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Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam Online
26 April – 1 May 2023
The Tribal Art Fair online will be from Wednesday 26 April at 3 pm until Monday 1 May 10 pm (local time). This edition 20 dealers will participate, showing their most recent acquisitions on this website. Every gallery will post up to 50 objects on their gallery page and on Saturday 29 April at 3 pm every gallery will add an extra 10 objects.
There will also be a lecture program which you can follow from home.
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Exhibitors 2023
Adam Prout Ethnographic Art
Arte primitivo
Astamangala
Christophe Rolley
Ethnic Adornment
Frans Faber Tribal Arts
Galerie Dogon
Galerie Grégory Chesne
Galerie Lemaire
Handbury Tribal Art
Hermann Sommerhage
Jack Nelis Asian & Tribal Art
Louis Nierijnck
Michael Woerner Oriental Art
Raccanello Tribal Art
Rob Temple
Shango on ArtTrak
Sisi tatu
Stothert & Trice
Tribal Art Antiques
Tribal Design
Xquisart Tribal Art
Lecture program during the TAF online
You can follow these lectures during the online Tribal Art Fair by Zoom webinar. All lectures will be in English.
A link to register will be on the page of the lecture from 10 April.

Friday 28 April 2023
10:00
Beyond bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea
For 200 years, Torres Strait has been seen as an important boundary for the distribution of ethnographic object types between Aboriginal Australia and Melanesian New Guinea. If movement of objects did occur, it was generally seen as one-way and associated with the diffusion of Melanesian objects into northeast Australia. But …

Friday 28 April 2023
16:00
Provenance and Pitfalls
The talk is based on my book of the same name: Provenance, where I discuss some ardent collectors over the past two hundred years. What motivates them and how tastes have changed. I will also discuss some of the distortions can that be made about objects. What exactly is is …

Saturday 29 April 2023
16:00
Headrests from Southern Africa – The Architecture of Sleep
Headrests of Southern Africa – The Architecture of Sleep features 438 headrests from the KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini and Limpopo regions of southern Africa. These objects of symbolic as well as practical value are brought to life with wide-ranging insights into their creation, ownership, use and significance. Detailed historical knowledge specific to …