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NewsSouthern Africa

We’ve Come to Take You Home questioned collection and belonging at UCT

Nkgopoleng Moloi’s March 2020 ArtThrob review examined We’ve Come to Take You Home #1 at Michaelis Galleries, an exhibition of acquisitions intended to reshape the University of Cape Town’s art collection. Moloi welcomed greater attention to previously excluded Black artists while questioning the authority and language of institutional inclusion. The review frames collecting as an active negotiation over heritage, belonging and which artistic histories receive recognition.

ArtThrob9 Mar 2020

InterviewWest Africa

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflected on photography, sound and Bamako

In a March 2020 ART AFRICA interview with Sasha Gankin, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflected on the twelfth Rencontres de Bamako. He connected photography with sound, memory and African diasporic movement, while describing efforts to print work locally and distribute exhibitions across the city. The account presented local production and broader access as practical curatorial choices, documenting the ambitions and difficulties of the biennale’s twenty-fifth-anniversary edition.

ART AFRICA6 Mar 2020

OPENING THE JOURNAL

The living archive.

We’ve Come to Take You Home questioned collection and belonging at UCT

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflected on photography, sound and Bamako

The living archive.

We’ve Come to Take You Home questioned collection and belonging at UCT

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflected on photography, sound and Bamako

Esther Mahlangu’s painting exceeded the language of tradition

Three artists approached ecological crisis in Voices from the Earth

A 2020 feature traced African participation in Sesc_Videobrasil’s Imagined Communities

ART AFRICA’s 2020 editorial connected home and belonging across art worlds

FotoFest’s 2020 announcement centred African Cosmologies

Kevin Beasley’s Cape Town residency transformed urban traces into sculpture and sound

Clive van den Berg remembered Andrew Verster’s teaching and artistic independence

Casablanca biennale named Soukaina Aboulaoula and Cindy Sissokho as associate curators

Sharjah’s planned March Meeting 2020 explored biennial histories

Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo develops Slaghuis II through a photography mentorship

Rabat replaced Marrakech as the first African Capital of Culture

ArtThrob considered tenderness and exclusion in Brett Charles Seiler’s Closet

Review: The first Stellenbosch Triennale tested art’s relationship to place

Aspire and Piasa report results from their 2020 Cape Town auction

Andy Robert won Cape Town Art Fair’s 2020 Tomorrows/Today prize

Lumières d’Afriques brought a continent-wide energy theme to Johannesburg