Paulo Nimer Pjota is a S茫o Paulo-based artist whose painting practice channels the spirit of remix. Drawing from archaeology, street culture, mythology, and pop iconography, he builds layered compositions that often unfold across raw canvas and scrap metal.
On Saturday,聽May 17, Kunstinstituut Melly聽announces聽three upcoming solo exhibitions featuring newly commissioned works by Ola Hassanain, Paulo Nimer Pjota, and Simnikiwe Buhlungu.
The work of Luana Vitra speaks to the idea of material conductivity. The ingredients she works with鈥攃opper, indigo, ceramics, fabrics, and especially iron鈥攔eflect the milieu of Minas Gerais.
Pickup Notes is a group exhibition that features work by Liz Johnson Artur, Madiha Sikander, and Zara Julius and is curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Rosa de Graaf.
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan casts lyrical bronze and silver figures with dexterity and treats glass and metals as if these were delicate lines in an automatic drawing.
For more than seventeen years, Iris Kensmil鈥檚 artistic practice is committed to positioning the experience, activism, and intellectual work of Black people in the Western World as a central pivot to modernity鈥檚 emancipatory aims, or, as it were its progressive claims.
The Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will be renamed the Kunstinstituut Melly on January 27, 2021, as part of a larger effort to create a 鈥渄ecolonial鈥 institution.