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Founded in 2013, 1-54 has dedicated itself to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and strives to promote diverse perspectives. With editions in London, New York and Marrakech annually, 1-54 features leading international galleries specialising in contemporary African art and is accompanied by the 1-54 Forum talks and Special Projects programme.
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“I wanted to create an event that African artists could be extremely proud of, to ensure that they knew I wasn’t trying to categorise them into anything, but rather give them a voice.’ In this week’s podcast, special guest Touria El-Glaoui, Founding Director of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, joins us to discuss the event’s expansion, her long-…
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“We always try to focus on ‘money can't buy’ experiences, exclusive access and creating bespoke experiences where people can gain meaning out of it.” In this week’s podcast, special guests, Amelie Von Wedel [Founder of Wedel Art Advisory] and Meher Waney [Director of Membership and Business Development at The Arts Club,] join us to discuss their co…
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Special guest, Helen Allen, is the newly appointed Development Director at London’s The Treasure House Art Fair [27th June to 2 July] and Executive of Director of The Winter Show, New York. “I got to spend my lunch hours on the days that the [Metropolitan] museum was closed, exploring- one day it might be the medieval section, the next it may be Ch…
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Special guest, Tanya Barson, is Curatorial Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth, joins us to discuss her extensive career working across museum and private collections and projects. In this week’s podcast we learn more about the challenges and opportunities to be found in curating extensive, constantly-evolving collections, the shifting role of curato…
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Special guest Paul Hewitt, Director General of The Society of London Art Dealers, joins us, as the organisation publishes a report outlining some of the opportunities and challenges facing the UK art market today. In this week’s podcast we explore the market landscape following a global pandemic and a post-Brexit economy, whilst considering the imp…
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Special guest Isabelle von Ribbentrop, Executive Director of the Prix Pictet photography Award, joins us as work from this year’s shortlist goes on display at the V&A. You can subscribe to The Bigger Picture wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about this episode or to reach out to us directly please visit arcarta.com…
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In this week’s podcast, we learn more about Daniel’s journey through the art world, from an aspiring photographer to operations at major auction houses and now Registrar at The Sladmore Gallery. His experience and knowledge gives us insights on the art world’s internal processes and the challenges they have faced in the past 5 years. You can subscr…
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Special guest, Jon Sharples of Howard Kennedy, joins us to discuss the prominent legal challenges facing artists today and the shifting landscape of art law since he entered the field. Key listening for any practising artist, lawyer or anyone with an interest in this rapidly shifting landscape. You can subscribe to The Bigger Picture wherever you g…
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Special guest Liza Essers, of Goodman Gallery, joins us to discuss her passion for working with artists from across the globe, united by a desire to drive social change. From shifts in the art market, the importance and role of educating collectors, to the future of digital models instigated during the pandemic, Liza’s insight is invaluable listeni…
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Special guest Vicki Wonfor, Joint Managing Director at Rosebery’s London, joins us to discuss her journey through the art market, the importance of relationships to develop in the art world and staying ahead of change in the market. You can subscribe to The Bigger Picture wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about this episode or to reach …
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“The people who were making money at that time were the bankers, the hedge funders, the private equity people- and I know the difference between those three things. It does help to be able to speak the language and to not to be frightened by it.” From ten years at leading Financial Public relations firm, Finsbury, to today’s role at the forefront o…
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Being “African” in the so-called “Middle East”: Curating our Multiple Selves with Touria El Glaoui, Dr. Omar Kholeif and Dr. Ridha Moumni. How does one define one’s sense of ‘African-ness’ in an age where slippages around both language and its comprehension; visuality and its contradictions, are no longer subject to the binary of a singular form of…
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The Poetry Salon: (My) Episodes of Everyday Racism, Interrupted with Raymond Antrobus, Phoebe Boswell, Lakwena Maciver, Andra Simons, and Dr. O. Drawing inspiration in-part from Grada Kilomba’s book, Plantation Memories, and Lola Olufemi’s Feminism, Interrupted, the FORUM’s second edition of the poetry salon invites artists and writers to present a…
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Introduction & Exhibition Itineraries with Dr. ‘Ugochukwu-Smooth’ Nzewi and Dr. Omar Kholeif ‘Ugochukwu-Smooth’ Nzewi is an artist, art historian, and curator who currently serves as the inaugural Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Both trained as artists, Nzew…
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Ageing Ruins…: A Listening Session with Otobong Nkanga and a response by Dr. O. Otobong Nkanga, one of the leading artistic voices of her generation, returns to FORUM to present four tracks from her forthcoming vinyl record release, developed from her award-winning installation, ‘Ageing Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past,’ …
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Narrating our “Pan-Afrikan” Connections: Claudette Johnson and Marlene Smith in-dialogue with Lubaina Himid Marlene Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator recognised for her research on Black Artists and Modernism in the UK. Claudette Johnson, known for her large-scale figurative drawings, are acknowledged for their ‘defiant’ contribution…
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Intro to FORUM & Overture Number 2/A Re-Play: Koyo Kouoh: The Curator as Storyteller with Dr. Omar Kholeif Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director, and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town and Founding Director of RAW Materials Company in Dakar, in conversation with Kholeif, narrates a path — as a storyteller who weaves and builds upon the intimacies of …
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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (22/05/2022) Interlocking Histories (4:00 pm EST) Two new exhibitions opening in October 2022 examine the engagement of African and African American artists creating new art in the 1940s through the 60s, that fostered transnational conversations and upended notions of modernity depicted by African artists. K…
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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (22/05/2022) Archiving, Reclamation, and Authoring Your History (2:00 pm EST) The renaissance of archival resources and collections that center global Black experiences has fostered an appetite for a better understanding of how we define archives and how archival collections can be employed in the cultural a…
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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (21/05/2022) Textiles and the Global Politic of the Black Arts Movement (4:00pm EST) A conversation with Harlem-born fiber artist Dindga McCannon and art collector and gallerist Lewis Long will explore the influence of McCannon’s Harlem upbringing, the politics that gave way to the creation of the Weusi Arti…
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1-54 FORUM New York 2022 May 21-22, 2022 (21/05/2022) Under the Influence of Édouard Glissant (1:00pm EST) Martinican poet, novelist, philosopher, and academic, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), is considered one of the greatest writers and thinkers of his generation. What can the theories and writings of Glissant help us to understand about navigating…
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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Closing Remarks - Motorised Justice: A Poem for the Drifters 1-54 Forum Curator Dr Omar Kholeif closes the day with a lyric poem authored during the course of the Fair and Forum https://www.1-54.com/द्वारा 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) FOCUS: Zina Saro-Wiwa followed by an in-person Q&A with Professor Sarah Perks(14:45 pm – 16:15 pm CET) Esteemed artist and filmmaker, Zina Saro-Wiwa, presents a specially curated screening and in-person conversation on her film and video work, including a special preview of an in-development epic feat…
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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Have We Ever Been Modern? Joël Andrianomearisoa Christine Eyene Marie-Cécile Zinsou Moderator: Marie-Ann Yemsi How do we negotiate the tension between the notion of old and new; the ‘traditional’ and the contemporary culture produced on the African continent and its diaspora today? Rather than retreat…
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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Painting a New Expressionism: A Keynote conversation between artist, Anuar Khalifi and Dr Omar Kholeif (11:45 am – 12:45 pm CET) One of the most exciting artists working in painting to emerge onto the international scene in recent memory, Anuar Khalifi, who splits his time between Barcelona and Tangie…
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1-54 Forum Paris 7 - 10 April 2022 (09/04/2022) Opening Remarks / A Memento to Marrakech (11:00 am – 11:15 am CET) Forum Curator Dr Omar Kholeif introduces 1-54 Forum Paris. Enter the Frame with Hassan Hajjaj (Video Address and Conversation, 11:15 am – 11:45 am CET) 1-54 Forum begins by reflecting on the complex cultural constellations of Marrakech…
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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October In the Last Days of the City Q&A A Q&A with the film’s director Tamer El Said and the film’s star Khalid Abdalla led by Dr. Omar Kholeif. In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said’s ambitious debut feature, tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner…
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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Walk Towards the Future (French) This open-ended conversation explores the concept of artist as philanthropist; the artist as the maker and progenitor of institutions, and the diverse ways that they approach this aspect of their practice. Is institutionalism a form of artistic practice? Or rather, is it a …
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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Walk Towards the Future (English) This open-ended conversation explores the concept of artist as philanthropist; the artist as the maker and progenitor of institutions, and the diverse ways that they approach this aspect of their practice. Is institutionalism a form of artistic practice? Or rather, is it a…
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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October The Poetry Salon: On Fragile Ground In this curated poetry salon, five artists-writers present a collective dreamscape. Newly commissioned pieces of lyric, poem and song exploring themes of environmental justice will converge in myriad life-like forms—the drift resuscitated. Join Anaïs Duplan, Lubaina Himid CB…
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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 A History of Echoes Amidst this symphony of voices: curators, artists and creative collaborators discuss the exhibitions fashioned from the imagination of the late Nigerian curator, Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019). By exploring the sediments of the past, the collective voices herein sketch out a path for listeners t…
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1-54 Forum London 2021 14 - 17 October Performance : Objective Romance and Scarce New Flowers A short experimental musical performance by Zimbabwean musician, mbira player and poet Hope Masike. With three studio albums, a published poetry book and several collaborative and tour credits to her name, Masike shares her art with audiences across the gl…
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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 The Virtual Salon The digital, the virtual, the augmented, the real, the imagined; A.F.K versus I.R.L—the lexicon around our digital world both perplexes and invigorates ‘our’ collective consciousness. In the western world, debates of African digitality often summon references to ‘digital divides’ and social i…
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1-54 Forum London 14 - 17 October 2021 Overture/Talk - The Continental Drift: Recuperating the Echoes, the Ghosts, the Songs In this opening keynote, 1-54 Forum curator Dr. Omar Kholeif frames the context of Continental Drift. They demonstrate this through the work of continental poets, songwriters, lyricists, and historians deceased and erased; fo…
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1-54 VIP Webinar | Secondary market for contemporary African Art 2020/2021 7 October 2021 Drawing from Corrigall & Co’s latest report, Mary Corrigall will discuss the status of the secondary market for contemporary African art. The findings are based on an analysis of figures from sales that have taken place from January 2020 to June 2021. As the f…
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While Madeline Perridge's love for antiquity would start with bedtime stories, these ancient worlds, myths and legends would lead her down a road to the art world, her eventual destination. Leaving her academic studies for the world of work, Maddy's breaking into the art world was to prove difficult with her lucky break coming almost a year and a h…
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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 Artist Talk with Timothy Washington Join artist Timothy Washington and curator Kilolo Luckett as they discuss Washington’s recent work and practice for his solo exhibition, INDUCTION & SUSPICION, currently on view at Duane Thomas Gallery. Alongside they will also be discussing Washington’s life and work in ‘…
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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 THE BLACK FILE: Perspectives of the Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Art Join Igi Lola Ayedun (Artist and Founder, HOA Galeria), Carollina Lauriano (Independent Curator and Co-curator, 13th Mercosul Biennial) and Thiago de Paula Souza (Curator and Researcher) as they discuss the importance of contemporary Afro-Br…
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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 A Reflection: The arts in the time of the Black lives matter movement Join Destinee Ross-Sutton (ROSS-SUTTON Gallery), Rudy Shepherd (Artist), Everette Taylor (CMO, Artsy) and Claude Grunitzky (Founder, True Africa) as they reflect on a year of art world practices following the protests against police brutal…
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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 Threading Histories: Dindga McCannon and Tina Williams Brewer in Conversation World-renowned artists Dindga McCannon and Tina Williams Brewer have taken quilting and storytelling practices to new realms, memorialising African American histories as they do. Led by curator and art historian Kilolo Luckett, McC…
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1-54 Forum New York 17 May - 2 June 2021 Artist Talk with the 2021 Ritzau Art Prize Winner | Micha Serraf We are pleased to announce that Micha Serraf is the winner of the Ritzau Art Prize 2021! Serraf will be speaking about his practice alongside Colleen Ritzau Leth (Founder of the Ritzau Art Prize) and Kneo Mokgopa (Advocacy Manager, Nelson Mande…
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After numerous failed applications to work in the picture department at Christies, the newly married Johny Van Haeften and his wife Sarah open their gallery on Old Bond Street with no contacts, no knowledge, funding or experience.. While today, the name Van Haeften and Dutch Old Masters are inseparable. Johny shares the 52 year story that unfolded …
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1-54 Webinar | Performance Art in the time of Protest and Pandemic 3 March 2021 A conversation with artists Jelili Atiku, Shelia Chukwulozie and Adelaide Damoah led by Lisa Anderson, independent curator and founder of Black British Art. 2020 bore witness to a global pandemic and widespread protests against police brutality and racism. Within this c…
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech Making and Unmaking Art Schools from The Nineteenth Century to the Present Dans cette conversation, guidée par les recherches des commissaires et historiennes de l’art Aude Mgba et Nadine Atallah, nous explorerons l’histoire de l’apparition, la disparition et de …
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech Making and Unmaking Art Schools from The Nineteenth Century to the Present In this conversation led by Francesca Masoero and guided by the research of curators and art historians Aude Mgba and Nadine Atallah, we will explore histories of the making, unmaking, and…
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech An Oral Gaze: Between Bouanani and Sembene Conversation entre Touda Bouanani et Samba Gadjigo, modérée par Nadir Bouhmouch. Réunissant l’artiste Touda Bouanani et le cinéaste / chercheur en cinéma Samba Gadjigo, cette conversation se situe à l’intersection entre …
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech An Oral Gaze: Between Bouanani and Sembene Led by Nadir Bouhmouch and bringing together artist Touda Bouanani and filmmaker/film scholar Samba Gadjigo, this conversation situates itself at the intersection between African cinema and the popular oral arts which ha…
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech Resounding Waves: on the making of sonic solidarities through radio Departing from their respective research projects Radio Earth Hold and we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming, in this conversation Rachel Dedman and Yasmina Reggad explore the formation of…
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1-54 Forum Paris 20 - 23 January and through February 2021 Curated by LE 18, Marrakech Sonic Archaeologies A radio performance by Abdellah Hassak in conversation with artist-performer Ghassan El Hakim, initiator of Cabaret Cheikhat, and artist Othman El Kheloufi, composer, saxophonist and theater director. Turning to a history of sound allows one t…
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1-54 Forum Paris 2021 20 - 23 Janvier Curated by LE 18, Marrakech SOURIEZ! Photographie vernaculaire ou l’album de famille, une histoire de moments choisis ou la performance sociale. La photographie vernaculaire est un genre de photographie d’amateur dont le sujet est la vie de tous les jours, sans intention esthétique ni artistique. De nombreux ar…
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