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Unframed Podcast Founded in 2018, Unframed is a podcast hosting conversations about the contemporary arts in South Africa.

22/07/2024

Welcome to Unframed – a show that aims to create space for dialogue about the contemporary art world in South Africa.
Established in 2018, Unframed has four seasons and close to 40 episodes with esteemed art professionals from around the country. The podcast is a must-listen for anyone with a vested interest in the art world, from seasoned professionals to curious enthusiasts.

🎙 Check out the episodes here: https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

Unframed Podcast has had the opportunity to faciliate discussions on the impactful contributions of women in the art sce...
16/07/2024

Unframed Podcast has had the opportunity to faciliate discussions on the impactful contributions of women in the art scene of South Africa. Conversations with some of South Africa's most prolific women in art has garnered some thought-provoking insights along with a peek into their processes, artistic practices and building community within the industry.

Some of the guests include:
Io Makandal (S03/E04)
ruby onyinyechi amanze (S01/E02)
Bronwyn Lace (S01/E08)
Carly Whitaker (S03/E09)
Mmbatho Grace Mokalapa (S03/E06)
Bulumko Mbete (S04/E07)
Buhlebezwe Siwani (S04/E07)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

Frame 1: Image by Brett Rubin
Frame 2 - 5: Images by Anthea Pokroy
Frame 6: Image by Lauren Theunissen
Frame 7: Image by Alexander Smith

Season Four of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

Galleries remain a crucial part of the local art landscape, from creating an ecosystem for artists to exhibit their work...
12/07/2024

Galleries remain a crucial part of the local art landscape, from creating an ecosystem for artists to exhibit their work and potential buyers or avid art enthusiasts to see art up close.

From season one to season four, Unframed has engaged with artists and gallery owners and directors across the country, including

Banele Khoza, Artist and Founder/ Director of BKhz Gallery (S03/E10 - S04/E04)
Lerato Bereng, Curator and Director at Stevenson Gallery (S04/E04)
MJ Turpin and Matthew Dean Dowdle, Co-founders of Kalashnikovv Gallery (S01/E01)
Alex Richards and Sisipho Ngodwana, Directors at Stevenson Gallery (S01/E05)

Images by Anthea Pokroy and Earl Abrahams

https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

Throughout the last four seasons, Unframed has been fortunate enough to engage with art professionals across all spheres...
03/07/2024

Throughout the last four seasons, Unframed has been fortunate enough to engage with art professionals across all spheres. In the world of art journalism and criticism, we've had incredible writers who dedicate time to ensuring our art landscape continues to grow:

- Journalist and writer Matthew Blackman, co-founder of Blackman Rossouw (S01/E04)
- Season Four co-host Nkgopoleng Moloi from Art Throb (S04)
- Award-winning journalist and academic, Mary Corrigall, founder of Corrigall & Co (S01/E07)

🎙Take a listen to these conversations and see how Unframed has continued to faciliate conversations around how the art landscape has since shifted since 2018 to now. https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes

〰 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
〰 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

After a lengthy hiatus, Unframed launched a brand new season in early 2024. Season Four: The Art Ecosystem was a new app...
25/06/2024

After a lengthy hiatus, Unframed launched a brand new season in early 2024. Season Four: The Art Ecosystem was a new approach for the show.

In the four years since the last season, the show has undergone a rebrand and the addition of a co-host, Nkgopoleng Moloi, alongside founder Anthea Pokroy. The seven part series launched end February and by April - all episodes had been released.

Each part of the series focuses on a specific aspect of the Art Ecosystem and showcases two guests sharing their unique perspectives and insights into the art industry.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

This season of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

Season Three of Unframed was recorded during a pivotal time that shifted industries around the world. This 13-episode se...
18/06/2024

Season Three of Unframed was recorded during a pivotal time that shifted industries around the world. This 13-episode season was recorded in early 2020, at the beginning of South Africa's lockdown.
This season saw the launch of the Artists in Isolation series, along with talks from the 2020 pre-Covid Cape Town Art Fair, exploring thought-provoking discussions.

Tune into the show and get insights into the art landscape navigating the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and how much the industry has continued to change since.

https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/season-3/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

Launched in 2019, Season Two of Unframed is a nine-part series honing in on talks and events held throughout the country...
11/06/2024

Launched in 2019, Season Two of Unframed is a nine-part series honing in on talks and events held throughout the country. In this season, Anthea chats to Mandla Sibeko, founder and director of FNB Art Joburg, and Louise Van Der Bijl, co-founder of non-profit Assemblage.
This season also features discussions from the 2019 Turbine Art Fair, Wits Arts Museum and Latitudes Online.
Take a listen to engaging conversations with talented artists, uncovering their stories and creative processes.

Tune into the rest of the season here: unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/season-2/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912 "

Season One of Unframed was released in mid 2018, led by our host and founder Anthea Pokroy. The inaugural season feature...
06/06/2024

Season One of Unframed was released in mid 2018, led by our host and founder Anthea Pokroy. The inaugural season features ten episodes, ranging from talks with art world luminaries like Yinka Shonibare and William Kentridge to in-depth interviews with talented guests.

The roster of art professionals for the first season include:
- Johannesburg based artist Ayanda Mabulu
- Vienna-based artist Bronwyn Lace
- US based artist ruby onyinyechi amanze
- Founders of Kalashnikovv Gallery, MJ Turpin and Matthew Dean Dowdle
to mention a few

Take a listen to these conversations and see how Unframed has continued to faciliate conversations around how the art landscape has since shifted since 2018 to now. https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/season-1/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kKPvMh3PHj9qMzuSWrVzi?si=16d4a0a558054cb4
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unframed-podcast/id1405985912

30/05/2024

"Joburg in the mid-nineties was an incredibly exciting place. These immediate moments post-apartheid, but also like within the lack of space. It's Market Theatre galleries, which was led by Stephen Hobbs at the time. I was a gallery assistant, my real first job, and it was the only real experimental space that I think existed in South Africa.

It was a very special time there, you know, like we could take risks and do things that maybe couldn't happen in other spaces or maybe can't even happen now. And I don't want to be nostalgic about these things, and it's also not the purpose. But I think what was important for me was to understand the way that institutions function and can function that's very much about how it plugs into its kind of immediacy, you know, like its immediate context."

- Storm Janse Van Rensburg (EP05 - The Museum)
https://unframedpodcast.com/project/ep05-the-museum/

This season of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

"Curator actually just refers to the person who holds hands to ensure vision of the artists and to make sure that the ex...
21/05/2024

"Curator actually just refers to the person who holds hands to ensure vision of the artists and to make sure that the exhibition comes together. It's closely tied with exhibition making, but for me, it lives at once in the world of ideas, but also in the world of practicalities of exhibition making. For me, curatorship is creating rather as a form of holding a project in whatever form that might be and willing it to life and just making sure along the way that everyone is being taken care of."

-Jana Terblanche (EP03 - The Curator)

https://unframedpodcast.com/project/s04-e03-the-curator/

This season of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

We were lucky enough to host representatives from the country's most prestigious art institutions for Season 4 of Unfram...
17/05/2024

We were lucky enough to host representatives from the country's most prestigious art institutions for Season 4 of Unframed. Take a look below and tune into the rest of the season's episodes

- Storm Janse Van Rensburg from Zeitz MOCAA (EP05)
- Kutlwano Mokgojwa from Wits Art Museum (EP05)
- Jana Terblanche from Southern Guild (EP03)
- Sven Christian from Nirox Foundation (EP03)
- Lerato Bereng from Stevenson (EP04)
- Banele Khoza from BKhz Gallery (EP04)
- Clive Kellner from Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (EP06)
- Ame Bell from David Krut Projects (EP06)

🎙 https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/season-4/

This season of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

Unframed's Season 4 features award-winning artists Penny Siopis (EP02), Nolan Oswald Dennis (EP02), Buhlebuzwe Siwani (E...
14/05/2024

Unframed's Season 4 features award-winning artists Penny Siopis (EP02), Nolan Oswald Dennis (EP02), Buhlebuzwe Siwani (EP07) and Bulumko Mbete (EP07)
who shared invaluable insights around their practices in relation to the SA Art Ecosystem.

Penny is an acclaimed artist based in Cape Town. Starting in the 1970s, her work has been exhibited around the world and in 2016 she received A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts and Culture Trust.

Nolan is a Johannesburg based artist and winner of the 2016 FNB Art Prize. Their work has since been featured in several exhibitions, including the Berlin Biennale, the Liverpool Biennale and the Young Congo Biennale

Buhlebezwe is based in Amsterdam and Cape Town, and is the recipient of the 2021 Standard Young Artist Award and 2019 Bisi Silva Prize.

Excitingly, both Nolan and Buhlebezwe have been shortlisted for the 2024 Future Generations Art Prize.

Bulumko is a Johannesburg based artist and is currently studying towards her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the 2023 recipient of the Gerard Sekoto Award and Cassirer Welz Award.

🎙 Listen to Season 4 here: https://unframedpodcast.com/seasons-episodes/season-4/

This season of Unframed is made possible through PESP4 funding by National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) and Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

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