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Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists» curated by Simon Njami.

His work has shown in various exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Asia, including most recently «Divine Comedy, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists» at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2014), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA (2014 - 2015), and National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA (2015).

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited By Contemporary African Artists, a travelling exhibition curated by Simon Njami, initially at Museum für Mordern Kunst, Germany in 2014 concluded at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

He has participated in several international exhibitions, such as the Ivorian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (2013, 2015 and 2017); Masters of Sculpture from the Ivory Coast, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2015); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artist (2014 — 15: Frankfurt, Savannah and Washington, DC); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012) and Dak» Art — Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar (2008), for which he was awarded the Francophone Prize.

How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Gentleman), 2006; installation view, The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, 2014.

Dome, 2011; installation view, The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, 2014.

Julie Mehretu, Fragment, 2009; installation view, The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, 2014.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, installation view, SCAD Museum of Art.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists is on view through January 25, 2015.

NICHOLAS HLOBO, Installation view of work at «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists,» Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2014.

2014 Nevralgies, Galarie Maia Muller, Paris, France 2014 Daegue Biennale, Daegue, South Korea 2014 Arles Discovery Award Exhibition, Arles, France 2014 Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 This is not Africa, this is Us, Part II: Art Rotterdam, Netherlands 2014 This is not Africa, this is Us, Part III: West den Haag, Netherlands 2014 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany 2014 Staging Reality, Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria 2014 Vision of Africa, Addis Photo festival, Ethiopia 2014 Luminós / C / ity.

More recently Chagas was included in the touring exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami.

Badovinac, Zdenka (et al.), The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Kerber Verlag, 2014.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven Hell, Purgatory, Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.

Group exhibitions include: Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at MOMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2015), The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2015); Landscapes at A Palazzo Gallery in Brescia, Italy (2013); SP - Arte, São Paulo, Brazil (2011); the MABAXA project in Luanda, Angola and RAVY — Rencontre d'Arts Visuels, in Yaoundé, Cameroon (2012); 2nd Luanda Triennial, Angola (2010).

The Divine Comedy: Heaven Hell, Purgatory, Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA.

2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 2015 What remains is tomorrow, South African Pavilion at the 56th La Biennale di Venizia, Venice, Italy 2015 Dis / Place, MoCADA, New York, USA 2015 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA

Recent exhibitions include the itinerant The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists in 2014 — 2015 (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, the US, and the National Museum of African Art — Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the US).

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA.

WHEN «THE DIVINE COMEDY: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists» opened last year at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., for the first time in the Smithsonian museum's nearly 50 - year history, the exhibition was spread throughout the building.

Also consider the exhibition catalog «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists.»

He has participated in several international biennials and notable group exhibitions including The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. (2015); Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2014); the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); the Liverpool Biennial (2010); the Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); and Flow, Studio Museum in Harlem (2008).

As part of FORUM London 2016, this film programme explores a selection of contributions by contemporary African perspectives pioneering interdisciplinary artistic and cultural practices.

-- Carnival, Masquerade and other Forms of Authorised Anarchy, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany 2014 The House of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK: travelled to Morley Gallery, England 2014 Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman, Gallery, London, England 2014 Progress, The Foundling Museum, London, England 2014 Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada 2014 Ship to Shore, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England 2014 The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England 2014 Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London, England 2014 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England 2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England 2014 Collection IX.

«Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Museum für Moderne

Notable exhibitions include Dak» Art, the 12th Biennale of Contemporary African Art (Dakar, Senegal: 2016); and The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, a touring exhibition curated by Simon Njami (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA: 2015; SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA: 2014 - 15; and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany: 2014).

Mntambo's participation in group shows include Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro - Futurism at Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2017); the 12th Edition of Dak» Art, the African Art Biennale in (Dakar, Senegal: 2016); Disguise: Masks and Global African Art at Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, USA: 2015); What Remains is Tomorrow for the South African Pavilion (56th Venice Biennale: 2015); The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists (Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt / Main, Germany: 2014), Nandipha Mntambo at the FNB Joburg Art Fair (Johannesburg: 2013) and the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow, Russia: 2012).

Mille Arts brings AFRICA to LONDON this winter in special exhibition by contemporary african artist Moussa Tine.

Skunder's work has been represented by the Contemporary African Art Gallery in Manhattan, New York since the late 1990s.

Heaven, Purgatory, Hell revisited by Contemporary African Artists is a world - wide traveling exhibition curated by Simon Njami and inspired by Dante's epic: The Divine Comedy.

: Constructing and Deconstructing Identities,» juxtaposes photographs made by contemporary African photographers with 19th - century missionary postcards to investigate how photography can objectify people — or whole continents.

Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Norman Lewis, Robert Colescott, and Boscoe Holder - such are the important practitioners represented in the collection, which not only comprises works of great mid-20th-century painters, but also includes some of the singular work being produced by contemporary African - American and African Diaspora artists.

Their foundation African Artists for Development (AAD) was started in 2009 in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through development projects.

The SCAD Museum of Art announces the first showing of The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists in the United States.

Souls Grown Deep Foundation Begins Series of Gifts / Purchases of Works by Contemporary African - American Artists from the Southern U.S. by Major National Museums

2014 - 2015 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England

Notable group exhibitions include «The Importance of Being», Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Brazil (2015); «Contemporary Art in Dokolo Collection Sindika - You Love Me, You Love Me Not», Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto, Portugal (2015); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; touring to SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2015 - 2014); «Slow Future», Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek, Poland (2014); «INSERT 2014: a cultural exploration of Delhi as a landscape for creativity and transformation», Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India (2014); «Ruffneck Constructivists», ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2014); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); «My Joburg», La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2013); «Artificial Amsterdam», de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); «Sex, Money and Power», Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium (2013); «The Progress of Love», The Menil Collection, Texas, USA (2013 - 2012); «Mexico: Expected / Unexpected», Katzen Arts Centre, Washington D.C., USA (2012); «No Government No Cry», a project by Kendell Geers, CIAP Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium (2011); «Contemplating the Void», Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2010) and «Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha», The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (2008).

The Corcoran installation was arranged by artist, whereas in the two main galleries, the Intuit exhibition presents works by artists from the original 1982 show that are intermingled with objects by contemporary African American artists whose aesthetics or biography resonate with those of the earlier generation.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists explores thematic sequences of Dante Aligheiri's epic poem through new works by more than 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries, as well as the African diaspora.

One of my most powerful art memories of 2013 is visiting the traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which presented important works by contemporary African American artists, on July 4, a free day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Rooks has energetically pursued such gifts and acquisitions, including works by contemporary African - American and Georgia artists, since starting at the High in January 2010.

- Carneval, Masquerade and other Forms of Authorised Anarchy, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany The House Of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK; travelled to Morley Gallery, UK The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England

«The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists» at The Smithsonian webpage

The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, exhibiting and promoting the artwork by contemporary African - American artists from the American South.

SCAD presents the U.S. premiere of «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists.»

About the Souls Grown Deep Foundation The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, exhibiting and promoting the artwork by contemporary African - American artists from the American South.

Recent acquisitions have broadened the collection's geographic scope to include works by contemporary African, Indigenous Australian, and Native American artists.

Select group exhibitions and biennials featuring her work include Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Surrealist: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Picasso & Contemporary Art, Le Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA, and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2014); The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2011); The Spectacle of the Everyday, and Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, CA (2009).

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, is an ambitious show, but originally I pondered the reason for viewing the work of African artists through a lens of an archetype of Western literature, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

«The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists» is the largest exhibition in the museum's history.