Resources on Art
| International Exhibitions | What's On SA | SA Museums/Institutions | Articles on Art | Successful Artist | Artists |
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International Exhibitions
Universes in Universe (comprehensive)
Featured exhibitions and artists: art.co.za
South African festivals:
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunsfees (KKNK)
FNB Art JoburgEvents at CAP Institute
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South African Museums/Institutions
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Art Map with comprehensive information
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Articles on Art
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Successful Artist
How to succeed in the art world: Everybody can do it - Paul Klein [audio]
Some brutal truths about why you are not succeeding
The habits of effective artists
Artists (just a selected few!)
SOUTH AFRICAN
Asanda Kupa (social comment, identity)
Young artist says South Africans need to create their own opportunities
Ayanda Mabulu (social comment)
Controversial artist Ayanda Mabulu shares his views on politics
Banele Khoza (chance, identity)
Top Billing Features Artist Banele Khoza
Berni Searle (identity, decoloniality)
Berni Searle - Approach Symposium
Blessing Ngobeni
Blessing Ngobeni – Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2020 (Visual Art)
Candice Breitz (moving image, social comment)
Candice Breitz Interview: Advice to the Young
South Africa - Candice Breitz - Love Story - Venice Biennale 2017
Collen Maswanganyi (identity, wood carving, African modern)
South Africa sculptor's wood carvings earn him worldwide acclaim
Claudette Schreuders (identity, wood carving, human condition)
JACK SHAINMAN - Claudette Schreuders
Diane Victor (social comment, identity, ephemeral media)
Diane Victor gives us insight into her latest exhibition, 'Which Hunt?'
Dineo Bopape (performing identity, moving image)
Dineo Seshee Bopape, the Main Prize winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017
Frances Goodman (gender, social comment, found materials)
Frances Goodman Interview: Beyond the Male Gaze
Gordon Froud (art and science, found materials)
Froud on his latest exhibition Harmonia: Sacred Geometry, The Pattern of Existence
Jackson Hlungwani (identity, wood carving, art and religion)
Art & Legend ep.6 - Jackson Hlungwani
Jan van der Merwe (memory, ephemeral materials, identity)
Jane Alexander (grotesque, violence, social comment)
Art/Afrique: Installation of Jane Alexander's work "Infantry with Beast"
Keith Dietrich/Elizabeth Gunter
Keith Dietrich FRAGILE HISTORIES & Elizabeth Gunter FUGITIVE LIVES
Kudzanai Chiurai (African Modern identity, violence, decoloniality, photography, video)
In Studio with Kudzanai Chiurai
Excerpt from Kudzanai Chiurai work at Zeitz MOCAA museum
Marlene Dumas (gender, social comment, identity, chance in art)
Marlene Dumas at the Munch Museum - artist talk
Sculpture
Mohau Modisakeng (social comment, identity, photography, video)
Mohau Modisakeng - Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2016 (Visual Arts)
Nandipha Mntambo (indigenous materials, installation, sculpture, female identity)
Nandipha Mntambo: Creating mirror images of the human body
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town / Interview with Nandipha Mntambo
Pascual Tarazona (Spanish/SA) (New Romanticism, New Expressionism)
In Conversation With Pascual Tarazona
Feminism, abuse
Robin Rhode (social comment, identity, photography, video)
Multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode brings his drawing process to life
Roger Ballen (social comment, identity, photography)
Roger Ballen – 'A Good Picture Comes From Nowhere' | TateShots
Steven Cohen (Performance, gender, social comment)
William Kentridge (decoloniality, history, drawing, animation)
Behind the Scenes with William Kentridge | Carte Blanche | M-Net
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PAN-AFRICAN
Installation, found materials. social activism
Ghada Amer (textile, embroidery, identity)
Ghada Amer exclusive Interview with LE MILE N°10
Julie Mehretu (painting, drawing, globalism)
Julie Mehretu explains her painting Epigraph, Damascus | Artist Interviews
El Anatsui (found materials, installation)
Nnenna Okore (time, materials)
Tang Museum: Nnenna Okore on the Effects of Age and Decay on Materials
Pelu Alatise (textile, African Modern)
WRAPTURE: a Story of Cloth by Peju Alatise
Romuald Hazoume (found materials, appropriation)
Romuald Hazoume introduces his recycled masks
Wangechie Mutu (photomontage, gender, identity)
Wangechi Mutu: Cultural Cutouts
From Nairobi to New York: Advancing Afrofuturism with Wangechi Mutu | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 21
Yinka Shonibari (textile, installation, African Modern)
1/2 Yinka Shonibare - What Do Artists Do All Day ?
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INTERNATIONAL
Alphabetical index of artists on artnet
Adrian Ghenie (expressive painting, sublime)
Adrian Ghenie started a gallery because he was a "failure"
ADRIAN GHENIE | GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC | Paris Marais | 2015
Anselm Kiefer (deconstruction, identity, history, found materials, painting)
ANSELM KIEFER FÜR ANDREA EMO 2018
Anselm Kiefer - The German painter and sculptor - New Documentary
Robert Hughes on Anselm Kiefer
Bill Viola (video, water, fire, nature)
Kara Walker (decoloniality, Othering, water)
Artist Kara Walker – 'I'm an Unreliable Narrator' | Fons Americanus | Tate
Art in the Era of Trump - Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins and Co
Louise Bourgeois (painting, installation, sculpture, printmaking, Surrealism, Feminism)
Salon | Art History | Remembering Louise Bourgeois
Salon | Art Lives | Louise Bourgeois
Salon | Artist Talk | Remembering Louise Bourgeois
Marina Abramović (Performance, gender, violence, boundaries)
Marina Abramović: The Rothschild Foundation Lecture
0:09 / 5:51
Michaël Borremans
[TANK EXHIBITION] Interview with Michaël Borremans
Michaël Borremans im Gespräch mit Jasper Sharp
Olafur Eliasson (environment, water, installation, spatial experiment)
Olafur Eliasson interview: Retrospective opens at Tate Modern | Architecture | Dezeen
Overview of his biography and artistic development
Roni Horn (water, photography, video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_3eFGDGGg
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