Exhibition

In Outside, Bunmi Agusto draws us further into ‘Within’, the name she gives the imagined world that has remained at the heart of her practice

The subjects of this exhibition, scenes that Usui sees on the streets that somehow catch his fancy, are sometimes beautifully presented, and at other times with an air of subtle humour. 

Dissolving the barriers between the artistic expressions, the partnership affirms the gallery’s aim to increasingly embrace multidisciplinarity in its activity.

With the help and collaboration of Cooperativa 1050º, a cooperative of potters from Oaxaca, Puebla and Chiapas, and led by Kythzia Barrera, Tiravanija worked on special designs for vases, cups and other vessels that were shown in the exhibition.

Working together for a decade now, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca have been producing films and video-installations in dialogue with other artists connected to sound and stage. Learn more about their practice and recent exhibitions.

This project explores how the distinctions between sound and meaning blur in spoken language.

The artists included in this version of SCENORAMA are interested in creating new ways of thinking about the accessibility of individual and collective experiences.

Through paintings and mixed media works, the artists reflect on the concept of place and origin in rapidly changing social, political, and economic realities.

This expansion was necessitated by the growth of the gallery’s programme and the drive to bring a broader representation of Southeast Asian, Asian Pacific, and Diasporic artists into the wider framework of the contemporary art dialogue.

This exhibition presented works by thirteen artists on the nature of Parsi identity, exploring the diverse ways in which the Parsi community has been visually represented and placing specific emphasis on contemporary images amidst shifting narratives of memory and belonging.

This show aimed to create a bridge between life before and after the pandemic.

This exhibition mimicked their actual studio; at the border between fictitious and real.

A comprehensive survey of Gramcko’s artistic practice from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s

This exhibition features new works including a large installation and a suite of paintings.

Gupta explores the nature of conflict as expression and modality, engaging with historical, geographical and socio-political narratives that yield powerfully discursive, personally resonant and at times playful calls to action, enriching post-modern queer theory through his expressionist politics. SOUTH SOUTH interviewed the artist to find out about each series on show.

The exhibition focuses on the bodily potentials “of” and “in” the participating artists’ works as instruments to deconstruct the processes of artistic creation from a Eurocentric system and from the language of art.

The exhibition at John Hansard Gallery centres on a collection of five humble yet remarkable used envelopes addressed to Mahatma Gandhi.

The show presents a wide selection of Kallat’s works and highlights his mastery as a multidisciplinary artist.

Guest curated by Zimbabwean curator Tandazani Dhlakama, Assistant Curator at Zeitz MOCAA, in collaboration with Pérez Collection curators Patricia M. Hanna and Anelys Alvarez, the exhibition includes over 100 works by African and African Diaspora artists.

Read text by Daniel Garza Usabiaga in which they share the journey of Ángela Gurría’s practice. This text was shared alongside for the solo ‘Escuchar la materia’.

‘Taro Urashima’s Space Odyssey’ marked the artist’s 10th solo presentation at MUJIN-TO Production. In this exhibition, Yagi presented a new body of work reflecting on perceptions of time in a world affected by Covid-19.

This exhibition was Carlos Garaicoa’s debut exhibition at Goodman Gallery, London. Garaicoa is one of Cuba’s most significant contemporary artists. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Garaicoa addresses issues of culture and politics with a reflexive lens into architecture, urbanism and history.

In this new show Chati Coronel applies her passion for the timeless study of the stars to a vigorous rumination on modern existence. Marga Ortigas shares more on the artist’s latest works.

This is a new exhibition by Gary-Ross Pastrana and marks his eighth solo presentation with SILVERLENS. Cocoy Lumbao reflects on the show and the artist’s practice.

The title for the show describes female photographers whose work re-imagines conceptual works of art through lived experiences. Curator Fulufhelo Mobadi shares the details for her curatorial approach and the podcast connected to the exhibition.

eBhish’ is a solo exhibition by Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose (b.1994, eThekwini, South Africa) presented at blank projects from 22 July – 21 August 2021. Through his work Nyawose is contributing to a “contemporary archive of black life ebhish’, one with humanising, tender and intimate moments…”. Read the full text by the artist.

In addition to building and intensifying his own practice, Luz was dedicated to sharing the work of local arts and asserting the Filipino art landscape within the global art world. Reflect on his work through images from the 2013 exhibition ‘ARTURO LUZ: The Painter As Photographer’.

On 27 May 2021, in relationship with the exhibition ‘Sailoon and Other Stories’ (on view through July 31) curator Aziz Sohail began an email exchange with Fiza Khatri. Both are from the city of Karachi and have known each other as friends, colleagues and a part of a shared community over the last five years.

This curatorial project considered the idea of the archive and archival practices. The project was a collaboration between between CoCulture and Dawlaty Institute’s programme ‘Preserving the Oral History of Syria’.

Dream-like figures and distorted structures morph into one another in the work of young artist Nada Baraka, inviting the viewer to open up the parameters of what the imagination allows. ‘Land of Sequels’ is Baraka’s second solo at Gypsum gallery and builds on her first show ‘Cosmic Truths and Tales to be Told’. SOUTH SOUTH interviewed the artist to unpack the inspiration for her recent body of work.

The exhibition ‘Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys’ stems from Asia Art Archive’s research since 2014 into the personal archive of the late Hong Kong–based artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925–2009). The curator for the show, Michelle Wong, invited artists to respond to the artist’s archive, stretching the possibilities of archival work. In this interview Wong shares details about the research on Ha Bik Chuen and the conceptualisation of the exhibition.

Multidisciplinary artist Phumlani Ntuli explores the notion of reflection intertwined with his overarching thematic investigations of black futurity and the archive in his recent solo exhibition at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg.

Held at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, ‘Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South’ was the first exhibition in a three-year curatorial programme with a thematic focus aimed at mapping out a generational genealogy of female identities within the Global South.

The Bag Factory Factory celebrates three decades of their history and legacy as a non-profit contemporary visual arts organisation with an exhibition based on their art collection and archive.

Individually and collectively the works on show, through sculptural, filmic and installation-based interventions, reflect ideas of nationhood and diasporic identities from this region. SOUTH SOUTH interviewed the curator for the show Robbie Handcock to find out about his considerations for the show.

This exhibition was one of the 5 inaugural exhibitions at the opening of Palais de Lomé to the public in 2019

This exhibition took its title from artist Otobong Nkanga’s performance piece ‘Diaoptasia’, presented at Tate Modern, London, in 2015. Instead of departing from a theme, the exhibition’s foundations were laid from a selection of works on paper by Nkanga, which provided ground for other artists’ works to address the need to challenge Eurocentric historical narratives.

Curator and writer Guy Brett and artist David Medalla passed away in February 2021 and December 2020 respectively. Together they established the gallery Signals London and published Signals Newsbulletin between 1964 – 1966, along with fellow co-founders Paul Keeler, Gustav Metzger and Marcello Salvadori. A cross-disciplinary space invested in experimental practices, Signals London also played an important part in the recognition of artists from Latin America in a context and market in which they were overlooked.