Sabelo Mlangeni

Sabelo Mlangeni (born 22 February 1980) is a South African photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[1] His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,^[2] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,^[3] and the Walther Collection.^[4]

Biography[edit]

Sabelo Mlangeni was born in 1980 in Driefontein, a village near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga, South Africa.^[5]

Publications[edit]

Sabelo Mlangeni: Umlindelo wamaKholwa. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, 2018. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

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^[6]

Group exhibitions[edit]

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 photographie 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[edit]

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[edit]

Mlangeni's work is held in the following public and institutional collections:^{[citation needed]}

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[edit]

^ Warner, Marigold (5 October 2018). "Sabelo Mlangeni's images of South Africa". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
^ "Sabelo Mlangeni". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
^ "Sabelo Mlangeni". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
^ "Mlangeni, Sabelo". The Walther Collection. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
^ Mlangeni, Sabelo (2018). Umlinelo wamaKholwa. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.
^ "Au Nigeria, une maison royale, refuge des LGBT persécutés". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

External links[edit]

Artist CV

[bjp-1] Warner, Marigold (5 October 2018). "Sabelo Mlangeni's images of South Africa". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

[aic-2] "Sabelo Mlangeni". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

[sfmoma-3] "Sabelo Mlangeni". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

[wc-4] "Mlangeni, Sabelo". The Walther Collection. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

[5] Mlangeni, Sabelo (2018). Umlinelo wamaKholwa. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.

[6] "Au Nigeria, une maison royale, refuge des LGBT persécutés". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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