CURATORS' GUIDED TOURS “EL HADJI SY: Painting, Performance, Politics”

In May the Weltkulturen Museum offers two guided tours with Dr. Clémentine Deliss and Dr. Yvette Mutumba, the curators of the exhibition "EL HADJI SY: Painting, Performance, Politics" Wednesday, 6th May, 6pm and Saturday, 23rd May, 3pm Guided tour with Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Director of the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition The exhibition "EL HADJI SY: Painting, Performance, Politics" is dedicated to the work of this outstanding Senegalese artist, activist and curator. Dr. Clémentine Deliss looks at the background to the long relationship between El Hadji Sy and Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum, and takes the selection of works on show as a basis upon which to explore Sy’s exceptional, multifaceted career and to discuss the ideas behind his complex oeuvre. Wednesday, 27th May, 6pm Guided tour with Dr. Yvette Mutumba, Research Curator Africa at the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition Dr. Yvette Mutumba highlights the museum’s early engagement with contemporary art from Africa by presenting the first retrospective of the Senegalese painter and curator El Hadji Sy, whose involvement with the Weltkulturen Museum stretches back to 1985. The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt not only holds an exceptional collection of 70,000 historical ethnographic objects from four continents, it owns over 3,000 works of contemporary art from Africa. Collected from 1974 onward, these works constitute important art-historical testimonials from West, East, Southern and Central Africa, providing essential perspectives on art from the African continent produced before what has been termed the global turn of 1989. Other guided tours are offered on Wednesdays 6pm, Saturdays and Sundays 3pm. Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29 Entrance: €7 / reduced €3.50 Cost of tour included in admission www.weltkulturenmuseum.de