Beginning 10 June and running through 31 July, The Museum of African Design in Johannesburg, South Africa will be exhibiting #ULTRACONTEMPORARY#EMERGENCYART#AFRICA, an ephemeral art show in which works are only shown on the same day they are created. The artworks will address an immediate or burning emergency as decided by each artist. Attending audience members will be able to debate with the artists following each …
We’ve been following the Museum of African Design (MOAD), in Johannesburg, since its inception in 2013. As the first museum on the continent dedicated to contemporary design across Africa, it celebrates the past, present and future of visual understanding developed at home. For their first exhibition of 2016, “D’Zair: Art and Craft A Johannesburg,” MOAD has partnered with the Algerian Ministry of Culture. Some 13 …
Creativity exists throughout the world. Global centers like Paris, London and New York have long served as geographic and cultural gatekeepers for the fine art world, but the internet is gaining momentum on democratizing the international scope of contemporary art. In Africa, the newly minted Johannesburg-based arts commerce and development platform Guns & Rain is shedding new light on contemporary artists in the region as …
