Exhibition brings art to Soweto
Ndaba Dlamini
5 September 2007
The Jive Soweto exhibition is on at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West, Soweto, featuring works by leading South Africa artists such as Zanele Muholi, Hannelie Coetzee, Ossie Dowery, Churchill Madikida, Senzeni Marasela, Kenneth Nkosi, Farrell Ngilima and Peter Tobias amongst others.
The professionally staged art exhibition, named after the song Jive Soweto - reminiscent of the vibey but turbulent 1980s - by local musician Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, runs from 1 to 30 September and forms part of Johannesburg's Arts Alive Festival.
Exhibition curator Melissa Mboweni says the aim of the event is to showcase the artists in Soweto and to expand from the city's arts festival’s usual focus on music and theatre.
"We also want to extend the scope of the festival beyond the suburbs of Johannesburg and into the townships," she says.
Mbowini adds that the Jive Soweto exhibition will be carried out in a way that it complements the
existing permanent exhibition at the Hector Pieterson Museum.
"The Jive Soweto artwork on show will have to be placed in juxtaposition to the permanent art and will have to address the same themes," she said.
"It will have to show the same historical awareness of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and of Hector Pieterson himself."
Entrance to the exhibition is R15 for adults and R5 for students and pensioners.
Source: City of Johannesburg
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