Kudzanai Chiurai

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Kudzanai Chiurai (2018)

Kudzanai Chiurai (* 1981 in Salisbury ) is a Zimbabwean- South African photographer , painter, graphic artist and filmmaker .

life and work

Kudzanai Chiurai was born in Zimbabwe and went into exile in South Africa. He belongs to the African “Born-Free Generation” and was the first black student to graduate from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting.

At first he paints landscapes and portraits. He later expanded his repertoire to include photography, drawing, film, painting and sculpture. Influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy , among others , he also used stencils and spray paint to create outdoor images. Chiurai combines paintings and drawings with videos and photographs. He addresses issues such as democracy and xenophobia. Chiurai's early work focused on the political, economic and social conditions of his home country Zimbabwe and its development from colonialism through independence to the present day. "After that, Chiurai began to be interested in xenophobia and displacement in southern Africa and made films and paintings that deal with the psychological and physical experience of life in Johannesburg's inner city districts."

In his photographic sets for “Genesis [Je n'isi isi]”, Kudzanai Chiurai stages various situations from David Livingstone's travelogues . He changes the actors: the figure of the European explorer is juxtaposed with protagonists from the African past. With this, Kudzanai Chiurai opposes the traditional European story with its own historiography.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Graceland at Obert Contemporary (Johannesburg, South Africa: 2007);
  • 2011: Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
  • 2011: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography , Victoria and Albert Museum , London
  • 2012: Conflict Resolution dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel
  • 2014: The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited curated by Simon Njami at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
  • 2014–2015: Defining the State of the Nation at the Zeitz MOCAA Pavillion (Cape Town, South Africa: 2014–2015)
  • 2015: SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (Georgia) USA
  • 2015 Iyeza at the RISD Museum (Rhode Island, USA: 2015);
  • 2015: Selections from Revelations at MoCADA (New York, USA: 2015);
  • 2015: revelações , Kulungwana Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artthrob artbio, Anna Stielau [ http://artthrob.co.za/Artbio/Kudzanai_Chiurai_by_Anna_Stielau.aspx Kudzanai Chiurai] accessed on February 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Zeitz Mocaa Kudzanai Chiurai accessed on February 3, 2019
  3. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 336, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  4. ↑ C Kudzanai Chiurai accessed on 3 February 2019
  5. ^ House of World Cultures, Kudzanai Chiurai, accessed on February 3, 2019
  6. ↑ ifa-Galerie Stuttgart Kudzanai Chiurai: Genesis [Je n'isi isi - We Live in Silence] accessed on February 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Chiurai, Kudzanai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean-South African photographer, painter, graphic artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury