Themba Khumalo | Artist - African Arty Gallery

Address

30 rue Zahrat Aloualoua
20 000 Casablanca
Morocco

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday
11am-7pm
Saturday
11am-5pm

Socials

+212 687 222 614

Themba Khumalo’s work looks to interpret life situations through the lens of traditional African religions and spirituality. Exploring traditional beliefs and practices that include spirituality as a concept, beliefs in ancestors, and a higher power.
In Zulu tradition, religion has numerous Gods or general classes of natural phenomena. Unkulunkulu is the highest creator of everything. The idea of God is of a non -physical entity that is combined with the sky which is Umvelinqangi (meaning the one who was in the beginning).
It is through this connection to Ukulunkulu no Mvelinqangi that he observes how the people comment and respond to life challenges such as poverty, economics, politics, corruption, and the recent rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He also uses this connection as a way to explore how the believers use the land as a space of refugee, of faith and the expressing thereof, and praying to Umvelinqanga; and how loss and hope are often found in transit between spaces.

See the works

Exhibitions & Awards

2019: Solo exhibition (Emhlabeni) Gallery 2 ,Johannesburg
2018 : solo exhibition (state of the nation) Kunstlerhaus Meinersen, Germany
2017: Solo exhibition (The place called home), Red room Gallery, Cape Town
2017: Cape town art fair
2017: Group show, SAFFCA collection, Bordeaux, France
2016: World art Dubai, Dubai
2016: That art fair, Cape town
2016: Solo exhibition (my side of the story),Gallery2,Johannesburg
2016 Rust en Vrede gallery, Art exchange, Cape town and Mexico
2015 Gibbs gallery, Print art fair, Johannesburg
2015 : Wall space gallery (urban fused) ,Mellvin, Johannesburg
2015: Fnd art fair, Turbine art fair
2015: No-manart gallery,Amsterdam
2014: Cape town artfair, Cape town.

Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, USA Cherie de Villiers, Group show, Hyde park, Johannesburg Turbine Art Fair, Newtown, Johannesburg
FNB Joburg ArtFair, Johannesburg
Gallery 2,Group show, Rosebank, Johannesburg

2013: Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg RSA

Freeze Art Fair, London UK
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg RSA
Bamboo Gallery, “Pieces”, Johannesburg RSA
Cherie de Villiers gallery, Group Show, Johannesburg RSA Isolate del Cinema festival, Group Show, Rome ITA
David Brown Gallery, Print Making Exhibition, Johannesburg RSA

2012: Gallery 2, “Coming of age” ,Group Show, Johannesburg RSA

JAG, “Coming of age” , Group Show, Johannesburg RSA

2011: Bell Dewar Law Firm, Group show, Johannesburg RSA

Art in the forest, “Passages”, group show, Cape Town RSA

Sharon Sampson Studio, Group Show, Johannesburg RSA

Soweto festival Expo, Group Show, Johannesburg RSA

Artist Proof Studio, Group Show, Johannesburg RSA