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Masixole Ncevu (b. 1990) is an artist whose work incorporates profound theoretical and conceptual research components. He integrates various media such as photography, film, drawings, and sound into his work. He is inspired by the immaterial world, postcolonial theory, and various decolonial ideologies, and is interested in the sociological, and psychological applications of photography.
Masixole uses photography as a tool to gain narrative insights, drawing on social science models such as ethnography and photo-elicitation. His work is characterized by the search for more historically contingent forms of understanding the present, particularly with regard to material culture.
Education
- 2015 Graduates from Vega, Cape Town, South Africa
Solo exhibitions & projects
- 2025, SENSE OF SPACE – PREPOSITION OF PLACE, Colorado Projects, Germany
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
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
BOOKS
- 2025, SENSE OF SPACE – PREPOSITION OF PLACE, published by adocs, Germany
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
- 2025 Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Germany
- 2024 University of Leipzig, Germany
- 2021 Cranach-Werkstatt Wittenberg, Germany
- 2019 The Market Photo WorkShop – Art week Joburg, Johannesburg
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