Sabelo Mlangeni

Sabelo Mlangeni (born 22 February 1980) is a South African photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walther Collection.

Biography

Sabelo Mlangeni was born in 1980 in Driefontein, a village near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Publications

* ''Sabelo Mlangeni: Umlindelo wamaKholwa.'' Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, 2018. .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* 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

Group exhibitions

* 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 photograpie 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

* 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

Mlangeni's work is held in the following public and institutional collections:

* 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

External links

Artist CV

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Living people
1980 births
People from Mpumalanga
South African photographers