CAS

Collections

Fund

Acquires

Grada

Kilomba,

Pamela

Phatismo

Sunstrum

and

Goshka

Macuga

The works will be added to the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reflecting its increasing diversity of voices and post-colonial perspectives.

Works by three women artists have been acquired through the Contemporary Art Society’s Collections Fund at Frieze for The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. All three works explore global histories from post-colonial perspectives that speak to the Fitzwilliam’s wide-ranging collection.

The acquisition will be the first time that two of the artists, Grada Kilomba and Pamela Phatismo Sunstrum (Goodman Gallery), will be represented in the collection of a British institution. The depiction of Ragandranath Tagore by Goshka Macuga (Kate MacGarry) disrupts genres of art.

Haba Rashid, Senior Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art at The Fitzwilliam Museum, said:

‘I am deeply thankful to the CAS Collections Fund at Frieze and the CAS patrons for supporting the acquisition of works by three outstanding international women artists, whose poetic and powerful art making can resonate across the collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum. I can see many opportunities in which we can display these pieces in both our fine art and object-based galleries to create inspiring visual and material connections as well as stimulate important conversations that examine the past to speak about now.’