Lungiswa Gqunta (1990, Port Elizabeth, Zuid-Afrika) werkt in performance, prentkunst, beeldhouwkunst en installatie. Ze behaalde haar bachelordiploma aan de Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2012 en haar MFA aan de Michaelis School of Fine Arts in Kaapstad in 2017. Naast haar onafhankelijke praktijk is Gqunta een van de oprichters van iQhiya, met wie ze onlangs nam deel aan Documenta 14. Gqunta is actief betrokken bij de Zuid-Afrikaanse galeriescène en heeft geëxposeerd met Commune 1, Hazard Gallery en WHATIFTHEWORLD, die haar werk vertegenwoordigt. Haar werk maakt deel uit van de openbare collecties van de Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, de Universiteit van Kaapstad en Zeitz MOCAA. Onlangs heeft Gqunta deelgenomen aan de Biënnale van Istanbul 2017. Ze zit momenteel in haar eerste jaar aan de Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
Interview with Gasworks artist in residence Lungiswa Gqunta. During her residency (2 July – 17 September 18) Lungiswa plans to further extend the notion of displacement explored in her existing works by creating interventions that evoke and represent some of the physical discomfort experienced as a result of displacement and living in and among violent structures of oppression.
Gqunta has been actively involved in the South African gallery scene and has exhibited internationally at the Istanbul Biennale (2017); Manifesta, Palermo (2018); Wanas Konst Museum, Sweden (2018) and WHATIFTHEWORLD, South Africa, who is representing her work together with AKINCI. Her work forms part of the public collections of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, The University of Cape Town, Zeitz MOCAA and Kunsthaus Zürich and Centraal Museum Utrecht. Gqunta has finished her residence at the Rjiksakademie in Amsterdam in 2021.
Gqunta is one of the leading artists of South Africa. Her talent has already been discovered when she was still at the Academy in South Africa and was selected for the Biennale of Istanbul in 2017. After two very successful presentations at Rijksakademie Amsterdam her work has been acquired for the Centraal Museum Utrecht in Netherlands. Internationally Gqunta has much acclaim for her contextual rich work with a very minimalistic approach. Her solo exhibition at MMK last year, presentation at Palais de Tokyo 2022 and upcoming show at the Henry Moore Foundation deliver proof of her young and already very strong oeuvre.
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