Idioma EN
Contraste

Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty

A retrospective exhibition of Zanele Muholi, one of the most acclaimed photographers working today. Since the early 2000s, Muholi, who describes themself as a visual activist, documents the lives of black LGBTQIAPN+ community in South Africa and the world. The exhibition brings together their main photographic series, especially Faces and Phases (an extensive project dating 2006, with over hundreds of pictures, that portraits lesbian, bissexual, non-binary, and transmasculine people), Somnyama Ngomyama (self-portraits referring to racism, work politics, eurocentrism, and sexuality), Brave Beauties and original works produced in Brazil.

Online expozanelemuholi.ims.com.br | #ExpoIMSZaneleMuholi
Press (11) 3371-4455 | comunicacao@ims.com.br

Credits

Curators
Daniele Queiroz, Thyago Nogueira
Adjunct curator
Ana Paula Vitorio

Visit


São Paulo, 2024

Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty
February 22 to June 21, 2025

IMS Paulista
Avenida Paulista, 2424, São Paulo/SP - Brasil
Free admission. Tuesdays to Sundays and holidays 10am–8pm. Always closed on Mondays. Last admission: 30 minutes before closing.

This exhibition contains nude images that may be considered sensitive for children under 12.

More about IMS Paulista ►


Works

Clique na imagem para ampliá-la
Mellisa Mbambo, Durban South Beach, Durban, South Africa, 2017 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Kiss, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Somnyama Ngonyama II, Oslo, Norway, 2015 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Buciko I, Buitenkant, Cape Town, South Africa, 2019 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Ntozakhe II, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Xiniwe, Cassilhaus, North Carolina, United States, 2016 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Julile I, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Miss D'vine III, Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Mr Lesbian Daveyton 2013 winners, Daveyton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013© Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Vuyelwa "Vuvu" Makubetse, Daveyton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Apinda Mpako and Ayanda Magudulela, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Miss Lesbian VII, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Miss Lesbian II, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Martin Machapa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
ID Crisis, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003 © Zanele Muholi, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

About Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi (1972, Umlazi, South Africa) is an artist and visual activist. Author of Faces and Phases (2014), and Somnyama Ngonyama, vol. 1 and 2 (2018/2024). Founder of Inkanyso, a forum for queer and visual media. Their work has been exhibited at the Documenta 13 (2012), in Kassel, the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and at the 29th São Paulo Biennale. Muholi was the cover for ZUM #11 magazine.