Untitled (Pride 6)
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
THK Gallery is a dynamic contemporary art gallery situated in the heart of Cape Town, South Africa, with an experimental space in Cologne, Germany.
Founded by German photographer and collector Frank Schönau in 2018, who was joined by auction veteran Linda Pyke.
Working with established and emerging artists from Africa and the diaspora, as well as international artists, it presents a diverse array of developing contemporary visual art forms.
It contributes to the contemporary art discourse by showcasing, to a global audience, art that presents alternative perspectives and aesthetics to the status quo.
Artists presented:
Nonzuzo Gxekwa, Talut Kareem, Andrew Kayser, Lerato Motaung, Lulama Wolf
Nonzuzo Gxekwa (b. 1981) is a Johannesburg based photographer. Her approach to photography favours the everyday over the spectacular; sharing intimate moments by focusing the camera on what is around her as well as on herself. Whether photographing in the street or in the studio, her work explores the human condition in subtle and beautiful ways. Her optic is loving. It’s not simply that she chooses to focus on moments of self love—the way people occupy themselves—but that in the taking, her subjects are never wholly circumscribed. There is always space to manoeuvre. Collaboration is a crucial part of her practice, and she regularly works with photographers and other creatives in Johannesburg and further afield.
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
29.7 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
29.7 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition de 8 + 2 AP
Archival inkjet print on enhanced matte paper
© Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Courtesy of THK Gallery
Talut Kareem (b.1994) is a contemporary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He received his National Diploma in Mass Communication at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, and subsequently pursued a B.A. in Visual Art from the University of Lagos. His practice is rooted in drawing and painting, with painting being his primary form of expression. Kareem creates richly detailed portraits by combining realistically rendered charcoal figures overlaid with bright colours and abstract patterns. By juxtaposing the monochrome of the charcoal with the colourful spherical shapes in the picture plane, he has developed a unique visual language, allowing him the freedom to explore figure composition, and further develop his narrative which centres around the transitory nature of our awareness.
154.4 x 123 cm
Fusain et acrylique sur toile
© Talut Kareem
Courtesy of THK Gallery
152 x 120 x 4 cm
Fusain et acrylique sur toile
© Talut Kareem
Courtesy of THK Gallery
91.44 x 60.96 cm
Fusain et acrylique sur toile
© Talut Kareem
Courtesy of THK Gallery
152.4 x 123 cm
Fusain et acrylique sur toile
© Talut Kareem
Courtesy of THK Gallery
123 x 91.44 cm
Fusain et acrylique sur toile
© Talut Kareem
Courtesy of THK Gallery
Andrew Kayser (b. 1975) displays his technical mastery in his finely detailed narrative paintings. Embracing ambiguity and contradiction, his works are both a critique and reconciliation of his coming of age, depicting saccharine suburban scenes disconnected from the larger social reality. He graduated from Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art), Den Haag, Netherlands in 2001. Currently living and working in inner-city Johannesburg, he is represented in collections both locally and abroad.
160 x 180 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Andrew Kayser
Courtesy of THK Gallery
80 x 90 x 2.5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Andrew Kayser
Courtesy of THK Gallery
80 x 90 x 2.5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Andrew Kayser
Courtesy of THK Gallery
165 x 195 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Andrew Kayser
Courtesy of THK Gallery
Lerato Motaung (b. 1991) in Katlehong, Germiston, is a visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. After training in drawing at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2008, and in sculpture at the Katlehong Art Center in 2009, he received his Diploma in Fine Arts in 2015 from the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria. For his primary means of expression, Motaung weaves the familiar with the imagined to create a personal and intuitive evocation of history. Drawing inspiration from his day to day life in metropolitan Johannesburg where he lives and works — as well as from memories of his youth in the North West Province and his coming of age in Katlehong township — he brings the viewer closer to grasping the intangible by pushing beyond the possibilities of the physical, and attempting to plot the unmappable parts of the human mind.
150 x 190 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Lerato Motaung
Courtesy of THK Gallery
160 x 120 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Lerato Motaung
Courtesy of THK Gallery
137 x 137 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Lerato Motaung
Courtesy of THK Gallery
56 x 51 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Lerato Motaung
Courtesy of THK Gallery
56 x 51 x 5 cm
Oil on canvas
© Lerato Motaung
Courtesy of THK Gallery
Lulama Wolf (b. 1993) is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the intersection of Neo-Expressionism and Modern African Art, Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by using smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and the patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes. History and the proof of life are the core concepts in her work. Where there has rarely prior been reference of life in black spirituality, she counters that narrative by creating two dimensional paintings to embody the simplicity and deep spiritual power of the native eye. Her motivation is both tender and protective of her imaginary world, and her symbolic view of how her world looks into an alternate universe. She is set on creating both a photographic and graphic experience, that morphs and shapeshifts into a higher dimensional plane.
61 x 76.5 x 3.5 cm
Acrylic and sand on canvas
© Lulama Wolf
Courtesy of THK Gallery
120 x 120 cm
Acrylic and sand on canvas
© Lulama Wolf
Courtesy of THK Gallery
120 x 120 cm
Acrylic and sand on canvas
© Lulama Wolf
Courtesy of THK Gallery
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