We are proud to announce that the curator Koyo Kouoh will be guest at the Foundation between the 26th October till the 6th November 2012.

Koyo Kouoh curated the exhibition "Hollandaise" that will open in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau the 3rd November 2012. The exhibition travels on to RAW Material Company, Dakar (Senegal).

"Hollandaise" Opening 3rd November at SMBA
The exhibition will run till the 6th January 2013

Koyo Kouoh is the director of RAW Material Company in Dakar. She has been co-curator for exhibitions including ‘Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality’ in the National Museum for Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo (2009) and ‘GEO-graphics, a map of African art practices past & present’ in BOZAR in Brussels (2010). She was also one of the artistic advisors to Documenta 12 and 13.

HOLLANDAISE
With: Godfried Donkor, Abdoulaye Konaté, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem de Rooij, Billie Zangewa.
The exhibition HOLLANDAISE arises from the deep historical and economic relationship between The Netherlands and the African continent. The title refers to the printed fabric, also known as 'Dutch Wax', which has been exported from the Netherlands to West Africa for a century-and-a-half now, and in French-speaking countries like Senegal, Benin and Togo is better known as 'Hollandaise'.

more info:http://www.smba.nl/en/exhibitions/hollandaise/
http://rawmc.org/staff/




'Hollandaise' is an imitation batik, well-known from the Dutch manufacture company Vlisco. This fabric is widely appreciated in Africa for its high quality, bright and colourfast patterns, and wide variety of designs. With the long presence of 'Hollandaise' in West Africa, this characteristic textile has become an essential component of the African identity. It is however a Dutch product, whose origins go back to Indonesian batik, and the mass commercial manufacture of such batik for export to Dutch colonies.