Creator
Nkgopoleng Moloi
Nkgopoleng Moloi is a writer and photographer. She is studying for an MA in contemporary curatorial practices at the University of the Witwatersrand, with a focus on exploring womxn’s mobility and freedom of movement
Yolanda Mazwana’s artistic journey offers the body as site of eroticism and self-discovery
Her artwork examines the physicality of a woman’s body
Black portraiture and the gaze: ‘Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt’
‘Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt’ creates a space to reflect on Black imagery, but does not adequately challenge the limitations of its consumption
Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’
Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation
‘Kartografi’: The testing of our boundaries
Scott Eric Williams’s new art project challenges our ideas of mapping, moving into philosophical territory
Picking up threads from the cutting room floor
Lesiba Mabitsela’s multidisciplinary project interrogates the influence of modernity through examining the intersections between fashion and architecture
Black futures in the age of apocalypse
Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism
Can ‘The Nonrepresentational’ prove a new model for artists and galleries?
‘The Nonrepresentational’, created virtually through discussions between the artists and the gallery, seeks to build a new model of artist representation
‘There are Mechanisms in Place’: Collaboration births sacred text
‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy
Review: ‘Making Grace Amazing’ — songs of resistance
Neo Muyanga’s ‘Making Grace Amazing’ is one of the online offerings at this year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda
‘Soft Architectures’ leaps between mediums and modes
Soft power is often felt and almost always unseen. As a concept introduced by Joseph Nye in the early 1980s, soft power is thought of as a specific ability to get what you want.…
Dust, beauty and geography combine in Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic of Capricorn
Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic of Capricorn is a graceful reflection on time and place
The fiction, fantasy and horror of ‘Joburg Selected’
The solo show by Sam Nhlengethwa explores the many sites and scenes of the city, caught in a loop of ambition and horror
See our history in buildings
The built environment is an important part of art and often lurks in the background
‘Five Bhobh’ is a taxi to the end of an era
The exhibition, by 29 Zimbabwean artists, uses the minibus taxi to explore the end of Robert Mugabe’s rule and the country’s future
Celebrate anniversary of black artist’s union
Such institutions promoted the true essence of ubuntu within a state that perpetuated the myth of black inferiority.