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About

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