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About Masixole Ncevu
Masixole Ncevu (b.1990) is an artist whose practice has solid theoretical and conceptual research components. Masixole incorporates various mixed media into his practice such as Photography, film, drawings and sound. He is inspired by the immaterial world, post colonial theory, and various de-colonial ideologies, he is interested in the ethnographic, sociological, psychological application of photography.
Masixole uses photography as a tool to unearth narrative findings, drawing on social sciences models such as ethnography and photo- elicitation. His work is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to material culture.
Education
- 2015 Graduates from Vega, Cape Town, South Africa
Awards & grants
- 2024 Stadt Leipzig Arbeitsstipendium, Germany
- 2024 Nominated for Joop Swart Masterclass, Amsterdam
- 2024 Max Uhlig Reisestipendium, Germany
- 2023 NEUSTARTplus Stipendium, Germany
- 2021 Arbeitsstipendium Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig, Germany
- 2018 Finalist for the August Sander Prize 2018, Germany
- 2015 Vega School of Brand Leadership Advanced Photography Award
- 2015 Samsung Excellent Award for best student, South Africa
Group exhibitions & projects
- 2022 900 Jahre Plauen und ein “Plauener Bilderbuch”, Theater Plauen, Germany
- 2021 24 Atelier Gespräche, Bund Bildender Künstler Vogtland e.V. Germany
- 2020 Africa: 300 000 years of diversity, Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2019 Africa: 300 000 years of diversity, Carl Vogt Exhibition Room, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- 2018 Pumflet ‘Rondehuis’, Wolff Architects, Cape Town
- 2017 RESIST(E), Galerie NegPos, Nimes, France
- 2017 SkaapKop – Stop Frame Animation, William Kendridge’s The Center for the Less Ideas, Johannesburg
- 2016 HABASHWE, SOSESAME Gallery, Johanessburg
- 2015 Way through, Vega school, Cape Town
- 2014 Life behind the taxi rank, Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
- 05+06+07/2023, Gastsemester – Klasse für Fotografie, Prof. Heidi Specker, Hochschule Für Grafik und Buchkunst Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
- 01+02/2018 Residency AIR Krems, Austria, hosted by Galerie Stadpark Austria
LECTURE PERFORMANCES & VISITING ARTIST
- 2021 Cranach-Werkstatt Wittenberg, Germany
- 2020 Europäisches Gymnasium Waldenburg, Germany
- 2019 The Market Photo WorkShop – Art week Joburg , Johannesburg
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