Examples of using Mutumba in English and their translations into German
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Julia Grosse& Yvette Mutumba From our perspective, origins do not play a role.
This interview is an edited excerpt from the book A Labour of Love,edited by Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo, Bielefeld, Germany, 2015.
Yvette Mutumba is curator at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, and co-founder of C.
This feature by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba was first published in the Deutsche Bank ArtMag.
Yvette Mutumba is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the art magazine Contemporary And C.
We don't need another hero is curated by Gabi Ngcobo with a curatorial team composed of Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, SerubiriMoses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba.
Mutumba: To what extent do you see a relation between your figural painting and sculpture?
A conversation between curator Yvette Mutumba and Misheck Masamvu, our first artist to be featured in C& Art Space.
Mutumba: You studied with Helen Lieros at Gallery Delta in Harare and then went on to study at the Kunstakademie in Munich.
With“African Perspectives” at the New York Armory Show in March,curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba steered the focus towards 14 galleries presenting works from Africa and the Diaspora.
Yvette Mutumba: What was it like for you when Hans Blum came to Cape Town to collect artworks?
Shortly before his death in 2014,legendary South African artist Peter Clarke chatted with Yvette Mutumba and Ciraj Rassool about making work and seeing himself in the mirror at an exhibition.
Mutumba: So you never thought about working with a“newer” medium(video, Internet…) but always knew that you would work mainly as a painter?
It will be curated by Gabi Ngcobo, who invited Nomaduma Rosa Masilela(New York, US),Yvette Mutumba(Berlin, DE), Thiago de Paula Souza(São Paulo, BR), and Moses Serubiri(Kampala, UG) to collaborate with her as the curatorial team.
Mutumba: Your work is not limited to one medium; still painting seems to be the medium where you most expressively address specific issues and emotions.
Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the founders of the art magazine"Contemporary And" (C&), were on hand in Dakar.
Mutumba: Many of your figures seem to be in a process of metamorphosis; they are hybrids of humans, animals, and/or objects- could you explain a bit your idea behind those hybrid creatures?
The platform Contemporary And(C&)conceived by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba is a dynamic space for the reflection on and linking together of ideas, discourse and information on contemporary art practice from diverse African perspectives.
Mutumba: Your paintings are bold, graphic and emotionally raw; when I first saw some of your works they somehow reminded me of Francis Bacon's work.
Mutumba: How important is it for you to live and work in the country where you were born and raised, instead of moving abroad and living in one of the so-called“art capitals” such as London, Berlin, or New York?
Yvette Mutumba: Today, perhaps, a somewhat more differentiated perspective is cast upon the highly diverse art production happening on the continent and in the diaspora, and in the process, it's become possible to steer clear of this problematic reflex of calling everything"Art from Africa" in such a one-dimensional way.