Nandipha Mntambo

Nandipha Mntambo (* 1982 in Swaziland ) is a South African artist who became known for her sculptures , videos and photographs , in which she uses materials from nature and the animal world to address the body and identity of women.

biography

Nandipha Mntambo studied art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town , South Africa, where she graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in 2007 with distinction.

Mntambo lives and works in South Africa.

Work and way of working

In her work, Mntambo thematizes the human, especially the female body as well as the organic nature of our identity through the use of natural materials. She experiments with different media and forms such as sculpture, video and photography. One of the preferred materials for her work is cowhide, which she often uses as a covering / covering for human bodies - boneless sculptures. This material oscillates between evoking the associations of items of clothing that can be worn according to the individual will and those of bodies that were once inhabited by living, breathing and chewing beings with four stomachs. Mntambo specifically seeks this ambiguity and the game with the sometimes more, sometimes less strong tension and the manipulation of the viewer's gaze.

She says of her work: “My aim is to explore the physical and tactile properties of animal skin and aspects of control that allow or forbid me to manipulate this material in the context of the female body and contemporary art. I have used cowhide to subvert expected associations with physical presence , femininity , sexuality and vulnerability . In my work I try to question and subvert preconceived notions regarding the female body. ”(Quotation from the catalog Nandipha Mntambo: ingabisa. Michale Stevenson (2007))

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2014 Transience , Stevenson, Johannesburg
• 2013 Nandipha Mntambo , Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront , Cape Town
• 2013 Nandipha Mntambo , Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2012 Faena , Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom
• 2012 The Unspoken , Stevenson, Cape Town
• 2011 Faena , National Arts Festival , Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
• 2009 Umphatsi Wemphi , Brodie / Stevenson, Johannesburg
• 2009 The Encounter , Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
• 2007 'Ingabisa', Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
• 2007 'Locating me in order to see you' (Master's exhibition), Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2014 Performance Now , Queensland University of Technology Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• 2014 Chroma , Stevenson, Cape Town
• 2014 The Danjuma Collection: One Man's Trash (Is Another Man's Treasure) , 33 Fitzroy Square, London
• 2014 From Sitting to Selfie: 300 Years of South African Portraits , Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2014 The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists , Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt / Main
• 2013 A Sculptural Premise , Stevenson, Cape Town
• 2013 My Joburg , La Maison Rouge, Paris; State Art Collections Dresden
• 2013 Female Power: Matriarchy, Spirituality and Utopia , Arnhem Museum, Arnhem, Netherlands
• 2012 The Rainbow Nation , Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands * 2012 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
• 2012 Viewpoint: A Closer Look at Showing , Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
• 2012 Mine - A selection of films by SA artists , Dubai Community Theater and Arts Center, Dubai
• 2011 ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
• 2011 Contemporary South African Artists , Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia
• 2011 Mine - A selection of films by SA artists , Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth * 2010 Peekaboo: Current South Africa , Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki
• 2010 Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
• 2010 The Beauty of Distance: Songs of survival in a precarious age , 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
• 2010 SPace: Currencies in contemporary African art , Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg
• 2010 Dak'Art, 9th Dakar Biennale, Senegal
• 2010 Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art , Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
• 2010 The Good Old Days , Aarhus Art Building, Denmark
• 2010 Up close: Hair in art and culture , Kunstverein Leonberg, Germany
• 2010 Toros! Works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries , Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
• 2010 She Devil , Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
• 2009 Up close: Hair in art and culture , Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
• 2009 Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography, Bamako, Mali
• 2009 Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art , Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
• 2009 La modernité dans l'art africain d'aujourd'hui, Panafrican Cultural Festival of Algiers
• 2009 Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities , Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
• 2009 Works from the 2008 Dak'art biennale, Ifa-Galerie, Berlin and Stuttgart
• 2009 Number Two: Fragile , Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
• 2009 Why not? , Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
• 2009 Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art , The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
• 2008 'Disguise', Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
• 2008 Dak'art, Dakar Biennale, Senegal
• 2008 'Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body', Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
• 2008 'Skin-to-skin: Challenging textile art', Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
• 2008 '.za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica', Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
• 2008 'The Trickster' at ArtExtra, Johannesburg
• 2007 'Summer 2007/8', Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
• 2007 'Apartheid: The South African Mirror', Center de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona
• 2007 'Afterlife', Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
• 2006 'MTN New Contemporaries', Johannesburg Art Gallery , Johannesburg
• 2006 'Second to None', Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
• 2005 'In the making: Materials and Process', Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
• 2001/2 Curator of the Parliamentary Millennium Project (PMP)

Awards

• 2014 Nominated for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (Canada)
• 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art
• 2010 Wits / BHP Billiton Fellowship
• 2005 Curatorial Fellowship, Brett Kebble Art Awards
• 2003/4 Mellon Meyers Fellowship, Michaelis School of Fine Arts

literature

• Mntambo, Nandipha. Nandipha Mntambo - Locating me in order to see you. University of Cape Town, 2007.
• Mntambo, Nandipha, and Sophie Perryer. Nandipha Mntambo: ingabisa, August 16 - September 15, 2007. Michael Stevenson, 2007.
• Mntambo, Nandipha, Sophie Perryer, and Michael Stevenson Gallery. The encounter. Michael Stevenson, 2009.

Web links

• [1] Review on Artsouthafrica.com
• [2] Artist profile on the Stevenson Gallery homepage
• [3] Artist profile on the homepage of David Krut Publishing & Fine Art
• [4] Overview on Photography-now.com
• [5] Article on Southafrica.info
• [6] Overview on Kunstaspekte.de
• [7] Information from the Ifa Gallery Berlin
• [8] Information on Artthrob.co.za