Kresiah MUKWAZHI
(Harare, 1992)






Kresiah Mukwazhi è nata ad Harare, Zimbabwe, nel 1992.
È stata selezionata, insieme ad altri artisti, per rappresentare lo Zimbabwe in occasione della Biennale di Venezia del 2022.
Ha studiato arti visive e fotografia presso la National Gallery School of Visual Art ad Harare e il Design e Market Photo Workshop a Johannesburg. È stata ospite presso la residenza Nafasi Art Space che si è conclusa nel 2019 presso Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania con diversi workshop e una conferenza dell'artista.
Tra le mostre personali ricordiamo, nel 2018 Bedroom Interview presso SMAC Gallery, Capetown; nel 2016 In My Private Momentspresso la National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulayano e la recente collettiva dal titolo Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era presso lo Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) a Capetown. Attualmente vive e lavora ad Harare, Zimbabwe.
MOSTRE PERSONALI
2021
Zviratidzo. blank projects, Cape Town
2020
Mukando, Jan Kaps, Cologne
2018
Bedroom Interview SMAC Gallery, Cape Town
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2022
Zimbabwean Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2021
OFF ROAD II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2020
Love your symptoms but not too much, blank projects, Cape Town
Materiality, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2019
African Textures. Jeanne Gaigher, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Marlene Steyn, Osart Gallery, Milan.
The Female Line, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
Conversations in Texture, Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg.
Legitimate Expectations, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.
Not the Usual Suspects, Iziko Museums, Cape Town.
Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town.
Prism of Freedom, Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision.
PARA-OTHER, Chale Wote Street Festival, Accra.
2017
That, Around Which the Universe Revolves, Contemporary at Njelele Art Station, Zimbabwe.
Disclosure, Cape Town, SMAC Gallery.
2016
Nhaka/Ilifa/Inheritance, Zimbabwe Annual Exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
In My Private Moments, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Beyond the Body, Tsoko Gallery, Zimbabwe.
2015
GWANZA month of photography, Village Unhu, Zimbabwe.
Out of the Darkness, National gallery of Zimbabwe.
BIENNALI
2022
59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy