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An Online Art Magazine Print Edition No. 2 Unter Den Linden 13/15 10117 Berlin Daily 10 Am – 8 Pm Mondays Admission Free Deutsche-Bank-Kunsthalle.Com p.3 A New Home for PULL-OUT SPECIAL: Contemporary Art from African Perspectives p.15 Johannesburg, Cairo, Dar A South African property es Salaam, London, Rabat company has teamed up with A glance inside libraries a German collector to open and book collections holding Africa’s first mega-museum rare and often forgotten publications p.6 The Black Cultural Archives The opening of the Archive’s p.27 Letter from Nairobi purpose-built space in London Donald Kuira Maingi on coincides with the arrival of diverse forms of contemporary the book Black Artists in British performance practice Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers FOCUS KAMPALA: p.10 Symbols of a Cultural p.28 KLA ART puts East African Golden Age Art on the Map Remembering four ground- How a contemporary art breaking African festivals festival in Kampala has grown and developed p.12 Digital Art A closer look at leading-edge p.30 New Curators on the Block organizations, platforms, and A conversation with the young artists championing team behind this year’s digital art and technologies KLA ART Festival p.14 Interview with p.32 Interview with Emma Emeka Udemba Wolukau-Wanambwa Artist and initiator of the Artist and researcher working Molue Mobile Museum of on representations of late Contemporary Art in Lagos colonialism in East Africa p.36 Transition: A Review tested by Post-Colonial Africa How one magazine shaped the editorial landscape of an entire continent Nkiruka Oparah, Oparah, Nkiruka (courtesy of the artist) Precursor to a New Dream , 2014 2014 , COntempOrarYand.COM An online art magazine Print edition no. 2 Unter den Linden 13/15 10117 Berlin Daily 10 am – 8 pm Mondays admission free deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.com in cooperation with Meschac Gaba © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014 © VG Bild-Kunst, Modern, 3 July–22Installation shot at Tate September 2013 Contemporary African Art 1997–2002 Museum ofArchitecture Room (detail), from Meschac Gaba U04_MG_ANZEIGE_C&_4C_210X290.indd 1 11.08.14 09:44 FEATURE 3 The Museum goes to... Cape Town A Cape Town property company has teamed up with a German collector to create Africa’s first mega-museum devoted to contemporary art from African perspectives. By Sean O’Toole Cape Town’s derelict harborside granary, mocaa will strategically connect the “I was the first to sign African national an eggshell-colored industrial building Waterfront’s busy shopping precinct with Cape football teams and make them heroes in our that recalls the sober industrial hues of Town’s expanding financial and conferencing global campaigns, starting with Cameroon and modernist painters like Charles Sheeler and district and forms part of a larger €175-million the legendary sleeveless jersey that went on JH Pierneef, will soon be the site of Africa’s investment in the area by the Waterfront to be banned by fifa,” Zeitz told a small first mega-museum: the Zeitz Museum of company. Initially eyed by Johannesburg credit audience gathered at the V&A last November Contemporary Art Africa, or Zeitz MOCAA. entrepreneur and collector Gordon Schachat, for the launch of the museum. “A lot of creativity Zeitz has agreed to bequeath his pan-African went into the brand that I spent almost twenty Slated to open in early 2016, the new art collection as well as provide an operating years responsible for, creativity that originated Thomas Heatherwick retrofitted building will be budget to the new not-for-profit museum. on this continent.” spread across nine floors and include 80 galleries, A trim man with a graying reddish-brown In 2008, a year after the French luxury 18 educational areas, a rooftop sculpture garden, beard and a sharp nose, Zeitz is the former ceo retail group ppr (now Kerber) acquired a con- storage and conservation facilities, as well as of Puma and currently a director of luxury retail trolling stake in Puma, he founded the Zeitz centers devoted to performance, moving image, brand Kerber. Proficient in seven languages, he Foundation for Intercultural Ecosphere Safety, a curatorial practice, and education. It is the first started his business career as a junior executive not-for-profit organization promoting sustainable large-scale architectural project of its kind since at Colgate-Palmolive’s New York office in the late business practices. The foundation’s philosophy the 1995 opening of the Al-Nasr Museum of 1980s. In New York he began collecting pop art. is summarized by four words: conservation, Modern Art in Port Said, Egypt. In March 1993, at age 29, Zeitz was promoted to community, culture, and commerce. Culture is A partnership between the V&A Waterfront chief executive of the German footwear brand not a synonym for art, merely an expression of it, and Jochen Zeitz, a German retail fashion Puma, then an ailing company on the verge of explained Zeitz in an interview. “I believe that entrepreneur and art collector, the €35-million bankruptcy. His stewardship was marked museum will focus on collecting, researching, by strategic diversification and innovative Above: Undated aerial view of Cape Town’s and exhibiting contemporary art from the marketing, including a calculated investment haborside grain silo during it’s working life continent and its many Diasporas. Zeitz in African soccer. (courtesy V&A Waterfront) 4 CONTEMPORARY AND — ISSUE 2 Contemporary And (C&) is an online art magazine and a dynamic space for the reflection on and linking together of ideas, discourse and information on contemporary art practice from diverse African perspectives. www.contemporaryand.com Published by Contemporary And (C&) Concept Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, Aïcha Diallo, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Bakri Bakhit through art you have an opportunity to shape collection to a level that would be able to be the Editorial Team culture, especially through contemporary art, basis for a major museum.” Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, Elisabeth which is what we are trying to do here in my Before striking a deal with the Waterfront, Wellershaus, Aïcha Diallo, Olivia Buschey retreat in Kenya,” he said. a company jointly owned by Growthpoint Zeitz is a prodigious collector, notably of Properties and the Government Employees Art Direction and Design Native American artifacts, and a trophy hunter. Pension Fund, Zeitz had actively been searching Luke Gould, London His Swiss home includes displays of headdresses for a venue to host his collection on the Printing and wild animals he has hunted. The acquisition continent. For a while Nairobi was earmarked Henke Pressedruck GmbH & Co. of a work by Isaac Julien, a London-born film- as the appropriate site. “Mark and I were looking KG, Berlin maker and visual artist of West Indian parentage, for a location that would become an icon, a initiated Zeitz’s interest in collecting artists from beacon, and ideally a landmark for the artists Contributors Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Hansi Africa and its Diasporas. and the museum,” said Zeitz. Momodu-Gordon, Dominic Muwanguzi, Zeitz’s key advisor for the last six years has Since 1990, Cape Town, often derided by Obidike Okafor, Sean O’Toole, Katrin been Mark Coetzee, a Cape Town art dealer, Black South Africans as a prettified white enclave, Peters-Klaphake, Emeka Udemba, Cédric curator, and artist whose sexually explicit has increasingly secured a privileged place in the Vincent, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa paintings from the 1990s were twice censored global imaginary as a leisure destination. It will be Copy editing when exhibited. The two met in Miami during interesting to see how the new museum disrupts Ekpenyong Ani, Karen Margolis, Coetzee’s tenure as director of the Rubell Family the cozy post-apartheid narratives undergirding Jake Schneider Collection, a leading American collection of this starkly divided city. Optimistically, the site for contemporary art. the new museum represents a good start. © authors / photographers / C& In 2008, Coetzee and Zeitz jointly curated The appointment of British designer Thomas All rights reserved. the exhibition 30 Americans, a showcase of works Heatherwick took many observers by surprise. About the back cover work by African-Americans held by the Rubells. They Rather than try to evoke some generic version Prise de Vue (San Francisco 1963, Kampala include Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, and Hank of African contemporaneity in a new structure, 2012) is a set of four engravings on paper that Willis Thomas, whose work is now also represent- Heatherwick opted to engage the existing granary artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa made from ed in the Zeitz Collection. site as a formal and conceptual challenge. His a collection of dirty and damaged 35 mm slides found on the shelf of Adelina Lubogo’s A marriage of indigenous and diasporic key design intervention will involve carving kitchen in Kampala, Uganda in 2011. The African artists, the Zeitz Collection also includes an oval atrium into the 42 storage silos, in effect slides are part of a commercially produced set work by Kudzanai Chiurai, Marlene Dumas, fashioning a cathedral-like interior out of depicting the Japanese Tea Garden near the Nicholas Hlobo, Julie Mehretu, Wangechi the clutter of concrete verticals. The form of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, created Mutu, Serge Alain Nitegeka, and Chris Ofili. atrium will evoke a single grain kernel. It is a by the Japanese-American landscape designer Makoto Hagiwara for the World Fair that took It also holds over 70 works by the Swazi sculptor daring proposal, entirely synchronous with the place in 1894. The Hagiwara family lived in Nandipha Mntambo, an indication of the level of ambition of the new museum. But grain silos are and maintained the garden until they were investment (or targeted speculation) that under- also volatile spaces, literally. Friction between interned by the US government in 1942. These pins the collection. Like other private collections microscopic particles stored at industrial scale slides are some of the few remaining images of contemporary African art that actively solicit has led to fatal explosions in silos, particularly of Mrs.
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