OPENING THIS FRIDAY | BERLIN Material Tales: Gestures of Abstraction | Taqwa Ali, Kim Bartelt, Tonia Calderon, Elke Foltz, Naomi Lisiki, Senzeni Marasela, Georgina Maxim
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Opening Reception | December 5, 6-9 pm |
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Bode is pleased to announce the opening of the extensive and all female group show Material Tales: Gestures of Abstraction. Told by letting material, form, and gesture speak, the exhibition with works by Taqwa Ali, Kim Bartelt, Tonia Calderon, Elke Foltz, Naomi Lisiki, Senzeni Marasela, and Georgina Maxim gathers tales of abstraction. Each of the artists approaching the discipline of abstraction in her very own narration, Material Tales: Gestures of Abstraction highlights the multimediality and interdisciplinarity within the artistic field. Throughout the exhibition, materials become storytellers, and abstraction turns into a tactile archive of gestures and memories. While at the same time, in dialogue, the works reveal abstraction as a living language of materials, gestures, and stories intertwined. |
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OPENING THIS FRIDAY | BERLIN The Bright Women | Layo Bright |
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Opening Reception | December 5, 6-9 pm |
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Bode is pleased to announce the opening of The Bright Women at Bode Salon in Berlin. The show features a body of glass portraits depicting the artist herself, her older sister, and their mother. Nearly ten years after her move to the United States from Nigeria, Layo Bright reflects on the relationship between her and the women in her immediate family, as they navigate their respective lives in different locations of the world while staying connected. Layo Bright Bloom series celebrates resilience and identity, created through intricate handmade glass portraits of women within her community. These new works explore the intersections of identity, migration, cultural adaptation, visibility and resistance. |
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OPENING SOON | BODE@thestudio | CAPE TOWN SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces | Yonela Doda, Thero Makepe, Masindi Nafisa Mbolekwa, Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, Ntsako Nkuna, Natalie Paneng, Thando Phenyane, Tshepo Phokojoe, Zilien, Mhlonishwa Zulu
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Opening Reception | December 11, 4-9 pm |
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BODE@thestudio presents SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces, its inaugural group exhibition in Cape Town. SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces brings together works by ten standout artists, exploring surrealism as a living and spiritual reality in a contemporary African context. These artists do not perform surrealism, they manifest it, offering a vital transmutation of absurdity and dream into visibility. By communicating the tension between the mundane and the bizarre, each artist conjures figures between worlds, and explores memory and myth as living loci. They construct potent visual lexicons that refuse comfortability, expose the uncanny absurdity of systemic power, and entangle the individual and collective fates of the living and dead. |
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LAST DAY TO SEE Chasing Shadows Vol. I | Chris Watts |
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BODE Karl-Marx-Allee 82, 10243 Berlin, Germany |
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