Deutsche
Bank Kunsthalle di Berlino organizzerà la prossima primavera una
grande mostra all’”artista dell’anno” Kemang Wa, nomina che
ogni anno la banca elegge fra gli artisti residenti in Germania.
Da
diversi anni il gruppo bancario tedesco porta avanti una campagna di
sostegno all’arte contemporanea direttamente con questo articolato
progetto che hanno sostituito le proposte più commerciali del
Guggeheim.
Deutsche
Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin presents ‘Bird Song’ by Kemang Wa
Lehuelere from March 24, 2017 through June 18, 2017.
Kemang
Wa Lehulere, born in Cape Town, is Deutsche Bank's new "Artist
of the Year". The exhibition is the South African artist’s
first institutional solo exhibition in Germany and Lehulere is
presenting his repertoire of performances, videos, installations and
chalk drawings. Lehulere’s works often focus on black South African
history, re-examining and re-imagining the host of narratives
connected with black artists, musicians and authors. Essentially he
attempts to prevent the stories of their lives and traces of their
work being forgotten by history. In 2015, he received the Standard
Bank Young Artist for the visual arts. The Deutsche Bank “Artist of
the Year” Award is presented to a contemporary artist with an
artistically and socially relevant oeuvre, integrating the media of
paper and photography.
"Bird
Song" is on display at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Unter den
Linden 13/15, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
For
details, visit: www.deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.de/
Deutsche
Bank “Artist of the Year”
After
Wangechi Mutu, 2010 (Kenya), Yto Barrada, 2011 (France/Morocco),
Roman Ondák, 2012 (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi, 2013 (Pakistan), Victor
Man, 2014 (Romania), and Koki Tanaka, 2015 (Japan), Basim Magdy is
the seventh international
artist selected as the Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year.” Next
year, he will be followed by Kemang Wa Lehulere (South Africa), the
“Artist of the Year” 2017.
“The
‘Artist of the Year” award is firmly anchored in Deutsche Bank’s
art program, honoring contemporary artists who address social issues
and artistic aspects in new ways,” says Friedhelm Hütte, the head
of Deutsche Bank’s art department. The focus is on artists who have
amassed an oeuvre in which works on paper and photography play a key
role. “Dynamic centers in Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern
Europe have become more important in recent years. With our award, we
want to make artistic visionaries from these regions accessible to a
broader public.”
The
award is given on the recommendation of the Deutsche Bank Global Art
Advisory Council which consists of the renowned curators Okwui
Enwezor, Hou Hanru, Udo Kittelmann, and Victoria Noorthoorn. The
highlight is a solo exhibition of the “Artist of the Year” at the
Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin, which is accompanied by a
catalogue and subsequently on view at other international museums.
Apart from an extensive monograph and an edition, the agenda includes
purchases of works by the “Artist of the Year” for the Deutsche
Bank Collection.
The
exhibition “Basim Magdy: The Stars Were Aligned for a Century of
New Beginnings” is on view at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle from
April 29 to July 3, 2016. Subsequently the show will travel to Rome
(MAXXI - National Museum of Art of the 21st Century) and Chicago
(Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago).
Information
on Deutsche Bank’s global art program can be found at
http://www.deutsche-bank.de/kunst
und http://www.db-artmag.de.
