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Zanele Muholi

  • Zanele Muholi, Bambatha I, 2023. Courtesy- the artist, Hayden Phipps-Southern Guild and Southern Guild
    South African Artists featured at Frieze 2024
    Design News > African Design
    Artists Zanele Muholi and Zizipho Poswa feature amongst 22 international artists >
    2 Oct 24
  • Photographs: Zanele Muholi
    Get the picture
    Design News > African Design / Art & Photography
    Zanele Muholi’s expansive photographic career on display in a new exhibition. >
    11 Jun 24
  • Self-titled
    Design News > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking
    The latest exhibition by renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi is autobiographical. >
    10 Jul 23
  • Jabu Nadia Newman
    Using art activism to fight gender-based violence
    Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa. >
    2 Dec 19
  • Zanele Muholi
    How 'Sakhile&Me' is connecting Africa to the world
    Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft
    Sakhile Matlhare explains how she created a hybrid art and research gallery in Frankfurt, Germany. >
    28 Aug 19
  • Maitland Institute
    The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art
    Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy
    This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >
    25 Aug 17
  • Zanele Muholi/Stevenson Gallery
    Self-portraiture by Zanele Muholi
    Design News > African Design / Art & Photography
    Visual activist Zanele Muholi turns the camera on herself. >
    11 Apr 17
  • Limit(less)
    Limit(less) by Mikael Owunna
    Design News > Art & Photography
    LGBTQ style in the African diaspora. >
    14 Feb 17
  • Africa's Out!.
    Wangechi Mutu launches Africa's Out!
    Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism
    Artist Wangechi Mutu rallies the art world to speak out against Africa's persecution of sexual minorities at the launch of her new creative campaign. >
    28 May 15
  • Milton Glaser.
    Top 10 stories of 2014
    Lookbook > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    Advice from the grand-dad of American graphic design tops the list of most popular reads on designindaba.com. >
    30 Dec 14
  • The Boran Bull by Ntombephi Ntobela, Ubuhle Beautiful Beads.
    MBOISA 2015: 12 ways to define beauty
    Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design
    Here are the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2015 nominations, from the personal to the practical to the political. >
    1 Dec 14
  • State of the Art at Design Indaba Conference 2014 featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist, Athi-Patra Ruga, Nandipha Mntambo & Zanele Muholi.
    State of the Art ft. Athi-Patra Ruga, Nandipha Mntambo and Zanele Muholi
    Talks > Art & Photography
    Three contemporary South African artists share the intensely personal visions that come to life in their work, alongside top curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. >
    10 Sep 14
  • State of the Art at Design Indaba Conference 2014 featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist, Athi-Patra Ruga, Nandipha Mntambo & Zanele Muholi.
    State of the Art (trailer)
    Trailers > Art & Photography
    Three renowned South African artists let us into their intensely personal vision. >
    4 Sep 14
  • Paula Scher on stage at Design Indaba Conference.
    Focus On: Women in design
    Focus On > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration
    We look back at some of the phenomenal women who have graced the stage of Design Indaba Conference and who are making an indelible mark on the world. >
    9 Aug 14
  • Zanele Muholi.
    Zanele Muholi: When do we start talking about intimacy?
    Video Interviews > Art & Photography
    In this interview, visual activist Zanele Muholi tells us about the importance of documenting and preserving the history of LGBTI individuals and communities. >
    9 May 14
  • Kite flying near Phuthaditjhaba, Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989 (4_5951). Image: David Goldblatt
    South African artists' portfolio
    Lookbook > Art & Photography
    David Goldblatt, Zanele Muholi and Nandipha Mntambo will grace the DI 2014 stage. Here's a look at their work. Please note: this gallery contains nudity. >
    7 Feb 14
  • Zanele Muholi.
    Zanele Muholi
    Zanele Muholi is a visual activist raising awareness around gender, race and human rights. >
    31 Jan 14
  • Street style in Ghana
    Sharp Sharp in Paris, and Accra
    Inside View > African Design / Art & Photography
    Street-style photographer Ed Suter reports from Ghana. >
    29 Oct 13
  • Fuse by Wim Botha.
    Talking about love
    Design News >
    What we talk about when we talk about love is a group exhibition exploring different notions of love and the relationship we have with ourselves. >
    13 Dec 11
  • Zanele Muholi. Ummeli, 2011. (Image courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery).
    Period pains
    Design News >
    Zanele Muholi's "Isilumo siyaluma" collection of work looks at the stigmas and violence black lesbians in South Africa face. >
    2 Nov 11
  • Design Indaba magazine gets lusty
    Do Tank News > Creative Economy / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design
    “It’s an ad joke. If you want to sell something without trying too hard just add sex, puppies or children.” Get the new Design Indaba mag. >
    19 May 10
  • Photo by Gary van Wyk.
    Ordinary peeps
    Inside View > Film & Animation
    Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus likes to think that behind each face he passes daily, is a web of sexual deviation and anarchy. >
    1 May 10
  • Zinzi and Tozama II Mowbray, Cape Town, 2010. Photo by: Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery.
    Black to the closet
    Lookbook > Art & Photography
    Photographer Zanele Muholi’s exploration of black female bodies has raised more than a couple of eyebrows. >
    1 May 10
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