#Iwalewahaus

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Bayreuth City luftbilder-deutschland.com #bayreuth #schlosskirche #opernhaus #hofgarten #city #germany #kultur #unesco #weltkulturerbe #iwalewahaus #unibayreuth #schloss #neuesschlossbayreuth (hier: Bayreuth, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoB9TuhN1Z1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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John Ndevasia Muafangejo, b. 1943, d. 1987 Forcible Love Namibia (1974) Linocut Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth [Source]

This work is made in 1974 by the idiosyncratic Namibian artist, who is best known for his expressive narrative and graphic quality in etching, woodcuts and linocuts. His works depicts issues relevant to him, mostly expressing thoughts and feelings of political and social-historical situations.

Forcible Love is divided into two rectangular vertical parts. Both portions consist of text describing a situation of jealousy between himself and another artist involving a woman. Central to this rectangular, we see the woman and behind her, eight individuals pointing fingers into her direction. The smaller rectangular contains a self -portrait of the artist with a chisel and a linoleum block in the hands, surrounded by a palm-tree branch on each side...

The text insinuates inexplicable misfortune that could have befallen him had he fallen for the temptations. The woman is considered by John Muafangejo to be very beautiful though she has been forced by her boyfriend to derail the artist not to succeed or attend art school. Her suffering can be interpreted either for not have succeeded to seduce him or for have been forced against her will to seduce him.

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Der Canale Grande im Schneefall. Wo im Sommer viele junge Menschen in lauschigen Nächten auf den Stufen sitzen, Eis essen oder sich einen Spritz im Hippen Hirschen holen, ist im Winter weniger los. Aber die Weihnachtsbeleuchtung und die tolle Fensterbeleuchtung im Iwalewahaus im Hintergrund geben dem Mühlbach, wie der Wasserlauf eigentlich heißt, einen ganz speziellen Glanz. The Grand Canal in snowfall. Where in summer many young people sit on the steps on cozy nights, eat ice cream or get a spritz at the bar “Hipper Hirsch”, there is less going on in winter. But the Christmas lights and the great window lights in the Iwalewahaus in the background give the Mühlbach, as the watercourse is actually called, a very special shine. 📷©: @juliantred #followmeto #visitfranconia #seemycity #topEuropePhoto #myBestCityShots #WeLiveToExplore @houses_phototrip #worldPlaces #lifeofgermany #travellingThroughTheWorld #TravelExploring #deutschland_greatshots @best.europe.photos #best_worldplaces #travelawesome #epicdailytravel #mybestcityshots #travel_drops #lifeofgermany @adv.history #15cities #lockdown #lesphotographes (hier: Bayreuth, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXefSI1q4sl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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With the #legend @batidaofficial - @iwalewahaus ___ #music / #angola / #art / #design - #fashion - - #germany (at Iwalewa Haus)

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Vision board the future with the artifacts of now. #collagetherevolution @iwalewahaus #lieblingstück #shoën (at Bayreuth, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpWpx7qlwQ5GD73NwOlcCQuDB380BStImugilY0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b18ite3c6rzl

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Bayreuth at night. #iwalewahaus #longexposure #nightshoot #bayreuthblaettert https://ift.tt/2vSSaiG

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The Digital Decade - Electronic Music in the 1980s by TEKA MUSIC The Digital Decade - Electronic Music Recorded in the 1980s Four mixes commissioned by Iwalewahaus for the exhibition Feedback: Art, Africa and the 1980s Mixed by Spoek Mathambo Courtesy of the artist and Iwalewahaus Music Archive *Artwork by Karabo Makenna

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Maasai beads: the interplay between Europe and Africa

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The design and colours of the bead work convey particular messages. Author Supplied

Maasai warriors wearing red and women wearing beads have come to be seen as symbols of “traditional” Africa. These colourful glass beads and red blankets play an important role in Maasai culture.

For thousands of European tourists who travel to East Africa, a visit would be incomplete without buying beads and blankets. What few know is the intricate cultural interconnection between Africa and Europe that resulted in these “traditions”.

Glass beads actually come from Europe. To this day, they are imported from the Czech Republic. The red blankets originally came from Scotland.

Glass beads first arrived in Africa from the first millennium AD through the trans-Saharan and coastal trade. Because they were produced in India they were very expensive and only used by royalty.

From 1480 onwards, the mass export of beads from Europe to East Africa started from Venice and Murano in Italy, Bohemia and the Netherlands. By the late 19th century huge quantities of beads were being used as trade goods.

Although beads were readily available, the Maasai did not develop an interest in them for quite some time. The Iltalala age-set, who were warriors from 1881 until 1905, were the first to use larger numbers of beads to decorate themselves. An age-set is an institutionalised stage in life which is shared by people that are in the same age-category. Maasai age-sets are determined by the circumcision-ceremonies of boys, which initiate them into warriorhood. The time of circumcision defines who belongs to a certain age-set.

The age-sets have names and their members used to paint their bodies and shields to distinguish themselves. When the colonialists prohibited warriors from wearing their weapons in public, the Maasai instead began to wear beaded ornaments which made a public statement about the wearer.

The Iltalala age-set, who were warriors from 1881 until 1905, were the first to use larger numbers of beads to decorate themselves.

Beadwork fashions come and go

Beadwork can tell you several things about the wearer. Specific ornaments and colours indicate whether the person is Maasai or from another ethnic group. Different Maasai clans also use certain beads and colour combinations to indicate their affiliation. Finally, a person’s beadwork reflects his or her position in life. The belt of a young woman is different from the belt of a young man, and an unmarried girl’s earrings are different from those of a married woman.

Within those cultural rules, beadwork fashion changes all the time. Each new generation develops a particular style, including certain materials, colour placements and symbols that unite and identify them. In the spirit of creative competition, the girlfriends of a new age-set make new ornaments to ensure that their men outshine the previous age-set.

Other changes in the fashion result from a shortage of beads of certain types or colours for trade reasons. A good example is the blocking of the Suez Canal during the third Arab Israeli war in 1967.

Rivalry between age-sets also sparks change. Competing age-sets have often chosen to incorporate symbols of adopted technology. For instance, the Iseuri age-set, which was circumcised in the 1950s and 1960s, chose the telegraph pole as their symbol, as a reference to the speed of communication between warriors and their girlfriends.

The next major age-set, the Ilkitoip, elaborated on this theme by adding a large button eye on top of the telegraph pole to symbolise the swirling blue light of a police car. Succeeding age-sets created ornaments with a helicopter rotor blade because helicopters are faster than police cars.

Outside influences

Tourists are often quite surprised and a little disappointed when they find out that Maasai beads are imported from Europe. They would like African beadwork to be “authentic”. And it’s true that some ornaments have more cultural meaning than others.

Some are adapted to tourists’ preferences. For instance Maasai women started to use colours and designs they would not normally use in their own beadwork, just because tourists liked them. And ornaments for tourists are often made of cheaper Chinese beads.

Some items have such symbolic significance that they cannot easily be sold. An example is the Elekitatiet belt, which a woman makes for her daughter-in-law when she has delivered her first baby.

Nowadays uncircumcised boys in the city wear beaded necklaces in Rastafari colours, and warriors buy beaded straps that give their watches a Maasai touch.

So Maasai beadwork continues to be the result of the interaction between European and African cultures, and there is nothing isolated or timeless about it. Rather than exotic, static and detached, it forms an ever changing, multi-cultural realm of exchange of materials and ideas between Africa and Europe.

Vanessa Wijngaarden received funding from the Iwalewahaus of the University of Bayreuth.

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Songs for Madagascar  screening in Bayreuth ! 

Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth, Wölfelstraße 2, 95444 Bayreuth

Wed. July 12, starting at 5:30pm, with a conference on Migration, cultural globalization and music from Madagascar : Ein Vortrag von Prof. Ulrike Hanna Meinhof zu ihrer langjährigen Arbeit mit Musiker_innen aus Madagaskar, die auch den Hintergrund zu dem Dokumentarfilm Songs for Madagascar bildet. Durch die Lebensgeschichten und Lieder von Künstler_innen, die teils in Madagaskar teils in Europa leben, lassen sich aktuelle Themen von Migration, engagierter Kunst und kultureller Globalisierung neu beleuchten.

ab 19.00 Uhr: Songs for Madagascar a film by Cesar Paes (2016, 88 min.) Der Regisseur wird anwesend sein

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Owusu-Ankomah, b. 1956 Prelude to the Microcron No.14 Ghana (2010) Acrylic on canvas Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth [Source]

For over two decades, as a basis of his pictorial language, Owusu Ankomah (born in Sekondi, based in Bremen, Germany and Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana) has re-interpreted the ancient system of philosophies wherein the abstract and naturalistic signs are intertwined with the human form. Owusu-Ankomah’s admiration for Michelangelo’s work, his penchant for painting muscled-men in bright colours in the 1980s went through a monochromatic phase, mimicking the black and whites of adinkra, before finally morphing into the self-portraits engaged in stargazing.

In Prelude to the Microcron #14, Owusu-Ankomah departs from black and white, offering a palette of ultramarine, nuanced tones of indigo, gold and silver dots over a bluish-background - the colour of planet earth

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Eingebettet zwischen unserer Touristinfo und dem Redoutenhaus, das aktuell zum Welterbezentrum umgebaut wird, befindet sich ein richtiger Geheimtip für alle Bayreuth Besucher. Im Iwalewa Haus, das hier zu sehen ist, kann man Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer afrikanischer Kunst besichtigen. Das ist wirklich sehenswert. Nestled between our tourist information and the Redoutenhaus, which is currently being converted into a World Heritage Center, is a real insider tip for all Bayreuth visitors. In the Iwalewa House, which can be seen here, you can visit exhibitions of contemporary African art. This is really worth seeing. 📷©: @temu_64 #iwalewa #africanculture #contemporaryart #unibayreuth #culturetravel #africa #afrikanischekunst #kings_villages #visitfranconia #culturetrip #culture #widenyourworld #pathport #artofdestinations #passportcollective #travelandexplore #streetview #earthfever #passionpassport #nationaldestinations #mylpguide #iamtb #citybestviews #rsa_streetview #street_focus_on #lesphotographes #travelcommunity #globetrotters #ourstreets #street_ig (hier: Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW39RBfKy13/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Direkt zwischen Touristinfo und UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Markgräfliches Opernhaus befindet sich dieses imposante Gebäude. Es handelt sich um das Iwalewahaus, das über eine in Deutschland einzigartige Sammlung moderner und zeitgenössischer bildender Kunst und populärer Kultur aus Afrika, Asien und dem pazifischen Raum verfügt. This imposing building is located between the tourist information office and the UNESCO World Heritage Margravial Opera House. It is the Iwalewahaus, which usually shows a collection of modern and contemporary fine arts and popular culture from Africa, Asia and the Pacific region that is unique in Germany. 📷©️: @_sightsofsun_photography #iwalewa #africanculture #contemporaryart #unibayreuth #culturetravel #africa #afrikanischekunst #kings_villages #visitfranconia #culturetrip #culture #widenyourworld #pathport #artofdestinations #passportcollective #travelandexplore #streetview #earthfever #passionpassport #nationaldestinations #mylpguide #iamtb #citybestviews #rsa_streetview #street_focus_on #lesphotographes #travelcommunity #globetrotters #ourstreets #street_ig (hier: Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTHN9eIKW7F/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Das Wetter war heute wirklich bedrohlich in Bayreuth. Es hat gestürmt und geregnet und der Frühling scheint weit entfernt. Dafür entstehen Bilder wie dieses vom Iwalewahaus, das sich direkt auf der gegenüberliegenden Straßenseite von unserer Touristinfo befindet. The weather was really threatening in Bayreuth today. It has stormed and rained and spring seems far away. But, pictures like this one of the Iwalewahaus, which is located directly across the street from our tourist information center, are created. 📷©️: @shots.by.asha #iwalewa #africanculture #contemporaryart #unibayreuth #culturetravel #africa #afrikanischekunst #kings_villages #visitfranconia #culturetrip #culture #widenyourworld #pathport #artofdestinations #passportcollective #travelandexplore #streetview #earthfever #passionpassport #nationaldestinations #mylpguide #iamtb #citybestviews #rsa_streetview #street_focus_on #lesphotographes #travelcommunity #globetrotters #ourstreets #street_ig (hier: Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPTloYxBpLe/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Eingebettet zwischen unserer Touristinfo und dem Redoutenhaus, das aktuell zum Welterbezentrum umgebaut wird, befindet sich ein richtiger Geheimtip für alle Bayreuth Besucher. Im Iwalewa Haus, das hier zu sehen ist, kann man Ausstellungen zeitgenössischer afrikanischer Kunst besichtigen. Das ist wirklich sehenswert. Nestled between our tourist information and the Redoutenhaus, which is currently being converted into a World Heritage Center, is a real insider tip for all Bayreuth visitors. In the Iwalewa House, which can be seen here, you can visit exhibitions of contemporary African art. This is really worth seeing. 📸©️: @sevendayslove #iwalewa #africanculture #contemporaryart #unibayreuth #culturetravel #africa #afrikanischekunst #kings_villages #visitfranconia #culturetrip #culture #widenyourworld #pathport #artofdestinations #passportcollective #travelandexplore #streetview #earthfever #passionpassport #nationaldestinations #mylpguide #iamtb #citybestviews #rsa_streetview #street_focus_on #lesphotographes #travelcommunity #globetrotters #ourstreets #street_ig (hier: Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGZ2HzkhFBE/?igshid=1hz5uoeihpc1q

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Das Iwalewahaus. Als Teil der Universität Bayreuth wird hier, unweit des Opernhauses, die Gegenwartskultur Afrikas erforscht und ausgestellt. Wart ihr schon mal dort ? The picture shows the so called Iwalewahouse near the opera house. It's part of the university of bayreuth and its mission is to research the contemporary culture in Africa. Bildrechte: 📷@july_baer #iwalewahaus #africanculture #contemporaryart #museum #bayreuth #culturetrip #schlechtwetteralternative #ShareGermany #14cities #bavaria #nice_shot #kings_villages #in_germany #instaweek #in_germany #igersfranconia https://ift.tt/2mWsy2E