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Buhlebezwe Siwani was born on 25 May 1987 in Johannesburg. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts (Honours) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master in Fine Arts degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Siwani works in sculpture, installation, video, performance and print. As a trained isangoma, a Nguni word for a traditional healer, Siwani’s work explores succor practices as a means to bring about healing to a troubled land. In this regard her work are not only objects of contemplation and aesthetic appreciation but they perform the vital function of communication between the ancestors and the living. Siwani’s work also has a historical dimension. The ocean and the land appear in a number of Siwani’s works. The ocean evokes cleansing since many people in South Africa regard the ocean water as having therapeutic properties both for drinking and for bathing. Some religious denominations do their baptisms in the ocean. The sea also represents the lost souls who either died at sea or who were transported across the seas as slaves.

Siwani is also a member of the 11-person, all-woman collective iQhiya Collective. Much of the work of iQhiya focuses on issues facing black women in South Africa including the erasure of women's contribution from history.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Inkanyamba, Galeria Municipal de Almada, Portugal

2019 Othunjiweyo, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon

2018 iNcence, No Man's Art Gallery, Netherlands Qab'Imbola - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

2016 Ingxowa yeGqwirhakazi - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

2015 Imfihlo, Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Buffer Zones, Platform, Vaasa, Finland

Continental Drift, Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

iNcence, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam

Qab’Imbola, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

The Eye Sees Not Itself, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles

White blood blue night, Centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, Alfortville

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Solo presentation, Cape Town

Tell Freedom, KaDE museum, Amsefoort

Condo at Madragoa, Sadie Cole's HQ, London

2017

Encima, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon

COIMBRA Biennale, Coimbra, Portugal

The House, Twil Art Studios, Johannesburg, Gauteng

Dear History, it's not me, it's you, LBK/G Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

O CÉU DOS OBLÍQUOS, Galeria Madragoa, Portugal

Deep Memory, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden

Being There, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris


 * 1) Dedication to Freedom, Winter Sculpture Fair, Nirox

Ukutshona kuka Mendi, CAS Gallery, Cape Town

Michaelis Master's show, Michaelis galleries, Cape Town

2016

Ingxowa yegqwirhakazi, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

Figure, Group show, Blank Projects, Cape Town

Rote Fabrik, Pro Helevetia residency, Zurich, Switzerland

Quiet Violence of Dreams, Group show, Stevenson gallery, Cape Town

Imfazwe Yenkaba, ITC session 3, Langa, Cape Town.

The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse – On Divinity, Parallel- and Suprarealities or the Exorcisement of Witchery, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

iQhiya group show, AVA, Cape Town.

Indlovukazi, Njelele Art Station, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Imfihlo, Worldart, Cape Town.

Rose Korber Summer Salon, Provenance Auction House, Cape Town.

2015

Katarine Harries Print Cabinet Purchase Award.

Imfihlo, Graduate exhibition, Michaelis galleries, Cape Town.

Joburg Fringe, Johannesburg.

Watch and Talk, 10 day residency, Zurich, Switzerland.

Decolonising love, Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.

Revisiting the Latent Archive In Sites, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town.

Towards Intersections; Negotiating Subjects, Objects and Contexts, Museum Africa, Johannesburg

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Iziko South African National Gallery

Foundation Louis Vitton

University of Cape Town

PUBLICATIONS

Making Another World Possible: 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects, Corina L. Apostol & Nato Thompson, Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138603547

Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa, edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle, Wits University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-77614-279-8 (paperback) 978-1-77614-280-4 (web/pdf)

Collective Amnesia, Koleka Putuma, 2017 - published by uHlanga Press ISBN 978-0-620-73507-0

Continental Drift: Black/Black Art from South Africa and North Australia, 2018, Neelika Jayawardane, Carly Lane,  Published by Cairns Art Gallery

Dear History: It’s Not Me, It’s You, 2017 - published by LKB Gallery, Germany

Qab’Imbola, 2018 - published by WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town

RESIDENCIES

2017

Het Vijfde Seizoen, Amsefoort, Netherlands

2016

Rote Fabrik, Pro Helvetia, Zurich, Switzerland

2015

-Watch and talk, Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland

EXTERNAL LINKS

https://www.now-look-here.com/press

https://www.whatiftheworld.com/artist/buhlebezwe-siwani/

https://www.buhlebezwesiwani.com/

https://africanah.org/buhlebezwe-siwani-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FH_vqcRUs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKCvCorTXn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3GopwNXJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Ho26sTuzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJxkN1iPAL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3GWQEZD58I

https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/art-exploration-self-and-interrogation-world-buhlebezwe-siwani

https://artafricamagazine.org/the-narrative-buhlebezwe-siwani-african-spiritualism-land-issue-sangoma/

https://www.contemporaryand.com/exhibition/buhlebezwe-siwani-othunjiweyo/

https://www.okayafrica.com/studio-africa-buhlebezwe-siwani-unpacking-witchs-baggage/

https://mg.co.za/article/2018-11-02-00-art-and-the-heirs-of-redness/