More events in Brussels related to Africa :

This summer will see an explosion colour and vitality as the DR Congo and 16 other African countries celebrate 50 years of independence. The Centre for Fine Arts is organizing a festival as only it can, bringing to Brussels the greatest names in the performing and the visual arts: Rokia Traoré, Angélique Kidjo, Didier Awadi, legendary choreographer Germaine Acogny, and many more artists who fuse excellence of form with social engagement.

As if that were not enough, this ambitious project proposes a new vision for our cultural relations with Africa. That is why BOZAR and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren have joined hands to forge a new and long-term collaborative project at the Centre for Fine Arts. The fascinating GEO-graphics exhibition will be the initial laboratory for this project, and all the artists invited to festival will be asked to join in discussions and share their thoughts on this Visionary Africa during their ‘48 Hours in Brussels’.

Tomorrow’s Africa? Find it today at the Centre for Fine Arts!

http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=9988&selectiondate=2010-05-26

Video: An interview of the protagonists (in Dutch and French)

Geo-Graphics

A map of art practices in Africa, past and present

These are being chosen by eight arts centres carefully selected from all over Africa because of the active role they are playing in the development of the cultural sector in the continent.

The art centres’ interventions are inscribed in a scenography which sheds new light on how to read the relationship between old and new by highlighting the affinities and ruptures between past and present. The project’s artistic director, the internationally renowned architect David Adjaye, will also present his own photographs of African cities.

The exhibition will demonstrate the influence that the original context of creation exerts on cultural output. The interplay of these four approaches - the museum pieces, the new works, the platform offered to the arts centres, and the artistic director’s vision - will present the visitor with a new history and with an unprecedented lexicon for mapping African art and culture, the common denominators and the driving force behind this original and modern cooperation and development platform.

Curators : David Adjaye, Anne-Marie Bouttiaux (RMCA), Koyo Kouoh, Nicola Setari.

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For almost 30 years now, the American-born South African photographer Roger Ballen has been developing a masterly, constantly evolving body of work. From the documentary style of his early days to his more pictorial, staged work, his distinctive world tacks between dream and reality. You can discover his work - at once enigmatic, amusing, and troubling - in 200 photographs, from his first images to Boarding House, his latest series.

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In Tervueren Africa Museum MRAC: