FACTSHEET

Welcome to the 11th edition of the FNB JoburgArtFair.

This year, the Fair will feature over 60 exhibitors within 4 categories including Contemporary, Solo Presentations, Limited Editions and Art Platforms. The selected galleries and organisations hail from 14 countries across , and the United States with a particularly strong representation from the continent.

In our Contemporary section we welcome first time exhibitor THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE (Luanda), joining ELA – Espaço Luanda Arte and MOV’ART from Luanda. Gallery 1957 (Accra) will also be making their Joburg debut as well as Joburg newcomer Guns & Rain.

This year’s Solo Presentations section represents the diversity of the Fair. Nine galleries will be presenting artists from , Italy, the Netherlands, Senegal, and the US. Other new exhibitors include Bad Paper () in Limited Editions, and SAFFCA (Joburg, St. Emilion), Javett Art Centre (Pretoria), NJE Collective (Windhoek) and The Project Space (Joburg) in Art Platforms. In Publications we welcome adjective (Cape Town) as well as Mack Books (London) who will be exhibiting with Fourthwall. Combined with our Featured Artist and FNB Art Prize activations the Fair will also be introducing two large-scale installations to bring even more show stopping, high quality work to the line up. We welcome back Cartier as a secondary sponsor, who will be joining the Fair with a Cartier Lounge. Within the lounge they will partner once again with Artist Proof Studio, keeping in Cartier tradition of supporting the arts. BMW joins the Fair as our Luxury Vehicle Partner.

2018 EXHIBITORS

Annual Special Projects

2018 Featured Artist Billie Zangewa, presenting new installation The Garden 2018 FNB Art Prize Winner Haroon Gunn-Salie Large-scale installations: Sue Williamson, Messages from the Atlantic Passage Curator’s feature: Takunda Regis Billiat Cartier Lounge with Artist Proof Studio Ligne Roset Lounge

Contemporary Galleries

99 loop – Cape Town Addis Fine Art – Afriart Gallery – Kampala Art First – London ARTCO Gallery – Aachen, Cape Town Arte de Gema – Maputo Barnard Gallery – Cape Town blank projects – Cape Town Christopher Moller Gallery – Cape Town Eclectica Contemporary – Cape Town Everard Read – Joburg, Cape Town First Floor Gallery Harare – Harare Gallery 1957 – Accra Gallery MOMO – Joburg, Cape Town Goodman Gallery – Joburg, Cape Town Guns & Rain – Joburg Kalashnikovv Gallery – Joburg Lizamore & Associates – Joburg

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Contemporary Galleries (cont’d)

MOV’ART – Luanda Red Door Gallery – Lagos ROOM Gallery & Projects – Joburg Salon 91 – Cape Town SMAC– Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Joburg SMITH – Cape Town Stevenson – Cape Town, Joburg THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE – Luanda WALL – Cape Town WHATIFTHEWORLD – Cape Town Worldart – Cape Town

Gallery Solo Projects

Amy Lin presented by Alida Anderson Art Projects – DC, USA Roger Ballen with Hans Lemmen presented by ARTCO Gallery – Aachen, Cape Town Aida Muluneh presented by David Krut Projects – Joburg, Cape Town Mamady Seydi presented by Galerie GALEA – L’Isle sur la Sorgue Marinella Senatore presented by SMAC – Cape Town, Joburg, Stellenbosch Dale Lawrence presented by SMITH – Cape Town Zander Blom presented by Stevenson – Cape Town, Joburg Thania Peterson presented by WHATIFTHEWORLD – Cape Town

Limited Editions

ARTCO Gallery – Aachen, Cape Town DALE SARGENT FINE ART – Joburg Bad Paper – Cape Town LL Editions – Joburg The Artists’ Press – White River South African Print Gallery – Cape Town The White House Gallery – Cape Town

Art Platforms

Artist Proof Studio – Joburg Bag Factory Artists Studios – Joburg Department of Small Business Development Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria – Pretoria Art Gallery – Joburg Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art – Accra Lalela – Joburg, Cape Town National Gallery of Zimbabwe – Harare NJE Collective – Windhoek South African Mint – Joburg SAFFCA – Joburg, St. Emilion The Project Space – Joburg Village Unhu – Harare

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Art Publications adjective – Cape Town ART AFRICA – Cape Town ArtThrob – Cape Town Clarke’s Bookshop – Cape Town MAKER – Joburg SA Art Times – Cape Town Taschen -- Cologne

Naming Rights Sponsor: FNB

Secondary Sponsors Gauteng Provincial Government Cartier

VIP Programme Sponsor: FNB Private Wealth

Luxury Vehicle Partner: BMW

Guided Tours Sponsor: ITOO Artinsure

Project Partners

FNB - FNB Art Prize Department of Small Business Development South African Tourism Four Seasons The Westcliff Ligne Roset Signature Lux Hotels Lalela Aesop Idiom Wines

Beverage Partner: Pernod Ricard South Africa - 2018 Beverage Partner Perrier-Jouët Champagne

Global Media Partner: The Financial Times

Online Digital Partner: Artsy

Local Media Partners adjective Art Africa ArtThrob Creative Feel SA Art Times

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ANNUAL SPECIAL PROJECTS

The FNB JoburgArtFair hosts an annual series of non-commercial projects and events to create a holistic view of creative practice in Africa. Our 11th edition sees the return of the FNB Art Prize and Featured Artist as well as a new section of large-scale installation.

2018 FNB Art Prize Winner – Haroon Gunn-Salie

Over the years the FNB Art Prize has celebrated the work of artists from both South Africa and the continent, thereby enhancing the creative dialogue within the growing contemporary African art market. The 2018 FNB Art Prize winner is Haroon Gunn-Salie.

Gunn-Salie has established a collaborative art practice that translates community oral histo- ries into artistic interventions and installations. His multidisciplinary practice uses a variety of mediums, drawing focus to forms of collaboration in contemporary art based on dialogue and exchange. Currently based between Johannesburg and Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Gunn-Salie completed his BA Hons in sculpture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012.

His installation for the FNB Joburg Art Fair continues to delve deeper into unresolved issues in South Africa’s contemporary history with an extended site-specific installation of his project titled Senzenina. Inside a sparsely lit and acoustically treated booth, a schematic recreation of the scene has been created, using archival audio which includes calls for the mineworkers to disassemble peacefully; the fortification of the surrounding area and entrapment of the workers by police; an anti-apartheid freedom song lamented by the mineworkers moments before live ammunition was discharged; and blasts from the mine recalled by low-frequency sonic vibrations of the surrounding landscape emanating from an outcrop of granite boulders on the site.

As a winner of the FNB Art Prize, Gunn-Salie joins a prestigious list of winners since the launch of the FNB Art Prize in 2011. The FNB Art Prize has since become one of the coveted visual art prizes on the African continent. The winning artist receives a cash prize as well as an opportunity to showcase their work in a dedicated space at the FNB JoburgArtFair. These are enhanced further by the media interest and coverage of the fair that helps to catapult the artist and his work to the centre of contemporary art discourse. This in turn helps to build popular investment into the winner’s budding career; hence helping to make sustainable.

All galleries participating in the FNB JoburgArtFair are given the opportunity to nominate one of their artists for consideration by our jury. This year the FNB Art prize committee consisted of South African collector Pulane Kingston, Johannesburg Art Gallery Chief Curator Khwezi Gule and FNB JoburgArtFair Curator Amy Ellenbogen.

2018 Featured Artist, Billie Zangewa

Artlogic is proud to welcome Malawian-born Billie Zangewa as the Featured Artist for the 2018 edition of the FNB JoburgArtFair.

"After many years of celebrating great artists who reside elsewhere in the world as featured artists, the FNB JoburgArtFair team felt it was time to focus on an artist who lives and works in Johannesburg and expresses lives lived here. Billie Zangewa’s quiet work has been included in many prestigious collections and exhibition worldwide, and we are excited to, this year, present a large-scale work to our FNB JoburgArtFair audience," comments Mandla Sibeko, Fair Director.

Zangewa – who lives and works in Johannesburg – primarily uses raw silk offcuts to create intricate hand-stitched collages in a flat, colourful style. Her figurative compositions, depicting a woman going about her every day domestic life, explore how women are so often disadvan- taged by multiple sources of oppression: race, class, gender identity. She sensitively illus- trates this intersectional identity in a contemporary context and challenges the historical ste- reotyping, objectification and exploitation of the black female body.

“Zangewa’s vision of Johannesburg exceeds the steel, glass and concrete infrastructure that constitute this hurried, agitated metropolis”, comments Sean O’Toole, respected art critic and writer. “What is most striking about her mature work is Zangewa’s consistent focus on the so- cial rituals and verdant abundance obscured by her hometown’s suburban walls.”

Born in 1973 in Blantyre, Zangewa has exhibited extensively at institutions both locally and internationally, including at the MASS MoCA (2017), Stedelijk Museum (2017), Studio Museum Harlem (2016), Iziko South African National Gallery (2016), Johannesburg Art Gallery (2016), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), WIELS (2015), La Maison Rouge (2013) and the Menil Collection (2012). Her work is represented in several notable private and public collections, including

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the Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art col- lections.

“I'm thrilled to be selected as this year's featured artist for the FNB JoburgArtFair,” Zangewa says. “It is a great honour and I'm proud to be in the company of the other artists chosen be- fore me. Sincere thanks to FNB, Artlogic and my gallery, blank projects, for their support.”

Large-scale installation: Sue Williamson

Sue Williamson’s Messages from the Atlantic Passage took the 2017 visitors of Art Basel (Switzerland) by storm with its powerful narrative of the movements of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. It is critical that this work is also viewed and spoken about on the African continent and it is for this reason that this installation will be presented at this year’s FNB JoburgArtFair. Messages is a large-scale installation based on the accumulated records from both sides of the Atlantic of the late history of slavery in the 19th century. This new work is an extension of Messages from Moat (1997) first exhibited at Okwui Enwezor’s 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, which listed the slaves brought to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company between 1658 and 1762.

Curator’s Feature: Takunda Regis Billiat

Takunda Regis Billiat (Zimbabwe) will be presenting a new large-scale work elaborating on many themes of his practice, specifically how Zimbabweans can reconcile with their current political, economic and social realities. The installation will investigate how knowledge passed down from the ancestors, a once reassuring guidance, now is becoming less and less of a comfort with the complex problems the country faces while navigating historical upheavals.

Talks Programme curated by Kabelo Malatsi

Auto & General Theater on the Square Nelson Mandela Square 11am – 6pm, Saturday 8 September Reconstituting Contemporary Art Public

The talks programme is a provocation to art practitioners to tackle the question “Who’s It For?”1. An expansion to this question are two quotes by Jorge Ribalta and Marion von Osten, that hope to instigate a discussion beyond the programme.

i) The local is the specific production of the various historical options with which we are presented and from which we choose, removed from any notion of identity. 2 ii) as a means of making clear that the public is created by the place and practice of exhibiting and by curatorial decisions, and, thirdly, which asks exactly what brings about this positive reference to an art public, whom this public is actually supposed to address, and who constitutes it. 3

1 This was a title of an article that was written by Jen Budney during the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. During a per- sonal communication with Gabi Ngcobo in 2016 she shared the Center of Historical Reenactments’ framework which was constantly responding to this question “Who’s It For?”. 2 Ribalta, Jorge. “Experiments in a New Institutionality,” Relational Objects, MACBA Collections 2002-2007. Barcelo- na: MACBA Publications, 2010. pp. 225-265. 3 Von Osten, M., 2011, ‘Producing Publics – Making Worlds! On the Relationship Between the Art Public and The Counterpublic’, Oncurating, 9: 11, 59-67.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

FNB JoburgArtFair takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre: Exhibition Hall 1, 161 Maude Street, Sandton

Dates: 7 – 9 September 2018

Opening times: Friday 8 September: 11am – 8pm Saturday 9 September: 11am – 7pm Sunday 10 September: 11am – 5pm

For more information, please visit: www.fnbjoburgartfair.co.za

Press contact: Bronwyn Coppola, A Better World Network Communications Manager for FNB JoburgArtFair [email protected] +27 (0) 83 450 9111

About Artlogic

Artlogic is a sponsorship and events company that specialises in high-end, boutique Fairs. Together with corporate sponsors, they produce several annual Fairs that have come to be regarded as key events in their sector. Founded in 2004, the company’s first venture was a production of ’s 9 Films for Projection, sponsored by Standard Bank in South Africa and Bloomberg in New York, and The Magic Flute, sponsored by Rand Merchant Bank. Currently, Artlogic produces the FNB JoburgArtFair, the Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair and the Winter Sculpture Fair. The company has had major success in researching trends and packaging those to their sponsors to ensure a good brand fit. By acting as a conduit between business and cultural entities, Artlogic aims to open up new markets and cultural audiences beyond the reach of traditional marketing tools.

About First National Bank

First National Bank (FNB) remains committed to the support of arts and culture as it celebrates all that contemporary art represents. FNB have been the proud sponsors of the FNB Joburg Art Fair for the past eleven years and has always been passionate about African art because we recognise that artistic expression involves creativity and imagination, which we know to be key drivers of innovation. In 2011 we introduced the coveted FNB Art Prize. We hope this prize will help reinforce our endorsement of the artist’s valued contribution to our diverse cultural fabric. As a financial institution, FNB provides a full complement of personal and business banking services to millions of customers.

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