Liza Essers

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Liza Essers
Citizenship South Africa
Occupation(s)film producer, curator

Liza Essers is the owner and director of the Goodman Gallery in South Africa, established in 1966. [1]

Prior to acquiring the gallery in 2008, she was an independent art advisor and curator, and the co-executive producer of the South African film, Tsotsi (2005) which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture in 2006. [2] The gallery is now seen as an important player in the international contemporary art world following a tradition in the 1960s as being, according to Essers, "The only space where black artists could show their work." [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Binlot, Ann. "Through Apartheid And Zuma, South Africa's Goodman Gallery Endures 50 Years On". Forbes . Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Diallo, Aïcha. "In conversation on the southern tip of the African continent | Contemporary And". www.contemporaryand.com. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "How Liza Essers took South Africa's Goodman Gallery from storied pioneering space to contemporary global player". Art Basel. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "How Liza Essers took South Africa's Goodman Gallery from storied pioneering space to contemporary global player". Art Basel. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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