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. ISBN 978-0-620-79786-3.

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 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

 * 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