Tuli Mekondjo

b. Kwanza-Sul, Angola, 1982. Lives in Windhoek, Namibia.

Tuli Mekondjo’s works vividly express the generative powers of women, nature and the imagination in healing, and build on her early history of displacement as a Namibian refugee in Angola and Zambia during the struggle for Namibian Independence. A primarily self-taught artist, Mekondjo has been exhibiting her works since 2016 and is represented by Guns & Rain.

Education

Self Taught

Solo exhibitions

2023: Ousi Martha. Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2022: Oudjuu wo makipa etu/ The burdens of our Bones. Hales Gallery, London.
2020:  Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Guns & Rain, Cape Town, South Africa.
2019:  The Project Room,  Windhoek, Namibia.
2019: SIDA | ÔANA MÂPA HÂ? WHERE ARE OUR CHILDREN? AN ODE TO THE SPIRITS OF THE SOUTH. Hales Gallery, London.
2016:  The Bellowing Mind, Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre, Windhoek, Namibia.

Group Exhibitions (Namibia)

2023:The Fish That Sees Its Water Getting Shallow Cannot Be Stranded. The Project Room, Windhoek
2018: Future Africa Visions in Time, Windhoek, Namibia (a collaboration between the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth and the Goethe-Institut Namibia).

Group Exhibitions (International)

2024: Decade: 10 Years of Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2024: Cantando Bajito: Testimonies. Ford Foundation Gallery, New York
2024: Memoria: récits d'une autre Histoire. Foundation H, Antananarivo
2024: The Dak'art Biennial of Contemporary African Art: The Wake. Dakar, Senegal
2023: To be Named. HausKunstMitte, Berlin
2023:O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting Of Flight as Fight Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2023: Common Ground. DAAD Galerie, Berlin
2023: EXPO Chicago, with Hales Gallery, Chicago
2023: ARCO Lisboa, with Guns & Rain, Lisbon
2023: Ousi Martha, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel
2023: Art Central Hong Kong, with Guns & Rain, Hong Kong
2023: Memoria: récits d'une autre histoire. National Museum, Camaroon
2023: From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen. IDEAL Art Space, Leipzig
2022: Investec Cape Town Art Far, Guns & Rain, Cape Town
2022: Unsettled. Duende Art Projects, Antwerp.
2021: Un.e Air.e de Famille. Musée Paul Éluard de Saint Denis, Paris.
2021: African Galleries Now. Artsy, with Guns & Rain 
2021: Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine. MÉCA, France
2021: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. London, UK with Guns & Rain
2021: Face-to-face. Traversées Africaines, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2021: Threads. Duende Art Projects, Antwerp. 
2020:  Borders of Memory, (online), Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.2020: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. London, UK with Guns & Rain
2020:  Virtual Contemporary Art Fair, ARCO Lisboa, Lisbon.
2019:  1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Guns & Rain, London, United Kingdom.
2019:  Suffrage, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.
2019:  NJE Collective, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2018:  NJE Collective, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.2022: I was her and she was me..., Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt
2016:  Collective at the Art Market, Budapest, Hungary.

Collections

Foundation Blachere, France.
Ilham Gallery, Malaysia.
University of South Africa (UNISA).
ARAK Collection, Qatar.
Africa First Collection, Palestine.

Media links

Martha Mukaiwa, 'Two Women Meet  At the Borders of Memory" , The Namibian, April 30,2020

Leonie March, 'German Public Radio – Deutschlandfunk Kultur – The Borders of Memory Exhibition - Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany)', Guns & Rain, April 2020

Jeanette Cross, "Cooking On Canvas", The Namibian, October 11, 2019

Catalogues

ARCO Lisboa, May 2020

The Borders of Memory, Group Show, April 2020

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Group Show, February, 2020

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London, Two-Woman Show, October 2019

Suffrage, Group Show, July 2019

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