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Wim Botha’s Prism bronzes in the garden at Stevenson . PHOTO: MARIO TODESCHINI Season of migration to the north

# New spaces in Joburg a dog named Leni, and a lounge an art fair – and one that feels more and Amsterdam styled by Tonic Design whose studio hospitable too. is two doors down. Our first presentation, Winter As of 18 May 2019, Stevenson The new gallery opened with Sun, takes its title from a linocut Johannesburg has a new home in Portia Zvavahera’s Talitha Cumi, of an Amsterdam cityscape by Parktown North – not too far from attended by, among others, friends Peter Clarke and features artists Craighall Park where David Brodie from the Johannesburg Art Gallery, with personal connections to (formerly ArtExtra) and Michael Keleketla, the Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam and our gallery: Clarke Stevenson joined forces as Brodie/ VANSA and Pérez Art Museum himself, Breyten Breytenbach, Stevenson in 2008 (their first show: Miami. The show runs till 26 July. Meschac Gaba, Nicholas Hlobo, Athi-Patra Ruga’s ... of bugchasers Moshekwa Langa, Neo Matloga, and watussi faghags). In the Northern Hemisphere we’re Zanele Muholi, Viviane Sassen and After spending nine years on opening a space in partnership with Kemang Wa Lehulere. Juta Street, Braamfontein, our We Folk, the agency that represents Following the opening on 8 June, adoption of a turn-of-the-century the commercial work of gallery our hours will be Saturdays from 12 home in Parktown North carries artists Viviane Sassen and Pieter to 6pm, September to June, or by the pragmatic benefits of an Uber- Hugo. Our newest and smallest appointment. Gallery director (and friendly Gautrain stop, wheelchair space is less a traditional gallery Netherlands native) Joost Bosland access, off-street parking and room and more an office with a specific will oversee the programme, with for a bigger research library. So too mission: bringing our programme the assistance of project manager it offers the suburban comforts of to a European audience in a Peter-Frank Heuseveldt and intern a garden with azaleas and clivias, package with more longevity than Christine Hveding Ramirez-Corzo. stevenson 2 #01 stevenson 3 #01 .info 06-2019 .info 06-2019

At work in Paris and Germany

# Mawande Ka Zenzile and Udludlilali refers to a powerful Grose who described his latest body Ian Grose on residencies mystic being in isiXhosa (analogous of work, on view in , to a genie in Arabic mythologies). with the statement: Mawande Ka Zenzile and Ian Grose Udludlilali is known as a creature ‘[A] starting point was the decision are taking part in three-month that doesn’t have a master, which to temporarily limit my subject matter residencies at the Cité internationale has the power to bestow blessings to the most recent, dramatic change des arts in Paris and Gut Kerkow in on the fortunate, and destruction on to my visual experience of the city: Uckermark, Germany, respectively. those less so. the profusion of delivery motorbikes, For his tenure at the Cité des arts, Ian Grose is spending his time evidence of the popularity of apps that in the heart of the French metropole, at Gut Kerkow, an organic farm in offer unrivalled convenience at the Mawande Ka Zenzile said he will be the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide- cost of increased personal isolation, working on Udludlilali, a project Chorin, about an hour outside and the loss of physical engagement exploring ‘the visible and non- Berlin. The residency and gallery with the common spaces of the city.’ visible territorial tension sometimes offer a chance to ‘enter into a Grose will exhibit the fruits of his caused by non-conventional dialogue with contemporary art far residency at Gut Kerkow’s gallery, artistic practices in cultural and removed from the urban rush’. This Spaced Out, opening 16 June. His Cape Zanele Muholi’s Faniswa, Sea Point, Town exhibition, Invention, Cure, Cape Town, 2016 (left) and Kemang Wa conventional art spaces’. The term agrarian escape is a fitting retreat for continues until 29 June. Lehulere’s Dead Eye, 2018 (right), in A Venetian affair the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale

# Zanele Muholi, Kemang Writing in advance of the Tracey Rose and Mawande Ka Wa Lehulere and Mawande opening, Davis acerbically cont- Zenzile – for Venice?’ Ka Zenzile at the Venice inued, ‘Whatever the pitfalls of Biennale counting, it also seems important Nomusa Makhubu and Nkule to do. Sometimes described as Mabaso: ‘It’s the boldness, frankness Selected by Ralph Rugoff for the the “Olympics of Art,” the Venice and rawness in their work. 58th Venice Biennale exhibition Biennale is inherently about national Bopape’s space-time installations, May You Live in Interesting Times, representation. In the coming weeks, Ka Zenzile’s earthy, bold, double- Zanele Muholi exhibits wallpapers countries around the world will edged paintings and Rose’s resolute and prints from the acclaimed compete to outshine one another in performances show, in different self-portrait series Somnyama Italy through their presentations at ways, the disillusion with the ‘post’ Ngonyama (‘Hail the Dark Lioness’) national pavilions …’ in postcolonial and the ‘post’ in and Kemang Wa Lehulere shows post-. They tease us. sculpture and installation drawn Speaking of national pavilions, Confront us. And provoke us from his 2018 exhibition at Marian Mawande Ka Zenzile contributes to think critically about social Goodman, . paintings in cow dung, gesso and injustice. Engaging with issues of Muholi and Wa Lehulere are two oil on canvas to the ‘trialogue’ land, displacement and epistemic of three artists on the exhibition who taking place in the South African violence, the artists remind us not both originate from and continue to Pavilion under the title The Stronger only of the tenacity people have but live and work in African countries We Become. Curators Nomusa the will to resist injustice.’ – a point made by Ben Davis in ‘Is Makhubu and Nkule Mabaso (both Ralph Rugoff ’s Venice Biennale of whom have written essays for Ka

Exhibition Too US-Centric?’ for Zenzile’s forthcoming monograph) > The full interview can be Outside Paris: Viviane Sassen is one of five says: ‘I really like how the large scale makes Artnet News. (Michael Armitage, were interviewed by ArtThrob: read here: https://artthrob. photographers commissioned to produce new work the elements within the photographs more abstract who lives and works in London and co.za/2019/05/03/venice-biennale- for the 12th contemporary art exhibition at and gain a monumentality that you don’t have 2019-in-conversation-with-curators- ArtThrob nkule-mabaso-and-nomusa-makhubu/ the Château of Versailles, Visible/Invisible. in smaller prints ... Dimensions start to shift Nairobi, is the third; three others : ‘Can you talk a bit Above, one of Sassen’s large-scale photographs as if suddenly a giant postcard is placed in a were born in African countries but about what drew you to each of The 58th Venice Biennale runs until installed at the Grand Trianon, of which Sassen doll’s house.’ On view until 20 October. live in the US and Europe.) the artists – Dineo Seshee Bopape, 24 November stevenson 4 #01 stevenson 5 #01 .info 06-2019 .info 06-2019

11-16 June 9 August Opening of the 15th Lyon Biennale, 4 July Don’t miss Art Basel Women’s Day, Là où les eaux se mêlent (‘Where Join us for the opening of two > EMAIL US FOR AN INVITATION water comes together with other these ongoing Calendar solo shows, Deborah Poynton’s 19 August water’) curated by the Palais de Memory of What Never Was shows 14 June Last week to see Viviane Sassen Tokyo. Simphiwe Ndzube is included Jun-Sept Moving Stories and Travelling and Edson Chagas’ Factory of included in Bauhaus and UNTIL 5 JAN 2020 > Until 22 September Rhythms: Penny Siopis and the Many Disposable Feelings at Stevenson Photography: On Neues Sehen (New Nicholas Hlobo and Moshekwa Journeys of Skokiaan – an exhibition Cape Town 6–8PM Vision) in Contemporary Art at the 19 September 4 June Langa are included in Material of video and site-responsive works – Museum for Photography, Berlin, part , Nandipha Mntambo, Last week to catch the Sharjah Insanity at the Museum of African opens at the National Gallery of 8 July of the centenary programme 100 Years Zanele Muholi and Pieter Hugo take Biennial, which includes works by Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Bulawayo TO 31 AUG Last week to see Portia Zvavahera’s of the Bauhaus TO 25 AUG part in a group exhibition curated Kemang Wa Lehulere and Meschac (MACAAL), Marrakech Talitha Cumi at Stevenson by Gary Schneider at Stephen Daiter Gaba ENDS 10 JUN 16 June Johannesburg CLOSES 12 JUL 29 August Gallery in Chicago > Until 6 October Youth Day, South Africa 6 & 7 June Pieter Hugo opens a solo 19-21 September Paulo Nazareth’s first solo show in a exhibition of new work taken in US museum is at the ICA Miami Steven Cohen performs put your heart 18 June 10 July Steven Cohen performs put your heart under your feet ... and walk!/à Elu at Mexico, at Stevenson Cape Town Viviane Sassen exhibits in 50 Jours Opening of Zanele Muholi Somnyama under your feet ... and walk!/à Elu at > Until 20 October the Theatre Jerusalem as part of the 6-8PM pour la Photographie, the 50-day Ngonyama/Hail the Dark Lioness, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as part Viviane Sassen is one of five Israel Festival 6 JUN 9.30PM; photo triennial created by the Centre organised by Autograph, London, and of the Festival d’Automne photographers showing in Visible/ 7 JUN 3.30PM de la Photographie Genève TO 25 AUG curated by Renée Mussai at Seattle Art Invisible, the 12th exhibition of 24 September Museum TO 3 NOV contemporary art at the Palace of 7 June 19 June Heritage Day, South Africa Versailles, France Pieter Hugo’s Permanent Error series Zanele Muholi and Penny Siopis are 17 & 20 July is included in Here We Are Today: A included in I Am ... Contemporary Steven Cohen performs put your > Until 31 October View of the World in Photography and Women Artists of Africa, Smithsonian heart under your feet ... and walk! at Steven Cohen’s Chandelier (below) Video Art at in Coming up in National Museum of African Art, the ImPulsTanz Vienna International and Simphiwe Ndzube’s Raft are Hamburg TO 29 OCT Washington, DC TO 15 MAR 2020 Dance Festival, as well as his classic Oct/Nov among the new acquisitions included intervention Taste at ImPulsTanz X in Filling in the Gaps at the Iziko Museum on 27 and 29 July 2-6 October South African National Gallery, Stevenson presents a focus on Cape Town 20 July Paulo Nazareth and Simphiwe Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases Ndzube at Frieze London 7 September opens at Stevenson Johannesburg A solo exhibition of new paintings 10 October 10AM – 1PM and works on paper by Meleko Paulo Nazareth and Simon Gush Mokgosi opens at Stevenson open at Stevenson Cape Town Johannesburg 10AM – 1PM 24 June 24 October Last week to see Jo Ractliffe’sSigns Stevenson presents Moshekwa 13-15 September of Life and Ian Grose’s Invention, Langa, Viviane Sassen and Portia Cure at Stevenson Cape Town Art Joburg, Sandton Convention Zvavahera at Andrew Kreps CLOSES 29 JUN Centre, Johannesburg Gallery, > EMAIL US FOR AN INVITATION > Until 24 November 8 June 26 October Zanele Muholi and Kemang Wa Stevenson’s Amsterdam office opens 27 June 13 September Opening of the 2nd Lagos Lehulere are among the artists with Winter Sun (from a print by The South African National Arts A solo show by Wim Botha opens at Biennial participating in the 58th Venice Peter Clarke, above), a presentation Festival opens with Berni Searle Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph in Berlin Biennale’s main exhibition, May You of artists with connections to both the as festival artist; works screened at FROM 6PM; TO 19 OCT 7-10 November Live in Interesting Times, while work city and the gallery various venues around Makhanda Paris Photo by Mawande Ka Zenzile can be seen TO 7 JUL 18 September 11 June 29 July Viviane Sassen’s Hot Mirror – a 21-24 November at the South African Pavilion Opening of Kiss My Genders at the 1 July Last week to see Wim Botha’s Still Life selection of works from her book and Amsterdam Art Weekend; Robin Hayward Gallery, London, featuring Last week of Nicholas Hlobo’s with Discontent at North Carolina show at the Hepworth Wakefield – Rhode opens Jericho at Stevenson’s Zanele Muholi and Nicholas Hlobo Unyukelo at SCAD, Savannah, Museum of Art and 21c Hotel, opens at Stevenson’s Amsterdam office Amsterdam office DAILY EXCEPT TUES, TO 8 SEPT Georgia ENDS 7 JUL Durham, NC ENDS 4 AUG TO 14 NOV stevenson 6 #01 stevenson 7 #01 .info 06-2019 .info 06-2019

Muholi World

London, UK 16 May Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (Aperture) wins the Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award 2019 London, UK 12 Jun – 8 Sept Kiss My Genders (group), New York, USA 27 Apr Hayward Gallery Muholi wins the Rees Visionary Award in recognition of ‘exceptional work that educates, inspires and Paris, France 30 Mar – 25 Aug emboldens the viewer through Lignes de vies – Une exposition these challenging times’ de legends (group), Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL) New York, USA 22 Oct Muholi to accept the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanitarian Venice, Italy 11 May – 24 Nov Photography La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times (group) San Francisco, USA Now representing Nazareth and Nkosi 9 Feb – 7 Jul Zurich, Switzerland Show Me As I Want to Be 17 May – 22 Sept In this moment of renewal titled Melee, at the ICA Miami. Seen (group), Contemporary Mirrors: The Reflected Jewish Museum we’re proud to announce our Co-curator Gean Moreno notes, Self (group), Museum Rietberg representation of Paulo Nazareth ‘In his ongoing investigation into Washington, USA and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Both common historical narratives, 19 Jun – 15 Mar I Am ... Contemporary artists bring new nuances to Nazareth opens a space of Women Artists of Africa our notion of ‘region’ and our discussion and critique around (group), Smithsonian Johannesburg, South Africa programme within it. contemporary societal fissures and National Museum of 20 Jul – 30 Aug Paulo Nazareth was born in 1977 systemic oppression.’ Nazareth will African Art Faces and Phases (solo), Stevenson in Governador Valadares, Brazil, have his first solo exhibition with Boston, USA 7-23 Jun and self-professedly ‘lives and Stevenson in Cape Town, opening Isabella Stewart Gardner Durban & Cape Town, South Africa works around the world’. Nkosi 10 October, and will be a focus of Museum residency 8 May – 2 Jun is New York-born, raised and our booth at Frieze London the Ikhono LaseNatali (25 emerging educated across southern Africa week before. artists commissioned by Muholi to and the USA, and now lives in Nkosi’s practice has been State of São Paulo, interpret images from Somnyama Johannesburg. Work by Nazareth described as ‘examining social Brazil 15 & 16 Sept Ngonyama), KZNSA, Durban. Moves to A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, was first exhibited at Stevenson relations by plying the aesthetic Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba in August during our 15-year celebration, Both, possibilities of portraiture, TOP Paulo Nazareth with his public sculpture DRY CUT [from BLACKS IN and; Nkosi made her gallery debut installation art, and collaborative THE POOL – Ruby], 2019, at the Seattle, USA 10 Jul - 3 Nov Rockefeller Center in New York. in our 2018 portraiture exhibition, performance’ (Walt Hunter in Somnyama Ngonyama (solo), PHOTO: © MENDES WOOD DM SÃO PAULO/BRUSSELS/ About Face. asapjournal.com). She will have her NEW YORK AND THE ARTIST Seattle Art Museum

Nazareth currently has his first solo exhibition with Stevenson ABOVE Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi first solo US museum exhibition, in Johannesburg in March 2020. PHOTO: AKONA KENQU stevenson 8 #01 .info 06-2019

Email [email protected] Reading matter # New additions to our shelves

Simphiwe Ndzube Uncharted Lands Guy Tillim Museum of the Jo Ractliffe Signs of Life. and Trackless Seas. Published by Revolution. Published by Mack/ Published by Stevenson, 2019 Stevenson (cat. 92), 2019. Short Fondation HCB, 2019 story and notes by Bongani Kona

WHAT WE’RE READING

From the press Meleko Mokgosi, newly appointed Associate Professor in Painting/Printmaking at > Chris Thurman on Penny Siopis’s Warm Water Imaginaries at Yale University School of Stevenson Johannesburg: Art, ‘tends to read three or “Process is also, Siopis notes, inseparable from concept. Her noninterference four books at the same time’, is a deliberate act that seeks to recognise the agency of her materials, which currently: Women Writing have a ‘life’ of their own. While glue is an artificial agent, and dries to Africa: The Southern Region, edited by MJ Daymond, Dorothy become a form of plastic, as non-human matter it is comparable to natural Driver, Sheila Meintjes, elements and beings. Reducing human interference in the painting process Leloba Molema, Chiedza thus becomes analogous to ‘treading lightly’ upon the earth – whether Musengezi, Margie Orford and that means (to extend the metaphor) minimising one’s carbon footprint, Nobantu Rasebotsa (2003); Meyer Schapiro’s Worldview in or making other choices that acknowledge the urgency of responding Painting - Art and Society: to climate change.” Selected Papers (1999); Pan- ‘The very human art of noninterference’, Business Day, 12 April 2019 Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity, edited by Toyin > Carole Naggar on Guy Tillim’s Museum of the Revolution at the Falola and Kwame Essien (2013) Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris: ‘[A]s we take a closer look, subtle disparities and discrepancies of time and WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO space appear between photographs, unsettling the viewer. The pieces of Unati Silinga, external his puzzles don’t quite fit: Have we blinked? Between any two images, the relations at Stevenson and appearance of the street has changed. The man in the red shirt who leaves part of the Breaking Bread the left-hand panel is replaced on the right by a similar man in a white collective, recommends: Ben LaMar Gay, Downtown shirt. A man’s torso becomes grafted to another man’s arm. The jogger never Castles Can Never Block the makes it to the other side of the street. Dry weather turns to rain, leaving Sun (2018); Flamme Kapaya, puddles on the asphalt. There is a gap in time that the viewer’s imagination Banningsville (2012); Shafiq has to fill. There is no hierarchy among these images, so our gaze doesn’t Husayn, The Loop (2019); Bobbie Humphrey, Fancy Dancer concentrate on a dominant point but instead sweeps over scenes that convey (1975); Burnt Sugar the the passage of time. It seems as if the photographer, suspending judgment, Arkestra Chamber conducted has given each element of the street equal play.’ by Butch Morris, The Rites ‘Framing Time: Guy Tillim’s African Street Photography’, The New York Review (2003); Bottle Tree, Bottle of Books, 25 May. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/05/25/framing-time-guy- Tree (2017) tillims-african-street-photography/

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