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Nkgopoleng Moloi

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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 exhibition at the Kalashnikovv Gallery in Cape Town. Photo: Johann Lourens Photography

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

Mongezi Gum, Celebrating Life, charcoal on paper, 2021.

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

The Rex Trueform factory and building in Salt River, Cape Town. (Photo: David Harrison)

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 woman’s ecstasy (Kimberly Marie Ashby)

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

Study (Sepia Scallop), one of the works from Pamela Phatsimo Suntrum’s collaborative book ‘There are Mechanisms in Place’

‘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

‘Making Grace Amazing’, by composer Neo Muyanga, uses sound, writing and moving image to peer into the complex history of this hymn

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

Simone Leigh via Goodman Gallery

‘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.…

Serene grace:

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

Images from Sam Nhlengethwa’s show ‘Joburg Select’ remind us of spaces that repel us

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

Memories: In his series Train Church, photographed over a few weeks in 1986 on a commuter line between Soweto and Johannesburg, Santu Mofokeng lays bare the conditions of black people on the move

See our history in buildings

The built environment is an important part of art and often lurks in the background

Richard Mudariki ‘The Passover’ draws on Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’. It’s Robert Mugabe’s last supper and at his table are figures such as Nelson Mandela, Queen Elizabeth II, Muammar Gaddafi and the Pope

‘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

Safe space: Fuba celebrates 40 years of giving black artists a place to thrive in the art world. The special exhibition and talks take place on the Keyes Art Mile this weekend. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

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.

Space: Mpho Matsipa unpacks the notion of movement and time and African cities. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

African Mobilities and the African City

Nkgopoloeng Moloi speaks to Dr Mpho Matsipa about movement and how architecture responds to migration.

From Malala Andrialavidrazana’s body of work Figures

Creating harmony and melody through the lens

The LagosPhoto Festival brings together 22 photographers from 18 countries to expand the scope and role of photography on the continent

Marvel: The subteranean Orthodox church in Lalibela. Photo: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters

Architecture should be based  on people’s needs

Development initiatives need to consider the contexts, past and present, in which they occur to ensure human-centred solutions

Power cycle: Haroon Gunn-Salie’s work tackles the Marikana massacre, colonialism, racism and capitalism. (Photo: Scott Rudd)

​Gunn-Salie sculpts the presence of the past

The artist’s work allows us to reflect on the different architectures of dominance linked to entrenched powers of colonialism, racism and capitalism.

Pulane Kingston was for the second time part of the judging panel for this year’s FNB art prize. She says that professionals like her can help artists in a number of ways

​Pulane Kingston, a patron of Africa’s art

Nkgopoleng Moloi spoke to art collector Pulane Kingston ahead of the FNB Joburg Art Fair.

Feminising art: Ghada Amer

​The healing he(art) of women

Using their creativity, two artists help society understand the complex experience of womanhood

Pioneer: Bisi Silva started the Àsìkò art school, which integrates historical and contemporary art

​Women shaping Africa’s art

For too long their contribution has been ignored but the evidence of their role is there to be seen

Mundane made magical: Billie Zangewa’s textile tapestries, such as Return to Paradise II (above) depict everyday domestic situations documenting her personal history and challenging stereotypes, particularly those concerning black women.

Billie Zangewa’s self in a patchwork of silk

Through herself portraits Billie Zangewa stitches together the soft fabric to explore and challenge stereotypes of gender and identity