Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed Director of MACBA
Elvira Dyangani Ose is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London. Photo: Josep Lago.
BARCELONA
.- Elvira Dyangani Ose (Córdoba, 1974) will be the first woman to hold the position of Director of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona. She is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London, as well as Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha - Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
The Museu d Art Contemporani de Barcelona announces new extension to be completed at the end of 2023
A square on three levels, an accessible urban gallery, an access passage through the transept of the MACBA Chapel are some of the proposals of the project that will allow a greater display of the Collection and create a more participatory Museum that will interact with the public space.
BARCELONA
.- The General Council of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBAs highest governing body, today announced the decision of the jury of independent experts that has resolved, by a large majority, the open call for the extension of the Convent dels Àngels in favour of the Gallery proposal, from the architecture studio UTE Harquitectes i Christ & Gantenbein.
Tony Coke s new commission on Piccadilly Lights screen spotlights struggle for civil rights in 2021
Cokes is the author of politically resonant works that appropriate and reframe diverse texts to challenge narratives in media produced under late capitalism.
LONDON
.- American visual artist Tony Cokes is broadcasting four powerful new films confronting police violence and the questions we face in the post-pandemic era, exploiting the Piccadilly Lights screen to put on the largest public display of Cokes distinctive colour and text compositions.
4 Voices / 4 Weeks presents Cokes translation of words by John Lydon, Judith Butler, US civil rights hero John Lewis and Elijah McClain, a 23-year old African American man who died after being put in a chokehold by police in 2019. The works move from punk provocation to peaceful self-sacrifice, recalling McClains final words and expounding our deep responsibilities in the wake of violence against the vulnerable. Across four parts,