Arthub Favorite: Week Ten

Following Arthub’s presence at Cape Town Art Fair it seems Africa has become our cultural and intellectual obsession. The trans-continent conversation developing between Africa and Asia is fascinating. The continent continues to birth artists (such as Samuel Fosso – previously featured as an Arthub favorite), curators and new institutions that deserve the world’s attention.

For these reasons Arthub is glad to announce the opening of South of the Sahara – Accelerated Urbanism in Africa at the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel as our Weekly Favorite.

Opening: Thursday, 17 March, 8:00 pm
Duration: Friday, 18 March – 27 August, 2016
Venue: 27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Featured artists include Sammy Baloji and Filip de Boeck, NLé Architects (Kunlé Adeyemi), Rem Koolhaas and Bregtje van der Haak, Walé Oyéjidé and Olalekan Jeyifous, Lard Buurman, Paulo Moreira and Isabel Martins, and Keller Easterling, as well as researchers Michiel Hulshof (Tertium) and Daan Roggeveen (MORE Architecture) with their project Chinese Urbanism in Africa as part of their think tank Go West Project (sound by Bas Roeterink).

About the exhibition

Sub-Saharan Africa—a multitude of nations, cultures and geographic expanses—is gripped nowadays between preserving communal traditions and accelerated economic liberalism. A massive Chinese presence is translated into developing infrastructures and new cities; however, most “African urbanism” is manifested in survivalist solutions for informal towns.

The exhibition presents projects by architects, cinematographers and artists from Africa, Europe and Asia, representing the dramatic change processes of the public sphere in this region.

For more details about the exhibition please click here.

Participating artists

Mark Francis and Nick Francis, Patrick Willocq, Onejoon Che, Michael MacGarry, Enric Bach and Adria Mones, Rem Koolhaas and Bregtje van der Haak, Nastio Mosquito, Sammy Baloji and Filip de Boeck, Riaan Hendricks, Paulo Moreira and Isabel Martins, Emanuel Admassu and Ezra Wube, NLé Architects (Kunlé Adeyemi), Lard Buurman, Keller Easterling, Brook Teklehaimanot, Go West Project by Michiel Hulshof and Daan Roggeveen, Walé Oyéjidé and Olalekan Jeyifous, Kai Krause, Ingrid Martens

Curator: Meira Yagid-Haimovici

About the contributors

Michiel Hulshof is partner at Tertium, an urban research and strategy bureau in Amsterdam.

Daan Roggeveen is an architect and co-founder of MORE Architecture, a studio for architecture and research based in Shanghai.

Hulshof and Roggeveen collaborate on the Go West Project, a think tank on emerging megacities. They are the authors of How the City Moved to Mr Sun – China’s New Megacities (SUN, 2011). Their work was exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture and Louisiana Museum for Modern Art. They lecture and publish frequently in Europe, the US, and Asia.

The research project Chinese Urbanism in Africa is made possible with the generous support of the Creative Industries Fund NL and the EFL Foundation.