About Us
MANDLENKOSI MAVENGERE
was born in Zimbabwe and migrated to Johannesburg South Africa where he embraced his life journey and took up an art talent as a career. He graduated at Artist Proof Studio 2015, finished his internship at William Kentridge studio 2017 and had already started voicing his story of Migration through group shows and project spaces. Mavengere’ story would be more prominent from 2018 as he went full time into his own studio at the CREATIVE UPRISING HUB of Constitution Hill. Among other exhibitions In 2022, Mavengere went into a collaboration with SAVE THE CHILDREN SA and had a show at the AFRICA LEGAL AWARDS In Johannesburg. In October 2023 Mavengere had a solo exhibition called ‘LABOUR OF AMBITION at the women’s jail of Constitution Hill In Johannesburg.
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MANDLENKOSI MAVENGERE Artist
“My artworks bring us into observations and conversations around the issues of migration in our contemporary economic society.”
Mavengere’s work of art is a study of the people that choose to migrate and the ambitions that drive them to do it. He portrays Individuals who leave their familiar homes and territories, searching for better fortunes in larger cities and foreign countries. Mavengere creates banknotes on which he paints the stories of migration. He has named the currency ‘Gondruala’ – which is a fictitious money used as a backdrop for his paintings. ‘Gondruala’, stands for the uncompromised environment of dwelling, so as to contradict our morden day societies and economy. He explores the forces of ambition that drive us to migrate towards our dreams and attainments.
