Okwui Enwezor left his post as artistic director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst today, for reasons of health.
Chief curator Ulrich Wilmes and chief executive Bernhard Spies will lead the institution until Enwezor’s replacement is found.
See: freundevonfreunden.com/rethinking-art-with-curator-okwui-enwezor
Okwui Enwezor.
The exhibition FRANK BOWLING—MAPPA MUNDI (curated by Okwui Enwezor with Anna Schneider) is built around Bowling’s map paintings (1967–1971), and demonstrates how his “use of maps as conceptual objects of painting make for a fitting transactional trope through which to tackle the idea of geography and narrative.”*
FRANK BOWLING—MAPPA MUNDI, through January 7.
HAUS DER KUNST, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, Munich.
Frank Bowling, Dog Daze, 1971. Image credit: Hales Gallery, New York © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2016.
Okwui Enwezor, director of Haus der Kunst, welcomes artists Sonia Boyce and Ellen Gallagher, DIA curator Courtney J. Martin, artists and filmmakers Isaac Julien and Steve McQueen, and professors J. Michael Dash and David Scott to THE SEA IS HISTORY—ART AND BLACK ATLANTIC CULTURES.
This symposium—moderated by Mark Nash and Allison Thompson—examines “the intersection of the artistic, theoretical, literary, and cultural dimensions” in the work of Frank Bowling, the Guyanese-born, London-based artist whose work is “deeply connected to, and inflected by Édouard Glissant’s notion of a ‘Caribbean Discourse’—the idea that the entire critical literature and art created within the historical complex of the Black Atlantic is an ongoing process of philosophical reflection.”*
THE SEA IS HISTORY—ART AND BLACK ATLANTIC CULTURES, Friday, October 20, 11 am to 7 pm.
HAUS DER KUNST, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, Munich.
*For complete program, see: hausderkunst.de/en/learn/symposium/2017/sea-is-history/program/
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Frank Bowling, Wintergreens, 1986; Frank Bowling exhibition catalogue; Frank Bowling.
Image credit: The Royal Academy, London.
