The Goodman Gallery is at the forefront of contemporary art, focusing on artists from the African Continent, and artists from other countries who engage in a dialogue with an African context.
This month the Goodman Gallery will be exhibiting at the Armory Show (Pier 94, Booth 933), New York. Among the artists exhibiting are: Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, Frances Goodman, William Kentridge, Thomas Mulcaire, Joachim Schönfeldt, Mikhael Subotzky, Gavin Turk, Minnette Vári.
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William Kentridge / The Nose
In March 2010, William Kentridge will be the first South African to direct an opera at the Metropolitan in New York, one of the premiere performance spaces in… Full Story
William Kentridge / Five Themes / MOMA (New York)
William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the artist’s oeuvre curated by Mark Rosenthal, will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art (New Yo… Full Story
The Armory Show / 03.03.2010–07.03.2010
The Goodman Gallery will be exhibiting at the Armory Show (Pier 94, Booth 933), New York (03.03.2010–07.03.2010). Among the artists exhibiting are: Kudzanai… Full Story
William Kentridge / the New York Times / 22 February 2010
Full StoryWilliam Kentridge / What We See & What We Know
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK), is pleased to announce on the behalf of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) and the Hiroshima C… Full Story
IN CONTEXT: A 2010 INITIATIVE / 02 May–11 July 2010
During the 2010 World Cup, the Goodman Gallery, in partnership with the Goethe Institute, IFAS, the City of Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Iziko … Full Story
Nontsikelelo Veleko will be participating in 'Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography 1/5/2010
Nontsikelelo Veleko will be participating in ‘Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography’ from the Wedge Collection, Gallery 44 a feature exhibit… Full Story
David Goldblatt / The Jewish Museum (New York)
David Goldblatt will exhibit at The Jewish Museum (New York), from 02 May 2010 through to 19 September 2010. An exhibition of approximately 150 photographs by… Full Story
Nontsikelelo Veleko / 7th Recontree Africaines de la Photographie exhibition - Bamako 2007
Nontsikelelo Veleko is included in the 7th Recontree Africaines de la Photographie exhibition – Bamako 2007 at Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria until 1… Full Story
The Joburg Art Fair / 26.03.2010–28.03.2010
The Goodman Gallery will exhibit at The Joburg Art Fair (26.03.2010–28.03.2010). Full Story
Le Moulin / Spheres
In October 2009, the Goodman Gallery will collaborate with Air de Paris, Galleria Continua, Gallerie Krinzinger, Kamel Mennour, Almine Rech Gallery and Ester … Full Story
Thomas Mulcaire / 'CUE' at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada
Thomas Mulcaire’s work is currently being shown on the exhibition ‘CUE’ at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada from 22 January–21 March 2010. He has been in… Full Story
David Goldblatt / Some Afrikaners Revisited at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum
David Goldblatt Goldblatt’s photographic essay Some Afrikaners Revisited will be exhibited at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein from 15 October 200… Full Story
Nontsikelelo Veleko, WELCOME TO PARADISE!, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain
Nontsikelelo Veleko’s solo exhibition, WELCOME TO PARADISE! curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose opens on 3 December 2009 at Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain.
The e… Full Story
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin exhibit at at Musée de l'Elysée
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin’s solo show The Red House is on view at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne until 25 October 2009. They are also included in Prun… Full Story
Kentridge and Gerhard Marx / The Firewalker, a ten-metre high public sculpture
The Firewalker, a ten-metre high public sculpture commissioned by the City of Johannesburg from William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx, can be viewed at the south… Full Story
David Golblatt is presented with prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award
David Goldblatt has been awarded the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2009), for his project ‘TJ’, an ongoing examination of the city of Johannesb… Full Story
Mikhael Subotzky received respected Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Mikhael Subotzky has been awarded the highly respected Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Beaufort West essay. Selected by an international jury, the prize is … Full Story
Art Basel Miami Beach / 03.12.2009 - 06.12.2009
The Goodman Gallery will exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach (03.12.2009 – 06.12.2009). Among the artists exhibiting are: Bili Bidjocka, Adam Broomberg and Olive… Full Story
William Kentridge, Brett Murray and Sue Williamson at Spier
Goodman Gallery artists William Kentridge, Brett Murray and Sue Williamson have been selected to participate in Forward>March, one of two exhibition taking pl… Full Story
Jodi Bieber’s First Prize at the Picture of the Year International 2009
Jodi Bieber has won First Prize Portrait Series with ‘Real Beauty’ at Picture of the Year International (POYI) in the USA, March 2009. Full Story
Minnette Vari / 5th VentoSul Biennale
Minnette Vári has been invited to participate in 5th VentoSul Biennale, a Latin-American Visual Arts Biennial held in Curitiba, Brazil on view until 4 Novemb… Full Story
William Kentridge / The New York Times / 6 February 2010
Full StoryKathryn Smith and Nontsikelelo Veleko: 3rd AiM International Biennale
Kathryn Smith and Nontsikelelo Veleko will participate in the third AiM International Biennale, Marrakech 2009, curated by Abdellah Karoum opening on 19 Novem… Full Story
Joel Andrianomearisoa at L’École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris
Joel Andrianomearisoa is presenting a performance and installation titled Habillé, Déshabillé (Dress, Undress) for Regard Spécial sur la Turquie, which ru… Full Story
Intersections Intersected / The Photography of David Goldblatt at the New Museum, New York
Over the last fifty years, David Goldblatt has documented the complexities and contradictions of South African society. His photographs capture the social and… Full Story
Paris Photo / 19.11.2009 - 22.11.2009
The Goodman Gallery will exhibit at Paris Photo (19.11.2009 – 22.11.2009). Among the artists exhibiting are: Jodi Bieber, Hasan & Husain Essop, David Goldblat… Full Story
The New York Times / Performa 09: William Kentridge on Divided Selves / 12 November 2009
Full StoryWilliam Kentridge / What We See & What We Know
Full StoryWilliam Kentridge / Weaving the crusader tale / Business Day Wanted, September 2009
Full StoryWilliam Kentridge / Kentridge Tapestries at new Goodman Venue / August 2009
Full StoryThe New York Times / The Invisible Hand in MOMA Shows / 18 February 2010
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Mikhael Subotzky with Patrick Waterhouse / Recent Works
In early 2008, Mikhael Subotzky moved from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and since his move has been at work on two long-term projects. While independent, the projects are both influenced by Subotzky’s engagement with the city of Johannesburg. They are presented as works-in-progress, eventually to be realised as full exhibitions and publications.
The first body of work continues a long-held interest in crime, social marginalisation, and the public and private institutions of punishment and security. This investigation started in 2004 with Die Vier Hoeke (The Four Corners) and continued in subsequent years with Umjiegwana (The Outside) and Beaufort West. In this exhibition, Subotzky presents works that extend the three series into new environments. Loosely focusing on the lifestyle of fear in South Africa, the images explore the vexed and many-layered concept of security in contemporary society.
The second project, begun in 2008, is a collaboration with British artist Patrick Waterhouse – whom Subotzky met while on a residency in Italy. The work is located in Berea’s Ponte City building, an iconic structure in Johannesburg’s skyline that has long been a symbol for the city itself. Opened in 1976, Ponte has come to represent the best and the worst of Johannesburg, and has generated a particular mythology of city life.
Subotzky and Waterhouse combine photography, historical archives, found objects, and interviews to create a body of work that spans the pre-history of the building, its spectacular decline, and the recent attempts at its transformation. The building is cast as the central character in a tangled narrative about Johannesburg’s magnetic pull on people from all over the continent.
Mikhael Subotzky’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. He was included in New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and his first monograph, Beaufort West, was published the same year. He received the 2009 Oskar Barnack Award, the 2008 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, and the 2008 ICP Infinity Award (Young Photographer). This is his fifth solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery.
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Hasan & Husain Essop / Halaal Art
Hasan & Husain Essop / Halaal Art / Opening 20 February 11h30 – 13h30
Goodman Gallery is proud to present Halaal Art, an exhibition of photographs and a video installation by twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop. The exhibition, as with all their work, deals with notions of performance, representation, and the tension between self and other. Born and raised in Cape Town, the twins graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2007. During 2009 they completed a residency in Cuba – coinciding with the inclusion of their work in the Havana Biennale – and facilitated a workshop on invitation from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Halaal Art extends the artists’ preoccupation with the role of the individual in society, in particular the space that Muslim youth negotiate in a secular environment. Inspired by their experiences abroad, the images depict the brothers in various carefully staged locations and poses around Havana, Hamburg and Cape Town.
The thread that ties the images together is their subjects: in Islam, the rendering of the human form is considered haraam or forbidden, and the artists are deliberate about limiting this to their own bodies and bearing the responsibility. They are also not interested in making objective statements – the questions they ask are personal and intimate, and they perform these questions, and the search for answers, with their own bodies.
The title of the show refers to the process of making pure. In the same way that they seek to halaal their lives, to remain pure within the various secular environments they find themselves, the artists create work that is concerned with ritual as a process of purification and cleansing – an acknowledgement of mortality and a preparation for death, the imminence of which is a motif that recurs throughout the exhibition. The photographs occupy a space fraught with tensions; between documentation and narrative, the spontaneous and the staged (as evidenced by the accompanying video installation), and between overt expression and that which is left unsaid.
Hasan and Husain Essop have been collaborating since their graduation from the University of Cape Town. Their work has appeared in several group shows, including Integration and Resistance in the Global Age at the Havana Biennale, ABSA L’Atelier in Johannesburg and Power Play at Goodman Gallery Cape, as well as various private and public collections, including the Durban Art Gallery and the South African National Gallery. They are represented by Goodman Gallery.
15 April - 22 May 2010
Diane Victor
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Kudzanai Chiurai / Communists and Hot Chicken Wings: The Birth of a New Nation
Kudzanai Chiurai extends his foray into the murky world of African politics with a new installation at Goodman Gallery Project Space, Johannesburg. Taking his cue from a series of large-scale photographs critiquing the representation and aesthetics of political power produced for his solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Cape in 2009, Chiurai moves the action forward with a series of large linocuts, an oversized mural, and the fictional remains of a presidential assassination.
Though he is known primarily as a painter, Chiurai extends his practice to a broad public engagement not always possible in the confines of the white cube. His work as a producer, editor, and designer is often located in informal networks and situations and is intimately connected to his political activism. This wide-ranging approach to making art is demonstrated in a body of work that embraces photography, publishing, music, public art, and fashion. COMMUNISTS AND HOT CHICKEN WINGS: THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATION brings together these various strands, and showcases Chiurai’s searing and ironic take on the confluence of sex, money, and politics in contemporary South Africa. A new publication edited by Chiurai, with contributions by leading creatives, accompanies the exhibition.
Kudzanai Chiurai was born in Zimbabwe, and currently lives and works in the city of Johannesburg. He completed a BAFA at the University of Pretoria and has participated in a number of local and international group exhibitions, including the Dakar Biennale, Senegal; Africa Now, a travelling exhibition in Scandinavia; as well as New Painting, a local travelling exhibition in 2006.
The Goodman Gallery has exhibited his recent work at PhotoParis 2009, the 2010 Armory fair in New York, and Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. His work is represented in the collections of Iziko South African National Gallery, BHP Billiton, and Nandos UK, amongst others.