STANDARD BANK GALLERY PRESENTS WE ARE CULTURE | A CELEBRATION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY CREATIVE TALENT, CURATED BY BEE DIAMONDHEAD
The exhibition marks the start of an enthusiastic re-opening of the gallery after a 2-year closure, reaffirming Standard Bank’s longstanding commitment to supporting arts.
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The Standard Bank Gallery is proud to present the work of 13 dynamic young artists in a ground-breaking exhibition: WE ARE CULTURE. This kicks off the next chapter of Standard Bank’s arts calendar as the Standard Bank Gallery’s first in-person exhibition since the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, it is the gallery’s first ever multidisciplinary experience, featuring a select but comprehensive slate of exciting work from a new wave of young voices in fashion, music, sculpture, performance art and more.
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“WE ARE CULTURE is not about tradition. It's not about the gatekeepers, or the highbrow discourse. This show is about the artists, whose visions are so clear that giving them the resources and the platform helps us more than it helps them,” Bee Diamondhead says. “We are in uncertain times, and it is our role to seek out these voices - voices that illuminate things we haven't fully realised about the world around us. Creativity fights the rigid ways of thinking that we adopt as a mechanism of survival.”
“Standard Bank is responsive to the evolution of the arts and continues to show itsits commitment to the arts, by continuing to be a platform of showcase for new artists and byoffering support that has adapted to the landscape, vision and challenges of a new generation of creative talent. South Africa is home to an incredible, dynamic community of visual artists, fashion designers and contemporary musicians — talents who are, together, marking the creative world with their uniquely African sensibility. We are using this global cultural moment to tell our stories in real time, in whole truth, and in vibrant spirit. Says Dr Same Mdluli Standard Bank Gallery manager.
Standard Bank spent more than 30 years enabling the work of young, driven South African artists through it’s platforms, support, and development resources. This Heritage month, the bank invites the public to discover a progressive display of this initiative in an exhibition that epitomises it’s brand promise: “finding new ways to make dreams possible.
Exhibition
credits & details
Curator:
Bee Diamondhead
Featured
Artists: Kgotlelelo Sekiti (Performance Art) /
Lelo Meslani (Music) / Leon John (Music) / Muneyi (Music) / Natalie Paneng
(Multidisciplinary Artist) / Philisa Zibi (Jewellery Design) / Setlamorago
Mashilo (Sculpture) / Khumo Morojele (Fashion Designer) / Fikile Sokhulu
(Fashion Designer) / Lorraine Kalassa (Visual Artist) / Muofhe Manavhela
(Multidisciplinary Artist) / Rebecca Moolman (Artist) / Wezile Harmans
(Artist)
Dates: 19 September – 08 October 2022; 08:00 -16:30 on weekdays, and 08:00
– 16:00 on weekends. Entrance to the
gallery is free.
Location:
Standard Bank Gallery, Cnr Simmonds &
Frederick, JHB Central.
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