“Figures of Speech” exhibition

Preparation meeting

Khwezi Gule, Ingo Gerken, Fouad Asfour, Sharlene Khan, Bandile Gumbi, Eva Seufert, Alexandra Ross (from left) Claudia Shneider (behind the camera) discussing the project and exhibition.

About the project

The exchange project “beyond language” is curated by Eva Seufert and Fouad Asfour in collaboration with the Johannesburg based artist collective Dead Revolutionaries Club (DRC). The project invites artists from South Africa and Germany to collaboratively engage in the creation of a series of exhibitions, workshops, discursive events and interventions which will take place in Johannesburg in February and March and in Berlin in June 2011.

In South Africa, the exhibition “Figures of Speech” will be opened at Jozi Art Lab on 25 February, followed by an artist round table at Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial in Soweto, a book launch at Keleketla! Library (based in Drill Hall in Johannesburg city centre) and an artist-run writing workshop at Polokwane Art Museum. In Berlin, an exhibition will be opened at the project space for contemporary art after the butcher and artists will present and discuss their work in the interdisciplinary project space Zentrum Kreuzberg, WestGermany.

Participating artists, writers and curators are:
from the DRC: Fouad Asfour, Khwezi Gule, Bandile Gumbi, Sharlene Khan, Amos Letsoalo
from Berlin: Eva Seufert and Ingo Gerken