Ângela Ferreira is a Mozambican Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1959. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Hamburger Kunsthalle have featured Ângela Ferreira's work in the past.Ângela Ferreira's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 429 USD to 3,377 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,377 USD for "Sites and Services", sold at Veritas Art Auctioneers in 2021. Ângela Ferreira has been featured in articles for Art Viewer, Art South Africa and e-flux. The most recent article is Exhibition establishes connections to issues of memory, heritage and intimacy written for ArtDaily in October 2024.
The exhibition untranquil now spotlights artworks, performances, figures and events in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and eventful histories.
In 2024, TICK TACK (Antwerp, founded in 2019) and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (founded in 1950) launch a unique project: both institutions will take over each other’s exhibition venues for the period from August to November 2024.
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..Ferreira's work is concerned with the ongoing impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on contemporary society, an investigation that is conducted through in-depth research and the distillation of ideas...
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..By presenting sculptures alongside the reference images which inform them, Ferreira enables the viewer to devise their own meaning from within the two realms...
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..Ferreira’s work might be understood as conceptual sculpture and is concerned with the legacy of colonialism in contemporary society, an investigation that is conducted through in-depth research and the...
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..Ferreira stimulates the viewer to question these histories in the encounter with her objects, which often reference modernist precedents, combined with text, photography and video...
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