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Been there –‘Come Together’
One of the more surprising exhibitions of last year was Come Together in the Mitra building, Paramaribo. Six young(ish) people, emerging artists, most of them specialized in photography, but also some...
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‘ego documenta; The testament of my ego in the museum of my mind’
In 2012 KIT Publishers published two books in collaboration with Felix de Rooy. The first was Curaçao Classics, a catalog for the exhibition Antepasado di Futuro in 2011. The second is a book about De...
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Piet van Leeuwaarde: “I embody what they want to create”
Piet van Leeuwaarde was an artist, a mystic, a lover, a father, a friend. Although his art work was highly appreciated by people all over the world, he was not really as well known in Suriname as he...
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Ruben Karsters: “I was born with a preference for subtlety”
Ruben Karsters, renowned Surinamese artist who was especially admired for his beautiful portraits, passed away on March 5, 2013. He was 71 years old. He was also known as an art teacher who has taught...
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Michael Tedja’s ‘SNAKE’: BOUNDLESS, DRIVEN, GREAT
Those who base the quality of art on aesthetic , formal and other traditional criteria are better off not going to SNAKE, the overview of ten years Michael Tedja (1971) in the COBRA Museum in...
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The Other Side of the Diaspora. Ken Doorson’s ‘Prologue to The Mothership’– II
In a series of three blog posts Sranan Art Xposed will put a special focus on Ken Doorson. In November 2012 Ken Doorson had an exhibition in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname, from the 21st until...
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Wilgo Elshot: “This is me. I paint Suriname”
At the beginning of the cultural season, during the Open Atelier Route Zuidoost, I visited the studio of Wilgo Elshot. There was no abstract or conceptual work on the walls, but largely executed...
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The Other Side of the Diaspora. Ken Doorson’s ‘Prologue to The Mothership’ – III
In a series of three blog posts Sranan Art Xposed will put a special focus on Ken Doorson. In November 2012 Ken Doorson had an exhibition in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname, from the 21st until...
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Razia Barsatie presents: ‘Anxious’
From March 20th thru 24th, Razia Barsatie presents her first solo-exhibition Anxious in three separate spaces at the Nola Hatterman Art Academy. Her invitation announces it as an exhibition of Video...
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Fortune makes the viewer part of his work – CONCEPT ART 2.0
The first time I saw work of Neil Fortune (1983, Georgetown, Guyana) was at the exchange exhibition Paramaribo Perspectives (2010) in TENT in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. A group exhibition as a result...
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The Other Black. Am I Too White?
In 2010 a debate was held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, called ‘Am I Black Enough for You?’. Dutch black artists discussed the perspective of being a black artist in a European country. Part of the...
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‘Am I Black’ debate – Charl Landvreugd’s talk
In 2010 a debate was held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, called ‘Am I Black Enough for You?’. Dutch black artists discussed the perspective of being a black artist in a European country. Part of the...
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‘Curaçao Classics; Visual art 1900-2010′– A publication of great significance
Curaçao Classics. Visual art 1900-2010 appeared as a result of an exhibition held in the latter part of 2010 in the Curaçaosch Museum; Antepasado di Futuro [Ancestors of the future]. Opening...
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‘Mapping Los Angeles’, a project by Antonio Jose Guzman
In 1960 the Suriname-born artist Stanley Brouwn asked people on the street to show on a piece of paper how they would walk from point A to point B. This Way Brouwn was the result. A key work. In 1963...
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‘Sea Turtles’ by Anand Binda
Visual artist Anand Binda‘s work Sea Turtles won an award during the ShowArt Internacional en Gijón 2013. This was an exhibition in Gijón, Spain, fromMarch 4-April 4, 2013, where many South American...
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The quirky work of Leonardo Benzant: “Why not acknowledge it: I am a person...
The turnabout comes on June 15th 1995. This is when the street life of Leonardo Benzant abruptly comes to an end. As a result of excessive drug use he is admitted into the hospital. From that moment on...
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‘Post Slavery Documentary’ = Work by Carla Kranendonk, Ken Doorson and...
The abolition of slavery is commemorated in many ways and in many places in the Netherlands. Rightly so. It is necessary to reflect on those events in our history that are likely to be forgotten,...
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An exhibition in CBK Zuidoost ‘Gedeelde Erfenis. Slavernijverleden in de...
Twenty artists participate in ‘Gedeelde Erfenis’. They come from or live in Suriname, Curacao, Denmark, Panama and the Netherlands. They represent different generations. They all have their own...
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‘New Roots’, National Gallery of Jamaica – An Introduction by Veerle Poupeye
Instead of asking what are people’s roots, we ought to think about what are their routes, the different points by which they have come to be now they are, in a sense, the sum of those differences....
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Visual Arts, part of ‘Carifesta XI’
During Carifesta XI there is a lot going on. Not only the official Carifesta XI program, but also ongoing exhibitions, galleries, the National Art Fair 2013. Please return to this post for updates, or...
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