Kholofelo Tema
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kholofelo Tema is a candidate architectural technologist and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Honours) at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Working across architecture and contemporary art, Tema has developed a diverse professional background. These experiences have informed an emergent curatorial practice situated at the intersection of the built environment, urbanism and contemporary visual culture.
His curatorial practice explores the relationships between the built environment, space, place-making and ecological transformation. Through exhibitions, he investigates how histories of extraction, materiality and urban development continue to shape contemporary spatial and social realities.
Tema made his curatorial debut with Post-eGoli-cene, a multimedia group exhibition examining the enduring environmental and spatial consequences of gold mining on Johannesburg's post-extractive urban landscape. The exhibition was organised around two interconnected thematic zones, namely: Earth and Air. Earth brought together works reflecting on the material and ecological impacts of mining beneath the horizon line, while Air considered the atmospheric, social and visual conditions that continue to define the city above ground. Through this spatial framework, the exhibition invited audiences to consider Johannesburg as a landscape continually transformed by extractive histories.
Working across architecture and contemporary art, Tema has developed a diverse professional background. These experiences have informed an emergent curatorial practice situated at the intersection of the built environment, urbanism and contemporary visual culture.
His curatorial practice explores the relationships between the built environment, space, place-making and ecological transformation. Through exhibitions, he investigates how histories of extraction, materiality and urban development continue to shape contemporary spatial and social realities.
Tema made his curatorial debut with Post-eGoli-cene, a multimedia group exhibition examining the enduring environmental and spatial consequences of gold mining on Johannesburg's post-extractive urban landscape. The exhibition was organised around two interconnected thematic zones, namely: Earth and Air. Earth brought together works reflecting on the material and ecological impacts of mining beneath the horizon line, while Air considered the atmospheric, social and visual conditions that continue to define the city above ground. Through this spatial framework, the exhibition invited audiences to consider Johannesburg as a landscape continually transformed by extractive histories.
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