Sabelo Mlangeni
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Sabelo Mlangeni (born 22 February 1980) is a South African photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa.[1] His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[2] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[3] and the Walther Collection.[4]
Biography
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Sabelo Mlangeni was born in 1980 in Driefontein, a village near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga, South Africa.[5]
Publications
[edit]- Sabelo Mlangeni: Umlindelo wamaKholwa. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, 2018. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.
Exhibitions
[edit]Solo exhibitions
[edit]- 2006 Invisible Women, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2007 Invisible Women, Warren Siebrits Contemporary Morden Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2010 This is Our Time, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2010 Men Only/At Home, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2011 Ghost Towns, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2012 Country Girls, Aceberg Projects, Chicago, USA
- 2012 Black Men in Dress and Iimbali, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2015 No Problem, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2016 Heartbreaker, artSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2017 Kholwa: The Longing of Belonging, Museum of Archeology, Cambridge, UK
- 2018 Invisible Women, Memorial Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola
- 2018 Umlindelo wamaKholwa, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2020 The Royal House of Allure, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa[6]
Group exhibitions
[edit]- 2008 Look Away, South African Photography Today, Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
- 2010 I am not afraid, The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
- 2010 Afropolis: City, Media, Art, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
- 2010 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
- 2011 Possible Cities: Africa in photography and video, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA
- 2011 Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, V&A Museum, London, UK
- 2011 Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
- 2011 Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria
- 2011 9th Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennale, Mali
- 2012 Centre photographie de la de Franse, Paris, France
- 2012 Recontres Picha Biennale de Lumbumbashi (Lubumbashi Biennale), DRC
- 2013 The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennale exhibition, Liverpool, UK
- 2013 Present Tense, Calouse Gulbenkian French Delegation, Paris, France
- 2013 Present Tense, Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2013 Distance and desire: Encounters with African Archive, Walther Collection, Neu Ulm, Germany
- 2013 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- 2014 Apartheid and After at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2014 Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
- 2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
- 2015 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Museum Africa, Johannesburg
- 2016 SEX, Stevenson, Johannesburg
- 2016 Close to Home: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Project Space, New York
- 2017 Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg, Gund Gallery, Ohio
- 2017 Recent Histories – New African Photography and Video Art, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
- 2018 Tell Freedom. 15 African artists, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- 2018 Invisible Women at Memorial Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola
- 2018 About Whose Land Have I Lit On Now? At Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Africa State of Mind, curated by Ekow Eshun, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
- 2018 Both, And, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2018 Hacer Noche (Crossing Night), Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico
- 2018 open agenda, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2018 Recent Histories – New African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
- 2019 Mating Birds Vol.2, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
- 2019 Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
- 2019 The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, USA
- 2019 How to Build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine?, Lagos Biennial II, Àkéte Art Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria
- 2019 the head the hand, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2019 Ngoma: Art and Cosmology, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residencies
[edit]- 2010 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
- 2012 The Center Photographique d'Ile-de-France, Paris, France
- 2013 Berlin Fellowship, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
- 2014 Akademie of art Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 2015 Afrovibes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2016 Diep, Haven, Arques la bataille, Normandy, France
- 2017 Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
- 2017 Centre de Art Waza, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2018 Ses Ditze Naus, Ibiza, Spain
- 2018 A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Collections
[edit]Mlangeni's work is held in the following public and institutional collections:[citation needed]
- Tate Modern, London, UK
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
- Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- KADIST, Paris, France
- Sasol, Johannesburg, South Africa
References
[edit]- ^ Warner, Marigold (5 October 2018). "Sabelo Mlangeni's images of South Africa". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ "Sabelo Mlangeni". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ "Sabelo Mlangeni". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ "Mlangeni, Sabelo". The Walther Collection. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ Mlangeni, Sabelo (2018). Umlinelo wamaKholwa. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.
- ^ "Au Nigeria, une maison royale, refuge des LGBT persécutés". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.