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ST2025 | On the Cusp

ST2025 | On the Cusp

2025-02-19

An exhibition of artworks by young African artists, On the Cusp is about revealing and unraveling the creative talents of tomorrow. Focused on graduating visual art students and young art practitioners who have pushed their creative boundaries and sit on the cusp of beauty and magic through their aesthetic, conceptual, critical, material choice, form or installation methods. On The Cusp is a point of transition between two different states; a pointed curve where two ends meet; an intersection of creative elements. It is looking at the present and seeing what the creative promises to deliver to the future through their imagination and innovation.

Participating Artists

Tuli Mekondjo

Tuli Mekondjo

Namibia

B. 1982

Takunda Regis Billiat

Takunda Regis Billiat

Zimbabwe

B. 1990

Simphiwe Buthelezi

Simphiwe Buthelezi

South Africa

B. 1996

Nandele Maguni

Nandele Maguni

Mozambique

B. 1981

Manyaku Mashilo

Manyaku Mashilo

South Africa

B. 1991

Kasangati Godelive Kabena

Kasangati Godelive Kabena

Democratic Republic of Congo

B. 1996

Helen Zeru

Helen Zeru

Ethiopia

B. 1988

Astrid González

Astrid González

Colombia/ Chile

B. 1994

Featured Artworks

To Read a book backwards

To Read a book backwards

Simphiwe Buthelezi

2025

Installation

Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter

Eshina Lyo Ku Topa Topa/Typewriter

Tuli Mekondjo

2025

Installation

Whisper of Mupangara

Whisper of Mupangara

Takunda Regis Billiat

2025

Installation

Drexciya & Hablar a plantas/Talk to plants

Drexciya & Hablar a plantas/Talk to plants

Astrid González

2025

Video Installation

Institutionalisation of the informal

Institutionalisation of the informal

Helen Zeru

2025

Installation

The Thin Line Between Life and Breath

The Thin Line Between Life and Breath

Nandele Maguni

2025

Sound Installation

“Towards our ancestors who lean towards us, with bent spines, trying to tell us where we are from, where we are going.”

“Towards our ancestors who lean towards us, with bent spines, trying to tell us where we are from, where we are going.”

Manyaku Mashilo

2025

Installation

Chumba

Chumba

Kasangati Godelive Kabena

2025

Installation

ST2025 is brought to you by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and many more

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