The Goodman Gallery celebrates its 50th year with a major exhibition that features works by prominent international and African artists, as well as a programme of installations, performances, film screenings and talks.<br /> <br /> This key Johannesburg art institution has maintained a proud tradition of promoting South African art and artists started by its founder Linda Givon, and now under the directorship of Liza Essers the gallery has expanded to represent international artists and take African contemporary art to the world stage.<br /> <br /> A champion of freedom of expression from its very first steps, the Goodman Gallery has been instrumental in creating a space to deliberate on key social issues and in protecting the right of the artist to express dissent with the status quo. <br /> <br /> The New Revolutions programme recalls the era into which the gallery was born 50 years ago, a time when the African art scene was filled with revolutionary fervour as African countries gained their independence and began the process of gradual decolonisation. Meanwhile South Africa continued to suffer under the apartheid's draconian laws and it was up to artists, many of them supported by the Goodman Gallery, to show the world the terrible plight of ordinary South Africans.<br /> <br /> This exhibition reflects on how the events in Africa 50 years ago, still play a part in the conceptual thinking of artists today, as well as looking at the ways in which African artists are responding to new forms of economic colonisation and the lingering problems of inequality and institutional racism. <br /> <br /> The exhibition features artworks from the 1960s through to the present day that are linked by their focus on the spirit of protest, resistance, and revolution.