10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin 09.06 – 09.09.2018 My initial ambition at this … [Read more...]
Material Meditations: Nicholas Hlobo and Cinga Samson’s ‘Umthamo’
Nicholas Hlobo and Cinga Samsono
By Kopano Maroga
Maitland Institute, Cape Town 14.02 – 18.05.2018 There’s a scene in … [Read more...]
Performative Politics and the Commoditisation of the Black Artist: Towards an Epidemiology of Institutional Whiteness
By Kopano Maroga
[The following is an adapted version of a talk presented at the 'Decolonial Arts … [Read more...]
A Subtle Benediction: Igshaan Adams’ ‘Al Latîf’
Igshaan Adams
By Kopano Maroga
blank projects, Cape Town 27.01 – 10.03.2018 Gallery spaces are strange … [Read more...]
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much but I Got It from My Momma: Athi-Patra Ruga’s ‘Queens in Exile’
Athi-Patra Ruga
By Kopano Maroga
WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town 29.11.2017 – 27.01.2018 imagine you are worth … [Read more...]
Space is our Place: Todd Gray’s ‘Pluralities of Being’
Todd Gray
By Kopano Maroga
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg 31.08 – 07.10.2017 “Look, without our stories, … [Read more...]
Offerings from the Post-colony: ‘Looking After Freedom’ at Michaelis Galleries
By Kopano Maroga
Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town 23.05 - 16.06.2017 Decoloniality as … [Read more...]
The Poetics of Remembrance as Resistance: The Work of Sethembile Msezane
Sethembile Msezane
By Kopano Maroga
Memory: Black womxn Faceless/though/many-faced Neither “either/or” … [Read more...]
