Exhibitions by/with Senzeni Marasela
Solo exhibitions
2020
Senzeni Marasela, Waiting for Gebane, Zeitz MOCAA, 18 Dec 2020 – 02 May 2021
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Zeitz MOCAA presents a solo show with the South African artist Senzeni Marasela. The exhibition traces significant themes in her practice, particularly in relation to the persona and alter ego of the artist, Theodorah. Inspired by, and in femage to her mother, Marasela has over the last sixteen years explored the role of black working women in South Africa, subjected to the devastating effects of migration, patriarchy, and apartheid. Through printmaking, drawing, performance, and mixed-media installations involving textiles and embroidery, Marasela’s work unpacks history, memory, and personal narrative, emphasising historical gaps and overlooked figures.
2018
Senzeni Marasela, Waiting for Gebane: Dolly Parton. Toffee Gallery, Darling, South Africa
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Exhibition catalogue available here
Online announcements: westcoastway
2017
Ijeremani Lam. blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
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Senzeni Marasela Blog
Exhibition views
Exhibition review by Thuli Gamedze
Online announcement: artfacts.net, artorcraft.co.za, iol.co.za
2012
Covering Sarah. 5 Pieces Gallery
Online announcement: gallery blog, artlog
Review available here
2011
Sarah, Theodora and Senzeni in Johannesburg. Art On Paper, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010
Cotton cloth, cotton thread, lace, satin ribbon, 40.6 x 213.4 cm
Senzeni Marasela. Beyond Booty: Covering Sarah Baartman and other Tales. Axis Gallery, New York and New Jersey in association with submerged art, USA
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Online announcement: artthrob, newarkusa,
2009
Witness. Art on Paper, Johannesburg, South Africa
Online announcement: artonpaper.co.za
”Oh my God you look like shit. Who let you out of the house looking like that?” Solo performance, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
JONGA – Look at Me! A Museum of Women, Dolls and Memories. Deveron Arts residency, Huntly, Scotland
Project report available here
Online announcement: Deveron Arts #1, #2
Press coverage of artist project on issuu
2005
Theodorah and Other Women. Art on Paper, Johannesburg, South Africa
Online announcement: artsouthafrica.co.za, artfacts, iol.co.za,
2004
Three Women, Three Voices. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002
Upstream Public Art Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000
Fresh. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Group exhibitions
2021
The Power of My Hands. Africa(s): Women Artists, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 16e, Paris, France.
2020
Alpha Crucis: African Contemporary Art, Astrup Fearnley Museet , Oslo, Norway
2019
I am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa. Smithsonian National African Museum, Washington, USA
Made Visible. Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Highly Personal: South African Artists and Their HandPrint Portrait, Stephen Daiter Gallery, River North, Chicago, Illinois, USA, curated by Gary Schneider.
2018
Ravelled Threads. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Afronova, Somerset House, London, UK
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Pioneer Works, New York, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Africa. Raccontare un Mondo. PAC, Milano, Italy
Online announcement: vogue.it, artslife.com
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Afronova, Pioneer Works, New York, USA
2016
FIGURE, blank projects. Cape Town, South Africa
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Online announcement: artthrob, contemporaryand
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Afronova, Somerset House, London, UK
KIN. HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
Programme PDF available here
2015
Representations of Otherness and Resistance, Johannes Stegmann Gallery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Online announcement: ufs.ac.za, thejournalist.co.za
2014
Ik Beem Afrikander. Johannesburg, South Africa
Contemporary South African Art Exhibition. Yale University, New Haven, USA
Nomad Bodies. Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium – Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa
2013
Weather Report. University of Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa
Trans- Africa: Africa curating Africa. ABSA Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa, (Travelling Exhibition)
Exhibition catalogue available here
2012
Ongoing: Present Tense: Arts of Contemporary Africa. Newark Museum, New Jersey, US A
Red. 5 Pieces Gallery, Berne, Switzerland
ME1. Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa
2011
New traditions: Louise McCagg & Senzeni Marasela. collaboration at A.I.R. Gallery, in Association with Axis Gallery and Alma-on-Dobbin, New York, USA
Online announcements: almaondobbin.org, www.nyartbeat.com
Impressions from South Africa: Printed Art/1965 to Now. The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, MoMA, New York, USA
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Online announcements: artthrob
Impressions from South Africa: A Conversation with Justice Albie Sachs
David Krut Podcast here
2010 – 2013
Translations into Jewelery. Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa – Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 – 2011
DARKROOM: South African Photography and New Media 1950 – Present. Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, USA – Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
2009
Dystopia. Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa – Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa – Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung, Bloemfontein, South Afrifca – Jan Colle Galerij, Ghent, Belgium
Beauty and Pleasure. The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Unbounded: New Art for a New Century. Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
Developing Democracy: A New Focus on South African Photography, Kyle Kauffman, Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Black Womanwood: Icons, Images and Ideologies of the African Body. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA- Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA – San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Online announcement: artthrob, artdaily
2007
Jive Soweto. Hector Petersen Museum, Soweto, South Africa
2006
Erase Me from Who I Am. Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Ranjith Kally, Senzeni Marasela, Ruth Motau. The Goodman Gallery.
Online announcement: artfacts, artthrob
2005
Click. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004
Ten Voices, Ten Years of Democracy. Public Art project of the City of Rome, Italy
Public Private. Auckland Public Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
The Body and the Archive. Artists’ Space, New York, USA
2002
Aids in Africa. Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
2001
Sample E.C. Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Open House Exhibition, Umea Art Academy, Umea, Sweden
2000
Margins in the Mainstream. Namibian National Gallery, Windhoek, Namibia
Translation/Seduction/Displacement: Post-Conceptual and Photographic Work. South African Artists, White Box, New York, USA
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Online announcement: artthrob, New York Times
Porträt Afrika. Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Art Region End of Africa. Listafen Reykjavikur Kjarvalsstadir, Reyjavik, Iceland
1999
Market Photo Workshop Exhibition. Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Postcards from South Africa. Axis Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Truth Veils. Getrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998
Family Ties. Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Democracy’s Images. Bildmusset, Umea, Sweden
Women’s Voices. Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
Not Quite a Christmas Exhibition. Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Martienseen Prize Exhibition. Getrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Biennials
2015
Johannesburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Online announcement: Mail & Guardian, writing in relation
2005
Beijing Biennale, South African Representative. Beijing, China