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'Ernest Cole: Photographer'

Ernest Cole at Iziko South African National Gallery

Ernest Cole believed passionately in his mission to tell the world, in photographs of unsurpassed strength and gravitas, what it meant to be black under apartheid. In order to publish his book, House of Bondage, Cole went into exile. Immediately after it was produced in 1967, his publication was banned here, and this major critique of apartheid is seldom seen in South Africa.

Tio fotografer, an association of Swedish photographers with whom Cole worked from 1969 to 1975 when he lived in Stockholm, received a collection of his prints, and these were later donated to the Hasselblad Foundation. Never before internationally exhibited, these extremely rare photographs are now to be seen publicly for the first time in a major exhibition. The Hasselblad Foundation chose South Africa as the first venue for this unique world tour in honour of Ernest Cole and his family.

25 February 2011 - 30 April 2011

'Borders', 'Louis Khehla Maqubela - A Vigil of Departure', 'Roger Ballen - Boarding House', 'Imagining Beauty' and 'In Context'

Various Artists at Iziko South African National Gallery

'Borders': An exhibition from the Bamako Encounters 8th African Photographic Biennale

This will include a panel discussion with Mario Pissarra, Laurent Clavel, Zanele Muholi and Sean O'Toole on Friday 26th November 14:00 to 16:00. Contact Pam Warne to RSVP or for further details on 021 481 3956 or pwarne@iziko.org.za.

'Louis Khehla Maqubela: A Vigil of Departure': A Retrospective 1960 - 201

'Roger Ballen: Boarding House': Photography

The Boarding House is a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines of Johannesburg and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families, fugitives and witch doctors. Lacking walls, many rooms are separated only by rugs, blankets, and metal sheets. In his visually complex tableaux, Ballen forgoes a strictly documentary approach and casts further doubt on their veracity, intervening to alter each room, and collaborating directly with the subject to create the sculptures and drawings that appear in the photographs.

'Imagining Beauty': Body Adornment including the work of Young South African Designers

Textiles and items of adornment from the gallery’s Permanent Collection are shown together with contemporary South African designers who have taken inspiration from our continent’s rich visual heritage and a legacy of innovation to create global fashion with a distinctive African signature. Included on the show are: Black Coffee, Craig Native, Darkie and others shown in Berlin last year, Michelle Kra, Boleved Beadwork, Andrew Putter.

Over a hundred works will be on display, including textiles; works on paper; video; paintings; sculpture; beadwork; headdresses; regalia; recycled fashion and body adornment created from found and precious materials.

'In Context': Contemporary South African and International Artists

In Context presents a diverse group of international and South African artists who share a rigorous commitment to the dynamics and tensions of place, in reference to the African continent and its varied and complex iterations, and to South Africa in particular. The works – wide-ranging, frequently provocative – engage with a number of pressing questions about space, context, and geography.

27 November 2010 - 27 January 2011

Talk to Us

Various Artists at Iziko South African National Gallery

'Talk to Us' is a programme of conversations, workshops, screenings and performances that runs over the last week of the exhibition ‘Us’ at Iziko South African National Gallery. The programme will be accompanied by the 'Us' catalogue launch.

Blank Projects: Friday 5 Nov from 6pm

Blank Projects will host a conversation between artists working in film and photography called: 'Recorded Fictions: still and moving image'. Participants will show their own work, or work they have selected. The idea is for them to discuss the work’s process and formal choices. This is intended to generate a conversation that moves away from overloading the recorded image with ‘content’, focussing the discussion on how ‘form’ generates an image of the self (or not-self), and not the other way around.

Chaired by Alex Dodd, participants include: Dave Southwood, the Essop twins, Mohau Modisakeng and Laurence Bonvin. We will also screen Bridget Baker’s ‘The Pilot’ and ‘Sometimes Wondering’.

Iziko South African National Gallery: Saturday 6 Nov    

At Iziko South African National Gallery there will be a finnisage event including performances and a discussion.

The discussion, titled 'Performative Gestures in Diverse Practices', will be held between the curators, Simon Njami (curator of Africa Remix and founding editor of Revue Noire) and Bettina Malcomess, with Jay Pather (UCT School of Drama), well known for both performance and choreography and founder of Siwele Sonke Dance troupe. The talk, chaired by Andrew Lamprecht, will look at how the different roles played by these practitioners ‘gesture’ at many publics. There will also be performative actions by artists: Gimberg Nerf, Gerald Machona, Justin Brett and remotely, by Bridget Baker.

Donna Kukama will deliver the opening of the closing address, as part of her series ‘1000 Ways of Being: I am absolutely ending this!’

05 November 2010 - 06 November 2010

'Echoes'

Philip Samartzis at Iziko South African National Gallery

'Echoes' is a sound art cultural exchange project between Australia and South Africa, in which leading Australian sound artist Philip Samartzis will spend time in Cape Town producing a surround-sound installation at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Samartzis uses recordings of natural and constructed environments which are arranged and mixed to reflect the acoustic and spatial complexities of everyday sound fields. Samartzis' installation will invite gallery visitors to enter a vast sonic space that brings awareness to sound's impact on our daily surroundings and lives.

Curated by Jared Davis

08 October 2010 - 31 October 2010

Dinosaurs or Dynamos: Is There a Future for Museums in South Africa?

Various Participants at Iziko South African National Gallery

Join Pippa Skotness in conversation with Dr. Steven Dubin, Sue Williamson, Riason Naidoo (Director of ISANG) and Andrew Lamprecht as they discuss South African Museums: Challenges and Opportunities.

The discussion is a Jacana Media, Book Lounge, Cape Times and Equal Education initiative. Members of public are asked to please bring high quality children's and young adults' books in good condition, to donate to Equal Educations book drive for school libraries.

Starts at 14hoo for 14h30

RSVP: strictlytickets.com

01 August 2010 - 01 August 2010