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Santu Mofokeng
Artist's Name: Santu Mofokeng
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1956
Nationality: ZA
City: Johannesburg

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Mofokeng’s deviation from conventional subject matter includes photographic enquiries into spirituality, an interest that has continued throughout his photographic career and produced the extraordinary, evocative series Chasing Shadows. His explorations of landscape invested with spiritual significance form part of a wider enquiry into space and belonging, the political meaning of landscape. His work, in which he ‘reclaims landscape’, investigates the meaning of landscape in relation to ownership, power and memory. In his recent photographs of urban landscapes, Santu Mofokeng again goes beyond political and social commentary into meditations on ‘existential madness -- the absurdities of living’. Noting that ‘billboards have been the medium of communication between the rulers and the denizens of townships since the beginning of the township’, in his images their solicitations cruelly highlight the impoverishment of the citizenry they importune. Mofokeng has been the recipient of numerous awards. In 1991 he won the Ernest Cole Scholarship, to study at the International Centre for Photography in New York. The first Mother Jones Award for Africa in 1992. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Künstlerhaus Worpswede Fellowship and three years later of the DAAD Fellowship, both in Germany. Last year he was a Prince Claus Fund Laureate for Visual Arts 2009.

important exhibitions from Santu Mofokeng

Exhibition Location City Country Date
CHASING SHADOWS Kunsthalle Bern Bern CH 08.10.2011
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume Paris FR 24.05.2011
Santu Mofokeng - Chasing Shadows Extra City Antwerpen BE 03.05.2012
Chasing Shadows - Santu Mofokeng Bergen Kunsthall Bergen NO 13.01.2012
Animism MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen BE 22.01.2010
Home Lands - Land Marks Haunch of Venison London GB 31.05.2008
"Reality Crossings" Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg Mannheim DE 22.09.2007
DAVID GOLDBLATT | SANTU MOFOKENG | ZWELETHU MTHETHWA Christine König Galerie Wien AT 31.07.2004
Animismus Kunsthalle Bern Bern CH 14.05.2010
Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent Mori Art Museum Tokyo JP 27.05.2006

WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Santu Mofokeng

Santu Mofokeng - Chasing Shadows

03/05/2012 - 28/07/2012
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Galleries representing
Santu Mofokeng:

Carlier-Gebauer

Collections representing
Santu Mofokeng

ARCO Foundation Collection
The Walther Collection