In conjunction with the exhibition Concurrent, Galleri Image will present a seminar on South African art focusing on the themes of the exhibition with talks by the artists Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, Jansen van Staden, exhibition curator John Fleetwood and lecture of Jacob Lund, Associate Professor at the dept. of Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University. The seminar will be moderated by Judith Schwarzbart, Art Historian and former Rector at Jutland Art Academy. The seminar is organized by Galleri Image in a collaboration with Jutland Art Academy and Aarhus University.
The seminar will include discussions on the relationship between art practices and the complexities of family relationships, legacies of violence, memory and colonialism in the present.
The seminar will be held in English, and is open to the public.
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Jansen van Staden
Jansen van Staden (b. 1986) is a South African photographer based in Cape Town. Van Staden uses photography as a conceptual entry point to reflect on personal imaginaries and social constructs of belonging and disconnect. He uses personal anecdotes and images of chance to construct narratives about the complexities of contemporary South Africa. He was awarded the Charta Dummy Book award in 2021 (Rome) and his work was exhibited in “If a Tree falls in a Forest” at the Rencontres d’Arles 2021. jansenvanstaden.com
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo (b. 1993) is a South African photographer based in Johannesburg. His work deals with themes of first-hand and generational trauma, violence and memory. He is interested in the materiality of photographs. He was awarded the 2019 CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography. His work was exhibited in “Before the night” in Fotomuseum Winterthur (2019).thembinkosihlatshwayo.onfotomat.com
John Fleetwood
John Fleetwood (b. 1970, Johannesburg) is a South African photography curator and educator. He directs Photo: a platform, based in Johannesburg that develops and promotes socially relevant photography projects and is the co-head of BA Photography at the Royal College of Art (KABK), The Hague, The Netherlands. From 2002-2015 Fleetwood was the director of the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg. He is the convenor and founder of the Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa. He recently curated ‘Intimacy and Resistance: An intergenerational dialogue on South African photobooks’, Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark 2020), ‘Five Photographers: A tribute to David Goldblatt’ (incl. Johannesburg, Bamako, Maputo, Durban, 2018-2019) and ‘Of traps and tropes’ as part of Kerkennah International Photography Festival (Tunisia, 2018). In 2017, he was guest editor for Aperture’s Platform Africa edition.www.phototool.co.za
Jacob Lund
Jacob Lund is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Lund has published widely within aesthetics, art studies, critical theory, and comparative literature on topics such as image-politics, subjectivity, memory, mediality, enunciation, and contemporaneity. 2015-2021 he headed the research project The Contemporary Condition, which focused on the concept of contemporaneity and changes in our experiences of time as these might be seen to be registered in contemporary art. Currently he is engaged in the research project Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions, running 2022-2026 supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation. His most recent book is The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity (Sternberg, 2022).
Judith Schwarzbart
Judith Schwarzbart er uddannet kunsthistoriker og kurator. Fra 2016-22 var hun rektor af Det Jyske Kunstakademi. I dag er hun freelance kurator og skribent. Sammen med Charlotte Bagger Brand og Solvej Helweg Ovesen kuraterede hun i 2007-8 det omfattende projekt U-TURN i København, Berlin, Budapest og Stege. Hun har tidligere arbejdet som interim-leder af Baltic Art Center i Visby, som kurator på Kunstverein München og Fruitmarket Gallery i Edinburgh samt som underviser på Roskilde Universitet, Umeå Konstakademi, Det Kungl. Konstakademien i Stockholm samt Det Fynske Kunstakademi i Odense.
Udstillingen og seminaret er begge støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Augustinusfonden, og Kulturudviklingspuljen (Aarhus Kommune).
