Exhibition

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
23 Oct 2014 - 15 Jan 2015

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial

Nomusa Makhubu, Imfundo Impahla neBhayibheli (Education Apparel and the Bible) Digital print on archival Litho paper 2007/2013 60 x 80 cm. Courtesy of the artist

This year the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum has re-launched the Eastern Cape’s most prestigious art competition, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial as a curated visual arts show. 30 artists from across South Africa have been selected from nominations received to participate in this celebration of Eastern Cape artistic excellence.

This year’s nominations were received from around South Africa and adjudicated by a committee of local art professionals. The selection committee comprised: Dr Melanie Hillebrand (Director, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum), Uthando Baduza, (Artist, Curator and FET Researcher at CIPSET at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), Mary Duker (Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), Gregory Kerr (Director, Greg Kerr Fine art) and Jeanne Wright (artist and fine art journalist).

The NMM Art Museum is once again looking forward to producing an exhibition of outstanding Eastern Cape art. The Biennial exhibition will run until 25 January 2015.

The selected artists are:

Dorothy Barnes, Cleone Cull, Maureen de Jager, Beverly de Lange, Christine Dixie, Derrick Erasmus, Charmaine Haines, Anthony Harris, Nic Hauser, Lydia Holmes, Tim Hopwood, Christiaan Kritzinger, Alhyrian Laue, Carla Leisching, Nomusa Makhubu, Brent Meistre, Nigel Mullins, Siyabonga Ngaki, Susan Opperman, Jennifer Ord, Monique Pelser, Tanya Poole, Marc Pradervand, Stephen Rosin, Dolla Sapeta, Zack Taljaard, Johnathan van der Walt and Rat Western.

 

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