Mario Pissarra

b. Durban, 1959; lives in Inchanga, KwaZulu-Natal.

Pissarra works principally as a visual arts researcher, writer and editor. His art practice includes conceptually oriented works in various media that engage themes such as socialisation and resistance, alongside a body of mostly painterly works that demonstrate an interest in colour and movement.

Education

2019: PhD, Sociology, University of Cape Town (UCT). Thesis title – Locating Malangatana: Decolonisation, aesthetics and the roles of an artist in a changing society.
2000: Advanced Diploma for Educators of Adults, University of the Western Cape.
1991: B.A History of Art Honours, UCT.
1981: B.A. Fine Arts, UCT (graduated with distinction).
1977: Matriculated, Thomas More School, Kloof, Kwa-Zulu Natal (with distinction for Art).

Educational Affiliations

2023-present: Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology.
2020-22: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch.
2006-11: Honorary Research Associate, Department of Historical Studies, UCT.

Employment

2005- present: Founder and project director, Africa South Art Initiative (https://asai.co.za)
2022-23: Guest lecturer, Art History III, Centre for Visual Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) (“Re/writing South African Art History”).
2006: Producer, CAPE Africa Platform, Cape Town.
2005: Contract lecturer, History of Art II, UCT (“Sacred Art in Africa”).
2004-05: Contract lecturer, History of Art II, University of Stellenbosch (“Modern and Contemporary African Art”).
2003-05: Freelance writer, Cape Town.
1999-02: Various part-time and freelance roles, London: Freelance writer; Assistant researcher and project manager, Africa Centre; Sales assistant and blurb-writer, Africa Book Centre; Itinerant book and CD trader, various markets and festivals
1993-99: Director (1996-99); Education Convenor (1994-96); Visual Arts & Crafts Project coordinator (1993-94). Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1992: Contract lecturer, History of Art III, UCT (“Political caricature and cartoons”).
1991-92: General secretary, Cultural Workers Congress, Cape Town.
1987-92: Club DJ, Cape Town (T-Zers, Indaba Project, The Base).
1987-90: Part-time slide custodian and lecturer, Dept. of History of Art, UCT (taught course on “African Art”).
1985-86: Textile artist and market trader, Johannesburg.
1982-83: Resident club DJ, DV8, Johannesburg.
1979-81: Club DJ, Cape Town (Ellingtons, 1886 and Scratch).

Group Exhibitions

2023: S T O N E D: Remembering the 80s, curated by Chery Traub Adler, AVA, Cape Town.
2015: Thupelo Cape Town Trust Exhibition. Provenance Auction House, Cape Town
2007: africa south. AVA, Cape Town
2007: ReCenter. Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha
2007: Arts of Revolution. Saba Artistic & Cultural Institute, Tehran
1997: Group exhibition. City Hall, Cape Town [launch of the Cape Town City Council’s Arts & Culture Policy] 1990-93: Visual Arts Group exhibitions at Mayibuye Centre, UWC; Uluntu Centre, Guguletu (x 3); SA Association of Arts, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies, UCT (x 3); Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Manenberg Peoples Centre; Community Arts Project
1988: Arts and Militarism. Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
1986: [with Vheke Kruger] Dandy Lion. Gallant House, President St, Johannesburg
1986: Group exhibition. Gallant House, Johannesburg
1983: [with Anthony Chase] East Side Steppers. Installations at Pyramid; Dancetaria; Strictly Roots; & Overground nightclubs, New York
1980: (with Oliver Schmitz) Art Pop Militants Watershed Gallery, Cape Town.

Exhibitions Curated

2017: Beyond Binaries. ICC, Durban; Durban Art Gallery; and KZNSA Gallery (Co-curator, with Russel Hlongwane and Robin Moodley)
2015: In Print/ In Focus. Michaelis Art Galleries, UCT.
2013-14: Against the Grain: Makeleni, Thyssen, Mbanya, Mafenuka and Kiti, sculptors from the Cape. Iziko SA National Gallery; and Sanlam Art Gallery, Belville.
2007: africa south. AVA, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter. Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha.
2004-05: Botaki (series)
1990-93: Visual Arts Group exhibitions. Community Arts Project; Mayibuye Centre, UWC; Uluntu Centre, Guguletu (x 3); SA Association of Arts, Cape Town; Centre for African Studies, UCT (x 3); Zolani Centre, Nyanga East; Manenberg Peoples Centre (Co-curator/organizer)
1988: Arts and Militarism. Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. (Co-curator/organizer for Gardens Youth Congress)

Publications (Writer)

2024: "Finding a Way: Thami Jali’s ‘Mphendla Ndlela’ at the KZNSA Gallery”, ArtThrob, 15 March, https://artthrob.co.za/2024/03/15/finding-a-way-thami-jalis-mphendla-ndlela-at-kznsa-gallery/
2024: (with Taryn Jade Benadé) ASAI print access workshops: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, ASAI, https://asai.co.za/publication/asai-print-access-workshops/
2022: “Critical biography: Sam J. Ntiro,” in African Modernism in America, edited by Perrin Lathrop (American Federation of Arts), 162-63.
2021: "Youth and Peace: Valente Ngwenya Malangatana," in Unesco Art Collection: Selected Works (Paris: Unesco), 448-451.
2021: “Pursuing a Research Agenda: the role of ASAI as publisher,” in Decolonizing Art Book Fairs: publishing practices from the south(s), edited by Y. Camps, M. Grünke, P. Obolo, M. Pichler, P. Tabapsi and N. Mabaso (Berlin: Miss Read, Afrikadaa, and Mosaïques), 60-65.
2021: “Deep Ambivalences: Malangatana’s anti/colonial aesthetic,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern edited by H, Folkerts, F. Mings and C. Petridis (Art Institute of Chicago). https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/8/malangatanas-anticolonial-aesthetic
2021: “Malangatana as anti/colonial subject, (1959-74), Post: notes on art in a global context (MoMA, NYC, 3 February), https://post.moma.org/malangatana-as-anti-colonial-subject-1959-74/
2020: “The Community Arts Project: legacies and limitations of an arts centre, Third Text Africa 12 (ASAI, 2020): 33-53, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Community-Arts-Project-legacies-and-limitations-of-an-arts-centre.pdf
2020: “Everywhere but nowhere: reflections on DV8 magazine”. Herri https://herri.org.za/4/mario-pissarra/
2018: “Of and Apart from the People: a close reading of representations of Malangatana in catalogues produced for group exhibitions in Mozambique, 1962-2011”. Third Text Africa v.5, 50-71, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/TTA_MOZ_VOL-5-2018_Of-and-Apart-from-the-People.pdf
2018: “Affirmations of Humanity: Sfiso Ka-Mkame’s dialogues with himself”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/sfiso-ka-mkames-dialogues-with-himself/
2017: Awakenings: The art of Lionel Davis. Cape Town: ASAI in assoc. w. District Six Museum and Centre for Humanities Research, UWC (editor and contributing author, 224 pp), https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Awakenings_Introduction_Pissarra.pdf
2017: Beyond Binaries. KZNSA Gallery, Durban (exhibition catalogue, 60pp])
2015: “Re/writing Sam J Ntiro: Challenges of framing in the excavation of a 'lost' pioneer”. Third Text Africa v.4: 25-60, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Rewriting-Sam-J-Ntiro.pdf
2015: In Print/ In Focus. Cape Town: ASAI (exhibition catalogue, 14pp)
2014: “Quiet Provocations: Thoughts on two works by Randolph Hartzenberg”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/quiet-provocatph-hartzenberg/
2014: “Some thoughts on Peter Clarke”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/some-thoughts-peter-clarke-1/
2013: “Uncontained? The limits of ahistoricism in the ‘opening’ of the Community Arts Project archive at the Centre for Humanities Research”. Third Text Africa v.3 n.1: 56-85, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Uncontained.pdf
2013: Against the Grain: sculptors from the Cape. ASAI, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue, 64pp)
2011: “Isolation, distance and engagement: South African art and artists in the international sphere”. In Pissarra (ed), Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 3: 1973-92. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 180-203.
2011: “Art and decolonisation: small steps towards a global art history”. www.asai.co.za
2010: “Migrant Perspectives: The Art of Zemba Luzamba”. Critical Interventions 6: 102-07
2010: “De-segregating the Audience: Race & the Politics of Exhibitions”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_De-segregating-the-Audience_2010.pdf
2009: “Decolonizing art in Africa: some preliminary thoughts on the relevance of the discourse on decolonization for contemporary African art, with particular reference to post-apartheid South Africa”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Decolonising-art-in-Africa_2009.pdf
2009: “Decolonisation of art in Africa: a post-apartheid South African perspective”. https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Decolonisation-of-art-in-Africa-a-post-apartheid-SA-perspective_2009.pdf
2008: “Creating New Conditions for Creativity: Mario Pissarra in conversation with Uche Okeke”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Uche-Okeke-and-Mario-Pissarra_Creating-New-Conditions-for-Creativity_2008.pdf
2007: “Re-reading Malangatana”. Farafina 11 (Lagos, Nigeria), 13-17.
2007: “Madi Phala: what place in ‘our’ art history?” Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Madi-Phala_2007.pdf
2006: “Donovan Ward”. Art South Africa 4(1): 83. Republished www.asai.co.za
2006: “Demystifying art: Garth Erasmus interviewed”. Word View, https://asai.co.za/demystifying-art-garth-erasmus-interviewed-by-mario-pissarra/
2006: “To Neglect Africa is to Neglect Ourselves”. Art South Africa 3(4): 41
2006: “Cast in Colour? Towards an Inclusive South African Art”. In H. Proud (ed) ReVisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, SAHO & UNISA Press, Pretoria, 46-53. (for online version, http://revisions.co.za/articles/cast-in-colour-towards-an-inclusive-south-african-art/ )
2006: “Songs of Place: Some Reflections on the Paintings of Tyrone Appollis”. In S. Hundt (ed), Tyrone Appollis: Today and Yesterday. Cape Town: Sanlam, 15-24
2006: “Death to Venice! A South African perspective on the irrelevance of representation at the Venice Biennale”. ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-PIssarra_Death-to-Venice_2006.pdf
2006: “Picasso and Africa: Are we asking the right questions?” ASAI: Word View, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ASAI_Word-View_Mario-Pissarra_Picasso-and-Africa_2006.pdf
2005 (co-author, with Arlene Brown): Art & Design for Everyone: Grade 10 Learners Book. Cape Town: Juta Gariep.
2005 (co-author, with Arlene Brown): Art & Design for Everyone: Grade 10 Teachers Guide. Cape Town: Juta Gariep.
2003-05: Botaki exhibition catalogues (1-4). Cape Town: Old Mutual Asset Managers.
2004: “The Luggage is Still Labelled: But Is It going to the right destination?” Third Text 67 (vol 18, issue 2): 183- 191
2004: Short Change: the curator as editor [review of The Short Century], Art Throb, https://artthrob.co.za/04jan/reviews/pub_shortcentury.html
2003: “Decolonise the Mind”. Art South Africa 2 (2): 37- 41
2003: “The Trails and Tribulations of Sfiso Ka Mkame”. Artthrob 74, https://artthrob.co.za/03oct/reviews/ava.html
2003: “Short Change: The Curator as Editor”. Arthrob 77, https://artthrob.co.za/04jan/reviews/pub_shortcentury.html
2003: “Mgcineni Pro Sobopha”. Art South Africa 2 (2): 68
2003: “Brett Murray”. Polvo, Chicago, USA
2001: “Post-colonial Africa”. Third Text 57:106- 108. Also published as “Contemporary Art of the San of Southern Africa”. www.artthrob.co.za
2001-03: Over 40 profiles on African artists and public figures, 16 of which were on African musicians, Contemporary Africa Database and Akwaaba websites, Africa entre, London (regrettably no longer online)
2000: “Cross Currents: Contemporary art practice in South Africa”. Third Text 52: 95-102. Also published www.artthrob.co.za
2000: “Reggae media”. Gargamel: The International Word in Reggae Music 2 (London): 31
1998: Reviews and reports on visiting reggae artists, Cape Times.
1993: “Some of my best friends are cultural workers”. Die Suid Afrikaan Feb/March: 21, 23
1991: “The Visual Arts in the Culture of Resistance”. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the SA Association of Art Historians.
1990: (with Jacqui Nolte) “MOMA show raises questions about people’s culture and art museums”. In D. Elliott (ed), Art from South Africa. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 33- 34.
1990: “Prejudice and potential in political cartooning”. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the SA Association of Art Historians.
1983: “Sister Carol: Too Crucial”. East Village Eye (New York): 43, 55
1982-83: Numerous record reviews. DV8 zine (Johannesburg).

Publications (Editor)

2023: Access and Liminality: ASAI Print Access Workshops at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Digital publication: ASAI.
2023: (With Roberto Conduru) 3rd Text Africa, No. 13, ‘Africa/Brasil’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2020: (With Fiona Mauchan) Third Text Africa, No. 12, ‘Collectivities’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2018: (With Rayda Becker) Third Text Africa, Vol. 5, ‘Mozambique’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2015: (With Natasha Himmelman) Third Text Africa, Vol. 4, ‘East Africa’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2013: Third Text Africa, Vol. 3 No. 1, ‘Localities’. Digital publication: ASAI.
2011: Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 3: 1973-92. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (232pp). Includes introductory essay “Introduction: Recovering critical moments, 2-15."
2011 (co-editor, with T. Goniwe and M. Majavu): Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Vol 4: 1990-2007. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (222pp). Includes introductory essay (with M. Majavu): “Introduction: Charting pathways in an era of posts”, 2-19/"
2011 (editor-in-chief): Visual Century: South African Art in Context, 1907-2007, Vols 1-4. Johannesburg: Wits University Press
2009-10: Third Text Africa (8 vols of pre-published archival texts from Third Text, with editorial essays).
2005-present: Numerous texts for Word View. Digital platform: ASAI.

Presentations

2024: Opening speech, Thami Jali solo exhibition, KZNSA Gallery.
2023: Opening speeches at exhibitions: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT); Satellite Gallery, Durban University of Technology (DUT).
2022: Panelist, Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, Haus Kulturen der Weldt (HKW), Berlin.
2022: Panelist, “Malangatana: disrupting established narratives”, presented at symposium “Pioneers of contemporary African art”, National Institute of Art History (INHA), Paris.
2021: Guest presenter, “Malangatana Valente Ngwenya e a estética anti/colonial”. International webinar series, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (zoom).
2020: Guest presenter, C-Map programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York (zoom).
2020: Workshop series, “Critical writing”, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban.
2019: Panellist, Critical Epistemologies workshop, Art for Humanity, DUT.
2017: Presentation [on Awakenings], African Art Book Fair, La Colonie, Paris.
2017: (with Lionel Davis) Awakenings book launch, District Six Museum, Cape Town.
2017: Opening speech, Zemba Luzamba exhibition, Stellenbosch University Art Museum.
2017: Keynote address, Lionel Davis retrospective exhibition opening, South African National Gallery (SANG).
2016: Lecture series, “Aesthetics of Decolonisation”, Centre for Visual Arts, UKZN.
2016: Presentation (on ASAI), President’s Competition, Gaborone, Botswana.
2016: Opening speech, Sfiso ka Mkame exhibition, African Art Centre, Durban.
2016: Presentation on publishing, for postgraduate students and staff, Centre for Visual Arts, UKZN.
2015: Opening speech, Manfred Zylla/ Garth Erasmus exhibition, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2015: Moderator, conversation with Zemba Luzamba, Africa Month, UCT.
2014: Speaker, Peter Clarke memorial, SANG.
2014: Panellist, publishing symposium, Dakar Biennale, Senegal.
2013: Panellist, Against the Grain exhibition, SANG.
2012: Panellist, publishing symposium, Dakar Biennale.
2012: Presentation [on ASAI website], Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2012: Conference paper, African Studies Association, Philadelphia, USA.
2011: Presentations, Visual Century book launches, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; James Gallery, College of New York; Wits University; Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre; SANG; Institute for Democratic Alternatives (IDASA), Cape Town.
2011: Lecture, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique.
2010: Panellist, Bonani documentary photography conference, Centre for the Book, Cape Town.
2010: Panellist, Borders (Bamako biennale) exhibition, SANG.
2009: Panellist, Africa Cont consultative conference, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
2008: Conference paper, South African Visual Arts Historians, University of Stellenbosch.
2007: Opening speech, Madi Phala posthumous exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: Presentation, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)/ Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) seminar, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Panellist, VANSA conference, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Guest lecture, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
2006: Panellist, Picasso in Africa exhibition, Centre for the Book, Cape Town.
2000: Lecture [on Community Arts Project], School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.
1998: Presentation on cultural policy [on behalf of Community Arts Network], Parliamentary Arts & Culture Standing Committee, Cape Town.
1996: Course/ workshop series, “Mural Art History”, Community Arts Project, Cape Town.
1994: Presentation on cultural policy [on behalf of Arts and Cultural Development Network], Parliamentary Arts & Culture Standing Committee, Cape Town.
1994: Respondent, South African Association of Art Historians conference, University of Stellenbosch.
1990: Conference paper, South African Association of Art Historians, UCT.
1990: Panelist, Political Cartoons in the Western Cape exhibition opening, Centre for African Studies, UCT.
1989: Course/ lecture series (History of Art I), “African Art”, UCT.
1989: Conference paper, South African Association of Art Historians, University of Natal, Durban.

Organisation of Workshops & Conferences

2023: (for ASAI) Print Access Workshops at UCT, Wits University and Art Print Studio KZN
2019: (for ASAI) Critical Epistemologies workshop, Art for Humanity, Durban University of Technology (three-day workshop for writers)
2018: (for ASAI) Lithography Workshop, UCT (two-week workshop for printmakers trained at the Community Arts Project)
2017: Roundtable conversations with artists associated with community arts networks from the 80s/90s, KZNSA Gallery, Durban; Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth; Trauma Victim’s Empowerment Centre, Thohoyandou.
2014: (For ASAI) “In Print”, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Two week access workshop for professional printmakers.
2011: “Art as an act of decolonization: perspectives from and on the global south”. Convenor/chairperson of conference panel, CIHA/SAVAH conference, Wits University.
2008: (For Visual Century project) “South African Artists as Exiles, Emigrants and Expatriates, 1938-1990” Centre for African Studies, UCT (one day research seminar with former exiles and researchers)
1990-98: Co-organised national and provincial conferences and workshops for the Cultural Workers Congress, Federation of South African Cultural Organisations, Arts & Cultural Development Network, and Community Arts Project. These were held at the UCT, UWC, and CAP.
1991: (co-convenor, with Sandra Klopper), South African Association of Art Historians conference, UCT.

Advisory/Committee Work

2022: Ajudicator, KZNSA members annual exhibition.
2017- present: Member, Acquisitions Committee, Durban Art Gallery. Member, Advisory Board, UKZN Gallery.
2006-21: Consulting Editor, Critical Interventions: journal of contemporary African culture, USA.
2009-12: Member, Advisory Council, Third Text, London.
2008-10: Member, Visual Arts Advisory Panel, National Arts Council of South Africa.
1998-99: Representative of South African NGO Coalition, National Standards Body for Culture & Arts (NSB02). Also, chairperson, National Lead Project for Arts & Culture; and convenor, Arts NGO’s Accreditation Lobby.
1994-98: Member of advisory bodies to the Adult Basic Education & Training sub- directorate of the Western Cape Education Department.
1987-99: Active member, including several leadership positions, in community organizations: Arts & Culture Forum of the City of Cape Town (1998-99); Arts & Cultural Development Network (1994); Visual Arts Group (1989-93); Cultural Workers Congress (1988-93); Gardens Youth Congress (1987-90).
1991: Visual arts editor (western Cape), Staffrider.
1979-81: Founder member and club DJ, Scratch, Cape Town

International Awards/Invitations

2022: Association of Art Museum Curators Excellence Award: Digital Publications. For Malangatana: Mozambique Modern (with lead curators H. Folkerts, F. Mings and C. Petridis).
2022: Invited participant (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Dakar Biennale.
2022: Invited participant (ASAI), Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, HKW.
2022: Invited scholar, “Pioneers of contemporary African art” symposium, National Institute of Art History (INHA), Paris.
2020: Invited scholar, C-Map programme, Museum of Modern Art, New York (zoom).
2017: Invited participant (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Paris.
2016: International Adjudicator, President’s Competition, National Museum, Gaborone.
2014: Invited guest (ASAI), African Art Book Fair, Dakar Biennale.
2012: Invited guest, Dakar Biennale.
2011: Invited guest, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo.
2009: Invited guest, Africa.cont, Lisbon.
1998: Invited delegate (Community Arts Project), “Shuttle 99” cultural exchange programme organized by Nordic Council of Ministers, Denmark & Sweden.

Other

1983 (May) – 1985 (January): Fled South Africa to avoid military conscription. Lived precariously in New York, Portugal and Zimbabwe. Returned to RSA after expelled from Zimbabwe as a “security risk”

Joe Turpin

b.1995 Johannesburg, South Africa; lives in Johannesburg.

Joe Turpin is an artist whose research practice focuses on historically charged narratives and semiotics as expansions of painting. Joe makes mixed-media installations grounded in painting that create temporal conversations about identity, memory, and history. Turpin graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2023 with an MFA in Painting & Drawing, and from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2018 with a BA in Fine Art.

Education

2023: MFA Painting & Drawing, Pratt Institute, New York
2018: BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions

2024: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Cape Town
2024: Striking Roots, Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Lusaka, Zambia
2024: Set in Stone, South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town
2023: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Durban
2023: When the Dust Settles, NWU Gallery, North West University, Potchefstroom
2021: More Than We Can Bear, Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg
2021: Complicit Victim: On the Margin of the Shoah, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Johannesburg
2017: Pop (T)Art!, Ants Parkhurst, Johannesburg
2016: No Holding Bars, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

Group Exhibitions (International)

2023: Making Place, Thesis Exhibition, Pfizer Building, Pratt Institute, New York, United States (in fulfilment of MFA Degree)
2019: London Summer Intensive Residency Showcase, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2018: Larroque Arts Festival, Galerie La Vieille Poste, Larroque, France
2017: Protest Stickers, Metal, Barbapapa et Armistice Exposition, Continuum espace de projet, Bordeaux, France
2017: 6th TSAI-MO Art Festival, Taichung City Tun District Art Centre, Taichung City, Taiwan
2017: Abstractive by Creative Debuts, The Black & White Building, Shoreditch, London, England
2016: What is the Future of Art?, Future Late, Tate Modern, London, England

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2024: Art Start, Them Again Collective, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg
2023: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
2023: Stairways & Ruins, ViNCO, NWU Gallery, North West University, Potchefstroom
2023: Reflections, Bag Factory Artist Studios', Johannesburg
2022: Hegemony, The Hart, Troyeville, Johannesburg
2022: Spier Light Art Festival, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
2021: Joburg Fringe, The Art Room Parkhurst, Johannesburg
2021: Bag Factory 30 Years: So Far, The Future, FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
2021: Meeting Places, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios x Guns & Rain Gallery, Oxford Parks Precinct, Johannesburg
2021: Paper, RMB Turbine Art Fair 2020 (Online)
2020: Coexistence, TMRW Gallery (The Mixed Reality Workshop), Johannesburg
2020: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
2020: RMB Turbine Art Fair (Online), with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
2020: Latitudes Art Fair (Online), with with Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
2020: Myopia, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley (Online) 
2019: Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg
2019: IN:DIALOG Bez Valley, Moon Valley Studios, Johannesburg
2019: Everything’s For Sale, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2019: Something Other - A Diversion In The Career Of The Artist, No End Contemporary Art Space, Johannesburg
2019: Winter Salon, Bag Factory Artists Studios, Johannesburg
2018: NEWWORK18, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg (in fulfilment of BFA Degree)
2018: INBETWEEN, Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: Visible Tones, curated stream, part of ‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: WakaWaka, AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: Expressions of Freedom, 2016 Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, curated by Kalashnikovv Gallery
2016: MUSTRISE, ArtEC Gallery, Gqeberha, (Travelled to National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, June 2016)
2015: Les is More Campaign, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg
2015: Expressions of Freedom, 2015 Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, Old Fort Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, curated by Kalashnikovv Gallery

Residencies

2024: Artist in Residence, Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Lusaka, Zambia
2020/2021: Artist in Residence, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020: Artist in Residence, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2019: London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Art & Camden Arts Centre, London, England

Awards

2022: Stutzman Foundation First Year MFA Fine Arts Awards for Three-Dimensional Art recipient
2018/19: Cassirer Welz Award finalist (Top 3)

Reviews & Articles

2024: Philip Todres, Joe Turpin - Set in Stone at SA Jewish Museum, MapMyWay
2023: CreativeFeel, When The Dust Settles | Preserving the Memory of a Lost Community, Creative Feel
2019: Nkgopoleng Moloi, Joe Turpin in the Depths of Art through Historical Narratives, Semiotics and the Expansion of his Painting Practice, Artskop

Workshops

Print Access Workshop (colour linocut), ASAI x Wits School of Art (2025), Johannesburg

Links

Joe Turpin's website

Nyakallo Maleke

b.1993 Johannesburg, South Africa; lives in Johannesburg.

Nyakallo Maleke is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Currently, she works primarily with large scale, mixed-media drawing processes, often using pastel, sewn thread and charcoal in textured explorations of space, surface, and colour. 

Not Every Flower Blooms Under Harsh Light

2018. Performance in Italy.

 


you may need to fit into the team, the team may not fit into you – Lehae

2017. one part of two channel video, 15:00.


you may need to fit into the team, the team may not fit into you – Hae

2017. one part of two channel video, 15:07.

Education

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg.
2019: Master of Arts HES-SO/ MA (Art in Public Spheres), école de design et haute école d’art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland.
2016: Asiko International Art School Alumni, Addis Ababa edition, Ethiopia.
2015: Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts (Honours), The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions

2023: Making Sense of the Same Story, Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg.
2016: Leaning Towards an Edge that Does Not Leak, John Muafangejo Art Centre Art Season, Namibia, (City Centre and Katutura) Windhoek.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2019: AfroLuso Residency Exhibition, Modzi Arts Gallery, Lusaka, Zambia.
2019: Masters Graduation Exhibition, USEGO, Sierre, Switzerland.
2018: Live Works Vol 6, Performance Act Award, Centrale Fies: Drodesera Festival, Dro, Italy.
2018: Group Exhibition, MAXX Space, Sierre, Switzerland.
2018: The Dog Done Gone Deaf: The Sonic Cosmologies of Halim El Dabh, 13th Dak’art Biennale, Musee IFAN, Dakar, Senegal.
2016: Here and Here, Asni Art Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2021: A Cloud, Studio Nxumalo/Gallery 2, Johannesburg.
2021: The Problem with Contemporary African Art is...? Studio Nxumalo/Meta Foundation Gallery, August House, Johannesburg
2021: The Cultural Life of Spaces, Association of Visual Artists Gallery, Cape Town.
2021: Territories Between Us, Iziko Museums, Cape Town.
2021: Handle With Care, Javett Art Centre, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.
2021: Emergence, Forms Gallery, Online.
2021: Monotypes...A Monotypebabe Experience, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg.
2020: An Exhibition In Several Acts/ A Lexigram Of Ideas, August House Gallery, Johannesburg.
2019: FSTOP CLUB Zine and Self-Publishing: Edition Three, Market Photo Workshop. Johannesburg.
2017: Untitled, [Mural Project], Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg
2017: The New Parthenon, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2016: Sorry, Please Try Again, Cape Town.
2016: HERE WE, by Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, ROOM Gallery & Projects NPC, Johannesburg.
2016: Nothing Gets Organised (NGO), Nothing Gets Organised, Johannesburg.
2015: RAMP, Stevenson Gallery, Woodstock Cape Town
2015: Even Younger Than, Assemblage, Johannesburg.
2015: Newwork15, Graduate Show, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg.
2014: Thirteen Fourteen, Substation Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2014: Ideally, Substation Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2014: One thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty, Hotel Bannister Basement, Johannesburg.

Performances

2018: Not Every Flower Blooms Under harsh light, Drodesera Festival, Dro, Italy
2018: Performing Scores, 13th Dak’art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal.

Residencies

2020: Foundation Opale Residency, Sydney, Australia.
2019: AfroLuso Modzi Residency, Lusaka, Zambia.
2018: Centrale Fies: Live Works Vol.6, Performance ACT Award Residency, Trento, Italy.
2016: Àsíko International Art Programme, CCA Lagos, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Awards

2019: The Excellency Prize of HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
2014: Recipient of the Martienssen Prize (currently known as The Wits Young Artist), Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa

Presentations

2020: When Drawing has to Move, [a drawing class], in_herit Festival, Iziko Museums, online. 

Reviews & Articles

2021: Olga Speakes,  Impossible Encounters: "Territories Between Us" at ISANG, Artthrob
2018: Gemma Hart, School of Anxiety // Processes of (Un)learning in Collaborative Art Praxis, BubblegumClub
2017: Christopher McMichael, NOTHING GETS ORGANISED - Spaces of Freedom, BubblegumClub
2016: Martha Mukaiwa, John Muafangejo Season Art, Archivism and Activism, The Namibian

Links

Nyakallo Maleke's website.
Nyakallo Maleke's page on the FORMS Gallery website.

Rehema Chachage

b. 1987, Dar es Salaam, lives in Vienna.

Rehema Chachage is a visual artist whose practice can be viewed as a performative archive. Chachage collects histories tied to women in the Swahili region – stories, rituals, melodies, relics, and oral and written forms. Studying and intervening with these sources, the artist engages a playful research-based process of art and archival production.

my legend dancer-rc rumination with orupa mchikirwa nankondo

Education

Current: PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Art Vienna, Vienna.
2018: Masters of Art (MA), Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, London.
2009: Bachelor of Arts (BA), Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (Tanzania and South Africa)

2013: Mshanga, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam.
2010: Chipuza ('Germinate’), Goethe Institute Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
2009: Haba na Haba, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2023: Nitakujengea kinyumba na vikuta vya kupitia [A Home for You I Will Create with Exit Pathways – A Gut Feeling], Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Wien, Austria
2017: Mlango wa Navushiku (Navushiku’s Lineage), Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi.
2012: Orupa Mchikirwa/Mshanga, (residency exhibition), Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi.

Group Exhibitions (Tanzania and South Africa)

2020: Tomorrow there will be more of us, The Inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale, Concepts of Freedom Pavillion, Stellenbosch.
2018: Converge, RAW Spot Gallery, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2016: East Africa Focus, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2016: Consuming us, special projects, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2019: Amani: In the footsteps of a colonial research station, MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg.
2019: LIVE WORKS, Performance Act Award 2019, Drodesera.
2018: Dak’Art, African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar.
2017: THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES: On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space, A Collaboration of SAVVY Contemporary with FFT Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf.
2016: In the blink of an eye, Arthub Asia, Shanghai.
2016: When things fall apart: Critical voices on the radars, Trapholt Museum, Kolding.
2016: Kabbo ka muwala/ The girl’s basket, (migrating exhibition), Harare; Kampala; Bremen.
2015: African Odysseys, BRASS Cultural Centre of the Forest, Brussels.
2014: Where we’re at! Other voices on gender, Bozar, Brussels.
2013: 18th International Contemporary Festival VIDEOBRASIL, Sao Paolo.
2013 - 2014: STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY: Video Art from Africa, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo; 28th edition of VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand; Motorenhalle, Dresden; Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Ben Uri Museum, London.
2012: Story on Story, Akiyoshidai International Art Village. Yamaguchi.

Awards

2023: H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance.
2020: Shortlist, Henrike Grohs Art Award.
2016: Pro-Helvetia Ant Funding Grantee, for solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare.
2014: African Arts Trust Grantee, for incubation and running of Kuta-na Sanaa: A residency and mentorship programmed project at Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam.
2014: apexart Franchise 2nd Winner, for Beauty Salons and the Beast.

Residencies and Fellowships

2019: Fellow, Art Writing Work: A collaborative project promoting art writing in East Africa, Nairobi; Kampala.
2017: Research Fellow, Arts of Africa and the Global South, Rhodes University, Fine Art Department, Grahamstown.
2016: Artist in Residence, ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik), Berlin.
2015: Artist in Residence (April - June), Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam.
2012: Artist in Residence (January - March), Akiyoshidai International Artist Village (AIAV), Yamaguchi.
2011: Artist in Residence (July - September), Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen, Dale i Sunnfjord.

Workshops and Presentations

2019: Panelist, The Burden of Memory: Considering German colonial history in Africa, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé.
2019: Artist Talk, in Vizazi: Contemporary visual culture of Tanzania, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
2015: Performative Lecture, Today’s standard of African Beauty, during 'VENUS - The anti-hero hero', Framer Framed, Amsterdam.
2015: Presentation, Representation & Invisibility, (illuminating questions on power structures and relations within the art world, in terms of gender, status, western hegemony on taste, representation, etc), Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm.
2014: Panelist, How Contemporary is Tanzanian Art?, during exhibition 'Imaginings: The Worlds of George Lilanga', National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam.

Curatorial Projects

2016: Co-curator, About Time: The Exhibition, (an exhibition of lens-based media interventions), Stone Town, 09 - 17 July.
2015: Co-curator, Impose/Expose: Art Revealing Space, (an exhibition of nine artistic interventions in central Dar es Salaam), 26 September – 10 October.
2015: Co-curator, Beauty Salons and the Beast, (an apexart winning franchise with site specific interventions in Beauty Salons and Barbershops of Dar es Salaam), Dar es Salaam, 07 February - 07 March.

Publications

(featuring the artist's work)

2024: Emanuel Admassu, Anita N. Bateman, Where is Africa, vol. 1, Centre for Art, Research and Alliances, New York: 290-308.
2017: Ruth Simbao, Reaching Sideways, Writing Our Ways: The Orientation of the Arts of Africa Discourse, with William B. Miko, Eyitayo Tolulope Ijisakin, Romuald Tchibozo, Masimba Hwati, Kristin NG-Yang, Patrick Mudekereza, Aidah Nalubowa, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Lee-Roy Jason, Eman Abdou, Rehema Chachage, Amanda Tumusiime, Suzana Sousa and Fadzai Muchemwa, 'African Arts' vol 50(2): 10-29.
2017: Margareta Wallin Wictorin, An African woman coming to voice through a multi-modal work in 'Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories', Brydon; Forsgren; Fur (eds), Leiden/Boston: Brill. 211-226.
2014: PRŌTOCOLLUM: An artists’ journal for contemporary non-Western art, vol 1: 66.
2014: AFRIKADAA: Afro Design and Contemporary Arts, in 'Image En Mouvement: Re-Inventing Narratives', vol 8: 112-113.
2014: Africa Masters: Rising Stars (Tanzania Edition), The African Channel, London.

Links

Rehema Chachage's website

 

Kim Karabo Makin

Kim Karabo Makin

b. Gaborone, Botswana, 1994. Lives and works between Gaborone and Cape Town.

Kim Karabo Makin is a multidisciplinary artist and her practice combines sculpture, sound and installation, with a research base and unique spatial awareness. Her work is informed by her multiculturalism — with particular attention to the role that context plays in identity formation. Kim Karabo Makin is a founding member of the Botswana Pavilion, an artist collective interrogating Botswana’s creative identity. 

Education

2019–present: Master of Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. 
2018: Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Group exhibitions

2020: Home is where the art is, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2020: The Mutha_Ship Landing, Salt River, Cape Town.
2020: The Botswana Pavilion: Collective Ties, Pro Helvetia Johannesburg [online exhibition].
2020: Past Present Currents, presented by Re-Curators for Latitudes Art Fair [online exhibition]. 
2020: Michaelis Masters Showcase, RMB Turbine Art Fair [online exhibition]. 
2019: Graduate Exhibition, RMB Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2019: The Botswana Pavilion: Subjective Nationhood, Botswana National Art Gallery, Gaborone.
2019: The Botswana Pavilion: No Return, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town.
2019: Formally Known As, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Grad Show 2018, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2018: 2018 Absa L’Atelier, ABSA Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018: The Devil Loves When We Loathe Ourselves, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2017: The changing realities in which we live at UCT, Molly Blackburn, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2015: Return to Sender, Centre for African Studies (CAS) Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Panels

2020: Moderator, Collective Ties: methods for creative and cultural exchange in the region, British Council, Johannesburg. 
2020: Panelist, Culture, Tourism and the New Narrative, World Bank Art Program. 

Reviews

2019: Mashabela, Khanya, Subjective Nationhood: ‘The Botswana Pavilion: No Return’ at Gallery MOMO.
2019: Fisher, Tyrone, Batswana Artists Exhibit Their Work at Gallery Momo in Cape Town.
2019: Art Meets TV, The Botswana Pavilion: No Return, YouTube.

Links

Cheryl Traub-Adler

Cheryl Traub-Adler

b. Cape Town, South Africa, 1959.

Cheryl Traub-Adler is an interdisciplinary artist. Her public art intersects between performance, embodied practice and localized site-specific disruption. In studio Cheryl Traub-Adler focuses on the creative process in printmaking, collage, poetry and painting.

Education

1981: Diploma in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1995: Waldorf Teacher Training, Centre for Creative Education, Cape Town. 
2003: Bridging Polarities through Art, Online Course. 
Online Studies.
2011-19: Online courses, Medicine and the Arts: Humanizing Healthcare, The University of Cape Town; What is a Mind?, The University of Cape Town; Identity, Conflict and Public Space, Queen’s University; Politics, Art and Resistance, The University of Kent; Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum, University of Leicester; Why We Post, University College London; Arts and Technology Teach-Out, University of Michigan.

Solo Exhibitions

2021: *elementals & incidentals, Nel Gallery, Cape Town. 
2017: Analogue V, Alliance Française, Cape Town.
2012: The Figure Imagined, Art In The Forest, Cape Town.
2012: Ancestral Robe Washing, FirstSite Specific, Plettenberg Bay. 
2014: The Minds Eye, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudshoorn.

Group Exhibitions

2024: Peace Matters, Collaborative Installation with 12 Artists, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town.
2021: Autumn Show, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town. 
2020: Summer Show, African Super Studios, Cape Town.
2020: Fly To Me, The Project Space, Johannesburg.
2019: Fundamental Rationalism, Eclectica Print Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Politics of Water (Performance Photographs Curated by Mirjam Asmal), Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2018: Privacy is not a Right, Slave Church Museum, Cape Town.
2018: Politics, Art and Resistance, TATE Modern/TATE exchange FutureLearn, London.
2017: New Guard, ArtB Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Persistence of Memory, Centre for Curating the Archive, Untitled Studios,  Cape Town. 
2015: Oppressive Space, Wolf Architects Pumflet ‘Rondehuis, Cape Town.

Installations

2020: Garden of a Future Nostalgia (with Luan Nel), Nel Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2019: Daor Contemporary Opening: Installation - Mixed Tapes ReWind Version 2
2019: My Mothers Dress (Finalist Winner), PPC Imaginarium, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018: Home Affairs / Artweek Cape Town (Curated by Astrid Von Brucken), Collaborative Intervention,  Daor Contemporary, Cape Town.
2018: Deconstructing National Monuments, Thupelo Workshop, Cape Town.
2018: Artists Breath, GUS Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
2016: Paths of Pilgrimage, Roundabout.LX, Lisbon.
2015: Bloed, Snake Eagle Thinking Path, Matjiesfontein, South Africa.
2014: Making Space, Open City, Church Square, Cape Town.
2014: Basurama, Gardens, Cape Town.
2014: Kraal.Installation Performance, Nieu Bethesda, South Africa.
2014:  Hyym Zys Hyym/Home Sweet Home Installation, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudshoorn.
2014: Cage of Follies, Geodesic Dome, Tankwa Karoo, South Africa.
2013: Lifna Adam- Artisinal Response, Installation,  Fez, Morocco.
2013: Xtincture & the Salt in the Wound, Greatmore Studio, Cape Town.
2011: Ithemba Love Letters (with OneMileClock), BurningMan, Nevada.
2010: Dream Interactive BodyMap Installation, AfriKaburn, Stonehenge Private Reserve, South Africa.
2010: TroyArtPuppet contributor to TroyArt, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Performance

2019: Mihloti Ya Wansati / Women’s Tears (with Lizette Chirimme), Investec Art Fair Gallery Night, AVA Stoep, Cape Town.
2017: What the Body Remembers, Collaborative Alliance Française du Cap, Cape Town.
2017: Drawing the Line, Kalk Bay Platform, Collaborative public intervention with Gita Galinea and SlowLife, Kalk Bay, South Africa
2014: How long is a piece of string? Afrikaburn, Tankwa Karoo, South Africa.

Links

cheryl-traubadler.co.za

Yasmien Mackay

b. 1997, Durban, South Africa; lives in Durban.

Yasmien Mackay utilizes digital photography, video and printing, with found objects and installation, to explore and provoke responses to questions of patriarchy, culture, language and identity in contemporary society. A graduate of DUT, Mackay has been exhibiting her work since 2016.

Education

2019:  Bachelor of Technology, Fine Art (cum laude),  Durban University of Technology, Durban.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2020:  An Unfurling: Young Artist Project, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2019:  When Thoughts Become Things, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2019:  Zeitgeist Africa, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2019:  Entrepreneurship Through the Arts, Durban International Convention Centre, Durban.
2019:  Emma Smith Nominee Exhibition, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2018:  DUT Fine Art & Jewellery Design Graduate Exhibition, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2018:  SHIFT. DISREGARD. RETHINK, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2018:  DOES THIS OFFEND YOU?  BAT Centre, Durban.
2016:  National Creative Arts Youth Festival, Durban University of Technology Gallery, Durban.
2016:  New Beginners, Durban Art Space, Durban.

Awards

2019:  Fine Art Excellence Award (Fourth Year Top Student), Durban University of Technology.
2018:  Fine Art Excellence Award (Third Year Top Student), Durban University of Technology.
2018:  Dean’s Merit Award for National Diploma in Fine Art, Durban University of Technology.
2017:  Fine Art Excellence Award (Second Year Top Student), Durban University of Technology.
2016:  Third Place, National Creative Arts Youth Festival.
2016:  Fine Art Excellence Award (First Year Top Student), Durban University of Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Krishna Luchoomun

b. 1962, Mauritius.

Krishna Luchoomun is an artist, art lecturer and organiser from Mauritius. He is the co-founder of pARTage, an artist led art organisation working for the promotion of contemporary art in Mauritius.

 

Because of its colonial past, Mauritius is an island where different cultural groups pretend to live together. Since my early childhood, I have been exposed to different customs and traditions and this has helped shape my awareness of the world, of what it means to be human and of the innate need that most of us have to connect – physically, emotionally and spiritually – with other human beings and with the natural world. This sensitivity is at the heart of my practice. I use clothing not only as a basic material, but essentially as a means of artistic expression to revisit both slavery and indentureship to explore issues pertaining to Identity, multiculturalism and nationhood. And linking these to the reality of today’s world in relation to life, culture, economy and politics of Mauritian society.

Art Education

Currently Senior Lecturer at M.G.I. School of Fine Arts
1990 M.A. in fine arts, Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, former USSR
Part-time lecturer, Visual Arts Department, Mauritius Institute of Education
Part-time lecturer, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mauritius
Part-time lecturer, IVTB School of design, Mauritius

Solo Exhibitions

2015 My Soviet years, French Cultural centre, Mauritius
2010 Doors, Imaaya gallery, Mauritius
2006 KULER RUZ&lt, gallery, Mauritius
2004 Charles Gounod Gallery, Reunion
2000 Plantage Dookland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Alliance Française, Mauritius
1991 Eureka House, Mauritius
1990 House of Friendship, Leningrad, Russia

Group Exhibitions

2017 pARTage International Artists Workshop, French Cultural centre
2017 Artistes des Iles de L`ocean Indien, La Region, Reunion
2017 Third Dot, Long Beach Hotel, Mauritius
2017 PORLWI by Nature, Mauritius
2017 Geumgang Nature Art Center, South Korea
2016 Mother Earth, Father Sky, Tsukuba Art Centre, Japan
2016 Borderline, Granary, Mauritius
2016 WE- Architecture, Korean Cultural centre Delhi, India
2016 METAFORM; Rogers House, Mauritius
2016 PORLWI by People, Mauritius
2015 First Mauritius Pavilion 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
2014 ARTchipelago, IFM, Mauritius
2013 IKARU, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
2013 Offline, Portugal
2012 Thupelo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Triangle 30 years, New York, USA
2011 CBK Zuidoost gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 International workshop, AIFACS, India
2009 SADC meeting, Botswana
2008 Beijing 3rd Biennale, China
2007 insulART international exhibition, MGI, Mauritius
2006 Open Studios, Gasworks, London, UK
2006 Britto, Bangladesh
2005 2nd Biennale Beijing, China
2005 2nd East African Biennale, Tanzania
2004 pARTage International Artists Workshop, Mauritius
2003 Staedlijk Museum of Zwolle, The Netherlands
2003 Nicole Chabot and Krishna, Alliance Francaise, Mauritius
2003 Abiko Open Air exhibition, Abiko, Japan
2003 Latitude 2003, Municipality of Paris, France
2003 Karte postale, St Pierre, Reunion
2003 Modern Arts Museum, Windhoek, Namibia
2002 1st Triennial, Mauritius
2001 Slip Way Art Gallery, Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania
1999 International artists` workshop, Nida, Lithuania
1999 World Print Triennial, Chamalieres, France
1999 MOBAA Millenium exhibition, Mauritius
1999 Escale International Exhibition, Eureka, Mauritius
1999 MOBBA Sequences, Le Caudan, Mauritius
1999 African contemporary Art, Beijing, China
1997 9th Triennial, India
1995 Africus, Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa
1995 Uecker Class, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 World Prints Triennial, Chamalieres, France
1994 Werkhof gallery, Germany
1993 Bothnia Seascape, Oulu, Finland
1993 Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
1992 Biennial of Seychelles

Residencies & Workshops

1993 Seascape Symposium, Finland
1995 Uecker Workshop, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 International Creole Festival, Reunion
1997 Gandhi Residential Artists Workshop, India
1998 Printmaking Workshop with H. Di. Rosa, French Cultural Centre
1999 Residential Workshop, Nida, Lithuania
2000 Printmaking Workshop, Reunion
2000 SADC Art and Crafts workshop, Namibia
2001 Thami Mnyele, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Raffiki International Artists` workshop, Tanzania
2003 Abiko Residential workshop, Japan
2004 pARTage Residential workshop, Mauritius
2005 2nd Beijing Biennale workshop, China
2006 Two Months residency at Gas works studios, London
2007 insulART workshop, Mauritius
2007 ESCALE 10 years later, Mauritius
2008 Britto international workshop, Bangladesh
2008 Beijing Biennale, China
2009 Indian diaspora workshop, Mauritius

Art Positions Held

2017 Head of International Jury, Seychelles Biennale
2016 International Jury Barclays, L`Atelier, Johannesburg
2011 International Jury Video Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003 Co-founder of pARTage (association of Mauritian artists), Mauritius
Art organiser, Mauritius Examinations Syndicate, Mauritius
Art examiner, Mauritius Examinations Syndicate, Mauritius
Member of Arts Panel at Curriculum Research Center, Mauritius

Collections

Museum of U.S.S.R Academy of Fine Arts, Russia
State House of Republic of Mauritius, Mauritius
Prime Minister`s Office, Mauritius
Municipality of Port-Louis, Mauritius
Airport of Mauritius, Mauritius
The British Council, Mauritius
Bothnia Seascape Fund, Finland
The municipality of Salazie, Reunion
Bank National of Paris, Mauritius
Lalit Kala Academy Fund, India
Mauritius Offshore Banking Activities Authority, Mauritius
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, France
Thami Mnyele Foundation, The Netherlands
Rafiki Foundation, Tanzania
Munich Re- Insurance (German Offshore), Mauritius
Avalon Golf Estate, Mauritius
Office of the president of India, India
International Financial Services, Mauritius
Mauritius Commercial Bank
Central Bank of Mauritius
Private Collections in France, Reunion, England, Russia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, India, The Netherlands, South Africa, Namibia, Belgium

Published Works & Critical Reviews

Salon d’Automne, France
Biennial of Seychelles, Seychelles
World Printstriennial, Chamalieres, France
World of Ex-Libris, Switzerland
Made in Mauritius, Germany
9th Trienniale, India
MOBAA, Mauritius
Artists of the World – Save the Children, Mauritius
MOBAA Millenium exhibition, Mauritius
Abiko 2003, Japan
Latitude 2003, Paris, France
pARTage workshop 2004, Mauritius
2nd Biennale, China
Art in Mauritius, Mauritius
Springerin, Austria
3rd Biennale, China
Ties, Mauritius
Venice Biennial

Kristin NG-Yang

Kristin NG-Yang

b. 1970 Shandong, China. Lives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Kristin NG-Yang draws on her dual Chinese and South African identity to reflect on questions of migration, nature, agency and identity.

Art Education

Present: PhD, University of KwaZulu- Natal, KwaZulu-Natal.
2004: Master of Fine Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal.
1991: Central Academy of Fine Arts (majoring in oil paint painting), Beijing. 

Solo Exhibitions

2017: Perceptions & Prejudices, The Other Room, Durban.
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition,National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa. 
2016: Bird/Fish Solo Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery & Rivertown Contemporary, Durban. 
2015: Kristin’s Solo Exhibition, Tamasa Gallery, Durban.
2014: Diary in South Africa, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2013: Living in South Africa, Noeli Galley, Shanghai.
2012: Interpretation, Alliance Francaise, Durban.
2008: Art works by Kristin Hua Yang, Fogolino Art Gallery, Trento, Italy.
2008: Art works by Kristin Hua Yang, Cassa Rurale di Pergine, Pergine, Italy.
2007: Nordic Forest, KZNSA Gallery, Durban.
2004: Submerged Mindscape, Tamasa Gallery, Durban.
2003: MAFA exhibition, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 
2001: Drawing and oil paintings, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.

Group exhibitions

2017: Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg. 
2017: Bird/Fish studio I (with Rory Klopper), Bird/Fish Studio, Beijing.
2016: Zhishang - Kongjian, Bird Nest Art Center, Beijing, China
2016: Zhishang - Wanwei, Ban Space, Shanghai, China
2016: Zhishang - Zhishang, National Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
2015: Zhongshan Art Fair, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
2015: Female Art Exhibition, Naked Eye Gallery, Beijing, China
2014: LiRenWeiMei, ShangShang Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2014: Chufu, Yixing Art Space, Beijing, China
2014: ChongGouYiXiang 1, Yi Space, Beijing, China
2014: Exhale, Art Space Durban
2013: Sound From Africa, East Gallery, Guanlan, China
2013: The 2nd Chinese Young Artist selected Prints Exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing & Qingdao art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2013: What Lies Beneath, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2013: Consider China, Art Space Durban, South Africa.
2013: Chun Guang Za Xian, Yi Gallery, Beijing, China.
2012: Across the parallel lines (with Diane Victor), East Galley, Guanlan, China
2012: Lady of the Forest, Inky cuttlefish Studio, London, UK
2012: Art on Paper, Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
2011: Emerging Artist from South Africa, Pangyongjie Studio, Beijing, China
2010: 10 Years, 10 Artists, Tamasa Gallery, Durban
2010: Art exhibition, St Paul secondary school, London, U.K.
2010: Red Eye, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2010: Woman's Day, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2010: Jabulisa 2001, Tatham Art Gallery, Travelled to Durban, Margate, Empangeni, Eshowe Museum and Newcastle
2009: Cultural Landscapes, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
2008: CVA exhibition of staff and graduate students, Jack Heath Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
2008: Annual members exhibition, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2007: Pure and Simple, duet exhibition at ArtSpace, Durban
2007: Intel Exhibition of Art Works, Johannesburg and Cape Town
2007: Woman's Day, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2007: A4 from Durban, ArtSpace Berlin, Germany
2007: Annual members exhibition, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2006: Renault Artists: Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg; Renault exhibition hall, Port Elizabeth & Renault exhibition hall, Paris, France

Scholarships

2002: Top 45 Postgraduate Student Scholarship, University of KwaZulu-Natal
2010-2012: Rita Strong Scholarship
2001-2003: Rita Strong Scholarship

Sultana Haukim

b. 1974, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.

Sultana Haukim’s paintings and installations focus on issues affecting women in society such as female identity, sexual abuse and the dowry system.

Art Education

2003: Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Fine Art with Education, Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius.
1998: Teacher’s Diploma, Visual Arts, Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius.

Artist Statement

For the past few years my works have been focused on issues related to the life of women in our modern society. Being a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother, I have experienced the inequalities and prejudices towards woman and have better understood the situation of woman in the world. My status as a female artist gives me the possibilities to express and explore this closer universe of women.

My work also addresses the social and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary societies. Issues about female identity, femininity, concepts of beauty, female genital mutilation, oppression, sexual abuse, abortion and the dowry system, are among the different issues that I have been analyzing in my artwork.

I use mannequins as a metaphor of the female body, being seen as an object to please. From lifeless and dumb, my intervention on them opens doors to various interpretations; colour, matter, out-cuts, assemblage, optical play are some of the ingredients which give the mannequins an alternative look to keep the eye alert and the mind awakened so as to create meaningful change for the future of women.

Solo Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2011: Le Suffren Hotel, Port Louis.
2005: L’Alliance Francaise, Port Louis.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2013: WG Punt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Group Exhibitions (Mauritius)

2017: State House, Mauritius.
2016: Porlwi by people Festival.
2016: Metaform.
2015: Porlwi by light Festival.
2015: Bridge, Eco/ art Festival.
2014: Exhibition to commemorate the arrival of Indians in Mauritius, theme Glory of Bihar.
2012: Performance night, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2011: Renaissance, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2010: Festival L’Univert, Institut Francais de Maurice.
2009: Dodo Project , pARTage Gallery.
2007 & 2011: Salon d’ete, SSR Art gallery, Port Louis.
2006: All African Rotary Summit exhibition, Sugar Beach hotel.
2005: Second Triennial of Contemporary Art of the Indian Ocean.
2003 - 2017: Participation in the yearly Salon de Mai, Mahatma Gandhi Institute.
2002: First Triennial of Contemporary Art of the Indian Ocean.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015: Mauritius Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy.
2013: Expoesie, Saint Malo, France.
2012: Thupelo International artists’ exhibition, Greatmore Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2011: International artists exhibition, AIFACS, New Delhi, India.
2010: 4th International Biennale of Beijing, China.
2009: African Artist’s Network Exhibition, Kenya.
2008: International Artists exhibition, Theertha Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007: East African Biennale , Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Workshops

2017: International workshop, Migration, identity and belonging, pARTage, Mauritius.
2014: International workshop, ARTchipelago, pARTage, Mauritius.
2012: Thupelo Wellington 2012, Wellington, South Africa.
2011: International workshop, AIFACS, New Delhi, India.
2011: International Workshop,Art in the Forest, pARTage, Mauritius.
2008: International Artist Workshop, Theertha Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2006: Printmaking Workshop by Grete Marstein (Norway), Mauritius.
2006: ARTerre’ Workshop, pARTage, Mauritius.
2005: Second International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Mauritius.

Residencies

2016: Tsukuba Artist in Residency, Father Sky, Mother Nature, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
2013: Thami Mynele Foundation Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012: Residency/workshop with the French artist Veronique Bigo.

Awards

2007: First prize, Painting competition, Municipality of Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.
1996: Silver prize, Salon des Jeunes Talents Prometteur, L’institute pour le developpement des Arts de l’Ocean Indien, Port Louis, Mauritius.

Catalogues

2017: Migration, Identity and Belongings, pARTage.
2015:  56th Biennale of Venice, Italy.
2015: Pavilion of Mauritius, From One Citizen You Gather an idea, 56th Biennale of Venice.
2014: ARTchipelogo.
2012: Renaissance Exhibition.
2010: Commemoration of the Battle of Vieux Grand-Port.
2010: 4th International Biennale of Beijing, China.
2007: 1st Salon D'été.
2007: East Africa Art 2007 Biennale.
2006: Salon de Mai.
2006: ARTerre, Landscape Workshop, Mauritius.
Art for APRIM, (Parents’ association for the rehabilitation of mentally handicapped children).
1996: Salon des Talents Prometteurs 96.

Wonder Buhle

b.  Kwa-Ngcolosi, KwaZulu-Natal, 1989

Wonder Buhle is a mixed-media artist whose work deals with family dynamics and the stereotypes associated with men in South Africa.

Education and Teaching

2011: Advanced apprenticeship training, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2011: Velobala Mentorship Programme, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2011: Drawing and painting teacher, BAT Centre, Durban.
2010: Visual Arts Residency Program, BAT Centre, Durban.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2020: COMFORT, BKhz, Johannesburg.
2018: Ukumisa Insika, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2019: To Find Me, PilippZollinger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2019: the head the hand, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
2017: Looking After Freedom, Michealis gallery, Cape Town.
2017: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2016: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2015: Members exhibition, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2015: Blowing in the wind, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2015: Joburg Art Fair Fringe, Johannesburg.
2015: Henry George Gallery, Johannesburg.
2014: 50 shades of Grey, Art Eye Gallery, Johannesburg.
2014: Young Blood Gallery, Cape Town.
2014: African Art Centre, Durban.
2014: AWE, KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA) Gallery, Durban.
2013: Misconception, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2013: Art Eye Gallery, Johannesburg.
2013: Margate Art Museum, Margate.
2013: African Art Centre, Durban.
2012: Velobala exhibition, Durban University of Technology, Durban.
2012: ABSA L’atelier competition, Art Space Gallery, Durban.
2011: Don't Panic, Durban Art Gallery.
2011: Velobala exhibition, African Art Centre, Durban.
2011: Who am I, BAT Centre, Durban.
2011: Izikhwephazethu, Durban Art Gallery.
2010: Student exhibition, BAT Centre, Durban.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2023: Filling in the Pieces in Black, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium.
2020: The Medium is the Message, Unit London, London.
2018: In residence: Joey Chin & Buhle Wonder Mbambo, The Art House, Wakefield, United Kingdom.
2016: Bremer Burgerschaft, Bremen Parliament, Germany.
2012: Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany.

Public Art Projects

2014: Mural, Colgate and Palmolive, kan land, Durban.
2012: Mural, Lindelani primary school, Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal.
2011: Mural, Inqolo Noseyili exhibition (by artist Zoro Xaba), Durban.
2011: Mural, Renewing BAT Centre, Durban.
2011: Mural, Don't Panic exhibition, behind English Market, Durban.
2010: Mosaic, Sakhithemba Centre, Ilovu, KwaZulu-Natal.

Workshops

2012: Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) Art workshop, Collective Studios (residency abroad discourse), Johannesburg.
2012: Don’t Panic facilitated by Gabi Ngcobo, Zamani Makhanye & Sfiso Ka-Mkame, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2011: Sculpture workshop with Danielle Ncube, BAT Centre, Durban.
2011: Art workshop (Tribute to Ernest Mancoba) curated by Lionel Davis, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2011: Art workshop exploring Contemporary art, Edel Studio, Bremen, Germany.

Commissions

Nandos commission.
Colgate commission.

Collections

Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Art Eye Gallery, Johannesburg.
Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa.

Wonder Buhle's work is also included in private collections in Austria, Switzerland and the USA.

Maimuna Adam

Maimuna Adam

b. 1984, Maputo, Mozambique.

Maimuna Adam employs a diverse set of techniques to bring together the themes of memory, history, travel and migration. Her works weave fictional and non-fictional narratives related to the experiences of family and friends.

Education

2008: Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, University of Pretoria.

Solo Exhibitions (Mozambique)

2014:​ ¡Toma!, Instituto Cultural Moçambique-Alemanha (ICMA-Goethe Zentrum), Maputo.
2013​: Bon Voyage, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2015: Family, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth.

Group Exhibitions (Mozambique)

2015​: Colecção Crescente, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo.
2014​: Processos, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo.
2013: Crescent Collection, Kulungwana, Maputo.
2013: Living in this world, Mediateca BCI – Espaço Joaquim Chissano, Maputo.
2012: Between there and here, Bienal MUVART’12, ICMA-Goethe Zentrum, Maputo
2012: Crescent Collection, Kulungwana, Maputo.
2011: Dockanema 6, Video Art/Fundação PLMJ session, Maputo.
2011: Bienal TDM 2011, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2011: Exhibition of Mozambican Art, French-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo.
2010: MUVART’10 Contemporary Art Bienale, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2010: Women and Borders, French-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo.
2010: Love/Hate soccer, French-Mozambican Cultural Center, Maputo.
2010: Temporary Occupations – Paper/Role, Minerva Central Bookshop, Maputo.
2009: TDM Bienal, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2009: Karingana wa Karingana, Camões Institute, Maputo.
2004: Art in the Feminine, National Art Museum, Maputo.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015: Rastros, Museu Capixaba do Negro (MUCANE), Vitória, Espírito Santo.
2015: As Margens dos Mares, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo.
2015: Odyssées Africaines, BRASS Centre Culturel de Forest, Brussels.
2013: !Kauru: Africa Imagined, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
2013: hetero q.b., Chiado National Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon.
2013: Temporary Occupations – Documents, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
2012: 100 Works, 10 Years: A Selection from the PLMJ Foundation Collection, Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon.
2012: _tribune video, École Superieure d’Art de La Réunion, Le Port, Réunion.
2012: Africa meets Europe, Galeri Matesh, Breda.
2012: César Schofield Cardoso, Maimuna Adam, René Tavares, Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon.
2012: VI São Tomé & Príncipe Art and Culture Bienal, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
2011: VI Art and Culture Bienal, CACAU, São Tomé.

Awards

2012: PLMJ Foundation CPLP Video Art Prize, Lisbon
2009: Honorable mention for video, “The Curtain”, TDM Bienal, National Art Museum, Maputo.

Links

Khumo Sebambo, Negotiating the in-between, (ASAI, 2019).

 

Faith47

b. 1979, Cape Town. Lives in Los Angeles, USA. Faith XLVII (previously Faith47) is a street and studio-based artist who works with a wide range of media.  Her approach is explorative and substrate appropriate – from found and rescued objects, to time-layered and history-textured city walls and their accretions, to studio prepared canvas and wood. Her murals can be found in many cities in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.

Solo Exhibitions

2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Musée des Beaux-arts, Nancy, France.
2023: CLAIR – OSCUR, Daynsz Gallery, Paris, France.
2021: CHANT, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town. 
2018: Elixir, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami.
2015: AQUA REGALIA, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York. 
2014: Aqua Regalia, London, UK
2013: Fragments of a burnt history, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg.
2009: Epitaph, Mrego, Brussels. 
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, Atm Gallery, Berlin.
2008: The Restless Debt Of Third World Beauty, The Woom Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Group Exhibitions - International

2023: CO\LAB 5, Torrence Museum, California, USA.
2021: ‘The Land War’ Installation, MUCA Museum, Munich, Germany.
2021: Foundation, Group Show, Heron Gallery, San Fransisco, USA.
2020: One World, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Miami. 
2020: Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna.
2019: 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Together, KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles.
2019: Conquête Urbaine, Calais Museum of Fine Art, Paris. 
2019: Veni, Vidi, Vinci, Fluctuart, Paris.
2019: Tàpia, B-Murals, Barcelona. 
2019: Capture the Street, River Tales, Germany.
2019: We Rise, Los Angeles, USA.
2019: Beyond the Streets, New York City.
2019: Women in Street Art, Bernard Magrez Foundation, France.
2019: Art Miami, Miami.
2019: Art Basel, Miami. 
2018: One Way Through, Heron Gallery, San Francisco. 
2018: Women in Street Art, The Bernard Magrez Foundation, Paris. 
2018: True Will, Chins Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018: Moniker Art Fair, New York and London.
2018: Art Miami, Fabien Casteneir Gallery, Miami.
2018: Art Basel Miami, Miami.
2017: Urban Currents, Gallerie Kirk, Denmark.
2017: Magic Cities, Munich, Germany.
2017: the UrbanArt Biennale® , UNESCO Voelklinger Huette World heritage site,  Germany.
2017: Homeless, Void Projects, Miami.
2016: XX: A moment in time, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2016: Freedom as Form, Wunderkameren Gallery, Milan. 
2016: PM10, Urban Nation Museum, Berlin. 
2016: Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 
2014: Artscape , Malmoe, Sweden.
2014: Forest for the trees mural festival, Portland.
2014: Rencontres Australes d’Imaitsoanala, Antananaraivo, Madagascar.
2014: A study of Hair, Backwoods Galley, Melbourne.
2014: Redux , Inoperable Gallery, Vienna.
2014: Outdoor Urban art festival, Rome, Italy.
2014: Wywood walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2013: Anniversary Group Show ,White Walls Gallery, San Fransisco.
2013: Memorie Urbane Contemporary Festival, Gaeta, Italy.
2013: Escape the Golden Cage , Vienna, Austria.
2013: XII. Into the Dark, Unit44, The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle.
2013: Scupltura Viva International Symposium, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
2013: DOS, Toronto.
2013: Women on the walls, Jeffrey Deitch and Wynwood Walls, Miami. 
2013: Beyond Eden, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2013: Wall Therapy, New York. 
2013: Wooster Collective 10 Year Anniversary Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York. 
2013: Nuart Festival, Stavanger, Norway.
2013: Avant-Garde Urbano Festival, Tudela de Navarra, Spain.
2013: Los Muros Hablan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
2012: Antenna Garden, Rtist Gallery, Melbourne.
2012: Carbon Event, Melbourne.
2012: Warrington Museum, London.
2012: Herzensbrecher, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin.
2012: Kulturhuset , Stockholm.
2012: Wynood Walls, Miami.
2011: Urban Painting, Milan.
2011: MSA Gallery, Paris.
2011: Urban Mural Project, Greece. 
2011: Gossip Well Told, Second Edition, Warrington Museum, London.
2011: City Leaks Festival, Cologne.
2011: Inner Walls, Milan.
2011: Les murs litinerrance, Paris.
2011: Gossip Well Told, Blackall Studio, London.
2011: Visual Intervention, Rochester.
2011: Archetypes, View Art Gallery, England.
2011: Artmosh, Munich.
2011: Wuppertal Museum, Germany. 
2010: Moniker Art Fair, London.
2010: Stroke03 Art Fair, Berlin.
2010: Escape 2010, Veinna.
2010: Biennial, Sao Paulo.
2010: Urbanus International Mural Project, China.
2010: Focus10, Switzerland.
2010: Le Salon Du Cercle De La Culture A Berlin, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin.
2010: Design For Humanity, Thinkspace, Los Angeles.
2010: or Those Who Live In It…, Mu Gallery, Eindhoven.
2010: Muao Project, A Coruna, Spain. 
2010: Paint Your Faith, Aayden Gallery, Vancouver.
2010: A Cry For Help, Thinkspace, Los Angeles. 
2009: The Generations, The Showroom Gallery, New York.
2009: Artmosh, Paris.
2009: Artotale International Mural Project, Lueneberg, Germany.
2009: No New Enemies , Mr Ego, Brussels. 
2009: Four, 34 Long Fine Art Gallery , Cape Town.
2008: 1st Internationale Graffiti Bienale, belo Horizonte, Brazil. 
2008: Anything Could Happen, Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles. 
2008: Fatally Yours, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles.
2007: Crossover, Showroom Gallery, New York.
2007: Be Girl Be, Jntermedia Arts, Minneapolis.
2007: Pick Of The Harvest: Batch Four, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles.
2005: Subglob, Orebro, Sweden
2005: Go Gallery, Amsterdam

Group Exhibitions - South Africa

2020: Staring Straight to the Future, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2020: PINK, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg. 
2020: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town. 
2019: On Main Road, Constitution Hill Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, South Africa 
2019: FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg.
2018: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town. 
2017: Dislocation, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2017: Invisible Exhibition, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2017: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town.
2011: Outside, 34 Long Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Cool Stuff, 34 Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. 
2010: Nothing Is Everything, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Group Soup, Word Of Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: The Art Of The Living Dead, Baseline Studios, Johannesburg. 
2006: New Suburbia, Pretoria.
2006: Lines Of Attitude, South Africa and Kenya. 

Murals - International

2020: Y/our Vote, USA. 
2019: Universal Studios Indoor Artwork Commission, Los Angeles. 
2019: Dictator Art Installation, Columbia.
2019: United Labor Organization 100 Year Mural, New York City.
2019: Maya Angelou School Mural Upliftment Project, Los Angeles. 
2019: Mural Arts Large Mural Production, Philadelphia.
2019: Projection Mapping Mural, BLINK, Cincinnati. 
2019: RED, Mural Project for HIV Awareness, Lyon.
2018: Summit LA18, Los Angeles. 
2017: Artscape Festival, Sweden.
2017: Art Republic Mural Project, Jacksonville. 
2017: Art Council Public art intervention, New Orleans.
2017: Art Miami, Juxtapoz Clubhouse installation, Miami. 
2016: Cities of Hope Mural Project, Manchester. 
2016: Inter|urban Mural Project, Cleaveland. 
2016: Wynwood Walls, Art Basel, Miami.
2015: The Psychic Power of Animals Street Intervention, New York. 
2015: Dragon Tiger Mountain Mural Project, Nanachang, China.
2015: Pow Wow Taiwan, Taipei. 
2015: Ono’u Mural Project, Tahiti.
2015: Festival Mural, Montreal, Canada.
2015: Murals for Oceans Expedition Mural Project, Cozumel, Mexico.
2014: 5 Sector Mural Project, Glasgow.
2014: Berlin Wall 25th Anniversary Group Show, Paris.
2014: Djerbahood, Djerba, Tunisia.
2013: Pow Wow Mural Project, Hawaii.
2013: Upfest Mural Project, Bristol.
2013: MAUS Mural Project, Malaga, Spain.
2012: Mural Project, Tel Aviv.
2012: Aarhus International Mural Project, Aarhus, Denmark.
2012: Mural Project, Sion, Switzerland.
2012: Mural Project, Melun, France.
2012: Paris Free Walls, Paris.
2012: Wall Therapy, Mural Project, New York.
2012: World Open Walls, Miami.

Murals - South Africa

2017: Johannesburg Mural, Sandton. 
2016: 1200 - 900 BC, Cape Town, South Africa. 
2016: Unearth, Napier, South Africa. 
2015: Landfill Meditation Street Intervention, Johannesburg.
2015: Feet Don't Fail Me Now, Johannesburg. 
2014: A Study of Warwick Triangle at Rush Hour, Durban.
2015: Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem, Johannesburg, 2015.
2014: Harvest, Cape Town. 
2012: The Long Wait, Johannesburg.

Selected Publications & Links

Dave Mann, "CHANT: Faith XLVII’s public practice", Daily Maverick, April 22, 2020.

Ilana Herzig, "The Renegades Making Feminist Art In the Streets", Hyperallergic, October 31, 2019.

Petra Mason, "15 Young local artists that have wowed the world in 2019/", Times Lives, December 15, 2019.

Charu Suri, "Five Women Reinventing the Face of Street Art", Muse, August 8, 2018.

Liz Ohanesian, "This South African Street Artist Moved to L.A. to Explore the Politics of Being Human", LA Mag, April 17, 2018.

Brent Lindeque, "South African graffiti piece tops the worlds best list!', Good Things Guy, January 11, 2018.

Petra Mason, "Re-Mixing History: African Women Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017", Whitehot Magazine, December 2017.

Elizabeth Mccray, “Faith47”, Bliss magazine, April 2014

Ashraf Jamal, “Graffiti art: Faith 47,” Financial mail, April 23, 2014.

Brendon Bell-Roberts; Ashraf Jamal, “100 Good Ideas,” March, 2014.

Lisa van Wyk, “Faith47: Street Artist,” Mail & Guardian. 

Daisy Wyatt, “In search of a female Banksy: Aiko and Faith47 take on a male-dominated street art world,” The Independent, October 15, 2013.

Charlie Finch, “The Savage Street,” Artnet. 

Bsrat Mezghebe, “Faith47, Street Art and South Africa’s Contradictions,” CIMAMAG, October, 2013.

“Dal + Faith,” Very Nearly Almost Magazine, March, 2013.

Foadmin, “Faith47: Sea to Sea,” Fair Observer, December 26, 2012.

Andy Davis, “We Close Our Eyes to Stay Blind,” November 21, 2012.

“Interview with Faith47,” Dumbwall.

Matthew Krouse, “Streets ahead in the realm of public art,” Mail & Guardian, October 26, 2012.

“Faith47 (ZA),” Art Bastard.

“Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets,” September, 2011.

Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti World," 2009.

Kiriakos Iosifidis, “Mural Art,” November, 2008.

Nicholas Ganz, “Graffiti Woman,” 2006.

 

Jarrett Erasmus

b. 1984, Cape Town. Lives in Johannesburg.

Erasmus works in various media, focusing on current collaboration while thinking about post apartheid realities and its affects on the social dynamics between communities in South Africa as well as the diaspora.


Education

2017  Masters in Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016  ZHdk Summer School programme, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - 2010  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2005 - 2006  Design and Visual art Certificate, Arts and Media Access Centre (AMAC), Cape Town, South Africa
2003 – 2005  Cape Peninsula University of Technology Graphic Design

Projects and Exhibitions

2019  The Main Complaint, group exhibition, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2018  Curatorial Care, Humanising Practices conference, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South
Africa
2018  Museum Dialogues conference, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, Namibia
2018  Kewpie, The Daughter of District Six, public art event in collaboration with Gay And Lesbian Memory in Action and District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2017  Panelist, Any Given Sunday presentation, African Art in Venice Forum, Italy
2016  Re(as)sisting Narratives, group exhibition, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2016  Foundations and Futures, group exhibition, Bag Factory Arts studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016  Festival D’Art Urbain, Antanarivo, Madagascar
2016  Straatpraatjies, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2016  Poetry Circle Nowhere workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015  Empty Ghosts, Public Art project, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015  Artificial Facts: Boundary Objects, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany (Burning Museum)
2015  Objetos Frontera, CA2M, Madrid, Spain (Burning Museum)
2015  Addressing the Headquarters, presentation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Burning Museum)
2015  Cover Version, Gallery MoMo, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2015  Fortunes Remixed, group exhibition. Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014  Manufractured, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2014  Ubuntu Artist Exchange, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2014  Plakkers, group exhibition, Brundyn Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2014  Do It, Michaelis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2013  TO LET , Centre For African Studies gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Co-Curator, Till it Breaks, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Currency and Curiosity, Joule City Incubator & Research Studio, Cape Town, South Africa
2012  Material Things, solo exhibition, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012  S A S, group exhibition, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011  Mural Painting project at Community House, Salt River
2010  Plures Tectonicus (Many Mansions), Graduate solo exhibition, Albany Natural Sciences Museum Shell Gallery, Grahamstown, South Africa
2006  Mural painting, Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa

Workshops and Residencies

2018  OpenLab: The Art of Making, artists residency, Richmond, South Africa
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2014  Thupelo Artist’s Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa
2014  Arts Aweh Ambassadors programme (facilitator), Cape Town, South Africa
2013  Resident artist, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Cyan Development Concepts creative development workshops (teacher), Cape Town, South Africa
2012  Visiting Artist Residency, Through the lens: Drawing workshop, NAFASI Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012  Visiting Artist Residency, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012  Artist's workshop, Thupelo, Cape Town, South Africa
2011  Participant and facilitator, Koekenaap artists workshop, Matzikama District, South Africa

 

Awards and Academic achievements

2013  Business and Arts administrative certificate
2012  David Koloane Award
2011  Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Painting), Masters Degree Scholarship

Experience

2017 - present  Sessional Lecturer, Visual Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014  Infecting the City Festival High Schools programme, South Africa
2013 – 2014  Researcher and Digital archivist, Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), Cape Town, South Africa
2010 – 2012  Facilitator, Cyan Development Concepts community arts and creative development workshops, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 – 2010 Intern, Artb Gallery, Bellville, South Africa

Assistant (N.R.F. internship), Visual Art undergraduate programme, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Production Assistant, VOLTA Art Fair, Art Basel, Switzerland
Board member, Thupelo Artists Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa

Burning Museum

“The Burning Museum is a collaborative interdisciplinary collective rooted in Cape Town, South Africa… We are interested in the seen and unseen, the stories that linger as ghosts on gentrified street corners; in opening up and re-imagining space as potential avenues into the layers of history that are buried within, under, and between.”

Burning Museum Blog (click here)

“TO LET” , Palimpset from “TO LET” exhibition 2013

TO LET from Burning Museum on Vimeo.

The Mission and the Message: ‪#‎colonialproblems‬

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Selected images from “TO LET” exhibition , Centre for African Studies – September 2013

TO LET - exhibition poster
"Die Gang" (The Alley Texture)
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
COVER VERSION exhibition poster
"Ouma" and "Boy"
"Die Gang" (The Alley)
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
Cutouts
Installation
Mock titles mock sale
TO LET Graffiti broad view
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
COVER VERSION exhibition Installation. Gallery MOMO.-2015
TO LET Graffiti
TO LET Palimpset

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Solo Exhibitions

2015 Cover Version, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town
2014 Manufractured activation with Artefakte Aktivierung, Northern Suburbs Train line, Cape Town and Cafe Art, Stellenbosch
2013 "TO LET" , Centre for African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town

Group Exhibitions

2015 Boundary Objects. Madrid, Spain.
2015 Boundary Objects/ KÜNSTLICHE TATSACHEN, Kunsthaus Dresden. Dresden, Germany.
2015 Fortunes Remixed, Group exhibition, Bag Factory Art Studios. Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 Fortunes Remixed, Group exhibition, Underculture Contemporary. Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2015 Fortunes Remixed, Group exhibition, Art South Africa gallery. Cape Town, South Africa
2014 "Plakkers" - Brundyn+. Cape Town.
2014 Joburg Fringe video screening, Maboneng Precint, Johannesburg
2014 "Bring your own beamer" - Brundyn & Goncalves
2013 Greatmore Showcase
2013 Cape Town ArtWalk - Collaboration with "Future Nostalgia" as "Future Museum"

Links

The Agonistic Politics of Burning Museum by Tim Leibbrandt
Break this Unbearable Silence Project, Kunsthaus Dresden
Meghna Singh, CIMAM Essay on Burning Museum
Greatmore Studios
Brundyn+ "Plakkers" documentary

Gabrielle Goliath

Gabrielle Goliath

b. 1983, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. Lives in Johannesburg.

Gabrielle Goliath explores challenging sociopolitical concerns, engaging the viewer in a visual and often physical sense. Recent bodies of work by Gabrielle Goliath have focussed on the trauma of violence, particularly in regard to the experience of women.

Education

2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2011: MAFA [with distinction], University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2007: BAFA, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2003:  Diploma Fashion Design, Technikon of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions - International

2019: Elegy / Kagiso Maema, Theatre of Vulnerability (It's the Real Thing Performance Art Festival), Basel.
2018: Elegy / Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Masooa, Verbo 2018, Saõ Paulo and Videobrasil, Saõ Paulo.
2018: Elegy / Joan Thabeng, Do Disturb Festival, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 
2017: Elegy / Hannah Cornelius, Spielart Festival, Munich. 
2017: Elegy / Camron Britz, Spielart Festival / Munich.
2017: Elegy / Lekita Moore, Duke University, Durham.
2016: Elegy / Koketso “Queen”, Richmond Art Centre Atrium, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Solo Exhibitions - South Africa

2018: Elegy / Louisa van de Caab, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town.
2018: Elegy / Eunice Nthombifuthi Dube, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2018: Elegy / Joan Thabeng, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2018: This song is for… Nondumiso Msimanga, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2017: Elegy / Karabo Mokoena, The Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Johannesburg.
2017: Elegy / Lerato ‘Tambai’ Moloi, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2017: Stumbling Blocks, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2017: Elegy / Noluvo Swelindawo, ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town.
2016: Elegy / Sinoxolo Mafevuka, Langa Methodist Church, Cape Town.
2015: Elegy / Ipeleng Christine Moholane, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town.
2014: Faces of War, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. 
2011: Murder on 7th, Nirox at Arts on Main, Johannesburg.
2010: Berenice, Circa, Johannesburg.
2009: Murder on 7th, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg.

Group exhibitions - International

2024: 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Venice, Italy.
2019: Future Generation Art Prize, Palazzo Ca' Tron University, Venice and Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev.
2019: Kubatana – An Exhibition with Contemporary African Artists, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway.
2019: Conversations in Gondwana, São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo.
2017: Afrotopia: Mobilize Possibilities, 11th Les Recontres de Bamako African Biennale of Photography, PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Bamako.
2017: AFRICA, Raccontare un mondo, PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan.
2017: Encounters of Bamako, African Biennale of Photography, Bamako.
2017: Africa Raccontare un Mondo, PAC Padiglioni d’Arte, Milan.
2017: SpielART Festival, Munich.
2016: After the Thrill is Gone, Richmond Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA.
2015: Sights and Sounds: South Africa, Jewish Museum, New York.
2013: Between the Lines, Former Tagesspiegel Building (Between the Lines, Symposium North), Berlin. 
2012: Photoville, Tierney Fellowship Exhibit, New York. 
2012: Dak’Art, Biennale of Contemporary African Art: Contemporary Creation and Social Dynamics, Dakar.
2013:  Between the Lines, Former Tagesspiegel Building (Between the Lines, Symposium North), Berlin.
2012:  Photoville, Tierney Fellowship Exhibit, New York.
2012:  Dak'Art Biennale, Senegal. 

Group exhibitions - South Africa

2018: Fracture Zone, 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Durban.
2018: Harboured, Silo’s District V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.
2018: Not a Single Story, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa.
2018: Evidence of things not seen: Performing gendered and Queer Identities, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 
2017: Looking after Freedom, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2017: Writing for the Eye/ Writing for the Ear, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2017: Live Art Network Africa Launch, Institute for Creative Arts UCT, Cape Town.
2017: Report Back: States of Grace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
2016: The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2016: In Context: Where We Are, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. 
2015: In Print - In Focus, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town.
2014: Brave New World, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2014: Language Games, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town. 
2012: Rewind: Dathini Mzayiya & Gabrielle Goliath, Centre for African Studies, UCT, Cape Town. 
2012: A Shot to the Arse, The Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town. 
2012: Working Title, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. 
2011:  Alterating Conditions: performing performance art in South Africa, Goethe on Main & the Bag Factory, Johannesburg.
2010:  Blissful Disturbance - WITS Masters and Fine Art Students,  Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town. 
2011:  Transformations: Women's Art from the late 19 Century - 2010, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2010:  Unshape, Maker, Johannesburg. 
2010:  SPace, Museum Africa, Johannesburg. 
2010:  US, South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Art that comes towards you, Spring Art Tour, VANSA, Johannesburg.
2009: Domestic, Goethe Institute Arts on Main, Johannesburg. 
2009: Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria. 
2008: Four Tales, Galley MOMO, Johannesburg.
2007: Art's Alive JHB City Exhibition, Johannesburg.
2007: Lost and Found, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.
2007:  Wits Martienssen Show, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg.

Collections

Represented in the collections of the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well as in various academic, private and corporate collections.

Publications

2019: In J. Pather & C. Boulle (Eds.), ‘A Different Kind of Inhabitance’: Invocation and the Politics of Mourning in Performance Work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama , 'Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa', Wits University Press.

2017: Afrotopia: 11th Edition Rencontres de Bamako, Published by Ministry of Culture, Mali, Éditions Dilecta, [Exhibition catalogue].

2014: Outi Remes, Laura MacCulloch & Marika Leino (eds.), Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Switzerland.

2012: Claudia Marion Stemberger (ed.), Alterating Conditions: Performing Performance Art in South Africa, [Exhibition catalogue].

2012: Dak'Art Biennale: 10th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Published by the Republic of Senegal, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, [Exhibition catalogue].

2012: Thembinkosi Goniwe (ed.), Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art, Co-published by Africa World Press and, Unisa Press, [Exhibition Catalogue].

2011: Gabrielle Goliath, Murder on 7th, Maker, [Exhibition Catalogue].

2009: Melissa Mboweni & Jacki McInnes (eds.), Domestic, [Exhibition catalogue].

Awards

2019: Future Generation Art Prize (Special Prize), Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
2019: Standard Bank Young Artist Award
2017: Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize (Jury Prize), Bamako Encounters Biennale, Mali 2015: Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, New York
2011: Tierney Fellowship Award, Tierney Foundation, New York
2011:  Tierney Fellowship Award / Tierney Foundation / New York
2010:  Brait Everard Read Award / Circa / Johannesburg
2007:  Art's Alive JHB City Exhibition / Johannesburg
2007:  Wits Martienssen Award / Wits School of Arts / Johannesburg

Sonya Rademeyer

b. 1964, Zimbabwe; Lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sonya Rademeyer explores the relationship between bodily empathy and vision through her use of non-traditional materials and video.

Arts Education

1996: Bachelor of Art (BA), Fine Art, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2019: All we need is a Conductor, North-West University Aardklop National Festival, North-West Province.
2019: The In-Between, Association of Visual Arts (AVA0 Gallery, Cape Town.
2011: Looking to See, Association of Visual Arts (AVA0 Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: not in a body of words, GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2008: I am an African, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
2007: Babble, Association of Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Origin, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2020: Art in Isolation, Imibala Gallery, Graaff-Reinet; Imibala Gallery, Somerset West.
2020: Virtual National Arts Festival, curated show and Fringe, Makhanda.
2019: Miss/Seen, Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein.
2019: Dwell in Possibility, Centenary Art Gallery University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
2019: Memory & Mapping FreeSpace, Zeitz Mocca, Cape Town.
2019: Admin, UNTITLED, Cape Town.
2019: #unfinished Vol 7, Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: Forward? Forward! Forward… Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch.
2018: Humanity: Friend or Foe, Youngblood Africa Gallery, Cape Town.
2018: OPENLab 2018, University of the Free State, Richmond.
2018: Tankwa Artscape, Northern Cape.
2016: Stories of Rain, AVA Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Workshops’ Showcase, Warren Editions, Cape Town.
2015: SILENCE: Artworks on Paper, Cape Town.
2014: Joburg Fringe, Aerial Empire, Johannesburg.
2012: Appeal, Guerilla Gallery, Johannesburg.
2010: Mother Nature: Art and Psychology in Conversation, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch.
2009: Ceramics Exhibition, William Humphrey Art Gallery, Kimberley.
2007: Flesh, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefes, Oudtshoorn; X-Cape 07, Cape Town; National Arts Festival, Grahamstown;Cultivaria Festival, Paarl.
2006: Dept of Science & Technology National Art Competition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town.
2004: Exfoliate, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town
2003: AVA Members' Exhibition, Asoociation for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery.
2003: Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town.
2003: Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town.
2003: PPC Young Sculptors Awards, Pretoria, South Africa.
2001: Women's Work, Cape Town.
1998: Unity in Diversity Arts Festival, Good Hope Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (international)

2020: hello world, TransCulturalExchange (online), Boston.
2019: Contemporary Nature, Tankwa Artscape Residency Exhibition, Sfintu Gheorghe.
2019: Live drawing performance, Stroud Green Festival, London.
2018: OtherLands. OtherSounds, Raizvanguarda, Bordeiro.
2016: 15th Lessandra World Art Print Annual, Sophia.
2013: Happening Now, Mojo Gallery, Dubai.
2009: Tape exhibition, Arnhem, Netherlands
2009: 1st International Art & Science Festival, Patra.
2009: International Incheon Women Artistsâ Biennale, Korea.
2009: One World, Many Papers, Distillery Gallery, Boston.
2008: Dwayer, L'Atelier Dâ Alexandrie, Alexandria.
2008: Dak'Art, Dakar.
2007: Cent livre Objects pour Senghor, Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar.
2006 - 2007: Self Portrait - A Show for Bethlehem, Al Kahf Gallery, Palestine; Oficyna Art Space, Szezecin; International Contemporary Art Center, Naples; Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario, Rosario; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe.
2007: Fleiss East West Artists, Muzeul de Art, Satu Mare.
2006: The Abstract Mind Mural of Science & Industry, Chicago.
2006: Too much Freedom? Freewaves, 10th Biennale Festival of Film, Video and Experimental Media, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
2006: Ecartista 1st Annual Exhibition (online), Egypt.
2005: Imagining the Book, International Biennale, Alexandria.
2005: New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York.
2005: A Cross Cultural View of Women in the Arts, Also Castillo Gallery, Chicago.
2005: Art at War Exhibition, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago.

Collections

Private collections:
South Africa, United Kingdom, Egypt

Public collections:
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria.
Department of Science & Technology, South Africa.
International Contemporary Art Centre, Naples.

Awards

2007: Distinction, 3rd Edition International Artistic Documentaries.
2004: Winner, New Media, Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Cape Town.
2003: Merit Award, PPC Young Sculptor Award.

Randolph Hartzenberg

b. 1948, Cape Town, South Africa; lives in Cape Town.

In painting, installation and performance, Randolph Hartzenberg produces quiet, seemingly un-obtrusive works that gradually reveal a great depth of symbolic content. Hartzenberg’s deliberate use of normal objects acts as the surface of his practice of thoughtful political and conceptual engagement, exploring questions of power, labour and race within South African society.

 

Screen Printing Workshop, 2023. Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town.
Burr, 2016. AVA/Strauss & Co. print portfolio 2016. Exhibition flyer. The AVA Gallery, Cape Town. Artist's collection.
Kwere Kwere, 2003. Exhibition flyer (back). Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Artist's collection.
Kwere Kwere, 2003. Exhibition flyer (front). Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Artist's collection.
Untitled, 1984. Art of the South African Townships. London: Thames and Hudson, New York: Rizzoli.
Randy photographing at IZIKO
Sketch. Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees installation. Artist's collection.

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Art in South Africa, The Future Present

 

Staking Claims catalogue

 

One and another – Art South Africa, Volume 8, Issue 3, Autumn 2010 –  article by Randolph Hartzenberg

 

 

Grahamstown National Arts Festival Performance, 2012

Randolph Hartzenberg, created “Three Days” for the Making Way exhibition curated by Ruth Simbao at the 2012 National Arts Festival. The performance took place at Fort Selwyn in Grahamstown.

Art Education

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
1994: Master of Art, Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1989: Bachelor of Art (BA), Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1982: Higher Diploma in Education, Drama, University of Cape Town.
1968: Certificate Art Teaching, Hewat Training College.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2008: Prints, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1996: Map of the Neighbourhood, Metropolitan Life Gallery, Cape Town.
1994: Domestic Baggage, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2023: Stoned: Remembering the 1980's, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2023: Kevin Atkinson-Art and Life, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: Burr, the AVA/Strauss & Co. print portfolio, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: In Print/ In Focus, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2012 - 2013: Making Way,  Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; Grahamstown Art Festival, Grahamstown.
2009: Dada South, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2007: africa south, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter, Look-out Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
2006: Facing the Past: Seeking the Future — Reflections on a Decade of Truth and Reconciliations Commission, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2006: Amajita in Conversation, Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki 3, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2004: Botaki, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2002: Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Spier Farms, Stellenbosch.
2001: Telling Tales, 3rd I Gallery, Cape Town.
2001: Homeport, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town.
2000: Kwere Kwere: Journeys into Strangeness, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
1999: Staking Claims, The Granary, Cape Town.
1998: !Xoe Site Specific, organised by Ibis Art Centre, Nieu Bethesda.
1998: 30 Minutes, Robben Island Prison Complex, Robben Island.
1997: Hong Kong, etc., 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg.
1997: District Six Sculpture Project, Cape Town.
1997: Cyst: Works in Paint, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg.
1996: Hardground Printmakers in collaboration with Stellenbosch University Gallery, Stellenbosch University Gallery, Stellencosch.
1996: Faultlines, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
1978 - 1979: Response To The Detentions, Space Theatre Gallery, Cape Town
1968: Artcom, Argus Gallery, Cape Town.

Group exhibitions (International)

2003: Kwere Kwere: Journeys into Strangeness, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1999: Dialogue, Arhus, Denmark.
1995: Transitions, Bath Festival, UK and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1995: Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in South African Art, Curated by Colin Richards, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, UK.
1995: Venice Biennale (participant in work by Malcolm Payne), Venice, Italy.
1994: Displacements, Curated by Jane Taylor and David Bunn, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

Performances

2013: Three Days, Making Way, Curated by Ruth Simbao, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2012: Three Days, Making Way, Curated by Ruth Simbao, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
2000: I Want To Hear My Brother, The Granary, Cape Town.
1996: The Ninth Haptic String, Faultlines, The Castle, Cape Town.
1991: Eight Haptic Strings, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
1982: Member of the Community Arts Workshop, (CAP) Mime Group, Culture and Resistance Festival, Gaborone, Botswana
1977: Hand Signals, Space Theatre Gallery, Cape Town.
1976: The Zoo has Nothing to Hide, Space Theatre Gallery.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
The Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
The University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg.
Vodacom, Cape Town.
The Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Norad, Oslo.

Commissions

2003: Breadline/Waterline, Amsterdam.
2000: Breadline/Waterline, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
1995: Commissioned participation in Malcolm Payne’s installation for the Venice Biennale, Italy.

Residencies

1996: Artist in Residence, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Publications

2014: Mario Pissarra, Quiet Provocations: thoughts on two sculptures by Randolph Hartzenberg, https://asai.co.za/artist/randolph-hartzenberg/
2011: Thembinkosi Goniwe, Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu (eds), Visual Century Vol.4, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.
2010: Randolph Hartzenberg, One and Another, Art South Africa 8(3): 12.
2008: Deela Khan, Salt on my breath. https://asai.co.za/artist/randolph-hartzenberg/
2007: Thembinkosi Goniwe, Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu (eds), Visual Century Vol.4, Wits University Press: Johannesburg.
2005: Mario Pissarra (ed), Botaki Exhibition 3: Conversations with Donovan Ward, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Mario Pissarra (ed), Botaki: Conversations with South African artists, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
1999: Emma Bedford, Staking Claims: Confronting Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Clare Menck and Johann Louw in collaboration with the William Fehr Collection and the Sandton Civic Gallery, Cyst: Works in paint, The Artists' Press, White River.
1997: Emma Bedford, Contemporary South African Art, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1997: Sue Williamson, Thirty Minutes: Installation by nine artists, Robben Island Museum, Cape Town.
1997: Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
1996: Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, Art in South Africa: The future present, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town.
1995: Clive van den Berg, Panoramas of Passage: Changing landscapes of South Africa, University of Witwatersrand Art Galleries, Johannesburg and Meridian International Centre, Washington DC.
1992: Joe Dolby and Deon Viljoen,  Friends’ Choice 1975-1991 / Vriende Se Keuse 1975-1991, Friends of the South African National Gallery sponsored by Creda Press, Cape Town.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson, London.

Links

<div>A study of protest art under an apartheid regime Crossing Project article by Poppy Morris</div>

Deela Khan, Salt on My Breath, (ASAI, 2008).
Mario Pissarra, Quiet Provocations: Thoughts on two works by Randolph Hartzenberg, (ASAI, 2014).

Donovan Ward

b. Cape Town, 1962. Lives and works in Cape Town.

Working innovatively with found objects, images, text and paint, Donovan Ward provocatively addresses issues of globalisation and identity.

Coloured by the Other

© Donovan Ward, 03/04/2012

Ideally art is a space for exploration, playing and learning. This work is the antithesis of creativity as its producers abdicate their individualised voices to work within a predetermined framework. This work is presented as a primed, colour by numbers canvas with a portrait, in black line, of an influential, powerful recognisable person who speaks for government and who has gained notoriety for his racialised comments. The lines mark out areas where 10 premixed colours are to be applied. Each area is numbered to correspond to the supplied colours. Viewers are invited to assist in sequentially painting it by referring to the colour code and painting instructions. The completed painting reveals this subject as altered identity. The restrictive, predictable method and outcome of production also metaphorically illustrates the simplistic way people are essentialised or constructed by power elites .

Donovan Ward,
Ingekleur: Outside The Lines The AVA Gallery, Cape Town l 12 March – 4 April 2012

Gugulethu Seven Memorial

© Donovan Ward & Paul Hendricks, 15/03/2006

On 3 March 1986 in the township of Gugulethu, seven youth were murdered by the South African state. The Gugulethu Seven memorial, dedicated to these seven youth who lost their lives during the liberation struggle, is located in close proximity to where the killings occurred. The memorial is built from Rustenberg granite, steel, screws, tile adhesive, bronze, bricks, cement and concrete. The sculpture represents a discontinuous wall like structure. The seven figures cut out from the concrete and granite slabs speak to the seven families and the nation’s loss. The poses representing the seven youth are suggestive of play, dance and resistance, as it seeks to capture their humanity and spirit despite their absence. Their silhouetted forms are derived from the stenciled and spray-can art of the 1980s. On the supporting plinth, beneath each figure, is a bronze plaque with information on it dedicated to one of the youth. Each one of the seven youth are represented in this way. The bronze plaques do not all bear portraits and dates of birth (due to the non-availability of personal details of certain of the youth). Each of the seven plaques however contain the name and date-of-death of the youth. The layout and wording of the plaques are styled on the silk-screened type commemorative posters of the 1980s. The work pays tribute to and commemorates those who made the ultimate sacrifice to build a better South Africa and indeed world. The work is also representative of nation building, as it displays elements of ruin or incompleteness juxtaposed with areas that appears to have been recently built, thus echoing the Nicaraguan woman poet Vidaluz Meneses message: “Pain has been our challenge and the future our hope. We build as though composing a poem: writing, erasing, and creating anew”. These words reflect the spirit of the memorial, as it captures elements of completeness and incompleteness; ruin and visible structure, regularity and irregularity, asserting graphically and symbolically potential, possibility and hope.

Donovan Ward & Paul Hendricks Details of image: Finished drawing for Memorial

Barbie Bartmann: Homecoming Queen

© Donovan Ward, 11/12/2005

Generalised representations become fixed within a culture and conceptualised as if ‘true’ because constant repetition in a variety of forms and locales validate the oft repeated image and lends credibility to mytholised forms. Barbara Buntman, Whose Identity do we see? Born in 1789 in the vicinity of the Eastern Cape, Sara Bartmann lived for a short period as a slave near Cape Town. Baptised in in 1811 as Sara Bartmann, a ‘Hottentot’ from the Cape Colony, her indigenous name is unknown to us. It was in England and later Paris that Sara Bartmann was displayed as a sexualized exotic object, and subjected to medical and anthropological scrutiny. In Paris she allegedly lived as a prostitute, and after her death there in 1818 her dissected body was displayed at the Musee de lâ Homme as a museum curiosity. It was only 184 years later, in 2002, that her remains were repatriated to her homeland, where she was buried as a Khoisan woman near the little town of Hankey . Sara Bartmann has become a controversial and contentious historical figure, as many groups and individuals claim the right to represent her, and have contested the various roles she apparently assumed. Sara Bartmann most probably belonged to the Gonaqua tribe, and was called many things in her lifetime. These included a ‘slave’, ‘Hottentot’, ‘showgirl’ and ‘prostitute’. Presently, she continues to be labeled an ‘exotic aboriginal woman’, ‘Khoisan woman’, ‘ouma’, ‘mama’, and ‘mother of the nation’. This work attempts to explore the complexity of an African Identity as it relates to Sara Bartmann. It challenges stereotypical representations of community and fixed identities associated with race, class, culture and language. While on the one hand this work acknowledges Sara Bartmann as a national icon symbolising South Africa’s fragmented history, I also selected her image to highlight the manner in which historical images and symbols have been appropriated and commodified in a world of commercial interests.

Donovan Ward

The Corporate Garden

Power in its various forms often overrides as well as mimics ethical and environmental interests. This artwork informs and is informed by my ongoing observations of dislocation, erasure and substitution.

Past land theft and new forms of dispossession, particularly gentrification, the desecration of burial sites by property developers, and more generally the erasure of physical memory, one that connects people to history, are engaged with in varying degrees in this artwork. Alluded to in this piece as well, are forms of real estate development, which corresponds with global neo-liberal models that drive ‘development’ projects but are disproportionately harmful to the environment and human beings.

Made from fabricated, organic and inorganic objects, this art piece, the size of a grave, constitutes a landscape embodying contradiction, contrast and paradox. The fictitious sections of the work include plastic flowers, razor wire, cement, and a synthetic lawn used at burial ceremonies superimposed on indigenous flora and fauna. Remnants of the natural environment were collected from the lower slopes of Table Mountain, close to an encroaching residential area, and incorporated into the work; they include bone fragments, dead insects, stones, bits of dried indigenous plants, leaves and gravel.

Through juxtaposing the artificial with the real and superimposing the synthetic over the natural, this work speaks to the displacement of the natural and native by imitation and simulation. It, moreover, points to the paradoxical role of technology in exposing yet furthering the ‘dis-placement’ and ‘re-placement’ of the natural and indigenous with simulated fictive environments.

Donovan Ward

Art Education

1991: Part-time (sculpture), Community Arts Project, Woodstock, Cape Town.
1982-1985: Ruth Prowse School of Art, Salt River, Cape Town.

Workshops & Residencies

2023: ASAI print co_lab Screen Printing Workshop, Michaelis, University of Cape Town
2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis, University of Cape Town
2019: Sans Frontier, Hardground Printmakers, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2018-19: Mural Artwork Co-ordinator, Pelican Park Community Day Centre, Cape Town.
2016: District 6 Clinic Art Workshop, Facilitator, District 6 Museum, Cape Town. 
2016: Sans frontiers, Hard Ground Printmakers, The Home Coming Centre, Cape Town.
2015: ASAI In Print/In Focus, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2013: Local Artists Public Artmaking Project, Lentegeur Civic Office, Mitchells Plain,  Cape Town.
2009: Drakenstein Remembers June 16 Visual Art Workshop, Cape Winelands, Western Cape. 
2004: 10, Castle of Goodhope, Cape Town.
2002: Spirit of the Place, Bangor, Wales.
1995: Thupelo Workshop, Cape Town.

Solo exhibitions

2014: Brutalised Barbie, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2005: Barbie Bartmann: Homecoming Queen, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2002: Ash, Dust and Trade Marks, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: Residues and Emergences, Mau Mau Gallery, Cape Town.

Group exhibitions (local)

2023: print co_lab, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town
2022: Palimpsest, Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters Remembrance Gallery, Cape Town
2019: There and back to see how far it is, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2016: Beyond Binaries, Essence Festival, Durban.
2015: In Print/In Focus, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
2012: Ingekleur: Outside the Lines, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2001-12: Natural Selection, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2010: View from the South, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: In Black and White, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Sex Power Money, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Wood, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: ReCenter, X Cape, Look Out Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
2007: Africa South, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2007: Greenhouse: From Painting to Plastic, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Somerset West, South Africa.
2006: Anthology, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: 20 artists 06, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: 20 artists 06, Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Botaki Exhibition 3, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Man, Rust-En-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: Upfront and Personal, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2004: Botaki, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Art Cool, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town. 
2004: Gender and Visuality, University of the Western Cape, Bellville.
2004: 10, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2003: Supermarket, Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa. 
2001: Telling Tales, 3rd I Gallery, Cape Town.
2000: Allsorts, Bell-Roberts Gallery.
2000: Praat, Thetha, Talk, Idasa Gallery, Cape Town.
2000: One City Festival, Returning the Gaze, Public Art Project, Cape Town.
1999: Prophecy 2000, 3rd I Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: New Beginnings, Battswood Art Centre, Grassy Park, Cape Town.
1998: Dis Nag, Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: Urban Objects of Desire, Mau Mau Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: Ekhaya, Tsoga Environmental Resource Centre, Langa, Cape Town.
1997: District Six Public Sculpture Project, District Six, Cape Town.
1997: The Legacy of Steve Biko, District Six Museum, Cape Town.
1997: Committees Choice, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1996: Barricaded Rainbow…,  Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1996: 5 Cape Artists, Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1996: Beyond the Rainbow, Athlone Civic Centre, Cape Town.
1995: Outsider Art, Market Gallery, Johannesburg.
1995: Volkskas Atelier Award National Exhibition, University of Stellenbosch.
1995: Volkskas Atelier Award Regional Exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.
1994: Man on Woman, Seeff Trust Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1993: The Art of Peace, Seeff Trust Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Community Arts Project Exhibition, Woodstock, Cape Town.
1990: Pieces of Africa, Athlone Technical College, Cape Town.

Group exhibitions (international)

2007: Apartheid/ the South African Mirror, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain.
2007: Uniform: South Africa’s New Clothes, Spanierman Modern, New York.
2007: The Art of Revolution, Saba Cultural and artistic Institute, Tehran.
2002: DAK’ART 2002 Biennale, Dakar, Senegal.
2001-2003: Spirit of the Place, Bangor, Wales.

Other projects

2019-2020: Exhibition Designer, Robben Island Museum, Cape Town.
2018-19: Mural Artwork Coordinator, Pelican Park Community Day Centre, Cape Town.
2017-18: Exhibition Designer, Robben Island Museum Restoration Project, Cape Town.
2016: District 6 Clinic Art Workshop, Facilitator District 6 Museum, Cape Town.
2015-16: Project Manager & Exhibition Designer, Delville Wood Transformation Project, France.
2013: Artwork Coordinator & Facilitator, Lentegeur Civic Office, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
2009: Artwork Coordinator and Facilitator, Drakenstein Remembers June 16 Visual Art Workshop, Cape Winelands, Western Cape.
1999: Anti Racism mural (in collaboration with artists and learners), Landsdowne Public Library, Cape Town.

Public collections

Katherine Harris Print Cabinet, University of Cape Town
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
Delville Wood South African National Museum, Longueval, France.
University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Private collections

ESKOM Art Collection
The Ellerman House Collection
The Earl of Spencer Collection
Annette and Peter Nobel Collection

Commissions

2016: Devils Wood, Delville Wood South African National Museum, Longueval, France. (Assisted by Ayesha Price, Robin Ward & Mark Hanning.)
2011: UDF Memorial, Rocklands Civic Centre Mitchells plain, Commissioned by the City of Cape Town[ In collaboration with Paul Hendricks].
2011: Ashley Kriel Memorial, Community House, Salt River, Cape Town.
2010: Building and Wood Workers International, Trophy Design.
2009: Media & Labour Award Design, Workers World Media Productions.
2006: Meru, Artwork Commission, Safmarine.
2006: Basil D’Olivera Memorial, Sunday Times Heritage Project, Newlands Stadium, Cape Town.
2005: 20 Artists 06, digital print, Bell-Roberts Gallery.
2005: Gugulethu 7 Memorial, in collaboration with Paul Hendricks, Provincial Government &amp and City Council .
2004: Art Cool, LG electronics.
2002: Book cover, International Labour Resource & Information Group.
1995: Right to Work, mural/ large painting on board, WLP, with Paul Hendricks.

Publications (catalogues)

2022. Palimpsest, Online Exhibition Catalogue
2020: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development, Sara Dekhordi, Pollux, Open Access Publication.
2016: Beyond Binaries Exhibition Catalogue.
2016: Remembering 60 000 Forced Goodbyes Exhibition Catalogue, District Six Museum. 
2015: In Print/In Focus Exhibition Catalogue, ASAI.  
2011: Visual Century, Vol.4, Wits University Press & the Visual Century Project.
2010: NY Arts,Vol 15, Fall, 2010.
2010: Press Art Sammlung Catalogue, Annette and Peter Nobel Collection.
2009: Public Sculpture, Statues and Memorials ….An Ibhabhathane Project
2007: Apartheid / The South African Mirror, Exhibition Catalogue
2007: From Weapon to Ornament, John Bernt, AMAC Heritage Series
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki Exhibition 3, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Mario Pissarra, Botaki, Omam, Cape Town.
2004: 10, Everard Read. Art Cool. Upfront and Personal.
2002: Dak’ art: Biennale de l’ Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar.
2001: Spirit of the Place exhibition catalogue. 
2001: Returning the Gaze Public Arts Project exhibition catalogue. 
1997: District Six Public Sculpture Project Catalogue
1997: The McCabe Gallery Catalogue
1997: Volkskas Atelier Award Catalogue

Publications (reviews)

2005: M. Pissarra, Donovan Ward, Art South Africa Vol. 4 Issue 1, p. 83.
2004: M. Pro Sobopha, 10, Art South Africa Vol. 2 Issue 4, p. 72.

Publications (other)

2022: The Legacy of a Troubled Past, Presses Universitaires De Provence, Liverpool University Press
2020: Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development, Sara Dekhordi, Pollux, Open Access Publication
2015: Shannen Hill, Biko's Ghost, University of Minnesota Press. 
2011: Visual Century, Vol.4, Wits University Press &amp; the Visual Century Project,
2010: NY Arts, Vol 15, Fall, 2010
2009: Public Sculpture, Statues & Memorials... An Ibhabhathane Project
2007: From Weapon to Ornament, John Bernt, AMAC Heritage Series
2005: Art South Africa, Vol. 04 Issue 01 Spring
2004: Art South Africa, Vol. 02 Issue 04 Winter
2003: Africa e Mediterraneo, Issue 41.
2001: Returning the Gaze, NKA Journal of Contemporary Art, 13/14, pp. 56-61.

Awards/ Prizes

1993: First prize, The Art of Peace, Seef Trust Art Gallery, Cape Town.

Awards/ Grants

2002: Cape Tercentenary Foundation

Links

2005: Mario Pissarra, Barbie Bartmann: Homecoming Queen [review], (ASAI, 2005).
2005: Mario Pissarra, Conversations with Donovan Ward [catalogue essay], (ASAI, 2005).

Mario Pissarra, Barbie Bartmann: Homecoming Queen [review], (ASAI, 2005).

Ayesha Price

Ayesha Price

b. Cape Town, 1975; d. Cape Town 2024.

Ayesha Price was an artist and art educator who worked conceptually across a wide variety of media. Ayesha used art as a device through which to mediate social issues. Her practice focused on perception and representation and was often located within collaborative community based processes.

Arts Education

2024: Master of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
2008-2015: Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
1996: Diploma in Education, Hewatt College of Education (in association with UCT).

Art Education Employment

2019-2024: Part time sculpture lecturer, UCT Michaelis School of Fine Art.
2020: Curator and Educator. UCT Irma Stern Museum.
2015-2024: Coordinator, facilitator and Art Lead: Public art projects for District Six Museum, City of Cape Town, Institute for the Healing of Memories. Art Teacher training for Western Cape Education Department.
2010-2015: Principal, Children’s Art Centre, Western Cape Education Department.
2008-2010: Senior Museum Educator, Iziko South African National Gallery.
1998-2008 Visual Arts Educator, Children’s Art Centre, Cape Town.
1997: Visual Arts Educator Grades 4-7, Battswood Art Centre.

Solo Exhibitions (South Africa)

2013: Save the Princess, Lovell Gallery, Cape Town.
2012: Archiving the Modesty of the Cape Malay Woman, Art B Gallery, Bellville, South Africa.

Group Exhibitions (South Africa)

2024: We have lost one another. Site-specific/community-specific installation. District Six, Cape Town.
2023: Kevin Atkinson: Art and Life, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2023: Oddkin, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2017: Beyond Binaries, Essence Festival, Durban Art Gallery, Durban.
2016: District Six 50th Commemorative Print Exchange Exhibition, Homecoming Centre Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: Thupelo Cape Town Trust Exhibition, Provenance Auction House, Cape Town.
2012: Ingekleur: Outside the Lines, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2007: Africa South, Association for Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.
2006: Artscape, Cape Town (for the Cape Town Festival). 
2005: Botaki 3 & 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2004: Gender & Visuality Exhibition, University of the Western Cape (History Department), Battswood Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: DisNag, Iziko Slave Lodge & ART 1 Gallery, Cape Town.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2016: Delville Wood Museum, Longueval, France.

Workshops/Community Projects: Local

2023: Participant, ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2021: Producer and Facilitator: ‘#atthehandsofmen’ Youth program and exhibition. Institute for the Healing of Memories.
2019: Presenter and Facilitator: Staff development, Virtual reality showcase. Zeitz Moccaa.
2015-2019 : Facilitator, Curator and Producer: Ex-residents Programs, Commemorative Day workshops. District Six Museum. 
2018: Participant, ASAI Print Access Workshop, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2015-2019: Facilitator, Curator and Producer: Workshops and exhibitions. Institute for the Healing of Memories. 
2012-2017: Facilitator: ‘Flight of Dreams’: Public puppet parade and installations. Princess Vlei Forum.
2016: District 6 Museum Peninsula Memory Project. Public participation to produce commemorative artworks. 
2015: Facilitator: Acrylic painting workshops. Prison Care and Support Network.
2015: Thupelo Artist’s Residency, Ruth Prowse, Cape Town.
2010: Project manager: Art workshops and materials development for ‘Strengths & Convictions’ Education Project. Nobel Peace Center & Iziko Museums
2008-2010: Visual Arts Educator and Exhibition Designer for Peacejam Foundation Youth Programmes (Unesco funded project) at the District Six Museum and Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe.
2007: Facilitator: Photography workshops and exhibition (with Hassan and Hussein Essop). Goodman Gallery
2007-2008: Rivers of the World International Art Project, (worked with learners to produce artworks about the Liesbeeck River in Cape Town).
2007: Oorwinning Kanala, Photography workshop , Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2007: Photographic workshop for District 6 youth with artists Hussein and Hassan Essop for the Goodman Gallery Cape at the Lydia Williams Centre.
2002: Isivivane solwazi, Robben Island Museum, South Africa & Devon County, United Kingdom.
2002: Visual Arts Educator, Isivivane Solwazi Art and Culture programme, Robben Island Museum Spring School.
1999: Mural painting facilitator, Words and Vision, Molo Songololo Productions.

Workshops/Community Projects: International

2015: Facilitator and Artist in residence. ‘Art across Oceans’ exchange program (SA) (USA). Kohl Children‟s Museum & Play Africa.
2011: Workshop participant and presenter. ‘Mural Painting’ with MAP(SA) (USA). Philadelphia University of the Arts.
2008: Visual Arts Educator and Exhibition Coordinator for Peripheral Vision, a cultural youth exchange programme between District Six Museum and Swedish Arts and Culture Centres: Lava, Zenit, BotkyrkaKunstall.
2008: Facilitator and Artist in residence. ‘Rivers of the World’ workshops and exhibition (SA) (GB). British Council.
2001: Facilitator: Cardboard sculpture Robben Island Museum ‘Isivivane solwazi’ Resident Youth Program. Western Cape (SA) & Devon County (UK) arts exchange.

Collections

Private, South Africa
Delville Wood Museum, Longueval, France

Commissions

2021: Olapse Rooi, mixed media work. The National Museum of South Africa.
2019: Lead Artist at Du Noon Library: Painted, interior murals. Commissioned by Western Cape Government
2018: Lead Artist and Facilitator at Pelican Park Community Day Centre: Ceramics, painted, printed and spray-painted murals. Large scale photography, cement and acrylic sculpture. Western Cape Government
2017: Lead Artist and Facilitator: Peninsula Hospital Memory Project: Painted, printed and spray-painted murals. Relief sculpture: Steel & Nutech. Artefact display.Commissioned by District Six Museum
2017: Peninsula Maternity Hospital Memory Project, Documentary film: Hospital in District Six Commissioned by Western Cape Government.
2017: Gathering Strands. Documentary film: Lionel Davis. Commissioned by District 6 Museum
2016: Forget to remember, remember to forget. Video installation at the Delville Wood South African National Memorial. France. Commissioned by DAC
2014: Injustice, sculpture commissioned by V&A Minstrels for Cape Minstrel Carnival.
2005: Ti Koeli’s heritage, painting commissioned by The Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Art in Business exhibition at ArtsCape.
2000: Shine Where You Are: Lulama’s Blanket, Book illustrations commissioned by Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA).
1999: South African National Zakkaah fund. 

Awards

2013: The Excellence Certificate for top UNISA 4th year Visual Art student in SA

Other

2008-2024: Member, ASAI. Founding member; served on board of directors (2014-2021), including as chairperson; represented ASAI at African Art Book Fair, Paris (2018).
2016: Co-curator, Gathering Strands [Lionel Davis retrospective], South African National Gallery, Cape Town.2006: Visual Art Adjudicator, Fairest Cape Association.
2005-2006: Contributor (text and photographs), Iziko EPP Publication Picasso and Africa.
2004: Reviewing & consulting arts & culture handbook for learners & Educators, Oxford University Press.
2003: Visual Art Adjudicator, Lovelife. Textile Workshop, MAPPP-SETA.
1997-2003: As member of the Arts Junction (youth arts productions) planned art workshops, exhibitions, production of posters, pamphlets, set & costume design
2000: Book illustrations for IDASA (Project Literacy). Book titles: Shine Where You Are; Lulama's Blanket.
1999: Member of the Arts Forum, based at Battswood Art Centre, Grassy Park, Cape Town.

Bennett, B. 2021. Chapter four. Memory is the Weapon. ‘Memory, heritage and the spaces between: a District Six Museum biography’ , PhD thesis (197-200), University of Pretoria
Dehkordi, S. 2020. Chapter five. Intervention through art – Performing is making visible. In: Sara Dehkordi (Eds.), Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development (226-231). 
Greer Valley. 2019. An Engaged Practice: a conversation with Ayesha Price. Online: Africa South Art Initiative
Price A. 2017. Points of contact: Lionel Davis and mixed media in Pissarra, M. (ed.) Awakenings: The Art of Lionel Davis. Cape Town: Africa South Art Initiative, pp.173-178.
Pissarra, M. 2016. Beyond Binaries (44-45). Durban: KZNSA.
Price A. 2013. ‘Save the Princess’. Exhibition catalogue
Price A. 2012. Archiving the Modesty of the Cape Malay Woman. Exhibition catalogue
Pitt, B 2012. A mesmerising installation.
Pissarra, M. 2005. Botaki Exhibition 3: Conversations with Donovan Ward. Cape Town: Old Mutual Asset Managers.