stevenson #01 06-2019 .info Wim Botha’s Prism bronzes in the garden at Stevenson Johannesburg. 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 Cape Town, 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-apartheid. 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, London. 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, South Africa 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 Jo Ractliffe, 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 Zimbabwe 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 ..