Keneliwe Mokona
A visual artist/curator/educator based in Johannesburg, and a Fine Art graduate
from Tshwane University of Technology. My work has been exhibited across
Sourthern Africa including Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape town, Eastern Cape,
Swaziland, and internationally, including Brussels and Paris. I am the recipient of
the Reinhold Cassirer award for 2015 and was in residence at the Bag Factory
Artist Studio in Fordsburg , Johannesburg. I have curated several exhibitions in the
Southern African region (including Maputo and Harare) for Capital Arts
Revolution [an artist’s collective from Pretoria], and Social Life of Waste [S.L.O.W]
Art a network of artists, researchers, writers, gardeners and community
developers working within the discourse of waste. I’ve facilitated art workshops
for Pretoria Art Museum, schools in association with Capital Arts Revolution and
the American Embassy, and various other organizations including The Coloured
Cube. My work mainly varies between multidisciplinary visual arts; art curation,
direction and facilitation. I formed part of the Talent Unlocked Artist Programme
facilitated by Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and Assemblage. I was
chosen as a top10 finalist for ‘Continuing Conversations UJ portrait award 2018.
A recent project I managed, ‘NUMBERS’ exhibition curated by myself a
collaborative multi disciplinary exhibition featuring an interactive multimedia
installation and a group show of selected female artists showed at Hazard Gallery,
Johannesburg. I was recently in an artist residency programme at Southern
African Foundation for Contemporary Art (SAFFCA) in Knysna , end of 2018. I’m
was recently in the ‘Artists in Schools’ education programme with Sibikwa Arts
Centre, working as an art facilitator at Mogale primary school in 2019. I’m
currently the director of The Project Space organisation since September 2019 till
2021.
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