Montreuil Paris – 2nd Elles résistent Festival

Trailer Elles résistent France: The program of the 2nd Elles résistent – contre les violences masculines faites aux femmes festival is online now. The second edition or this vibrant radical feminist and lesbian festival takes place on November 24 – 30 2013 at La parole errante, 9, rue Francois Debergue,…

Amsterdam – Fo(u)nd by Zanele Muholi

South African photographer Zanele Muholi will be present at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery on 6 September 2013 for the opening of her exhibition fo(u)nd. Muholi will participate in a conversation about her work with Board Member of the Prince Claus Fund and Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Advocacy Director…

HETERO Q.B. – INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PROGRAMME

09.04.2013 – 30.06.2013 the MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA MUSEU DO CHIADO in Portugal hosts an international programme of events, which showcases women artists, who work with themes ranging from feminism, to lesbianism and transgender. The artists are: Ana Bezelga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga e Patrícia Guerreiro, Ana Pissarra, Carla…

Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West

The international conference Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West /Représentation du Corps Noir en Occident is being held in Paris, France January 17 – 20, 2013. Black Portraiture[s] explores the ideas of the production and skill of self-representation, desire, and the exchange of the gaze from the 19th…

Homosexuality and Art

Video: MORAL PANICS: SEXUALITY AND ART Queer artist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and gay male Pang Khee Teik, Arts Consultant and Human Rights Activist, Malaysia, spoke about sexuality and art at the “All That is Banned is Desired” conference, Oslo, 25 October 2012. Moderator: Robert Sember, Artist and Researcher (South Africa/USA).

Bologna – Zanele Muholi Visual ARTivist

Poster – Zanele Muholi Visual ARTivist, Bologna Photography exhibition – Zanele Muholi Visual ARTivist September 21 – October 20, 2012 QUADRIPORTICO CHIOSTRO EX OSPEDALE RONCATI via Sant’Isaia, 90, Bologna Related Link Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio

All That is Banned is Desired

World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression to Oslo. ‘All That is Banned is Desired’.  A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression The Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and Freemuse – The World Forum on Music & Censorship, Copenhagen, will organize the first world conference on artistic freedom of expression…

Zanele Muholi in Europe

Press release South African photographer and visual activist “Zanele Muholi’s Documenta works will show at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, in November/December. Muholi exhibits at the Rencontres d’Arles festival in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Award, from 2 July to 23 September. Muholi is included on the 12th Gjon…

MO(U)RNING by Zanele Muholi

STEVENSON, Cape Town, is pleased to present MO(U)RNING, July 26 – September 12, 2012, a solo exhibition by visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi.

Les Rencontres d’Arles: Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi, South Africa Queer photographer Zanele Muholi is nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and she exhibiting at the festival in Arles, France, from July 2 to September 23, 2012. Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at Arles is a visual exploration of ‘making / mapping / preserving radical black lesbian and queer…

Zanele Muholi at dOCUMENTA 13

Faces & Phases by visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa at the contemporary art festival dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany. Zanele presents a new series of her astonishing portraits – a wall of 60 large-scale lesbian and transgender subjects from several African countries. These works are part of the ongoing ‘Faces…

Art Book: ZANELE MUHOLI – AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

ZANELE MUHOLI – AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 1 isbn 9788415303466   LA FABRICA Idea Code 11530      €25,60 Promoted by Casa Africa, this collection is aimed at making the most outstanding African women photographers better known, particularly those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. Zanele Muholi is the…

DGLFF Awards Best Documentar​y to DIFFICULT LOVE

Congratulations to visual activist Zanele Muholi and co-director Peter Goldsmid! Based on the audience voting slips during the festival in the category of DOCUMENTARY, the production Difficult Love has won the audience award for BEST DOCUMENTARY at DGLFF 2011 in Durban. See The Documentary Difficult Love Online In ‘Difficult Love’ Zanele talks…

Cape Town TV: Isilumo siyaluma by Zanele Muholi

CTV News Bulletin of November 17, 2011. Topic: Lesbian artist Zanele Muholi uses menstruation as a medium to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa. Visual artist and queer activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa was interviewed by Cape Town TV about her latest exhibition Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains)….

Cape Town: Isilumo Siyaluma, a Queer Solo Show by Zanele Muholi

Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.

Zanele Muholi: Isilumo Siyaluma – Periods of Pain

Isilumo siyaluma, zulu expression which means period pains, as we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent. Visual artist Zanele Muholi explains her queer art project “Isilumo siyaluma” to Toxic Lesbian, Madrid, Spain. Related Links Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio…

Zanele Muholi – Solo Show in Las Palmas

Zanele Muholi has a solo show, accompanied by a new publication on her work, at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, opening 19 October and running till 20 January. She also has work on Face of Our Time, travelling to the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Audience Award to Zanele Muholi’s Film Difficult Love

The Audience awards 2011 for the best short film of the AITP filmfestiv​al 2011 in Amsterdam went to: Documentary Difficult Love directed by Zanele Muholi + Peter Goldsmid (South Africa). With the prize comes 500 euro. Congratulations!!! to queer photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and to director/producer…