Collaboration, Art, Social Change

Visual activist Zanele Muholi gave a talk at The O.P.E.N in Singapore Zanele Muholi (with a mic) at the opening in Singapore O.P.E.N. / Singapore International Festival of Arts 2014 (June 26 – July 12): Zanele Muholi attended the opening on June 26 and gave the talk: Collaboration, Art, Social…

New York: After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality

Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…

Schwules Museum* Berlin – Zanele Muholi Photograph

Press release Zanele Muholi. Photography at Schwules Museum* in Berlin 22 March to 9 June 2014 Curators: Birgit Bosold & Wolfgang Theis The Schwules Museum* in collaboration with Amnesty International present an extensive exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi’s photographic works. You and your friends are cordially invited to:…

Zanele Muholi at Williamstown College

Photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi will show new photographs and a new video produced in Durban as a part of a presetation exploring Black Frees (the generation born post-apartheid South Africa: known as Mandela’s great-grandchildren), and how each person expresses him/herself queerly at the time of troubling hate crimes…

Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change

Press release Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change Zanele Muholi and Gabrielle Le Roux [at WITS ART MUSEUM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa] Opening Wed 29 January 18h00 for 18h30. Exhibition dates: January 30 – March 30, 2014 Wits Art Museum, in partnership with Wits…

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…