| | | | | | | | | New Europe, London, from the series Afropean, 2013 © Johny Pitts, courtesy of the artist. | | | Johny Pitts » Afropean: Travels in Black Europe | | | | 18 September – 1 November 2020 | | | | | | | 18 September – 13 December 2020 | | | Gerrit Rietveld Academie - The Graduation Show | | | | 18 September – 1 November 2020 | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Zyed Benna & Bouna Traoré Memorial, Clichy sous bois, Paris. From the series Afropean © Johny Pitts courtesy of the artist | | | Johny Pitts » Afropean: Travels in Black Europe | | | | 18 September – 1 November 2020 | | | In Afropean writer and photographer journalist Johny Pitts (Sheffield, UK) examines the life of black communities, travelling across Europe. In search of the "Afropean" identity he went across the continent travelling from London to Paris, via Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Rome, Marseille, Madrid and Lisbon sketching an underexposed story about the continent in words and images. He travelled to Amsterdam to hear from The Black Archives about Hermina and Otto Huiswoud, fighters against colonialism and for black communism. He documented Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean Favela on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy and visited the Clichy Sous Bois district in Paris, where uprisings erupted in 2005 following the deaths of Bouna and Zyed, two boys who died after a chase hidden from the police.
Johny Pitts: “These scattered fragments of Afropean experience had formed a mosaic inside my mind ( … ) the Afropean reality was a bricolage of blackness and I’d experienced an Africa that was both in and of Europe.” - Afropean. Notes from Black Europe, p.380, London 2019 | | | | | | | | | | Chateau Rouge, Paris. From the series Afropean © Johny Pitts courtesy of the artist | | | | | | A selection of photos appeared in the book Afropean: Notes From Black Europe published by Penguin in 2019 for which Pitts was recently awarded the Jhalak Prize. Pitts is also the founder of the online platform Afropean.com.
This exhibition takes place on the occasion of Forum on European Culture, organised by DutchCulture and De Balie. The exhibition is curated by Johny Pitts and Foam.
INTERVIEW
On 18 September at 20.00 hrs the Forum on European Culture is organising a public program in Foam. Johny Pitts will give an interview about his project and his view of Europe. Tickets can be booked via De Balie
FORUM ON EUROPEAN CULTURE 2020
After previous successful editions, De Balie and DutchCulture are organising the Forum on European Culture for the third time from 17 to 20 September 2020. During this four-day festival full of art, culture and conversation, international artists, thinkers and audience come together, both online and physically, to depict a better future for Europe. This year's festival is entitled: We, the People.
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This exhibition is created by Foam and Forum on European Culture, and is curated by Johny Pitts and Foam. | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lalalala, 2019 © Susanne Khalil Yusef / courtesy of the artist | | | | | | | 18 September – 13 December 2020 | | | | Susanne Khalil Yusef (b. 1984) considers herself to be Palestinian. Her grandparents fled Jaffa in 1948 and were determined to return. They never did. Khalil Yusef’s Palestinian heritage is central to her highly personal artwork through which she addresses urgent topics such as displacement, human rights and identity. She creates small and expansive multimedia installations inspired by stories derived from various archives, found objects and personal encounters. The objects, characters, colors and forms have a meaning and play their own part in the story she wants to convey. | | | | | | | | | | Tower of Jaffa, 2018 © Susanne Khalil Yusef / courtesy of the artist | | | | | | Susanne Khalil Yusef was born in 1984 in Germany and has lived in the Netherlands from when she was a teenager. She obtained her masters degree in 2018 at St. Joost Academy in 's-Hertogenbosch. During her bachelor she studied at the International Academy of Arts in Ramallah, Palestine for a semester. Her work has been exhibited at Textiel Museum Tilburg, Museum Arnhem and Slash Gallery, part of WORM in Rotterdam. Recently Khalil Yusef’s art has been added to the permanent collections of museum Arnhem and textielmuseum Tilburg.
The exhibition is made possible by the Van Bijlevelt Foundation. | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Making of a floor, 2020 © Marta Capilla Urbano / courtesy of the artist | | | Gerrit Rietveld Academie - The Graduation Show | | | | 18 September – 1 November 2020 | | | In celebration of this year's graduation, Foam presents the final works of Gerrit Rietveld Academie photography department's graduating class. The young artists exhibit work that was produced mostly during Corona lock-down.
Included in the exhibition are: Tasio Bidegain, Marta Capilla Urbano, Tomas Dudley Baker de Castro Feijo, Sofie Flinth Bredholt, Alma Kim, Dora Lionstone, Luca Penning, Aurélie Sorriaux, Shreya de Souza, Alizé Wachto.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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