OCCUPATION


JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY
Klein Street and King George Street, Joubert Park Johannesburg, South Africa
@occupation.jag

14 November 2022 - 26 March 2023
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 17:00

Opening Sunday 13 November 2022, from 14:00 to 18:00
Performance "MAFIELO" by MASELLO MOTANA & LE MEDUMO YA AFRIKA

Curated by GILLES FURTWÄNGLER, THULILE GAMEDZE & ZEN MARIE

A group of artists in conversation with the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), its history and archives, consider its place in the Johannesburg landscape today. The site-specific exhibition includes a curatorial intervention with the works from the JAG collection in the Ghost Room; reading, mapping and discussion in the Speculation Room; and screenings and performances on the Blaxis Screen. The project’s first iterations, “BLANK.”, “2” and “2. The Ghost Exhibition” took place between 2020 and 2021, against the backdrop of the pandemic and the slowing of time, at CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne.

ABRI DE SWARDT, ANDREI VAN WYK, BETTINA MALCOMESS, BLKJKS, DONNA KUKAMA, GABI MOTUBA, GILLES FURTWÄNGLER, HENRI MICHEL YÉRÉ, INVADE, MEMORY BIWA, MPUMELELO MCATA, NAADIRA PATEL, NAYANSAKU MUFWANKOLO, NKGOPOLENG MOLOI, OVERNIGHT SERVICES, PEBOFATSO MOKOENA, ROBERT MACHIRI, SHIRIN YOUSEFI, STÉPHANIE ROSIANU, THE WRETCHED, THULILE GAMEDZE, TRACEY ROSE, TSHEPANG RAMOBA, TUMI MOGOROSI, VUSUMZI NKOMO &
ZEN MARIE

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Image: [Aerial view of Johannesburg Art Gallery], Zen Marie, 2022

This project is made possible by the Fondation Leenaards, Arts Alive, the Wits School of Arts, the Johannesburg Art Gallery and its staff.

Vernissage le dimanche 13 novembre 2022 à 14h00
Ouverture du 14 novembre au 26 mars 2023

Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 17:00