Anne Zanele Mutema
Biography
Born 1988, Harare, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Anne Zanele Mutema, a conceptual installation artist who is preoccupied with ideas of space, memory and phenomenology. Having graduated from National Gallery Visual Art Studio in 2010, while concurrently studying cinematography at the Zimbabwe Institute of Photography and Cinematography in 2009, Mutema spent a number of years trying to find a bridge between visual art, material practice and her interest in time based media. Through experimentation, she arrived at a unique installation approach. Creating immersive installation, she develops a dialogue between the audience and objects, focused on the idea of an Event, defined as a phenomenon located at a single point in time. Searching to create, capture and recreate Events in the context of self, culture and history is a process, project and quest for Mutema. Mutema’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, achieving awards and selected for participation in international festivals. After taking time out to build a family, Mutema, makes an important and ground-breaking return to practice, with “Systemic Necropolis”. Mutema has recently participated in the Toronto Biennale, Joburg Art Fair which has aided her into broadening her research methodology through different encounters of phenomenon.
Education
2010: National Gallery Visual Art Studio
2009: Zimbabwe Institute of Photography and Cinematography
Exhibitions
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Soft Equinoctial, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2022: Artissima, First Floor Gallery Harare, Turin, Italy
2022: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022: Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada
2022: Ranezuro Rangu Ngariziye, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2022: Making Space (online)(Aasha, Teede, Webber, Mutema, Mwandiambira, Mushate, Tauzeni)
2021: Vacancy (Zanele Mutema/Miriro Mwandiambira), First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2020: Re: (Zacharaha Magasa/Zanele Mutema), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: Unchartered Territories-Voices In Colour, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2014: Harare International Festival of the Arts, No Limits exhibition, Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: RAVY Festival -Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Cameroon
2014: Woman at the Top-National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: Afiriperfoma Biennale, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: In Black and White (Zanele Mutema/Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Residencies
2024: Kinadas Artist Collective, Toronto, Canada
Born 1988, Harare, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Anne Zanele Mutema, a conceptual installation artist who is preoccupied with ideas of space, memory and phenomenology. Having graduated from National Gallery Visual Art Studio in 2010, while concurrently studying cinematography at the Zimbabwe Institute of Photography and Cinematography in 2009, Mutema spent a number of years trying to find a bridge between visual art, material practice and her interest in time based media. Through experimentation, she arrived at a unique installation approach. Creating immersive installation, she develops a dialogue between the audience and objects, focused on the idea of an Event, defined as a phenomenon located at a single point in time. Searching to create, capture and recreate Events in the context of self, culture and history is a process, project and quest for Mutema. Mutema’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, achieving awards and selected for participation in international festivals. After taking time out to build a family, Mutema, makes an important and ground-breaking return to practice, with “Systemic Necropolis”. Mutema has recently participated in the Toronto Biennale, Joburg Art Fair which has aided her into broadening her research methodology through different encounters of phenomenon.
Education
2010: National Gallery Visual Art Studio
2009: Zimbabwe Institute of Photography and Cinematography
Exhibitions
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Soft Equinoctial, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2022: Artissima, First Floor Gallery Harare, Turin, Italy
2022: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022: Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada
2022: Ranezuro Rangu Ngariziye, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2022: Making Space (online)(Aasha, Teede, Webber, Mutema, Mwandiambira, Mushate, Tauzeni)
2021: Vacancy (Zanele Mutema/Miriro Mwandiambira), First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2020: Re: (Zacharaha Magasa/Zanele Mutema), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: Unchartered Territories-Voices In Colour, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2014: Harare International Festival of the Arts, No Limits exhibition, Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: RAVY Festival -Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Cameroon
2014: Woman at the Top-National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: Afiriperfoma Biennale, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: In Black and White (Zanele Mutema/Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Residencies
2024: Kinadas Artist Collective, Toronto, Canada