Δ CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR

With Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Director of the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition

The exhibition "EL HADJI SY: Painting, Performance, Politics" is dedicated to the work of this outstanding Senegalese artist, activist and curator.

Dr. Clémentine Deliss looks at the background to the long relationship between El Hadji Sy and Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum, and takes the selection of works on show as a basis upon which to explore Sy’s exceptional, multifaceted career and to discuss the ideas behind his complex oeuvre.

Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt
Wednesday, 6th May, 6pm

7€ / reduced 3,50€
Cost of tour included in admission fee.

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Δ FINAL PRESENTATION AND READING

“Owl Ahead!”

As part of a nine-month “Creative Writing” project, SABA scholarship holders explored writing as a tool for and expression of self-development.

Guided by artist and writing coach Phyllis Kiehl and her assistant Julia Albrecht, the participants produced autobiographical and creative texts, and engaged in an intensive discussion process and exchange of views.

Now they are presenting their texts in the Weltkulturen Museum. After their reading, the authors offer an insight into the empowerment of vocabulary coaching, the importance of humour and creativity in writing – and, of course, explain what the owl has to do with it.

The SABA project enables young immigrant women and mothers aged between 18 and 35 to obtain higher-level school certificates and restart their educational careers.
The SABA educational scholarships not only offer these young women an opportunity for personal and professional development, but also open up perspectives for an independent and self-determined life.

A Crespo Foundation project in cooperation with the Weltkulturen Museum.

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
Sunday, 10th May, from 2pm

In German. Free

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Δ FLEA MARKET STAND WITH EL HADJI SY

Following a week of creative collaboration with the artist El Hadji Sy, a group of young people present the results of their collective painting actions. Working on potato and coffee bags, straw fans from Senegal, and glass, they have produced an array of paintings, bags and other objects.

These unusual and beautiful original works will be sold on a special Weltkulturen market stand at the fleamarket in front of the museum on Schaumainkai on Saturday, 16th May from 9am to 2am.

With the kind support of the Metzler-Stiftung.

Front of the Museum
Schaumainkai 29-37

Front of the Museum
Schaumainkai 29-37
Saturday, 16th May, 9am-2pm

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Δ CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR

With Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Director of the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition

The exhibition "EL HADJI SY: Painting, Performance, Politics" is dedicated to the work of this outstanding Senegalese artist, activist and curator.

Dr. Clémentine Deliss looks at the background to the long relationship between El Hadji Sy and Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum, and takes the selection of works on show as a basis upon which to explore Sy’s exceptional, multifaceted career and to discuss the ideas behind his complex oeuvre.

Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt
Saturday, 23rd May, 3pm

7€ / reduced 3,50€
Cost of tour included in admission fee.

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Δ CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR

With Dr. Yvette Mutumba, Research Curator Africa at the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition

Dr. Yvette Mutumba highlights the museum’s early engagement with contemporary art from Africa by presenting the first retrospective of the Senegalese painter and curator El Hadji Sy, whose involvement with the Weltkulturen Museum stretches back to 1985.

The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt not only holds an exceptional collection of 70,000 historical ethnographic objects from four continents, it owns over 3,000 works of contemporary art from Africa. Collected from 1974 onward, these works constitute important art-historical testimonials from West, East, Southern and Central Africa, providing essential perspectives on art from the African continent produced before what has been termed the global turn of 1989.

Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt
Wednesday, 27th May, 6pm

7€ / reduced 3,50€
Cost of tour included in admission fee.

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Δ FILM PROGRAMME

“Superpower-Dakar Chapter”

Mark Aerial Waller (Artist, London)

The artist presents his video works including science fiction narrative ‘Superpower-Dakar Chapter’ filmed in Dakar in 2004 with Senegalese soap actors; ‘The Sons of Temperance’ (2007) that investigates audio recordings extracted from collections of ancient ceramics; ‘Phantom Avantgarde’ (2010) on mythologyand fashion; and ‘Live from the Crucible’ (2013).

Recent events and exhibitions by Waller include ‘Yoga Horror’ (Tate Britain, 2014) and ‘Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction’ (Arnolfini, 2010).

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
Thursday, 28th May, 7pm

In English.
€5 / reduced €2.50

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