The Pride Afrique Gallery
The Pride Afrique gallery is an organic collection that celebrates the work of individuals and organisations that constantly apply their minds, time and resources to creating, collecting, archiving and theorising about Afroqueer lived realities.
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The following exhibition is a growing collection from the continent. They tell stories of identity, pride and otherness.
Pride celebrations
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Dr Bev Ditse at theJohannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Johannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Simon Nkoli at theJohannesburg Pride 1990 (Source: GALA)
Mmeli Troy: The Capetown Pride celebration 2020. Holding the gay flag to create awareness and celebrating who we are.
Mmeli Troy: The Capetown Pride celebration 2020. Holding the gay flag to create awareness and celebrating who we are.
Mmeli Troy: The Capetown Pride celebration 2020.
Mmeli Troy: The Capetown Pride celebration 2020.
Centurion Pride 2017 by Centre for Human Rights
Pride and Letters by Centre for Human Rights
Pride and Letters event poster by Queer Space Collective
Prof Frans Viljoen and Kenny Kariseb with the Rainbow dress at the Dutch Embassy, Pretoria 2018
Nel Art Gallery
‘On Pride and Africa’
PRIDE AFRIQUE 2020 a brave first step for the LGBTQIA of Africa. This we hope will be the first in many to follow. This exhibition is by no means comprehensive or even fully representative of the diversity and complexity that forms this larger community, it stems from a very recent queer exhibition in Cape Town that was involved mostly local queer artists. We hope for it to be seen as a first entry in an ever evolving cultural discourse that should not necessarily be situated in one fixed place on the continent but in many places all over Africa. That is our wish.
Africa has long been considered the forgotten continent when it comes to the rights of the LGBTQIA community. According to Wikipedia - out of the 54 states recognized by the United Nations or African Union or both, the International Gay and Lesbian Association stated in 2015 that homosexuality is outlawed in 34 African countries.
South Africa is widely regarded as a beacon of hope and progress with LGBTQIA rights written into the constitution and since November 2006 same sex marriage has effectively been recognized since the introduction of the Civil Union Act. Still, these laws, acts and constitution do not necessarily lead to acceptance. Discrimination and a lack of social acceptance is still widespread in South Africa. Gender based violence is a common occurrence and so-called ‘corrective rape’ still occurs.
LGBTQIA Rights are Human Rights. The Arts and indeed Fine Art can play a role in increasing visibility by engaging in the issues that need addressing. It can also act as an agent that engages people on another, more subliminal level, in a language unstructured by normal syntax, one that welcomes interpretation and invites people to converse with the works and their meanings in fresh new ways.
We are grateful for the opportunity to be part of this first incisive step and we wish for Pride Afrique to continue and expand well into the future.
Luan Nel
Curator – Nel Art
To see more art from Nel
Brett Charles Seiler | Dear Zimbabwe | 2019 | Ballpoint pen | 1x2.5m
Brett Charles Seiler | Dear Zimbabwe (detail)
Brett Charles Seiler | Dear Zimbabwe
Andre Serfontein | Jade | 2019 | Oil on board | 45x85cm
Andre Serfontein | Seven Apostles | 2018 | 40x51cm
Andrew Verster | Blue Lee | 1973 | Oil on canvas on board | 45x75cm
Brian Webber | Self Portrait | 2020 | Digital App
Brian Webber's Manchild., 2017, Mixed media, 29x19cm
Brian Webber | Durban | 2012 | Mixed media | 21 x 29cm
Brian Webber | Note to Raymond | 2020 | edited cell phone photo
Carol-Anne Gainer | Friends I used to know l | 2020 | 45x55cm
Carol-Anne Gainer | 2020 | Friends I used to know ll | 45x45cm
Carol-Anne Gainer | Friends I used to know lll | 2020 | Oil on board | 55x45cm
Chris Denovan | Peekaboo | 2018 | Oil on canvas |1.5x1.5cm
Chris Koch | Garden of Forbidden FRUIT | 2019 | Lightbox | 1x1.4m
Chris Koch | Garden of Forbidden FRUIT (detail ll)
Chris Koch | Garden of Forbidden FRUIT (detail l)
Clive van den Berg | Falling | 2019 | Watercolour | 40x61cm
Clive van den Berg | Meeting St Rocco | 2019 | Watercolour | 40x61cm
Clive van den Berg | Mirage | 2019 | Watercolour | 40.9x31cm
Clive van den Berg | Still Kissing (Fuck you bigots) | 2019 | Watercolour | 40.9x31cm
Colijn Strydom | Official Portrait | Acrylic ink and paint on canvas | 2020
Colijn Strydom | Boy | 2020 | Acrylic ink and paint on canvas
Colijn Strydom | Streetfab | 2020 | Acrylic ink and paint on canvas
Colijn Strydom | word on the street | 2020 | Acrylic ink and paint on canvas
Ella Cronje | Conversations with dinosaurs | 2019 | Ceramic | 40cm
FLC collective | Colossus Poeticam | 2018 | Instagram @meluania Yvonne (Poodle) Odidiva (Odidi Mfenyane), Maxime Laparde, Luan Nel, Guy Stern, Brett Seiler
FLC collective (Odidiva and Marie Antoinette Le Roux) | Heads and Hearts | 2018 |Instagram @meluania
Hentie Van Der Merwe | Untitled #12 | Conte and colour pencil on paper | 52.5x40cm. I have become very interested in the intimate interaction people display when looking at their own image and the ambivalence one often detects on their faces; of a tender embrace of their own image and simultaneously a sense of unease, insecurity and even a certain violence.
Hentie Van Der Merwe | Untitled #4 | 2020 | Conte and colour pencil on paper | 28.5x23.5cm. (Continued from 'Untitled #2') The immediacy, tactility, tenderness and intimacy of the drawing process and medium is what makes it a perfect vehicle in which to explore these ideas.
Hentie Van Der Merwe | Untitled #14 |2020 | Conte on paper | 34x23.5cm
Hentie Van Der Merwe | Untitled #17 | 2020 | Conte and colour pencil on paper | 35x31cm
JP Meyer | Find Your Fire | 2020 | Monotype
JP Meyer | Man Nature | 2020 | Monotype
JP Meyer | If you want peace prepare for war | 2020 | Monotype
JP Meyer | Love waits for no one | 2020 | Monotype
JP Meyer | Stand your ground | 2020 | Monotype
JP Meyer | Storm | 2020 | Monotype
Luan Nel | Torso | 2020 | Oil on canvas | 72x56cm. I am a painter but I also do lens based work, performance, including drag and installation. Whatever happens to be the best vehicle to carry meaning or a specific idea is the medium I employ at any given time. This leads to an oeuvre that can at times read as unfocussed. I advise to follow my painting.
Luan Nel | meet @ S33.9262 E18.4179 | 2018 | Acrylic on Supawood | 30x30xm
Mr and Mrs Leal. Your worst fear, your best fantasy | Digital printed stick-ons.
Luxolo Witvoet | Noir Fly Boy | 2020 | Acrylic on found board | 50x85cm
Neil Badenhorst | Between two worlds | 2020 | Collage and drawing
Neil Badenhorst | Christopher is dead ll | 2020 | Collage and drawing
Neil Badenhorst | Claudia, Wilhelm R_me | 2020 | Collage
Neil Badenhorst | End Credits Suite | 2020 | Collage and drawing
Philip Steele (1996), Let There be Love, 2020, Acrylic, Indian ink, and pencil on 380 gsm 100% cotton fine weave triple primed canvas, 29.7 x 42 cm
Philip Steele (1996), Spectrum, 2020, Acrylic, Indian Ink, and pencil on 380 gsm 100% cotton fine weave triple primed canvas, 29.7 x 42 cm
Richardt Strydom | Palpation | 2019 | Digital print on 100% Cotton
Richardt Strydom | Scopophilic patient | 2019 | Digital print on 100% Cotton
Shakil Solanki | In a fugue state | 2019 | Silkscreen
Theo Kleynhans | All of us | 2020 | Earthenware | 21cm diameter
Theo Kleynhans | Homage to Herring | 2020 | Earthenware | 21cm diameter
Theo Kleynhans | Kiss me | 2020 | Earthenware | 21cm diameter
Theo Kleynhans | Us | 2020 | Earthenware | 21cm diameter
Tyrrel Thaysen | Golden Girl | 2020 | Mixed Media | 44x15x6cm
Tyrrel Thaysen | Queen | Mixed media | 46x16x6
Wandiswa Mestywa | Untitled | Digital print on watercolour paper | 45x62cm
Wessel Van Huyssteen | Potholes | 2018 | Watercolour on paper
Wessel van Huyssteen | Ficksberg | 2018 | Watercolour on paper
Mark Coetzee | Penis Print # 9 | 2019 – 2020
Rainbow Project
By Sokari.
The project explores the relationship between sexuality, depression and loneliness. The rainbow-coloured fabric is a symbolic permanent veil over the subject, who is lost and alone in his own world.
To see more of the Rainbow Project, Click link below
Visual language
African queer rights campaigns
