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Nontsikelelo Veleko and Kathryn Smith at the 11th Havana Biennial

Nontsikelelo Veleko and Kathryn Smith will participate in the Eleventh Havana Biennial under the theme ‘Art Practices and Social Imaginaries’.

The Biennial runs from 11 May to 11 June 2012

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Nontsikelelo Veleko at FOTONOVIEMBRE

Nontsikelelo Veleko’s solo exhibition ‘Welcome to Paradise (Bienvenidos al Paraíso)’ curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, will form part of FOTONOVIEMBRE, a photography biennale organised by the Photographic Centre of the Island of Tenerife, Spain. The exhibition opens on 9 November and runs until January 2012. The exhibition was commissioned, and first presented at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain in 2009.
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Various artists on Figures & Fictions at the V&A

Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will feature works by some of the most exciting and inventive photographers living and working in South Africa today, including Goodman Gallery artists Jodi Bieber, Kudzanai Chiurai, Hasan & Husain Essop, David Goldblatt, Mikhael Subotzky and Nontsikelelo Veleko. The exhibition presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa. The works on display respond to the country’s powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics. The photographs depict people within their individual, family and community lives, practicing religious customs, observing social rituals, wearing street fashion or existing on the fringes of society. All the photographers question what it is to be human at this time in South Africa.

The exhibition will run from 12 April to 17 July 2011

Click Here to view the video From Black and White to Full Colour: a curator’s journey in which curator of Figures & Fictions, Tamar Garb, reflects on her Cape Town upbringing and the forthcoming show.

Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 travels to Birmingham

Work by William Kentridge, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Sue Williamson features on the group show Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950, which travels to the Birmingham Museum of Art January 2011.

The exhibition features the work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994. It examines the use of analog and digital media, still and moving pictures, and two- and three-dimensional formats to express relationships between mid-twentieth-century approaches and more recent ones, and differing concerns among artists of successive generations.

The show has a particular resonance to Birmingham audiences. “There are remarkable parallels between Birmingham’s Civil Rights history and the Apartheid Era in South Africa,” said Ron Platt, the BMA’s Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. “The photographs and video in this exhibition vividly convey this time in South African history, and I wanted to share with our audience how people there lived through something remarkably similar to what happened in Alabama, and how what happened here impacted people on the other side of the World. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu often cited Birmingham’s nonviolent demonstrations as inspirational to the Apartheid Movement.”

Accompanying the exhibition is the catalogue Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 by Tosha Grantham. The book won the gold medal in the Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult category of the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

The exhibition runs from 30 January to 17 April 2011.

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Peekaboo – Current South Africa at Helsinki Art Museum

The Helsinki Museum is hosting Finland’s first major review of South African art. Titled Peekaboo Current South Africa , the exhibition considers the current period of transition as one of the most pressing themes for many South African artists. Goodman Gallery represented artists Hasan and Husain Essop, William Kentridge:, Johannes Segogela, Mikheal Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Diane Victor all have work featured on the show.

" Peekaboo is not a comprehensive review of postapartheid art,” explains Erja Pusa, Chief Curator, Helsinki Art Museum. “Instead, it seeks to show what kind of content is important in South African art at this moment. For many of the artists, apartheid was part of their own life and its traces are still present today. This is not so very different from how the surrealists looked at and felt about the world after the horrors of the First World War, or the experiences of the horror of totalitarian ideologies that underpin the art of the German artist Georg Baselitz. The experience of history is subjective, and it is always seen against the backdrop of the present, one’s own life, environment and experiences, and so also in art.”

The exhibition will run until 16 January 2011.

Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950

An exhibition that considers photography’s role in South Africa’s composite transformation opens at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 21 August 2010. Titled Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 the exhibition includes 18 artists who span four generations: fourteen are South African; four are from the England, the United States, and Germany, and either made South Africa their home or created significant bodies of work there. Featured Goodman Gallery represented artists are William Kentridge, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Sue Williamson.

The exhibitions eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994. “The social and political transformation of South Africa is one of the most remarkable stories of the second half of the twentieth century,” says Alex Nyerges, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “To engage with it directly through the eyes of those who experienced and documented the anguish, turmoil and elation of the period is both uplifting and thought-provoking.”

A preview for VMFA members is scheduled for August 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. On August 26, there will be a screening of the 2002 film “Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony” at 6 p.m. This award-winning documentary looks at the role of music in the struggle for freedom in South Africa. After the screening, producer JohnathanDorfman will discuss the film.

Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 will run until 24 October 2010.

Joël Andrianomearisoa and Nontsikelelo Veleko in the Global Africa Project

An unprecedented exhibition exploring the broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft worldwide, The Global Africa Project premiered at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City this November. The exhibition features the work over 100 artists working in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean, including Goodman Gallery artists Joël Andrianomearisoa and Nontsikelelo Veleko.

The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from the African continent and its influence on artists around the world. Through ceramics, basketry, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and fashion, as well as selective examples of architecture, photography, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition actively challenges conventional notions of a singular African aesthetic or identity, and reflects the integration of African art and design without making the usual distinctions between “professional” and “artisan.”

Other featured artists range from such well-known figures as Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Kehinde Wiley, and Fred Wilson; to Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, and Paris-based Togolese/Brazilian designer Kossi Aguessy, who has collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent, Cartier, and Swarovski; to the Gahaya Links Weaving Association, a collaborative of Hutu and Tutsi women working in traditional basketry techniques in Rwanda.

The exhibition runs from November 17, 2010–May 15, 2011. For more information visit www.madmuseum.org or call +1 212-299-7777

Ampersand at Daimler Contemporary

Willem Boshoff, Mikhael Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Sue Williamson will participate in Ampersand, an exhibition of works by 16 South African and 13 international artists at Daimler Contemporary in Berlin. The show will juxtapose current performative, conceptual and abstract tendencies in contemporary South African art with selected works from the Daimler Art Collection. 11 June – 10 October 2010

Nontsikelelo Veleko / 7th Recontree Africaines de la Photographie exhibition - Bamako 2007

Nontsikelelo Veleko is included in the 7th Recontree Africaines de la Photographie exhibition – Bamako 2007 at Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria until 10 October.

Nontsikelelo Veleko, WELCOME TO PARADISE!, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain

Nontsikelelo Veleko’s solo exhibition, WELCOME TO PARADISE! curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose opens on 3 December 2009 at Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain.

The exhibition will feature the most important works of the trajectory of this young South African photographer. The selection includes Wonderland, winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2008), along with a selection of works from her previous series, such as: The Ones on Top Won’t Make it Stop (2002), Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder (2004-04) and www.notblackenough.lolo (2003) — amongst others, projects from which Veleko gained recognition in the South African and international art scene.

Also on show will be a new body of work, created whilst in a residency on the Canary Islands earlier this year, as a guest of Casa Africa.

The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph on the artist, edited by Ose, with contributions by Tracy Murinik, Sarah Nuttal, John Fleetwood, Carlos Pez and Tumelo Mosaka.

Kathryn Smith and Nontsikelelo Veleko: 3rd AiM International Biennale

Kathryn Smith and Nontsikelelo Veleko will participate in the third AiM International Biennale, Marrakech 2009, curated by Abdellah Karoum opening on 19 November 2009.

Press for Nontsikelelo Veleko

Nontsikeleo Veleko / Monopol Magazin / June 2010

Monopol Magazin Cover Feature (3.1 MB)

Nontsikelelo Veleko / Foam Magazine / June 2010

The Canvases of Representation & The Photographs of Nontsikelelo Veleko by Mark Sealy (152.7 KB)

Group exhibitions

Summer Show

Goodman Gallery Cape presents Summer Show – opening on 15 December and running until 14 January. The exhibition has been designed as a review, focusing on new and recent work by South Africans artists either represented by or associated with the gallery. Important works from series produced by the artists over the past year are showcased, and the show also features a selection of works recently shown at the gallery’s Johannesburg spaces.

The exhibition includes prints from Siemon Allen‘s Records series, in which the artist explores images of South Africa through the collection and archiving of music records from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present day. Photography is strongly represented, with works from Jodi Bieber’s vibrant, urban-denizen take in her Soweto series, in marked contrast with David Goldblatt’s large-scale colour prints of rural South Africa. Mikhael Subotzky (who recently won the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art) and Patrick Waterhouse show recent work from their ongoing collaboration on the Ponte City project.

A text piece by Stuart Bird is shown in anticipation of his upcoming solo show in January, Gerhard Marx presents exquisitely detailed and artisanally worked surfaces in his new works, continuing his preoccupation with notions of mapping, place and nature, and Walter Oltmann shows a powerful new addition in aluminium wire to his series of insect suit sculptures.

Paintings by Moshekwa Langa, Lisa Brice and Clive van den Berg explore abstraction and gesture in different ways; all three have produced significant bodies of new works which were well received during 2011. Minnette Vari‘s uncanny brush and ink drawings of the goddess/crone Baubo sit in awkward dialogue with Kendell Geers’ La Sainte Vierge.

This exhibition affords a fascinating look at the output of some of South Africa’s major artists, and will also showcase from our Johannesburg spaces works not yet shown in Cape Town, including Kudzanai Chiurai’s Revelations, a series of photographic tableaux exploring politics and power in Africa, new wood sculptures by Willem Boshoff, and a selection of drawings, linocut graphics and sculpture by William Kentridge.
www.notblackenough.lolo

The Ones on Top won’t make it stop

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Chinese/Japanese

Wonderland

Year: 2007

Welcome to Paradise!
Biography

Born 19 August 1977 in Bodibe, North West Province. Currently living and working in Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions

2008-9 Wonderland, Standard Bank Young Artist Award, national traveling exhibition, including National Arts Festival Grahamstown, Grahamstown; Durban Art
Gallery, Durban; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007 SCREAM! MUTE! SCREAM!, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003 The Ones on Top Won’t Make It Stop!, Women’s Arts Festival’, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

2002 The Ones on Top Won’t Make It Stop!, The Kuppel, Basel, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2009 Armory Show, Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

2009 prêt-àpARTager, touring several West African cities

2009 7th Recontree Africaines de la Photographie’ exhibition – Bamako 2007, ifa-
Galleries, Stuttgart, Germany

2009 Beauty and Pleasure in Contemporary South African Art, Stenersen Museum,
Oslo, Norway

2008 Flow, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA

2008 Reality Check: Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 Regeneration: Contemporary South African Art, Kyle Kauffman Gallery, New York, USA

2008 Fragile Democracy: New International Photography, Northern Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

2008 I Am Not Afraid: The Market Photo Workshop, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
2008 .ZA: Young Art from South Africa, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
2008 About Beauty, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Not So Black and White: Contemporary South African Art, Kyle Kauffman Gallery, New York, USA

2007 Dans la ville et au-delà : 7th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali

2007 Zeitgenosssiche Fotokunst aus Sudafrika, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
Germany

2007 DESIRREALITIES, Espace St Denis, Paris, France

2007 Apartheid: The South African Mirror, curated by Pep Subirós, Centre de Cultura de Barcelona, Spain

2007 The Loaded Lens, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Fashion’, Nontsikelelo Veleko & Seydou Keita, Danziger Projects, New York, USA

2007 Reality Check: Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Südafrika, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

2007 PHOTOANA: Rendez-vous Photographie Ocean Indien, Antananarivo, Madagascar

2007 Cape 07, Cape Africa Platform, Spier, Stellenbosch and Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Juicios Instantaneous, Museo Tamayo, Paseo de la Reforma y Ghandhi, Mexico

2007 Lift Off Part II, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, curated by Okwui Enwezor, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

2006 Personae & Scenarios: The New African Photography, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2006 WOMEN: Photography and New Media, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006 International Contemporary Photography: The Living is Easy, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK

2006 Uninhabited Territories, West Space, Melbourne, Australia

2006 Bieler Fototage: Physiognomie, Museum Schwabe, Biel, Switzerland

2006 Freestyle, Sanlam Fashion Week, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006 Group Show, Afronova Contemporary Art Gallery, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006 Second to None, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 Olvida Quién Soy: Erase Me from Who I Am, Centro Atlantico De Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2005 Click, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2005 Next Wave Festival, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, Australia

2004-6 Unsettled: 8 South African Photographers, The National Museum of Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark (travelling exhibition to Sweden; Iceland; KwaZulu Natal and Cape Town, South Africa)

2004-5 Negotiated Identities: Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 Is everybody comfortable, Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Fortoleza, Maputo, Mozambique

2004 Urban Life: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder’ Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Jahnitos, Maputo, Mozambique

2004 The Ones on Top Won’t Make it Stop!, Cine Africa, Maputo, Mozambique

2004 Is everybody comfortable, Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 Min(e)dfields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland

2004 Lo-mo-graphy, PhotoZA, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 Urban Life, Market Photography Workshop exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa, The Museum of the National Centre of Afro-American Artists in Boston, MA, U.S.A; KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

2003 Fragments of the City’, 6 women photographers defining the city and popular culture in SA, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003 MTN New Contemporaries 2003, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003 The Ones on Top Won’t Make it Stop!, Bensusan Museum of Photography,
Johannesburg, South Africa

2003 African Day Celebration, Shivava Café, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003 Playtime Festival, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg, South Africa

2002 SHARP, Market Photography Workshop, Market Theatre, Johannesburg; KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

2001 MOVE, Market Photography Workshop, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa

2000 Joubert Park Public Art Project, Johannesburg Art Gallery,Johannesburg, South Africa

2000 SEEN, spark! Gallery, Norwood, Johannesburg, South Africa

Awards and Merits

2008 Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa
Nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Photography Award, Netherlands

2007 International Photography Research Network (IPRN), Residency, Sunderland, UK

2003 MTN New Contemporaries, Nominee, Johannesburg, South Africa

2002 ProHelvetia – iaab and MPW – 3 month internship, Basel, Switzerland

Academic Record and Residencies

1999-04 Market Photography Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa

Collections

South Africa:

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

International:

Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
James Danziger Projects, New York, USA
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Selected Articles and Reviews

‘Portfolio Bamako’, Le Monde2, Paris, France, 2007.

‘Portfolio Bamako’, Afrique Magazine, Paris, France, 2007.

‘I AM NOT AFRAID: The Market Photo Workshop’, Camera Austria 100th issue catalogue, Graz, Austria, 2007.

Art South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing, South Africa, volume 4.4, 2006.

Zeit: Newspaper Magazine, Berlin.

Gauteng Waya Waya, Gauteng tourism publication, Johannesburg, South Africa April-May 2004.

Agenda Feminist Magazine, Durban, South Africa, Sept/Oct 2003.

The Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, April, August 2003.

THIS DAY, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2003.

The Citizen, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2003.

Publications

Books

Comely, R; Hallett, G; Hallett; Neo, N (eds). 2006. Woman by Woman: 50 Years of Women’s Photography in South Africa. Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Maart, B; Lemon, T. J. Introduction by David Goldblatt. 2002. SHARP: The Market Photography Workshop. The Market Photography Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Perryer, S (ed). 2004. 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Bell Roberts Publishing in association with Struik Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa. ISBN 1868729877

2004. The Fatherhood Project: 2003-2004. Child, Youth and Family Development (CYFD), Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC Press, Pretoria, South Africa.

Catalogues

NONTSIKELELO VELEKO: WONDERLAND, Standard Bank Young Artists of the Year 2008. Goodman Gallery Editions, Johannesburg in association with the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa. ISBN 978-0-62041430-4

Vergon, Henri 2007. Two Years of Afronova. Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Lehtonen, Kimmo (ed). 2007. IPRN Changing Faces #3.

Enwezor, Okwui 2006. Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. International Center of Photography, New York, USA.

Damsbo, Mad. 2004. Unsettled: 8 South African Photographers, The National Museum of Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Van Wyk, Gary (ed). 2004. A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa. Sondela, Boston, USA.

Waselchuk, Lori 2004. Is everybody comfortable.

Smith,Kathryn 2003. MTN New Contemporaries. MTN, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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