Δ EXHIBITION OPENING

"GLOVES IN ACTION”

Green Room Exhibition

Wednesday, 8. July, 7pm

The Weltkulturen Museum and the foundation KFW Stiftung are delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition curated by Syafiatudina (ID), fellow of the programme “Curators in Residence - Curating Collections” of the KfW Stiftung.

Guest curator Syafiatudina presents her findings on the significance of the amateur researchers’ pursuit of knowledge for museums and their educational mandate. This exhibition was created in the Weltkulturen Labor in cooperation with Frankfurt’s private collectors and participants with an interest in culture and the arts.

Including an interactive lab room, films as well as ethnographic objects from Indonesia, New Guinea and Guatemala.

Syafiatudina (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) is a member of the KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta. In Indonesia, KUNCI is regarded as a cultural studies pioneer and regularly organises artistic research and exhibitions. Founded in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1999, KUNCI has primarily focused on critical knowledge production and sharing via media publications, cross-disciplinary encounters, research actions and artistic interventions.

KfW Stiftung's programme “Curators in Residence” offers outstanding young curators from Latin America, Africa and Asia a chance to spend several months in Germany with the objective of promoting intercultural exchange in exhibition practice.

Introduction
Dr. Nicola Müllerschön (Programme Manager Arts & Culture, KfW Stiftung), Dr. Eva Ch. Raabe (Acting Director, Weltkulturen Museum) and Syafiatudina (Curator and fellow of the programme “Curators in Residence - Curating Collections" of the foundation KfW Stiftung).

 

9th July till 30th August 2015
Green Room
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm and Wed, 11am-8pm
Entrance: €3 / reduced €1.50

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Δ CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR “GLOVES IN ACTION”

With Syafiatudina, Guest curator at the Weltkulturen Labor and curator of the exhibition

What significance has the amateur researchers’ pursuit of knowledge for museums and their educational mandate?

Guest curator Syafiatudina understands study as a collaborative process of knowledge formation, which unites institutionalized knowledge and subjective approach. Together with Frankfurt’s citizens and private collectors she developed a manual for amateur researchers and explored how it could help to publicise the production of knowledge on ethnographic objects.

With an interactive lab room, films as well as ethnographic objects from Indonesien, Neuguinea and Guatemala Guest curator Syafiatudina presents the results of her research during her residency at the Weltkulturen Museum.

Syafiatudina (*1988, Melbourne) lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is a fellow of the programme “Curators in Residence – Curating Collections” of the foundation KfW Stiftung and a member of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta. Her work focuses particularly on critical knowledge production and dissemination.

Weltkulturen Labor
Green Room
Schaumainkai 37
Friday, 10th July, 5pm

Entrance: €3 / reduced €1.50
Cost of tours included in admission fee.

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Δ ARTIST'S TALK

with Sam Nhlengethwa (Artist, South Africa)

Tuesday, 28th July, 7pm

Sam Nhlengethwa is artist-in-residence in preparation of the upcoming major exhibition at Weltkulturen Museum “A Labour of Love” (Opening: 2nd December 2015, co-curator Gabi Ngcobo). For the first time after 28 years, the exhibition is dedicated to a mainfocus Weltkulturen Museum’s collection of contemporary art: 600 works produced by black South African artists under apartheid, which the museum acquired in 1986.

During his month-long residency at the Weltkulturen Labor Sam Nhlengethwa revisits the Weltkulturen Museum's collection of contemporary South African art, which includes his works from the 1980s as well as those by equally internationally renowned artists such as John Muafangejo, Peter Clarke, David Koloane, Azaria Mbatha or Lionel Davis.

Sam Nhlengethwa is one of South Africa’s foremost artists. Born 1955 in Springs, he studied at Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre and the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Nhlengethwa was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award in 1994. He has successfully exhibited all over the world. His latest projects include “Life, Jazz & Lots of Other Things”, Gallery 1600, Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia, USA (2014), “Some Final Tributes”, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2014), 55. Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2013). His work is represented in major public and corporate art collections in South Africa and abroad.

Nhlengethwa was urban-born and therefore relates intimately to township existence, not only in his collages but also in his prints. “Throughout the years, all my pieces have dealt with the movement of people. I enjoy paying homage to people and places through my art”. (Sam Nhlengethwa 2014)

During this upcoming month Sam Nhlengethwa will keep a “Picture Diary” on Instagram to give insights into his artistic research at the Weltkulturen Labor.
https://instagram.com/weltkulturen.museum/

In his talk Nhlengethwa presents the first research results of his residency, which will be part of the exhibition “A Labour of Love”.

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
Tuesday, 28th July, 7pm

In English
Entrance: €5 / reduced €2.50

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