Catinca Tabacaru Gallery Collective

Admire Kamudzengerere

ADMIRE KAMUDZENGERERE (b. 1981, Harare, Zimbabwe)

Admire Kamudzengerere’s work explores identity, politics, and society, often informed by the multifaceted structural and social issues that have marked Zimbabwe’s last decade. Working in various media, he frequently reveals an unequal world in which the powerful ride roughshod over the weak.

Kamudzengerere completed the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten program in Amsterdam (2012). He mounted his first solo exhibition at Catinca Tabacaru New York in 2017, and that same year represented Zimbabwe at the 57th Venice Biennial. His work has was included in four additional international Biennials: Moscow (2013), Bamako (2017), Dakar (2018), and Cairo (2019). In the past two years he has been awarded two art fair prizes, the Purchase Prize by Northern Trust at EXPO Chicago (2017), and On Demand Prize by Snaporazverein at MiArt Milan (2018).

In addition to private collections around the world, Kamudzengerere’s work has been acquired into the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Block Museum at Northwestern University, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

BORN 1981, HARARE, ZIMBABWE

EDUCATION

2012
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2003
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Visual Arts Studios, Harare
2003
Atelier Gallery Delta, Helen Lieros Lessons, Harare, Zimbabwe

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2025
[Working Title: Pan-Africanism], Art Institute of Chicago; Curators: Matt Witkovsky & Antawan Byrd (Forthcoming)
2024
[Title TBD], National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Catalogue: Percy Zvomouya
2021
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts, Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois (catalogue)
2020
Stasi Frenetica, Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Torino; Curator: Ilaria Bonacossa
2019

Permanent Collections Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago; curators: Antawan Byrd & Matt Witkovsky
hybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Curator: Anna Nowak

2019
CTG: Finland, Serlachius Museum, Mantta, Finland; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru & Raphael Guilbert
2018

FIVE BHOBH – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town
Meeting Of The Minds, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Organizer: Mondrian Foundation & The Netherlands Embassy
Unknowing Knowns | Knowing Unknowns: (UNFINISHED), National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
NEW FEELINGS: Transformative Play and Discourse on Photography from a Diasporic Perspective, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture
(PNCA), Portland, USA; Curator: Modou Dieng

2016
Zig Zag Zim, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Curator: Catinca Tabacaru
2010

Harare International Festival of Arts, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
The Fifth Column, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (solo)
Modern Art of Zimbabwe, The Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul

SOLO & TWO ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Space Between, The Over Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021

Haipere nyaya yacho (with Troy Makaza), Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest
Ipapo Ipapo, Galleria Anna Marra, Brussels

2019
Inside/out, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
2018
1972 (with Rachel Monosov), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
2017
I am gonna…you. Till you run., Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
2014
Antipathy, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2010
Variations in the game, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe

BIENNIALS

2023

14th Kaunas Biennial: Long-distance Friendships, Lithuania; Curators: Alicia Knock & Inga Lāce

2019
13th Cairo Biennial: Eyes East Bound, Egypt; Curator: Ehad Labban
2018
13th Biennial of Contemporary African Art: The Rebel, Dakar, Senegal; Curator: Simon Njami
2017

11th Biennale of African Photography: Afrotopia, Bamako, Mali; Curator: Marie-Ann Yamsi
57th Venice Biennial, Zimbabwe Pavilion: Deconstructing Boundaries: Exploring Ideas of Belonging, Italy; Curator: Raphael Chikukwa

2013
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Projects: Playing Nature, Moscow, Russia; Curator: Katia Krupennikova

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Group Show, Rele Gallery, LA, USA
2020

CTG Collective: Berry Eaters, Catinca Tabacaru, CTG Harlem, NY
Messe in St. Agnes #2, König Galerie, Berlin

2018
Fear of Change: true scenes and flat screens, Site131, Dallas, TX
2017

Transcultural Protocol, ThalieLab Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium; Curator: Nathalie Guiot
Mono|Chrome, Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Canada

2016
Zig Zag Zim, Catinca Tabacaru, New York
2014
Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2013

3 Man Show, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Select Collection, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Galerie 23, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2012
Past and Present – A Retrospective Insight, Gallery Delta, Harare
2011

Islamic International Festival of Art, Gorgan, Iran
Unleashed: 3 Man Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare
Color Africa, Munich, Germany

2009
Zimbabwean Contemporary Arts, Dakar, Senegal
2008
Between in Line, Avignon University, Avignon, France
2006
Rembrandt: An African Response, Gallery Delta, Harare
2005
Don Quicote, An African perspective, Gallery Delta, Harare
2004
Seven Contemporary Young Artist, Gallery Delta, Harare
2003
Young Artist exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe

RESIDENCIES

2022
Gaudi’s Casa Vicens Artist-In-Residence
2019

Serlachius Museum, Finland
AGA Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kulturkontakt Austria Artists-in-Residence Programme, Vienna, Austria

2017

Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, New York
CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions, Harare, Zimbabwe

2016
Guns and Rain, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015

CTG-R: Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with
Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions, Harare, Zimbabwe

2014
Thami Mnyele Studios, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019
Mack First Book Award (Shortlist)
2018
On Demand by Snaporazverein, miart, Milan
2017
Northern Trust Purchase Prize, EXPO Chicago
2012
Ministeria van Buitenlandse Zaken – ICE
2011
Hivos Foundation, Artist Mediation and Travel Support
2010
The Fifth Column solo exhibition grant, Culture Fund, Zimbabwe
2008

Francophone Exhibition, Second Prize in Drawings, Graphics and Prints, Gallery Delta
First Prize, Post Election Selection in Drawings, Graphics ​and Prints, Gallery Delta

2007
The Land, Gallery Delta, Paintings Category, Second Prize
2006

Spanish Embassy, First Prize for Best African Perspective, Don Quixote 400th Birthday
Netherlands Embassy, Third Prize for An African Response, Rembrandt 400th Birthday

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Art Institute of Chicago
Block Museum at Northwestern University
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Dokolo Collection, Uganda
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, The Netherlands
Fondation Blachère, France
US Embassies
The Scheryn Art Collection
Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Artist Talk w/ Admire Kamudzengerere
Join Admire Kamudzengerere as he discusses his joint exhibition, Haipere nyaya yacho, and the wider process of living and working in Bucharest’s post-communist environment which led him down a rabbit hole of exploring the many connections between the African continent and communism.
December 2, 2021 | 6.30PM