FNB ART FAIR

By FNB

Cape Town-born artist and activist Haroon Gunn-Salie has been announced as the 2018 recipient of the highly coveted FNB Art Prize at the media launch of the 11th installment of the FNB JoburgArtFair.

Gunn-Salie joins the ranks of previous winners such as Peju Alatise, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Turiya Magadlela, Portia Zvavahera and Kudzanai Chiurai. He receives a cash prize as well as the opportunity to create a new project that will be showcased in a dedicated exhibition space at the FNB JoburgArtFair this September.

Faye Mfikwe, Chief Marketing Officer at FNB says that the FNB Art Prize honours exceptional artistic talent and, at the same time, provides the winning artist local and international opportunities for the artist and the industry.

“Our commitment to the FNB JoburgArtFair ensures that in the years to come, we continue to introduce African artists to an international audience, galleries, collectors, writers, thinkers and art lovers from across the world, further enabling growth through maintaining a platform that empowers the artist.”

                                                       

Gunn-Salie has established a collaborative art practice that translates community oral histories into artistic interventions and installations. His multidisciplinary practice uses a variety of mediums, drawing focus to forms of collaboration in contemporary art based on dialogue and exchange.

Currently based between Johannesburg and Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Gunn-Salie completed his BA Hons in sculpture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012. His graduate exhibition, titled Witness, presented a site-specific body of work focusing on still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid, working with veteran residents of District Six, an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred.

His installation for the FNB JoburgArtFair continues to delve deeper into unresolved issues in South Africa’s contemporary history with an extended site-specific installation of his project titled Senzenina. The installation - envisioned as a reflection space - transports the viewer to the site, inside which an immersive soundscape presenting a schematic recreation of the scene using archival audio and composed elements. The soundscape includes calls for the mineworkers to disassemble peacefully; the fortification of the surrounding area and entrapment of the workers by police; an anti-apartheid freedom song lamented by the mineworkers moments before live ammunition was discharged; and blasts from the mine recalled by low-frequency sonic vibrations of the surrounding landscape emanating from an outcrop of granite boulders on the site.                                   

Venue:
Sandton Convention Centre, Exhibition Hall 1, 161 Maude Street, Sandton

Dates:
7 – 9 September 2018

Opening times:
Thursday, 6 September: Opening Night 6:30 – 9pm
Friday, 7 September: 11am – 8pm
Saturday, 8 September: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 9 September: 11am – 5pm
Early Bird Tickets R125 available at tixsa.co.za


For more information visit www.fnbjoburgartfair.co.za

Panel of Judges 2018

The 2018 judging panel for the FNB Art Prize consisted of Pulane Kingston, Khwezi Gule and Amy Ellenbogen.

                                                       

Additional information about Haroon Gunn-Salie

                               

Awards                                          

                                                       

●      2015 SP-Arte/Videobrasil award, 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

●      2013 Sasol new signatures merit award-winner, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

●      2010 Barbara Fairhead Prize for Social Responsibility in Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

                                                   

Solo Exhibitions

                                                       

●      2016-17 Agridoce [Bittersweet], Museu de Congonhas, Congonhas, Brazil

●      2016 On The Line, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil

●      2016 Agridoce [Bittersweet], Galpão Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

●      2015 History after apartheid, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa

●      2014 Haroon Gunn-Salie, In the Viewing Room, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa

                                                       

Group exhibitions

                                                       

●      2018 Frieze Sculpture, curated by Clare Lilley, Regents Park, London, UK

●      2018 Songs for Sabotage, The New Museum Triennial, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gary Carrion-Murayari, The New Museum, New York, USA                                                    

●      2018 Tell Freedom: 15 South African Artists, curated by Nkule Mabaso and Manon Braat, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands                                          

●      2016 The Art of Disruptions, curated by Ernestine White, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa                                                   

●      2016 New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, curated by Liza Essers Goodman Gallery Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa                                 

●      2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

●      2015 Southern Panoramas, 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

●      2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

●      2015 Edge of Silence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2015 What remains is tomorrow, South African Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

●      2014 Do it, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2014 No Fixed abode, New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2014 Johannesburg Art Fair, Goodman Gallery booth, Johannesburg, South Africa

●      2014 From Sitting to Selfie, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

●      2014 Sasol new signatures award winners exhibition, Stellenbosch University Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

●      2014 Surfacing, Goodman Gallery Cape Town, South Africa

●      2013 Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Land conference, Cape Town, South Africa 2013 Three Abdullahs: A Genealogy of Resistance, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2013 Sasol new signatures award exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

●      2013 [Working Title], curated by Emma Laurence, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

●      2013 In the night I remember, curated by Kabelo Malatsie, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

●      2013 Greatest Hits 2012: If The Halls Could Talk, curated by Kirsty Cockerill, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2012 Michaelis School of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Curated by Nadja Daehneke, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2011 Currents, Exchange print portfolio, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town and Substation Gallery, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

●      2011 Edge of the Table – fourteen Cape Flats youths tell their stories, an exhibition in collaboration with the Human Rights Media Centre, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2010 We/Edition, Print Exhibition. These Four Walls Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2010 Edge of the Table – fourteen Cape Flats youths tell their stories, a book and exhibition in collaboration with the Human Rights Media Centre, Independent project space, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2010 Time On Our Hands, curated by Justin Brett, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2010 Grey Matter, collective performance artwork, Infecting the City public arts festival, curated by Brett Bailey, Cape Town, South Africa

●      2010 Taking Pictures, Telling Stories, curated by Paul Weinberg, Exposure Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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