Art fairs

Stevenson will participate in Art Basel, exhibiting works by two contemporary African abstract painters, Odili Donald Odita and Zander Blom, alongside their most significant predecessor, Ernest Mancoba, in the Art Feature section (booth G2) from 14-17 June. Click here for details of the fair.

Artists / Exhibitions

Guy Tillim, Nicholas Hlobo and Meschac Gaba are included on La Triennale 2012: Intense Proximity, taking place at the newly renovated Palais de Tokyo and other venues in Paris, from 20 April to 26 August. Hlobo shows new works on canvas, Tillim photographs from his Second Nature series, and Gaba the Marriage Room from his Museum for Contemporary African Art.

Pieter Hugo's survey exhibition, This Must Be the Place, is on view at the The Hague Museum of Photography (3 March to 20 May), and travels to the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (9 June to 2 September). The survey is accompanied by a new book of selected works published by Prestel - see Publications. Hugo's Nollywood series shows at Pataka in Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand, from 26 February to 4 June. Hugo has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 for his Permanent Error series; the exhibition runs at The Photographers' Gallery, London, from 13 July to 9 September, and the award winner will be announced on 3 September.
Related press: This Must Be the Place book review by Sean O'Hagan (The Guardian, 8 April 2012);Fotomuseum Den Haag curator Wim van Sinder on Hugo's survey show (youtube video, in German); Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide reviewed by Sean O'Hagan (The Guardian, 16 November 2011); Permanent Error in Design Arts Daily (8 September 2011) and Photo District News (25 May); Permanent Error book review by Sean O'Toole (Mahala, 5 May 2011)

Guy Tillim's Second Nature shows at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, from 2 March to 3 June. A book has been published by Prestel to coincide with the exhibition - see Publications. Prints from his series Avenue Patrice Lumumba are included on the exhibition Lost Places - Orte der Photographie at the Hamburger Kunsthalle (8 June to 23 September 2012).
Related press: Leora Maltz-Leca on Avenue Patrice Lumumba (ArteEast Quarterly, 1 September 2011); Chad Rossouw reviews Second Nature (Mail & Guardian, 29 July 2011); Richard Poplak on Avenue Patrice Lumumba in Toronto (The Daily Maverick, 18 May 2011)

Nicholas Hlobo has been selected for the 18th Biennale of Sydney, all our relations, which will take place from 27 June to 16 September 2012. Hlobo will exhibit a new sculptural installation and works on paper at Cockatoo Island and the Museum for Contemporary Art.

Steven Cohen will bring his latest production, The Cradle of Humankind, to the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, in July, performing there for the first time. Cohen will also take part in the 11th Havana Biennale (11 May to 11 June), performing a new iteration of his site-specific work The Wandering Jew.

Also showing in Havana is Berni Searle, whose work is included on Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, a presentation by Spelman College and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Searle is also a guest artist of Dak'art, the 10th Dakar biennale, exhibiting at the Galerie Nationale from 11 May to 10 June.

Coinciding with the Dakar biennale, Serge Alain Nitegeka shows a new installation at Galerie Le Manège at the Institut français du Sénégal in Dakar (12 May to 30 June). A catalogue of Nitegeka's work has been published to accompany this exhibition as well as his recent solo show, Black Lines, at Stevenson Johannesburg - see Publications. Nitegeka will stage a performance - titled 10 Black Subjects Walking - on 26 May as part of the Goethe-Institut's Shoe Shop festival, commencing at 11am at 6 De Beer Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

Penny Siopis exhibits an installation of her Shame paintings on Prism: Drawing from 1990-2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, from 1 March to 5 August. Four of Siopis films - My Lovely Day, Pray, Obscure White Messenger and Communion - will be shown in Johannesburg on 18 May as part of the Goethe-Institut's Shoe Shop festival (6 De Beer Street, Braamfontein).

Pieter Hugo, Nandipha Mntambo and Lerato Shadi are included on the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Qui Vive?, taking place from 10 July to 19 August.

Viviane Sassen has work on the Photomonth Festival in Krakow, Poland (10 May to 17 June).
Related press: Review of Parasomnia exhibition by Nadine Botha (Mail & Guardian, 10 February 2012); 'Who, What, Why: Viviane Sassen' (AnOther mag, 8 November 2011); New Photography reviewed (New York Times, 13 October 2011); 'The stuff of dreams' (New York Times, 28 September 2011); 'MoMA's take on the future of photography' (The Eye, 22 September 2011)

Nandipha Mntambo's Standard Bank Young Artist 2011 exhibition, Faena, is on view at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg from 2 May to 9 June. The show ends its tour at the University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom (16 August - 14 September 2012). The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph with essays by Ruth Simbao and David Elliott - see Publications.
Related press: Faena at the SA National Gallery reviewed (Cape Times, 3 November 2011)

Jo Ractliffe has work on the exhibition Making History at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt from 19 April to 8 July, as part of RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain. Ractliffe will teach a course on photography and narrative - titled 'Not a thousand words' - at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts from 16 July to 4 August. In conjunction with this, her As Terras do Fim do Mundo will show at Fotohof in Salzburg from 31 July to 22 September.

Zanele Muholi's Faces and Phases series is included on Documenta 13, which takes place in Kassel, Germany, this year from 9 June. Documenta is held every five years and runs for 100 days; this year's exhibition is curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Works by participants in Muholi's PhotoXP Community Outreach Project are on the exhibition Ikhaya at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, from 10 May.
Related press: 'Using art to educate' (The New Age, 19 January 2012); Zanele Muholi interviewed at blank projects (Cape Town TV on youtube, 17 November 2011); Difficult Love reviewed by Helge Janssen (Artslink, 31 October 2011); Muholi interviewed on video (Mail & Guardian, 15 September 2011); 'Love in a time of murder' by Charl Blignaut (Sunday Times, 17 July 2011); 'A Conversation with Zanele Muholi' by Michèle Pearson Clarke (8 July 2011)

Nandipha Mntambo, Nicholas Hlobo, Paul Edmunds, Claudette Schreuders, Wim Botha and Jane Alexander have work on The Rainbow Nation, an exhibition of three generations of South African sculpture at Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, from 8 June to 30 September.

Wim Botha and Paul Edmunds show new prints on Coming of Age, an exhibition marking 21 years of the Artist Proof Studio, on view at Johannesburg Art Gallery from 6 May to 6 July.

Dineo Seshee Bopape is international artist-in-residence at the Darling Foundry in Old Montreal, Quebec, from January through June 2012.

Michael MacGarry is the recipient of a Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Fellowship for 2012. He was one of four artists included on Contested Terrains, an exhibition exploring current political and social concerns in Africa, at the Level 2 Gallery at Tate Modern, London (2011).
Related press: Reviews of Contested Terrains in the Mail & Guardian (11 September 2011) and African Art in London (5 August 2011); Contested Terrains slideshow (BBC News, 4 August 2011)

Sabelo Mlangeni has been involved in the Goethe-Institut's Photographers Portfolio Meeting over the past three years, and is included in a related exhibition, Témoin/Witness, at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg from 2 May to 7 June (opening 17 May).

Appropriated Landscapes, the second annual exhibition of the Walther Collection based in Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany, features works by Ângela Ferreira, Jo Ractliffe, Jane Alexander, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Penny Siopis and Guy Tillim, among others. The exhibition, curated by Corinne Diserens, runs from 11 June through May 2013.