Marlene Dumas Curates Moonrise at Munch Museum

South African painter Marlene Dumas, born in 1953, will curate her first exhibition at Oslo's Munch Museum, opening September 29, 2018, and running through January 13, 2019. Titled Moonrise after a Munch lithograph, the show pairs Dumas's new 2018 series Venus and Adonis with Munch's 1908 Alpha and Omega lithographs, exploring themes of innocence, solitude, sexuality, and death. Dumas, who first visited the museum in 1981, has long admired Munch's work, noting that he painted love stories between humanity and nature before her. The exhibition continues a tradition of artists as curators, following examples like Christian Jankowski curating Manifesta 11 (2016) and Elmgreen & Dragset directing the Istanbul Biennial (2017). Dumas, a refined painter with a major career including appearances at the Venice Biennale (Dutch Pavilion) and Tate Modern in 1996, will be featured in the upcoming Artribune Magazine issue 43.