Moshekwa Langa will be resident at the Thami Mnyele Foundation during the months December 2014 and January 2015

Moshekwa Langa was born in 1975 in Bakenberg, South Africa. He attended the Max Stibbe Waldorf school in Pretoria. After a period of experimentation with writing and making objects related to drawing, sculpture and sound recordings he moved in 1997 to Amsterdam to take part in the residency programme at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. He works in various media such as installation, sculpture, painting, video, drawing and photography. Amongst his solo exhibitions are those that were held at: the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1999), the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Maxxi Museum, Rome (2005), the Kunsthalle Bern (2011), the Krannert Art Museum and the University of Urbana Champaign (2013).The Jealous Lover -IFA Galerie, Stuttgart and Berlin (2014). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The short Century; Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. African Art and History. And exhibitions in amongst others Munich, Berlin, Chicago and New York.