Mawande Ka Zenzile
2018 Lois Anguria Conversation X

September 2018
Conversation X

'Art Practice Beyond Theoretical Learning: An Interview with Mawande Ka Zenzile': the artist discusses creativity, academic structures and power with Lois Anguria 

Uhambo Luyazilawula, 2020

'Akukho Muzi Ungathunqi Ntuthu: Local Knowledge as Creative Rebellion': Nomusa Makhubu appraises Mawande Ka Zenzile's rejection of prevailing conventions, describing his work as a 'rebellion against the systemic violence of our current educational and cultural institutions.'

Uhambo Luyazilawula, 2020

Muṱhala: Through Johnny Mbizo Dyani and Mawande Ka Zenzile: Kabelo Malatsie proposes the methodologies of the two artists as frameworks for emancipation, noting how they 'points us to keep turning the truths we have come to believe and identify with upside down and inside out, even if that means we become uncertain and a people in perpetual pursuit.'

Nka Journal, November 2018

City Press, March 2016

'Everywhere and Nowhere': Lwandile Fikeni reviews Mawande Ka Zenzile's solo exhibition at Stevenson, Johannesburg

Nine Weeks, October 2015

'Sharing ground, staking claim': 'I think that’s the most important part for me: the process, the art-making, it heals me, it makes me alive and it makes me forget about traumatic things' says Mawande Ka Zenzile in conversation with Hansi Momodu-Gordon

Mail & Guardian, March 2016

'Lessons on Lost Knowledge': Three students respond to the exhibition Mawande Ka Zenzile at Stevenson, Johannesburg

Business Day, April 2015

'Cow dung rather than faeces, but it is of our time': Chris Thurman views Mawande Ka Zenzile's exhibition Statecraft and finds it to be timely in the best sense of that word

City Press, April 2015

'The state of our freedom': Lwandile Fikeni reviews Statecraft at Stevenson, Cape Town 

ArtThrob, February 2014

'Maybe if you made this video it would be more technically resolved!': Mawande Ka Zenzile in conversation with Sean O'Toole

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