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MOSHEKWA MOKWENA ARON LANGA
Born 19 August 1975, Bakenberg, South Africa
1994 - 1995
1995- 1996
1997 - 1998 Lives and works in Amsterdam | |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 1995 | Moshekwa Langa, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1997 | Moshekwa Langa: Beware of Imitations, Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt |
| 1998 |
D'OR, (special project in the garden of the museum-during the BLANK exhibition at NAI ROTTERDAM) Museum Boijmans van Heuningen, Rotterdam |
| 1999 | Moshekwa Langa, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Moshekwa Langa – Live and in Person, The Renaissance Society, Chicago |
| 2000 | Moshekwa Langa, Galerie Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece Another time, Another place, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 2001 |
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Island Tourist Hotel, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Netherlands |
| 2002 | Loss Draws and Co-Wives, Galerie Ascan Crone- Andreas Osarek, Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 | 'Interior Monologues' - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati |
| 2004 | 'Present+tense' - Düsseldorf Kunstverein ,Germany |
| 2005 | 'Backlash Blues' - The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg , South Africa |
| 2006 | Moshekwa Langa -
MAXXI -Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI SECOLO, Rome, Italy The man who cast no shadows - Tache-Levy Gallery , Brussels, Belgium 'Termas of endearment' - Galeria Bonomo, Rome, Italy |
| 2007 | Moshekwa Langa – 'Encounters ; Homeland' - Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 1995 | 'Somewhere at a distance from Both', With Roger Palmer
Siyawela: Love, Loss and Liberation in South African Art, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Gertrude Posel Gallery and Studio Gallery, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa Gay Rights Rites / Re-writes, Maarten Melckhuis Museum, Cape Town; Olievenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein; Wits University Art Galleries, Johannesburg. Vita Art Now - Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 1996 | Unplugged, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery,
Johannesburg 'Junge Kunst aus Südafrika', Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt South Africa at the Forefront, The October Gallery, London Colours: Kunst aus Südafrika, Haus der Kultuen der Welt, Berlin –(Catalogue) The Young and the Restless without Permission, Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg Groundswells, The Mermaid Theatre, London Faultlines, The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Don’t Mess with Mr Inbetween, Culturgest, Lisbon |
| 1997 | Hitch-hiker, The Generator Art Space, Newtown,
Johannesburg
6th Biennal de la Habana (El individuo y su memoria) – The individual and his memory, Havana, Cuba (Catalogue) Die Anderen Modernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Catalogue) Purity and Danger, Wits University Art Galleries, Johannesburg Big Blue, Coins Café, London; Adler Café, Fix Cafe, Berlin Cartographers: Geognostic projections of the 21st Century - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (Catalogue), Cantre for Contemporary Art, Zamek, Ujazdowski, Warsw, Poland, Art Pavilion Muscamok, Budapest, Hungary Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor (Catalogue) Atlas Mapping: Artists as cartographers, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria, 1998 - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (Catalogue) The 5th International Istanbul Biennal (On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties…), Yerebantan Cistern, Istanbul (Catalogue) Fin de siécle à Johannesburg ,Usine Lu, Nantes, France The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (Trade Routes: History and Geography) South African National Gallery, Cape Town Open Ateliers - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 1998 |
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo -
Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil Unlimited. nl - de Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Transatlantico -Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands Open Ateliers - Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam Memorias Intimas Marcas - The Electric Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa FNB Vita Art Prize - Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 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 XXIV Bienal de Sau Paulo - Parque Ibirapuera, Sau Paulo, Brazil 'Traffic of Night in Paradise - an artist's initiative' - Vrieshuis Amerika, Amsterdam Power Up: Between Experience and Expectation - Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem AIDS Worlds, Between Resignation and Hope - Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland |
| 1999 | Works on Paper - Galerie Tanya Rumpff Celcius: (neue) Kunst aus dem (neuen) Sudafrika, contemporary visions from a new south africa - Ifa Galerie, Bonn, Germany drawings; Moshekwa Langa and Peter Land - H&R Projects, kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium (trans) Africa: Trafique S.M.A.K: extra muros- various venues, including Kicherie Patiron, Ghent , Belgium Generation Z - P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA De Dia - Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino New Worlds: Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada and South Africa - Canada House Gallery, London, United Kingdom New Republics - Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada , Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2000 | Man and Space - Kwangju Biennale Korea Fun Five Fun Story - Guinness Contemporary Art Project, Art Gallery of New South Wells, United Kingdom Paris pour escale - Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France Positioning - Bard College Blick-Wechsel-Afrikanische Videokunst - Ifa Galerie Bonn, Ifa Galerie Stuttgart, Ifa Galerie Berlin Saman Taivaan Alla, “Vuosaari” (Under the Same Sky) - Kiasma (external projects ) European Culture Capital, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | 'Africas - The Artist and the City - a Journey and an Exhibition' - Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Juncture - Cape Town: The Granary, London: Studio Voltaire The Place of Happiness - The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | 'The Short Century - Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994' Museum Villa Stuck, Munich Haus der kulturen der welt, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York 'Watching Ocean and Sky Together' (a series of video projections outside in public spaces-part of the Liverpool Biennial) Public Art Development Trust Liverpool Biennial, Fourth Wall, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| 2003 | 'Post Border Land - Afrikaanse kunsternaars pakken uit in Bagagehal' - Bagagehal Loods, Amsterdam 'Somewhere Better than this Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art' -The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA How Latitudes Become Forms - Art in a Global Age - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Contemporary Art Museum, Houston 'Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti' - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 'Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora' - Museum for African Art The 50th Venice Biennal - 'Dreams and Conflicts The Viewers Dictatorship; Faultlines' La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Italy |
| 2004 | 'Post Border Land - Afrikaanse kunsternaars pakken uit in Bagagehal' - Bagagehal Loods, Amsterdam 'Somewhere Better than this Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art' -The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin , Italy Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Barbican Art Galleries,London, Contemporary Arts centre,Cincinnati, USA 'Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora' - Cranbrook Art Museum,Bloomfield Hills,Michigan USA 'A Fiction of Authenticity ' - Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis,USA, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,USA 'AFRICA REMIX' - Museum Kunst Palast,Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 2005 | 'Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora' - Peabody Essex Museum,Salem.Massachussetts, USA Museo Galouste Gulbenkian,Lisbon.Portugal Edinburgh City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland ' AFRICA REMIX ' - Hayward Galleries,London, United Kingdom, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ART STAR 2 VIDEO ART BIENNIAL - Gallery SAW Galerie, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2006 | Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Museum Of The African Diaspora,San Fransisco, USA 'A Fiction of Authenticity ' - Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, USA 'AFRICA REMIX' - Mori Art Museum,Tokyo 'Olvida quien soy' - CENTRO ATLANTICO DE ARTE MODERNO, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain 'Snap Judgements; new positions in contemporary african photography' - The International Centre of Photography , New York, USA 'there and back' - La Casa Encedida, Madrid, Spain |
| 2007 | Expats/clandestines - Wiels contemporary art centre, Brussels , Belgium |
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OTHER ACTIVITIES October 2007 - March 2008 - Residency: Recollet, Paris, France
2002 - "Fresh" South African National Gallery 1997 - "Holzwege" Jugendmuseum Prenzlauer, Berlin
1998 - "One Night Stand", Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, Netherlands - a screening of video works
1999 - "Transit: Artist on the move",- a symposium - Aula Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands 2002 - "Artists in Residence", Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council Sandton Civic Gallery, Sandton, Johannesburg South African National Gallery, Cape Town | |
| PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | |
| Johannesburg, London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Sydney, Chicago, Wassenaar, Oosterhout, Heemstede, Geneva, Zurich, New York, Kortrijk, Puurs, Antwerp, Amsterdam | |
| OTHER WORK | |
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Telivision producer / director:
South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg
Body transformation (The Works)
Producer/director
22 minutes The South African Film Industry (The Works) (Co-producer / co-director: Jann Turner) 15 minutes The Marginalised Faiths (The Works) Producer / director 5,5 minutes The National Anthem (Arts Unlimited) Producer / co-director 8 minutes What’s Queer Here Producer / director Commisioned by The Works: in pre-production | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Schoonmaker, Trevor (editor). “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Anikulapo Fela Kuti” (New Museum of Contemporary Art: New York, 2003) Baykal, Emre (editor). “5th International Istanbul biennial” (Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts: 1997 Volume I Volume II) Judin, Hilton and Vladislavic, Ivan (editors). “Blank: Architecture, Apartheid and After” (NAI: Rotterdam, 1998) Pirotte, Phillipe and Van Roosem, Patrick (editors). “Trafique S.M.A.C.K Extra Muros” (14 Locaties in de Gentse Binnenstad, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuust: Gent, 1999) Westen, Mirjam (editor). “Power Up: Between Experience and Expectation” (Museum voor Moderne Kunst: Arnhem, 1998) Fuller, Natasha. “Vita Art Now” (First National Bank: Johannesburg, 1995) Hakert, Ulmann-Mattias. “AIDS World: Between Resignation and Hope” (Centre d’Art Comtemporain: Geneva, 1998) Bianchi, Paulo and Folie, Sabine. “Atlas Mapping” (Kunster Als Kartographen, Kartographie als Kultur, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz: Kunsthaus Bregenz uud Magazin 4, 1997) Hug, Alfons, Hermanns, Ute and Ferreira Morais, Maria. “Die Anderen Modernen” (Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin, 1997) Hug, Alfons and Vogel, Sabine. “Colours: Kunst aus Sud Afrika” (Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin, 1996) Sauerlander, Katrin (editor). “Out of Space: Schnitt Austellungsraum zu Gast im Kolnischen Kuujtverein” (Koln, 2000) Vergne, Phillipe, Kortun, Vasif and Hou, Hanru. Piranio, Michelle (editor). “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” (Walker Art Centre: Minneapolis, 2003) Ysla Herrera, Nelson. “Sexta Bieual de la Habana el Individuo y su Memoria” (Centro Wifredo Lam: Habana, 1997) Pedrosa, Adriano and Herkenhoff, Paulo (editors). XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo: “Roteiros” (Takano Editora Grafica, Ltd.: Sao Paulo, 1998) Cho, Sung-Kwan and Hye-Young, Jeong (editors). Kwangju Biennale 2000 “Man and Spaces” (The Kwangju Biennale Foundation, 2000) Zaya, Octavio. “Transatlantico: Diseminacion, Cruce y Desterritorializacion” (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno: Gran Canaria, 1998) Enwezor, Okwui. “The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa. 1945-1994” (Museum Villa Stuck: Munich, 2001) Enwezor, Okwui and DeBord, Matthew (editors). “Trade Routes: History and Geography” (2nd Johannesburg Biennale Catalogue, 1997) Tawadros, Gilane and Campbell, Sarah. “Faultlines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes” (50th Venice Biannale, 2003) Bonami, Francesco (editor). “La Biennale de Venizia, 50th International Art Exhibition; Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer” (Venice, 2003) Subiros, Pep. “Africas: The Artist and the City, A Journey and an Exhibition” (Centre du Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, 2001) Bianchi, Paolo. “Lebeuskunswerke: Dinge Zwichen Leven, Kuns & Werk” (O.K. 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Jaargoang XVII No. 2, 1999) Williamson, Sue and Jamal, Ashraf. “Avt in South Africa: The Future Present” (1996) Raitmaa, Miuna and Kaitavuovi, Kaija. “Ars 01; Unfolding Perspectives” (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art: Helsinki, 2002) Vanhala, Jari-Pekka, Nieminen, Kaiho and Seppaneu, Maaria (editors). “Saman Taivaan alla 3 Taidetta Kaupungissa 1999-2000” (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art: Helsinki) Block, Rene and Heinrich, Barbara (editors). “Das Lied von der Erde” (Museum Fridericianum: Kassel, 2000) Oostindie, Gert. “Het verleden onder ogen: Herdenking Van de Slavernij” (Prins Claus Fonds: Den Haag, 2001)v Terre Blanche, Martin, Bhavuani, Kum-Kum and Hook, Derek (editors). “Body Politics: Power, Knowledge and the Body in the Social Sciences” (Histories of the Present Press: Johannesburg, 1999) Aitta, Catherine. “Unfolding Perspectives: Three Days of Lectures and Discussions at the Avs 01 Exhibition” (Kifca, Kiasma: Helsinki, 2001) Van der Plas, Els and Willemjeu, Marlous. “Prins Claus Fonds Journal #1” (Den Haag, 1998) Collins, Thom (editor). “Somewhere Better Than This Place; Alternative Social Experiments in Spaces of Contemporary Art” (The Contemporary Arts Center; Cincinnati, 2003) Murinik, Tracey, Bedford, Emma (editor). “Fresh. 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Chicago, 2002) Manchester, Claire. “Fresh Cream” (Phaidon Press Limited, 2001) Fall, Pivin (editors). “An Anthology of African Art- The 20th Century, Revue Noir Edition” (Paris, 2002) Schenk M.A., Isabell, Meyer, Werner (editors). “Zeitgenossische Skulptur- Europa Afrika” (StudwestLB Forum Stuttgart, 1998) Schulze Janine(co-ordinator);Kunst bij Rijksgebouwen 2000-2003 Art for government property 2000-2003 Lemonnier Arlette(editor); Le dessus des cartes -art contemporain et cartographie.bruxelles.2004 Tawadros Gilane(editor);Changing States-contemporary art and ideas in an era of globalisation. iniva,london.2004 Kersting RIta(editor);174 jahre KUNSTVEREIN für die rheinland und westfalen .dusseldorf,2004 Drosterij Gerhard, Ooms Toine, Vos Ken(editors);Intruders-Reflections on art and the ethnographical museum. national museum of ethnology,Leiden,2004 Njami ,Simon, Bernadac ,Marie-Laure (editors) ARICA REMIX,L'art contemporain d'une continent CENTER GEORGES POMPIDOU,2005 Farrell ,Laurie-Anne(editor) Looking both ways: Art of the contemporary African diaspora. 2003 Museum for african art, New York Mosaka Tumelo, Fitzgerald Shannon(editors) A Fiction Of Authenticity:Contemporary African Art Abroad. Contemporary Art Museum,St Louis.2003 Perryer Sophie(editor) 10 YEARS 100 ARTISTS 2004,SOUTH AFRICA MOSHEKWA LANGA Les carnets de la creations- afrique du sud texte de Emmanuel Dayde. editions de loeil,2005 |
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