juni 2018
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Inhalt
Sommer Vernissage + AfterCelebration
Ort: Foyer Iwalewahaus
Inklusionskuratorin: Stefanie Scheer
Projektleitung: Samanea Karrfalt
Sommer Ausstellung
Feedback: Art, Africa, and the 1980s
Unsere neue internationale Ausstellung wurde eröffnet und wird bis zum 30.09.2018 im Ausstellungsbereich des Iwalewahaus gezeigt. Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einem Besuch Mi.-So. von 13.00 bis 17.00 Uhr ein.
© Misfortune (Detail) by Muwonge Kyazze 1985. Sammlung Makerere Art Gallery
Feedback: Art, Africa, and the Eighties ist ein kunstorientierter Blick zurück in die 1980er Jahre im Rahmen einer Ausstellung, die sowohl historisch als auch zeitgenössisch ausgerichtet ist. Gezeigt werden soziale, politische und wirtschaftliche Realitäten Afrikas in den 1980er Jahren durch die kreativen Visionen von Künstler_innen.
Die von Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (Cleveland Museum of Art, USA) kuratierte Ausstellung zeigt Kunstwerke, Musik und Archivmaterial aus dem Iwalewahaus, dem Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt und der Makerere Art Gallery in Kampala (Uganda). Unter anderem ist die erste Videoarbeit des documenta-Künstlers Theo Eshetu aus dem Jahr 1984 zu sehen.
Symposium: Mining Collections
Mining Collections:
Some Configurations of African Modernisms in Institutional Collections
Fr. 29.06. bis Sa. 30.06.2018
Ort: Foyer Iwaleahaus
Sprache // Englisch
Bild: Expulsion, Peter Binaka, 1960s, Oil on hardboard, Makerere Art Gallery.
This final public symposium brings together the international researchers of the project African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic. Since 2017, they have been engaged with three collections of African modernism: the Makerere Art Gallery / MIHCR, the Weltkulturenmuseum in Frankfurt a.M. and the Iwalewahaus. The different research topics are very diverse and span from an indepth engagement with singular artworks to
broader questions about collecting art for public collections. A detailed program will be published soon.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the symposium: iwalewa@uni-bayreuth.de
Projektvorstellung
Women on Aeroplanes
In Anwesenheit der Kuratorinnen Annett Busch, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet und Magda Lipska
Sa. 16.06.2018 // ab 16.00 Uhr
Ort: Foyer Iwalewahaus
Bild: Detail from Bon voyage, Sim (Moustapha Alassane, 1966), fragment from a picture of the Women’s March on Washington D.C., 2017 (CNN), front-page of the invitation card
of Colette Omogbai’s exhibition, cut outs from installation from Lubaina Himid’s exhibition Naming the Money (2017) at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool (Collage by MH Gutberlet, 2018).
Die Women On Aeroplanes landen in Bayreuth, und das Iwalewahaus wird zur Relais Station und zum Resonanzkörper. Das wachsende Display aus Audio-Dateien von Vorträgen und Diskussionen, den Inflight Magazinen der Women on Aeroplanes Airline, Postern und anderen Materialien gibt wieder, was bisher geschah und was im Laufe des Jahres 2018 entstehen wird: Während der Arbeitstage zur Methode des Filterns und Editierens in der ifa-Galerie in Berlin (Dezember 2017), beim Workshop im Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Lagos (CCA) (Mai 2018), zu Fragen der Recherche rund um die Künstlerin Colette Omogbai, zum Gasworks-Stipendium von Lungiswa Gqunta und zu den bevorstehenden Ausstellungen in The Showroom/London und im Museum for Modern Art Warschau. Gefördert von TURN Fond der Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Vortragsreihe "African Modernism and the Formation of a Modernist Aesthetic"
Acknowledging the Contemporary: African Art Studies in the Short 1960s
with Peter Probst (Tufts University)
Mi. 20.06.2018 // 19.00 Uhr
Ort: Foyer
Sprache // Englisch
Foto: Christian Lattier. Le Bélier. Installation view.1966.
The current interest in African modernisms also entails a critical historiographic discussion of field formations: It was towards the end of the 1960s when scholars and critics began to acknowledge the existence of “contemporary art in Africa” (Beier 1968). Yet, as profound as the recognition was, the openness did not last long. The new era of independence did not trigger a lasting interest in exploring and researching the new African art worlds that had emerged with the decline ofcolonialism. From the mid 1970s onwards African art studies returned to focus on so-called traditional art forms again. The talk will explore “the short 1960s” in terms of the competing and often contested questions that dominated the discussion during that period.
Meet the Curator: Santiago Villanueva
Meet the Curator mit Santiago Villanueva (Buenos Aires)
"From a critique of action, towards a domestic model of curatorial practice"
Do. 21.06.2018 // 16.00 Uhr
Ort: Foyer
Sprache // Englisch
Foto: Bellos Jueves, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 2015.
In this presentation we will travel around some artistic developments that took place between the 1970s and the 2000s in Latin America. These are, even today, important references in order to think curatorial practice, from Frederico Morais and his interventions in museums to Jorge Gumier Maier‘s referential essay “El Tao del arte”. Then we will reflect on curatorial practice itself, as much as it is related to art history and the working of museums, and present some personal readings and projects.
Music Archive Listening Session
Music Archive Listening Session
Do. 14.06.2018 // 19.00 Uhr
Ort: Foyer Iwalewahaus
Objekt des Monats
Objekt des Monats
#43
Marabou Storks by Theresa Musoke
1986. Öl auf Baumwolle-Leinwand.
At a glance, all one can see are shadowy and ghostly creatures flapping their wings, hovering over an undeclared space – and this adds to the mystery of the painting. At a closer look, the images are indeed marabou storks, ugly looking birds whose presence has increased drastically in Uganda’s urban spaces in the recent past. They breed near human habitation especially around garbage dumps, slaughter houses and land fill sites.
This painting clearly demonstrates that Musoke benefitted from the tutelage of Cecil Todd, a British professor (1958-1971) whose curriculum at Makerere Art School insisted on pictorial composition, anatomy and perspective while keeping a close watch on content. These were indeed sharpened with Musoke’s training in the UK in the early 70s. The political anarchy and muzzling of free speech during Idi Amin’s regime (1971-1979) made it hard for her to continue with her teaching job at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, Makerere University. Like many educated Ugandan’s of the time, she fled to exile. In Nairobi (Kenya) the nostalgia of leaving home was the very reason for her career as an artist. Her interest in subject of wild life started here in the animal rich plains of Kenya.
The Marabou Storks painting continues this journey in exploring East Africa’s fauna as well as extending the possibilities of Batik art medium – elements of which are evident in the painting.
Dr. George Kyeyune
Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration, Makerere University
2018
BayFinK
BayFinK, die Bayerische Forschungs- und Informationsstelle – Inklusive Hochschulen und Kultureinrichtungen, bietet die Plattform für einen weltweiten Dialog: Reden Sie mit, dies geht uns alle an.
Lunchtime Lecture: Critical Diversity Literacy
mit Prof. Melissa Steyn (Johannesburg)
Do. 21.06.2018 // 12.30 Uhr
Sprache // Englisch
In conversation with Prof. Melissa Steyn, the founding director of the Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg/South Africa.
Freundeskreis Iwalewahaus e.V.
Ruth Weiss zu Gast
Mo. 18.06.2018 // 20.00 Uhr
Ort: Foyer
Eine große Ehre: Die Journalistin und Autorin Ruth Weiss ist wieder zu Gast im Iwalewahaus. Wir laden zu Begegnungen für Kinder und Erwachsene. Geboren wurde Ruth Weiss 1924 in Fürth. Auf Grund der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft wanderte die Familie nach Südafrika aus. Im Laufe ihres Lebens wurde Ruth Weiss zur überzeugten Kämpferin gegen Rassismus. Als Journalistin war sie im Gespräch mit den Aktivist_innen der afrikanischen Befreiungsbewegungen. Auch ihr literarisches Schaffen fand große Beachtung. Wir begrüßen Ruth Weiss gemeinsam mit der IKG Bayreuth.
Welt-Literatur: Lese-Stunde für junge Menschen
Di. 19.06.2018 // 15.00 Uhr
Foyer
Ruth Weiss liest aus ihren Büchern für Kinder.
Meet the Artist: To Revolutionary Type Love
Ort: Besprechungsraum 1. OG
Summer Vernissage + AfterCelebration
To Revolutionary Type Love
Location: Iwalewahaus Foyer
Curation: Samanea Karrfalt, and Katharina Fink
Inclusion Curator: Stefanie Scheer
Project Manager: Samanea Karrfalt
TRTL Event Programme
Summer Exhibition
Feedback: Art, Africa, and the 1980s
The new exhibition is offically open, and will stay in Iwalewahaus until 30.09.2018. We warmly invite you to see it during our opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 13.00-17.00 h.
© Misfortune (Detail) by Muwonge Kyazze, 1985. Collection Makerere Art Gallery
Feedback: Art, Africa, and the Eighties is an in-depth, art-centered study of the 1980s in Africa through an exhibition that is both historical and contemporary in scope. The exhibition will explore the social, political, and economic realities in Africa in the 1980s through the creative visions of artists, then and now.
Feedback is curated by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (Cleveland Museum of Art).
Symposium: Mining Collections
Mining Collections:
Some Configurations of African Modernisms in Institutional Collections
Fri. 29.06. to Sat. 30.06.2018
Location: Iwalewahaus Foyer
Image: Expulsion, Peter Binaka, 1960s, Oil on hardboard, Makerere Art Gallery
This final public symposium brings together the international researchers of the project African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic. Since 2017, they have been engaged with three collections of African modernism: the Makerere Art Gallery / MIHCR, the Weltkulturenmuseum in Frankfurt a.M. and the Iwalewahaus. The different research topics are very diverse and span from an indepth engagement with singular artworks to
broader questions about collecting art for public collections. A detailed program will be published on the Iwalewahaus website.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the symposium: iwalewa@uni-bayreuth.de
Critiquing the Humboldt Forum
Humboldt-Forum displeased with? What can be learned from the discussion for the practice of other museums such as the Iwalewahaus? And what demands do not only ethnological museums have to meet today?
These questions will be asked in a new series of lectures.
Curation: Fabian Lehmann und Christina Heydenreich
Interventions in the Humboldt Forum
Book Presentation with Mareike Heller and Tahir Della (Berlin)
Wed. 13.06.2018 // 19.00 h
Iwalewahaus Foyer
The publication No Humboldt 21! - Decolonial objections to the Humboldt Forum illuminates and criticizes the colonial past of the Berlin Palace, the ethnological collections, and the underlying science thereof. The campaign, which started in 2013 and is reflected upon in the book, highlights how critical insights have been channeled into the public debate, ongoing protests from activists with migrant and diasporic perspectives, and cultural educational work. As part of the event, Tahir Della (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland) and Mareike Heller (AfricAvenir) will present No Humboldt 21! In dialogue with the texts, interviews, collages and pictures of the anthology.
Wed. 27.06.2018 // 19.00 h
Iwalewahaus Foyer
Protesters demonstrating against No Humboldt 21! © Photographers in Solidarity
Ohne das Humboldt Forum gäbe es gegenwärtig wohl kaum eine so breit geführte Debatte über die Herkunft ethnologischer Sammlungen, über Fragen ihrer Rückgabe und die Notwendigkeit, tradierte Kategorisierungen wie „Europa“ und „Außereuropa“ zu hinterfragen, die nach wie vor Grundlage nicht nur ethnologischer Museen sind. Welchen Einfluss haben diese Diskussionen auf die Institutionen selbst? Wie wirken sich die aktivistischen, akademischen und künstlerischen Interventionen der letzten Jahre auf die Museen, ihr Selbstverständnis und ihre Ausstellungskonzepte aus? Friedrich von Bose geht diesen Fragen am Beispiel der langen Planungsgeschichte des Humboldt Forums nach, die er über mehrere Jahre ethnografisch beforscht hat.
Project Presentation
Women on Aeroplanes
with curators Annett Busch, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Magda Lipska
Sat. 16.06.2018 // from 16 h
Iwalewahaus Foyer
Image: Detail from Bon voyage, Sim (Moustapha Alassane, 1966), fragment from a picture of the Women’s March on Washington D.C., 2017 (CNN), front-page of the invitation card
of Colette Omogbai’s exhibition, cut outs from installation from Lubaina Himid’s exhibition Naming the Money (2017) at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool (Collage by MH Gutberlet, 2018).
The Women On Aeroplanes are landing in Bayreuth and the Iwalewahaus will serve as a resonance chamber for them. Come join us for a sneak preview of this growing display of audio files from lectures and discussions, the inflight magazines of the Women on Aeroplanes Airline, posters and other materials which reflect the project thus far and the themes that it will be covering next. Funded by TURN Fond of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Lecture Series "African Modernism and the Formation of a Modernist Aesthetic"
Acknowledging the Contemporary: African Art Studies in the Short 1960s
with Peter Probst (Tufts University)
Wed. 20.06.2018 // 19 h
Location: Foyer
Language // English
Photo: Le Bélier. Christian Lattier. Installation view.1966.
The current interest in African modernisms also entails a critical historiographic discussion of field formations: It was towards the end of the 1960s when scholars and critics began to acknowledge the existence of “contemporary art in Africa” (Beier 1968). Yet, as profound as the recognition was, the openness did not last long. The new era of independence did not trigger a lasting interest in exploring and researching the new African art worlds that had emerged with the decline ofcolonialism. From the mid 1970s onwards African art studies returned to focus on so-called traditional art forms again. The talk will explore “the short 1960s” in terms of the competing and often contested questions that dominated the discussion during that period.
Meet the Curator: Santiago Villanueva
Meet the Curator mit Santiago Villanueva (Buenos Aires)
"From a critique of action, towards a domestic model of curatorial practice"
Thu. 21.06.2018 // 16 h
Location: Foyer
Photo: Bellos Jueves, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 2015.
"In this presentation we will travel around some artistic developments that took place between the 1970s and the 2000s in Latin America. These are, even today, important references in order to think curatorial practice, from Frederico Morais and his interventions in museums to Jorge Gumier Maier‘s referential essay “El Tao del arte”. Then we will reflect on curatorial practice itself, as much as it is related to art history and the working of museums, and present some personal readings and projects."
Music Archive Listening Session
Music Archive Listening Session
Thu. 14.06.2018 // 19 h
Iwalewahaus Foyer
Curation: Alexandra Kuhnke and Lena Naumann
Object of the Month
Objekt des Monats
#43
Marabou Storks by Theresa Musoke
1986. Oil on cotton canvas.
At a glance, all one can see are shadowy and ghostly creatures flapping their wings, hovering over an undeclared space – and this adds to the mystery of the painting. At a closer look, the images are indeed marabou storks, ugly looking birds whose presence has increased drastically in Uganda’s urban spaces in the recent past. They breed near human habitation especially around garbage dumps, slaughter houses and land fill sites.
This painting clearly demonstrates that Musoke benefitted from the tutelage of Cecil Todd, a British professor (1958-1971) whose curriculum at Makerere Art School insisted on pictorial composition, anatomy and perspective while keeping a close watch on content. These were indeed sharpened with Musoke’s training in the UK in the early 70s. The political anarchy and muzzling of free speech during Idi Amin’s regime (1971-1979) made it hard for her to continue with her teaching job at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, Makerere University. Like many educated Ugandan’s of the time, she fled to exile. In Nairobi (Kenya) the nostalgia of leaving home was the very reason for her career as an artist. Her interest in subject of wild life started here in the animal rich plains of Kenya.
The Marabou Storks painting continues this journey in exploring East Africa’s fauna as well as extending the possibilities of Batik art medium – elements of which are evident in the painting.
Dr. George Kyeyune
Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration, Makerere University
2018
BayFinK
BayFinK, die Bayerische Forschungs- und Informationsstelle – Inklusive Hochschulen und Kultureinrichtungen, bietet die Plattform für einen weltweiten Dialog: Reden Sie mit, dies geht uns alle an.
Lunchtime Lecture: Critical Diversity Literacy
mit Prof. Melissa Steyn (Johannesburg)
Do. 21.06.2018 // 12.30 Uhr
Sprache // Englisch
In conversation with Prof. Melissa Steyn, the founding director of the Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg/South Africa.
Freundeskreis Iwalewahaus e.V.
Ruth Weiss as a Guest
Mon. 18.06.2018 // 20 h
Location: Foyer
What an honour it is to have journalist and author Ruth Weiss as a guest again in Iwalewahaus. Weiss was born in 1924 in Fürth. Due to the rise of National Socialism, she and her family fled to South Africa. During her life she became an outspoken opponent of racism. As a journalist, she worked tirelessly with Anti-Apartheid activists, and her literary works have been widely published. We welcome Ruth Weiss together with IKG Bayreuth
World Literature: Storytime for Young People
Tue. 19.06.2018 // 15 h
Location: Foyer
Ruth Weiss will read selections from her childrens' books.
Meet the Artist: To Revolutionary Type Love
Mon. 25.06.2018 // 19 h
Location: 1st Floor Meeting Room
A toast to love! In our tried-and-true format, we invite you to meet the artists of the upcoming exhibition To Revolutionary Type Love - Kawira Mwirichia, Mal Muga und Faith Wanjala
