Moshekwa Langa 1997 - 2016 - Frieze New York 2016 issuu

Frieze New York / 5 - 8 May 2016

MOSHEKWA LANGA 1997 - 2016 STAND D11

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Moshekwa Langa, born in 1975, epitomized the generation of young artists emerging from the ‘New South Africa’ immediately after the fall of the apartheid regime. Rising to international prominence in the late 1990s, Langa was an active participant in what is now considered the golden age of biennales, including those of Johannesburg (1997), Istanbul (1997), Havana (1997), São Paulo (1998 and 2010), Gwangju (2000), Venice (2003 and 2009), and Lyon (2011). Langa has mounted solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam (1998), the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (1999), the Renaissance Society in Chicago (1999), the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (2003), the Kunstverein Dusseldorf (2004), the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome (2005), Modern Art Oxford (2007), the Kunsthalle Bern (2011), the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois (2013), and the ifa Galleries in Stuttgart and Berlin (2014); and was included on the seminal touring exhibitions The Short Century (2001-2) and Africa Remix (2004-7), among others.

Titus 2007 Mixed media on paper 106 x 76cm

Solo f端r ... Moshekwa Langa, Der eifers端chtige Liebhaber - The jealous lover Stuttgart: ifa 2014

Seven Stars 2003 Ink on paper 140 x 100cm

Mkwenyana (son in law) 2006 Mixed media on paper 140 x 100cm

Hans Belting The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds MIT Press 2013

Below the sea-level 2005 Mixed media on paper 140 X 100cm

Installation view, Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago 14 November - 24 December 1999

Hello and Welcome 1999 Mixed media on paper 68 x 81.5cm

You give me the creeps 2000 Mixed media on paper 100 x 140cm

True Confessions: My Life as a Disco Queen, as told to John Ruskin [1] 1998 C-print mounted on aluminum 124.5 x 150cm A vintage print first shown on Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, in 1999.

Kobena Mercer ‘Moshekwa Langa in Conversation’ in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora Snoeck Publishers 2004

True Confessions: My Life as a Disco Queen, as told to John Ruskin [2] 1998 C-print mounted on aluminum 124.5 x 150cm A vintage print first shown on Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, in 1999.

Installation view, Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago 14 November - 24 December 1999

Dor 1998 Fabric flags Dor x 188cm; 288 x 195cm; 290 x 194cm 290

Installation view, Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago 14 November - 24 December 1999

Cuba 1997 Video, sound Duration 5 min 59 sec Edition of 3 + 2AP

Collapsing Guide I 2000-3 Mixed media collage on plastic film 252 x 244cm

Installation view, Fault Lines: curated by Gilane Tawadros In Francesco Bonami’s Dreams and Conflicts. The Viewer’s Dictatorship, At the 50th Venice Biennale, 15 June - 2 November 2003

Emmanuel Daydé Moshekwa Langa: peintre Les éditions de l’oeil 2005

Simon Njami (ed) Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent Centre Pompidou 2005

Collapsing Guide II 2000-3 Mixed media collage on plastic film 236 x 234cm

Suburban Metro Lines 2000 Installation view Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011

After Muafangejo 2011 Mixed media on paper 65 x 50cm

Solo f端r ... Moshekwa Langa, Der eifers端chtige Liebhaber - The jealous lover Stuttgart: ifa 2014

Night Life II 2002 Mixed media on paper 150 x 110cm

Sean O’Toole ‘Another Chapter’ in Frieze December 2013

Anthill 2002/2010 Mixed media on paper 140 x 100cm

Installation view, Marhumbini: In An Other Time Kunsthalle Bern 5 February – 27 March 2011

Installation view, Marhumbini: In An Other Time Kunsthalle Bern 5 February – 27 March 2011

Lawrence 1999/2010 Mixed media on paper 100 x 150cm

No More Drama 2003 Mixed media on paper 122 x 85cm

Lanscape with anthills 2011 Mixed media on paper 140 x 100cm

Tracy Murinik ‘Johannesburg: Moshekwa Langa’ in Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes Phaidon 2013

Xolani 2008 Mixed media on paper 140 x 100cm

The Wedding 2007 Mixed media on paper 77 x 57.5cm

Kwa-dokotela 2007 Mixed media on paper 77 x 57cm

Solo f端r ... Moshekwa Langa, Der eifers端chtige Liebhaber - The jealous lover Stuttgart: ifa 2014

Mekgotheng II (the streets and passages) 2015 Mixed media on paper 162 x 122cm

Moshekwa Langa: Ellipses STEVENSON 2016

MOSHEKWA LANGA ELLIPSES

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When I was making my dots, for example, I had been working a lot with colour and landscapes and alleged water lilies, and I had loads and loads and loads of different pots of paint and shades of colours. And it was Sunday morning and I wanted to make something and I found it very interesting to use the remnants of those colours to show the colour that I was using. I was not making anything specific, and so you have those five or six pieces because I needed to finish that lot of paint so that I could start something else. I was coming to the end of a very specific thought process and this was literally an interruption and it was too beautiful because all the colours were variations of colours that I desired.

KM

You have titled your exhibition Ellipses, and you have three works that

are titled Zebediela, Mamokekolo, Kwalakwata. My question is how you came to Ellipses, and how you use titles – are they descriptive?

ML

They are descriptive terms. Well, Ellipses is only an explanation;

something broke in the description and I am finishing it and I am just leaving it here for the moment and I will open another topic because I am talking about many different things and I will come back to it. This is what ellipses means to me right now. Now, you have chosen works and titles, one is Zebediela, one is Mamokekolo and one is Kwalakwata, and they are not related and related. Kwalakwata Café is somewhere in Mapela near Bakenberg. It was not far from my cousin’s place and it was the first time I heard of anything sophisticated. I used to visit him and he would always talk about Kwalakwata Café, so this was a big thing for him and so I experienced Kwalakwata Café before I even went to the café – and café is not the same meaning as cafe. For years I wanted to go there and I never Mekgotheng II (the streets and passages), 2015, mixed media on paper, 162 x 122cm

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Sepanapudi 2014/2015 Mixed media on paper 162 x 122cm

Installation view, Ellipses Stevenson Cape Town 14 April - 28 May 2016

Ga-Mothoathoase 2015 Mixed media on paper 140 x 100cm

Installation view, Ellipses Stevenson Cape Town 14 April - 28 May 2016

Moshekwa Langa Born 1975 in Bakenberg, South Africa. Lives and works in Amsterdam.

EDUCATION 1997-8 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 20 16 Ellipses, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 20 14 The Jealous Lover, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart; ifa-Galerie Berlin, Germany 2013 Counterpoints: Moshekwa Langa, In and Out of Africa, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 2011 Marhumbini: In An Other Time, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 2007 Encounters: Moshekwa Langa - Homeland, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK 2005 Moshekwa Langa, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy Moshekwa Langa: Unlimited, Gallery SAW, Ottawa, Canada 2004 Present+Tense, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany 2003 Interior Monologues, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA 2002 Fresh, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 1999 Moshekwa Langa, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Moshekwa Langa - Live and in Person, The Renaissance Society, Chicago 1998 Moshekwa Langa - Dor, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 1995 Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 20 1 6 Dak’art, 12th Dakar Biennale, Senegal An Age of Our Own Making, Images Biennial, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark (from 15 September) 2015 Schema, Stevenson, Cape Town I Love Art 13 - 100 artists from the Watari-Um Collection, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan You Love Me, You Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from the Sindika Dokolo Collection, Municipal Gallery, Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal 20 1 4 Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town One Man’s Trash (is Another Man’s Treasure), Danjuma Collection, London On Stage, KARST, Plymouth, UK Le Mur, La collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2013 My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris Cultural Brokerage: Africa Imagined, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa

12th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Stadt Fellbach-Kulturamt, Fellbach, Germany 2012 Subject as Matter. The New Church Museum, Cape Town 2011 The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany 11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France Water, the [Delicate] Thread of Life, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg 20 10 There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil 3rd World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures, Biscuiterie de Medina, Dakar, Senegal Que du Papier, L.A.C (Lieu d’Art Contemporaine), Sigean, France 2009 Hypocrisy: The Sitespecificity of Morality, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Eat the Frame!, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, the Netherlands Dada South?, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Dystopia, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa 2008 Flow, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Snap Judgments: New positions in contemporary African photography, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2007 Juicios Instantáneos, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Expats/Clandestines, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium Who’s got the Big Picture?, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium Circulez! Il n’y a rien à voir, (with Zhang Enli), Objectif _ Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa Snap Judgments: New positions in contemporary African photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2006 New Painting, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Nederland 1, Stedelijk Museum, Gouda, the Netherlands Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, the International Centre of Photography, New York, USA; Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida, USA There & Back: Africa, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA A Fiction of Authenticity, Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, USA

1st Luanda Triennale, Angola

9th Havana Biennale, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba 2005 Crowd of the Person, Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK Africa Remix, Hayward Galleries, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

2004 A Decade of Democracy: South African Art, 1994-2004, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town Literally and Figuratively: Text and Image in South African Art, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany A Fiction of Authenticity, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, USA Min(e)dfields, Museum Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland Camoufleurs, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA Migrating Identity, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2003 Post Border Land - Afrikaanse kunsternaars pakken uit in Bagagehal,Bagagehal Loods, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Somewhere Better than this Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA A Fiction of Authenticity, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, New York Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer’s Dictatorship, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland Next Flag: Reexistencia Cultural: Generalizada - BPS22, Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium 2002 The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA Watching Ocean and Sky Together, part of the Liverpool Biennale, UK

Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil 2001 The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Haus der kulturen der welt, Martin Gropius-

Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Africas: The Artist and the City - a Journey and an Exhibition, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain Juncture, The Granary, Cape Town and Studio Voltaire, London The Place of Happiness, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Head North: Views from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden 2000 Man and Space, 3rd Gwangju Biennale, South Korea Fun Five Fun Story - Guinness Contemporary Art Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, UK Paris pour escale, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France Blick-Wechsel – Afrikanische Videokunst, ifa-Galerie Bonn; ifa-Galerie Stuttgart; ifa-Galerie Berlin, Germany Saman Taivaan Alla, Vuosaari (Under the Same Sky), Kiasma external projects European Culture Capital, Helsinki, Finland 1999 Celcius: (neue) Kunst aus dem (neuen) Sudafrika, Contemporary Visions from a New South Africa, Ifa-Galerie, Bonn, Germany Trafique, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Generation Z, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York De Dia, Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk, Belgium

Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Italy New Republics, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Traffic of night in paradise, Vrieshuis Amerika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1998 Cultural Anthropophagy, the 24th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil Unlimited Nl, de Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain Memorias Intimas Marcas, the Electric Workshop, Johannesburg Power Up: Between Experience and Expectation, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amhem, the Netherlands 7th Triennale der Kleinplastik, Sudwest LB Forum, am Hauptbahnhof 2, Stuttgart, Germany AIDS Worlds: Between Resignation and Hope, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland 1997 Hitch-hiker, The Generator Art Space, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa The individual and his memory /El individuo y su memoria, 6th Biennal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba Die Anderen Modernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Purity and Danger, Wits University Art Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa Cartographers: Geo-gnostic projections of the 21st Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Atlas Mapping: Artists as cartographers, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, The 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Yerebantan Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey Fin de Siècle à Johannesburg, Usine Lu, Nantes, France Graft, Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 1996 Unplugged, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Colours: Kunst aus Südafrika, Haus der Kultuen der Welt, Berlin, Germany The Young and the Restless without Permission, Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Groundswells, The Mermaid Theatre, London, UK Faultlines, the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa Don’t Mess with Mr. In-between, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal Jusqu’à l’école à Bordeaux, à Johannesburg, CAPC (Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France 1995 Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in South African Art, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Gertrude Posel Gallery and Studio

Gallery, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa Gay Rights Rites / Rewrites, Maarten Melckhuis Museum, Cape Town; Olievenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein; Witwatersrand University Art Galleries, Johannesburg Africa 95, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

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