June 27 | Postcolonial South African photographer wins Henri Cartier-Bresson Award

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With a career spanning three decades, Guy Tillim’s catalogue of photographs documents scrupulously the transformation of Africa — drawing on the paradoxes and contradictions of the colonial and postcolonial years. Awarded by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tillim will continue to expand upon his Museum of the Revolution project. In other news, a six hundred-piece strong art collection is to take shape in Bavaria, by way of Susanne Klatten.

Guy Tillim wins 2017 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award

The jury of the 2017 HCB Award, at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, have selected South African photographer Guy Tillim (b. 1962, Johannesburg) as the winner of this year’s €35 000 prize.

His winning Museum of the Revolution project reflects on how post-colonial societies often imitate certain aspects of past colonial regimes in Africa. Having already photographed the streets of Johannesburg, Maputo, Lunada, Harare, Libreville, Addis Ababa and Nairobi, Tillim will now be able to continue his project in Dakkar, Accra, Kampala and Lagos in order to complete and document these urban landscapes, thanks to the HCB Award.

Tillim has received many awards including the 2002 Prix SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia), the 2003 Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award (Japan), the 2004 DaimlerChrysler Award, the 2005 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 2006 — along with solo exhibitions at the Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Paris; Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam; Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; Museu Serralves, Porto, among others.

 

Guy Tillim | Guy Tillim, Congo Democratic (2006) © Tate | Guy Tillim, Avenue Bagamoyo, Beira, Mozambique (2008)

 

 

Richest woman in Germany to establish a foundation in Bavaria

Susanne Klatten, Germany's richest woman and a major shareholder in automaker BMW, has announced plans to established a foundation to house her private art collection in Nantesbuch near Bad Tölz in Bavaria, Germany.

The collection comprises of over six hundred pieces by artists such as Michael Beutler, Olaf Holzapfel, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Karin Kneffel, and Robert Longo. Artist Mischa Kuball has been commissioned to create one of the first new works for the foundation’s site that will be built in harmony with nature and should provide its visitors with an “entrance into another world.” Details via Monopol magazine.

 

Susanne Klatten © Die Welt

 

 

New York LGBT monument to be designed by Anthony Goicolea

Artist Anthony Goicolea (b. 1971, Atlanta, Georgia) has been chosen to design the first official monument to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the state of New York.

New York’s governor Andrew M. Cuomo created the LGBT Memorial Commission in the aftermath of the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida. After releasing an open call for design submissions in October 2016, Cuomo announced yesterday Goicolea’s design, which features nine boulders, some bisected with glass that acts as a prism and can refract a rainbow, will be installed in Hudson River Park, near the waterfront. Goicolea's art practice frequently deal with issues of androgyny, homosexuality, and child sexuality. Details via The New York Times.

 


A rendering of a design by the artist Anthony Goicolea for a monument to be built at Hudson River Park. 

 

 

2018 Yinchuan Biennale to be curated by Marco Scotini

The Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan — northwest China’s first contemporary art museum — has announced that Marco Scotini, artistic director of FM Center for Contemporary Art in Milan, will curate the second edition of the Yinchuan Biennale.

The upcoming Biennale will take place from June through September 2018. The inaugural exhibition in 2016 was curated by Bose Krishnamachari — widely criticized for asking Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to participate and then revoking his invitation down to a conflict in political beliefs. Details via E-flux

 

© Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan

 

 

Julia Joern leaves David Zwirner Gallery

A partner at David Zwirner since 2014, Julia Joern has resigned after a decade of working at the gallery, due to health reasons. Leading up to the announcement, two additional staff were hired under Joern’s department to begin next month — Susan Cernek, previously at Elle magazine and Paddle 8, will become director of marketing; whilst Ashley Tickle, from Hauser & Wirth and the High Line, will serve as the new director of communications.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery is currently on show in New York, through July 14.

 
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Summer) (1993) © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation​​​​​​​