"African Guernica" by Dumile Feni at the Museo

march 2025

 

 

Exhibition   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica   from 25 Mar to 22 sep 2026   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme is a new programme at the Museo Reina Sofía that aims to establish a dialogue between Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) and other significant works of art that share certain parallels in their modes of representation or thematic concerns, yet originate from different historical and cultural contexts. In this first instalment of the series, curated by Tamar Garb, Picasso’s iconic work can be seen for the first time alongside African Guernica (1967) by Dumile Feni (Worcester, South Africa, 1942 – New York, 1991), one of the key artists of African modernism.

 

Inaugural Conversation   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica   Inaugural Conversation by Tamar Garb and Premiere of the Musical Piece Inkomo iwile by Philip Miller and Tshegofatso Moeng   24 mar 2026       Panel of Experts   Thinking with African Guernica by Dumile Feni   Curatorial, historical, museological and psychoanalytic perspectives   25 Mar 2026

 

 

video   La Favorita Ana Locking on Doubles / Pairs / Couples, by Louise Lawler   In this interview, designer Ana Locking discusses the photographic series Doubles / Pairs / Couples (1982–1985) by artist Louise Lawler (Bronxville, New York, 1947), whom she discovered at a Pictures Generation exhibition that transformed her understanding of art.

 

Seminars and lectures   The (legal) person and the legal form. Chapter III   Seminar with Sven Lütticken   registration until april 10th

 

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