中国体育彩票

Curators: Khanyisile Mbongwa (Chief Curator), Dr Mike Tigere Mavura (Assistant Curator), Dr Paseka Blessing Chisale (Curator of Learning), Frances Sakina Esterhuyse (Assistant Curator of Healing and learning)

From the Vault features work from the anthropological collection at the SU Museum with the work of participating artists Lungiswa Joe, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Sisonke Papu, and Andile Dyalvane. The artists and the collection offer critical insight into the role and power of artists and collectors in shaping narratives and discourses ranging from aesthetic values, art history themes to anthropological, sociological and political viewpoints. From the Vault looks back to understand the current and map the future. 

From the curatorial statement:

“This assembly is an improvisation – the act of intervening, interceding and making passage for the something to emerge. To mend something torn so it can birth anew. We are called into the archive by the whispers of decontextualised objects from KwaZulu, AmaThembu, AmaXhosa, eSwatini, AmaPondo, Basotho, Ndebele, Okavango, Pedi, Venda, Tswana, Nama/Dama/Bushmen (San), Khwe-Khwe peoples."

The Stellenbosch Triennale is on from the 19th of February to the 30th of April 2025. The theme for the Triennale is Ba'zinzile: A Rehearsal for Breathing.

More information about the Triennale, view the programme, brochure or visit the website.

Marlene Steyn: Tussen die o? / Between the i’s

Woordfees Artist 2024

Marlene Steyn likes to play with bright colours and fantasy to create images in dreamlike landscapes. Steyn draws inspiration from psychoanalytic theory and uses recognisable images from history and pop culture to make the observer aware of the urges in the subconscious. Her work has been compared to that of the Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch. In addition to her paintings, Marlene is also known for her clay sculptures. She works inventively with form and colour and encourages observers to delight in their own playfulness of which they were often not even aware. The scale of her sculptures has an extensive physical presence that forces the viewer to self-reflect. As in her paintings, she constantly plays with form and colour, which brings with it a strong spontaneity.

This exhibition will be on display until April 30, 2025.

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Talking in Dakar: Conversations about a free South Africa

Seven years before South Africa’s first democratic elections, the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (Idasa), facilitated talks between a delegation of white South Africans and members of the ANC, then in exile, in Dakar Senegal. The photos in this exhibition provide a chance to reconsider the role of dialogue and talking as ways of overcoming differences and creating common ground. The photographs form part of the Idasa Archives hosted at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票’s Library and Information Service. Most of the photographs on display from this event in July 1987 are by Rashid Lombard. ?

   

Freedom, Life, and Dignity Reimagined

?This exhibition features work in response to South Africa's Bill of Rights. Visual Arts students in the 3rd year printmaking course responded to clauses in the Bill through the lens of a new generation living with the promise of the Bill of Rights. Their work is in conversation with South African artists responding to South Africa's newly established Bill of Rights in 1996 as part of the Images of Human Rights printmaking project. The student artists are Jacqueline Dow, Olorato Makgale, Anna van Pletsen, Lucy Clegg, Bethan Swiegers, Chrystopher Abbott, Juane Swart, Kabous de Wet, Katja Marsiglia, Keishia Van der Vent, Jane Rigava, Samantha Schimper, and Yasmeen Williams. The artists who contributed to the 1996 project Norman Kaplan, William Zulu, James Mphahlele, Nhlanhla Xaba, Philippa Hobbs, John Roome, Kim Berman, Azaria Mbatha, Ezekiel Budeli, Samkelo Bunu, David John Yule, Sibusiso Sabela, Vuyile Voyiya, Thami Jali, Andrew Verster, Diane Victor, Vedant Nanackchand, Pieta Robin, Jan Jordaan, Margaret Gradwell, Dina Cormick, Ian Marley, Dominic Thorburn, Sophie Peters, Philip Badenhorst, Edwine Simon, Carina Minnaar, and Jonathan Comerford. 

The Freedom, Life, and Dignity Reimagined, and Talking in Dakar exhibitions are part of a 30 years of Democracy Programme at the SU Museum in 2024 and 2025. This programme includes a series of exhibitions, dialogues, and conversations around themes of democracy, transition, and transformation in South Africa. Both exhibitions will be on display until 30 April 2025.??