Pebofatso Mokoena
Born 1993, Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Lives and works, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mokoena holds a BA Honours in Fine Art (with distinction)from Wits University and is completing a Master of Arts in Fine Arts at Witwatersrand University. In 2014, He completed his N.Dip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg and subsequently, apart from working towards his BTech qualification, Pebofatso taught drawing and presentation at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at UJ. Emerging from early practice in printmaking, Mokoena’s painting practice is formally underscored by precise mark making and division of space, while exploring ideas around micro and macro scales of politics, architecture and the environment.
Pebofatso’s work has received early recognition and support, locally and internationally. Mokoena has held multiple solo exhibitions including; Neoclassical Taste Matrix and Space Dot Conundrums in Harare, Zimbabwe, The Pebofatso Experience at HZRD and Inside Jobs at the Bag Factory as well as curated exhibitions including Diptych; Disclosure at SMAC; Fresh Produce 2014, Inner Nature, Fortunes Remixed, and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers in Washington DC and is in the Springs Art Library Collection, the South African Embassy Art Collection (in Washington, D.C.), and the JP Morgan Global Collection amongst other private collections.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Space Dot Conundrums, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Messe Messe (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Mokoena holds a BA Honours in Fine Art (with distinction)from Wits University and is completing a Master of Arts in Fine Arts at Witwatersrand University. In 2014, He completed his N.Dip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg and subsequently, apart from working towards his BTech qualification, Pebofatso taught drawing and presentation at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at UJ. Emerging from early practice in printmaking, Mokoena’s painting practice is formally underscored by precise mark making and division of space, while exploring ideas around micro and macro scales of politics, architecture and the environment.
Pebofatso’s work has received early recognition and support, locally and internationally. Mokoena has held multiple solo exhibitions including; Neoclassical Taste Matrix and Space Dot Conundrums in Harare, Zimbabwe, The Pebofatso Experience at HZRD and Inside Jobs at the Bag Factory as well as curated exhibitions including Diptych; Disclosure at SMAC; Fresh Produce 2014, Inner Nature, Fortunes Remixed, and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers in Washington DC and is in the Springs Art Library Collection, the South African Embassy Art Collection (in Washington, D.C.), and the JP Morgan Global Collection amongst other private collections.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Space Dot Conundrums, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Messe Messe (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Anne Zanele Mutema
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.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
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
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.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
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
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