Staff Writer
Moffat Takadiwa, is among six artists to represent Zimbabwe at the upcoming 60th International Venice Biennale in Italy from 20 April 2024 to 24 November 2024.
The other artists are Gillian Rosselli, Sekai Machache, Victor Nyakauru, Kombo Chapfika and Troy Makaza.
This will be Zimbabwe’s seventh consecutive staging of the show, a successful streak for an African country at this world-renowned platform.
Moffat Takadiwa lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Part of the post-independence generation of artists in Zimbabwe.
Takadiwa has exhibited extensively across major institutions in Zimbabwe as well as
internationally.
Takadiwa also was a founder of Mbare Art Space in Harare where he plays a part in mentoring the growing artist community. Recent exhibitions include Zero Zero, Semiose, Paris (2023, solo); Vestiges of Colonialism, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (2023, solo); A Love Letter to LA, curated by Storm Ascher, Superposition Gallery, Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles (2023); Nous sommes tous des lichens, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – château de Rochechouart (2022); The Bull, Semiose, Paris (2022, solo); Brutalized Language, Nicodim, New York (2022, solo); Witch Craft: Rethinking Power, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2021, solo); This is Not Africa: Unlearn What You Have Learned, ARoS Museum, Denmark (2021); Mr. Foreman you have destroyed the farm, Semiose, Paris, France (2021, solo); INXS: Never Before Seen Major Works by Simphiwe Ndzube, Moffat Takadiwa, Zhou Yilun, Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Son of the Soil, Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA (2019, solo); Thread., Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (2019); Stormy Weather, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2019); Second Hand: Selected Works from the Jameel Art Collection, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2019); Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech (2019); The Eye Sees Not Itself, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2018); and Chinafrika. Under construction, Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig (2017).
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