Axis Gallery, NY & NJ

09/22/2023

So many fine detailed pieces in Africa Fashion hard to select favorites but can’t resist posting a few. Curated by 📷 &

09/15/2023

Our Fall newsletter is out:
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Fall 2023 Fall Update | Artist News 2023 Bright Ugochukwu Eke Sketch for Heavy Clouds, 2023 Multimedia – Water, charcoal, polyethylene bags, thread 15 sq ft BRIGHT UGOCHUKWU EKE features in NET ZERO

09/09/2023

FNB JHB ART FAIR some takeaways. So much fun bumping into people I haven’t seen in too long.

📷Walter Oltmann
📷 Tangeni Kabundu
📷 Chis Soal
📷 Wayne Barker
📷 Wycliffe Mandopa
📷 Ketlego Tlabela
📷 Blessing Ngobeni

08/02/2023

Phyllis Galembo will be signing copies of along with other great artists Saturday August 5 in Santa Fe 11-3pm. Stop by if you are near! phyllisgalembo

12/13/2022

After touring Europe and , the Africa Space Art Project artwork—a collaborative work, of which Michel Ekeba of Kongo Astronauts is one of the creators—pictured here adhered the Arianespace 🚀.

Ready to accompany EUMETSAT 🛰️ launching today Dec. 13th at 12:30. Watch the launch live here: https://www.rocketlaunch.live/launch/galaxy-mtg-i1

“A symbolic gesture to show that MTG and Africa have so much to share in the coming years! “🛰️🌍

12/03/2022

Keep your eyes on the innovative perspectives of Natasha Becker, Amanda M. Maples and Caroline Rocheleau. The great work at the De Young, who launched a new African art program, and the North Carolina Museum of Art who recently reinstalled their collections and brought attention to the separation of Egypt in museum presentations.

"NCMA now boldly calls attention to these manipulations, titling its new African gallery, with Egypt included, “The Africa We Ought to Know.” Implicit in the moniker, more than 100 years of racially motivated misinformation fed Americans, Europeans–the world–about Africa."

As Rocheleau and Maples wrote:
"Within museum and academic circles, Egypt has long been positioned culturally with the Near East or the more ‘civilized’ arts of the Greco-Roman world. While this placement isn’t totally incorrect, this bias has caused Egypt’s dense layers to be overlooked at best and intentionally omitted at worst. However, a strong movement throughout the museum world has reintroduced it into African galleries, recognizing that cultural boundaries and influences are mobile and permeable and that Egypt is indeed on—and very much a part of—the continent."

Within museum and academic circles, Egypt has long been positioned culturally with the Near East or the more ‘civilized’ arts of the Greco-Roman world.

11/30/2022

Opening today in Montréal International Art Biennial METOMORPHOSIS - MUTATION Montréal featuring curated by Alain Thibault and DooEun Choi

11/27/2022

Images from opening of 'Fire / Flood' exhibition in the new Soho Photographers Quarter last night. “Thanks so much to my friends and (image 3) who took these photographs. Thanks to all my friends who came to the event. Huge thanks to the outgoing gallery director for initiating this show, curator and the whole amazing TPG team. Thanks to video editor Lara Garcia for her work on the 'Proof and Portents' film that was commissioned by the gallery. Thanks also to all the assistants/creative collaborators that I have worked with over the years in fifteen countries around the world since 2007 in the making of and . Thanks finally to all my subjects who have allowed me to witness their lives in a moment of great trauma. “

Collaborators:

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Gowar Fazili, Stanley Boroh, Tife Owolabi Michelle Gamage, Mark Pointer, Bilal Nawaz, Hassan Quraishi and many more.

11/19/2022

Presentation on the rotation of “Global Arts of Africa in the 21st century” installation by the wonderful Great to see the space reenergized by some new works from their collection as well as to revisit some of the original works installed in 2017.

11/11/2022

Check out our Fall newsletter
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Fall Update Fall Update | Artist News 2022 Today, we live in a polarized world. Our media regimes—mostly commercial, some global, some strictly controlled or even manipulated by state authorities or c

11/08/2022

An ongoing cross-continental digital project that identifies the location of the Benin bronzes.

Digital Benin, the first digital platform to gather and offer information on artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin, is live.

11/01/2022

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#1960’s hairy skeleton from her book 100 years of Halloween masquerade costumes.

10/26/2022

Essential e-flux reading. Eléonore Hellio’s writings on Bebson Elemba, AKA Bebson de la Rue’s oasis for creation, in Kinshasa, DRC.

Originally from this vast region, Bebson Elemba aka Bebson de la Rue is in the process of turning his Ngbwaka home into an autonomous space for collective participatory creation. Step by step, an informal avant-garde will begin to take shape around his artistic practice.

10/25/2022

Enjoy this music from found objects; Fulu Miziki are part of the creative circle that includes the Kongo Astronauts collective

A recorded document that testifies to the creativity bursting in the Congo.

10/13/2022

Today’s Guardian Eyewitness publication of Gideon Mendel work from his recent trip to a flooded Pakistan. “It's always great to have images physically present in newsprint but you can also see the online publication via the link in our bio or here if you seeing this on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/5c95zrex

10/12/2022

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Some behind the camera documentation which will give a sense of my process as I worked in the Pakistan flood zone over the past two weeks. As you can see the lives of the people I photographed have been devastated by climate change. Photographs taken by my amazing assistant Hassan Qureshi except for image #4 which was taken by Khalil Anwar, coordinator of the .

10/12/2022

book signing “SODO, Haiti, 1997-2001” this Saturday, October 15th at 2pm. Get your signed copy of this breathtaking publication of Galembo’s work.
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Join me at my book signing for “SODO, Haiti, 1997-2001” with Saturday 2pm
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10/12/2022

book signing **ohaiti this Saturday, October 15th at 2pm. Get your signed copy of this breathtaking publication of Galembo’s work.

10/12/2022

Will the Supreme Court turn “Fair Use” on its head?

The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday whether the late Andy Warhol infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of silkscreens of the musician Prince.

10/04/2022

09/29/2022

If Nefertiti’s tomb is hidden behind these murals, new treasures of African Art might be awaiting discovery

Renowned Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves said new evidence bolsters his theory that King Tutankhamun's tomb is adjacent to Queen Nefertiti's.

09/15/2022

A new perspective on repatriation, especially the Benin brasses.

The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.

09/11/2022

NYC magic hour, rooftop party hosted by , including curators .becker

09/10/2022

Solo presentation of conceptual artist .maurer by — This work, featuring traces of bodies on bedsheets, I included in “Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography,” 2016, produced for . Artistic photo by Attila’s daughter who is an art student (one can tell)

09/10/2022

Great to see Emilie of Afronova back in NYC, with a solo show of Malala Andrialavidrazana among NYTimes picks. In “Detente 1914-1918,” which we showed recently in / Interlaced in Paris, Cité internationale des arts, Malala reflects on tensions between global powers, the pandemic (pangolin), and the BLM and MeToo movements, suggested by toppling statues and brave suffragettes.

09/10/2022

Thameur Mejri showed the fruits of his residency at Montague Contemporary; just released a podcast with Amanda Maples

09/03/2022

“The government of Benin, a West African nation of 12 million people, believes it has found the right way.

More than 200,000 people have come to a free exhibition of the artworks in the presidential palace, with 90 percent of the visitors Beninese, according to the government, which has heavily promoted the show.”

As more looted art comes back to Africa, countries have wrestled with the right way to display it. That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has found an answer.

08/29/2022

Check out our Kongo Astronauts feature!
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Kongo Astronauts. As summer draws to a close, we bring you this feature on Kongo Astronauts' debut solo museum exhibition, closing September 3rd, with a review by Matthew Bourbon. More news coming soo

08/29/2022

Great review of Kongo Astronauts: “Congo Gravitational Waves // A Metadigital & Tantalean Tale” the collectives solo show curated by at, Denton
by Matthew Bourbon in

“As a member of the faculty at UNT since 2000 I have seen many memorable exhibitions on campus, but Kongo Astronauts’ show is startling in how simultaneously stunning and challenging the artwork feels. The vaguely post-apocalyptic Afrofuturist imagery elicits questions, but also seduces our senses with beauty, ingenuity, and dexterity of craft. The artifice employed by the collective smartly serves a complex underbelly of sociological and material meanings.” Read the full review at link in bio.

08/22/2022

Gosette Lubondo’s first US solo museum show is extended through September 2022. “In this work, a wall of inscriptions boisterously interrupts the scene. I think of the time of our ancestors, when writing a name was done to communicate across past, present, and future, as if they refused to sink into oblivion and were passing on messages to their descendants.

With its religious, melancholy, and austere décor, the image reminds one of a passage from the Beatitudes chanted during the colonial era: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” An incitement to renounce material possessions and to reject worldly goods and live in very modest conditions. Ancestral and Christian beliefs collide in a mystical atmosphere, situated between lies and truth.” —Mbafumoya-Tchomba Stamili

In a collaboration with the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa, DRC, curators at the Fowler Museum invited graduate students to meet and speak with artist Gosette Lubondo and then select one photograph from her series, "Imaginary Trip," and provide creative responses to the work from their perspectives as Congolese citizens and photographers. A selection of their thoughts is presented in the Fowler gallery, with English translations. “Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip” is on view through September 2022.

Image: Gosette Lubondo (b. 1993, Kinshasa, DRC), Imaginary Trip II, 2019; © Gosette Lubondo, Courtesy Axis Gallery, NY & NJ

08/10/2022

Culture Type's list features dozens of Black curators and arts leaders who took on new appointments in the first half of 2022.

07/22/2022

Great day with Andi Brittan viewing Gosette Lubondo solo show, “Imaginary Trip” now extended to September. Looking good
Engaging focus gallery on provenance research.

07/21/2022

North Texas Daily review of Congo Gravitational Waves // A Metadigital & Tantalean Tale.
Solo exhibition, College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries, University of North Texas, Denton.
June 14-Sept. 3, 2022
https://www.ntdaily.com/cvad-gallery-hosts-congolese-artists-first-solo-gallery/?fbclid=IwAR3a9NDVAVRH4mNvIHgxnv4B-rpnR78E_7HP_jUqmcgZCgjNjPkR8Sbb-1M

06/17/2022

Hitting the home ground running,
and lovely to spend time visiting these old friends and to have the rare opportunity of a private walkthrough with the wonderful through the powerful far teaching collections of the .

📷Theo Eshetu.
Anima Mundi, 2014, multi media installation
📷 Hervé Youmbi
Two-faced / Double visage, 2016
Series: Visages de masques
Multi media and video installation including:
Bamileke Yegué Dogon Crocodile Mask, 2016
📷Bisa Butler. The Warmth of Other Sons. 2020 (detail)
Nam June Paik. Spinning Buddha, 1994 mixed media video sculpture
📷 Carmen Herrera. Cadmium #4, 1964, acrylic on canvas
📷 Edward Steichen. Moth balls and Suger Cubes, 1927. Silver gelatin print, and Stehli Silks Corporation’s Americans series of silk textiles based on the Steichen photographs.
📷Alison Saar. Skillet Study. 1999. Paint & Skillet

06/16/2022

Todays review of the by highlights the work of Hervé Youmbi youmbi see link to full article in bio. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/arts/design/dakar-biennale.html?referringSource=articleShare

06/09/2022

installation in / interlaced Paris. 📷 Kongo Astronauts (Michel Ekeba & Eléonore Hellio) Democratic Republic of Congo
GEO.SCAN.B23 SPACEWALKER GEN-10
Multimedia (electronic circuits, fabric, wire, found objects, and gold spray paint)
Courtesy the Gervanne + Matthias Leridon Collection, Paris. 🎥 Kongo Astronauts
TranspatialIncidents: Rewind and Fast Forward, 2010. 2020
Single channel video
Produced by Kongo Astronauts. Performance and sound, Bebson de la Rue.

🎥Kongo Astronauts
Postcolonial Dilemna Track # 5 (in the process of), 2021
Single channel video
Duration: 21’

📷Kongo Astronauts
The jungle is my church 1, 2015
The jungle is my church 2, 2015
Series: Lusanga “ex:Leverville”
Inkjet print on Fine art Baryta paper

06/09/2022

06/09/2022

Interesting day supporting Axis Gallery artists Hervé Youmbi and Ben Lamyne (Lamyne M). Hervé’s “Alo-Alo” totems consider our transhistorical, transcultural need to communicate not only among the living but also with our dead. LamyneM is engaged with Saint-Denis’ bid to be European Cultural Capital in 2028 — as Europe’s youngest and most diverse city it has a lot to offer.

06/02/2022

ENTERLACS/INTERLACED a program of roundtables, performances and an exhibition in memory of our friend and colleague Dominique Malaquais, who died last year of cancer. The event, June 3rd, will launch at 6pm with performances followed by an exhibition opening at 7pm followed then music, food and other artist performances. Get the comprehensive weekend program at link in bio. The exhibition will continue through July 13th
at the gallery of the —our gracious hosts for what promises to be an incredible gathering of artists and thinkers who share in Dominique’s deep connections to and the Benedicte Alliot Jean Christophe Lanquetin Kadiatou Chou-chou Diallo Lisa Brittan Gary Van Wyk

06/01/2022

Sotheby’s, Paris, preview of African Masterpieces & Contemporary Art