Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa in conversation with Hans Blum:
6 September 6pm for 6.30pm
A LABOUR OF LOVE focuses on a key part of the contemporary art collection of the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt on the Main – 600 works from South Africa, which the museum acquired in 1986.
A LABOUR OF LOVE came 28 years after the first exhibition of this collection was held in Frankfurt. It re-examines a selection of more than 150 works inspired by very different readings of the idea of love – prints, paintings, sculptures and to date unpublished archival materials reflect on the theme from interpersonal relations to the passion and commitment which influenced both the creation of the works and the history of the collection’s acquisition. At the JAG the exhibition will at certain moments be in conversation with works from the JAG collection, some of which were created by artists whose work forms part of the collection at the Weltkulturen Museum.
The exhibition also integrates a contemporary perspective on this special collection through ten new works produced by Gabi Ngcobo and four South African former art students, who have dealt with the collection and its specific history since mid-July 2014 when they were students at the Wits School of Arts. In this process of artistic reappraisal, the students have responded to the collection by creating new prints and videos. This perspective is further expanded by works created in the Weltkulturen Labor by Sam Nhlengethwa, during a residency in July 2015.
Funded by the Goethe-Institut and the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
The Goethe-Institut is proud to support Hans Blum’s participation as part of the A Labour Of Love public programme. Having lived in South Africa from the early 1960s until the late 1970s, Blum became interested in contemporary art and was involved in the anti-Apartheid movement, bringing work to Germany to create awareness about Apartheid in South Africa. In 1986 he was commissioned by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt to buy art works on behalf of the institution. He acquired 600 works only by black South African artists, which today form a crucial part of the museum's contemporary art collection.
Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa will be in conversation with Hans Blum on 6 September at 6pm for 6.30pm. Dhlomo-Mautloa is a South Africa artist, art administrator and activist. More information about her can be found
here.
The Goethe-Institut also supports Artucation, an interdisciplinary arts education programme by Keep the Dream Arts in partnership with the Goethe-Institut. Artucation will bring high school learners from Johannesburg’s inner city to see the exhibition and initiate dialogues commenting on their social, political and personal environment.
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