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Lerato Shadi
b. Mahikeng, South Africa
lives and works in Berlin, Germany

    selected works
    biography
    texts

selected exhibitions:
    Di Sa Bonweng
    The thing itself exists everywhere
    the head the hand
    Galerie Guido W. Baudach

︎︎︎ artists
   
— publications
  
2022  Peper, T (ed). Lerato Shadi. Archive Books, Berlin. Published July 2022.

2021  Underwood, J. L. & Okeke-Agulu, C et al. African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon Press, UK. Published 17 November 2021.

2020  Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Hybrid Forms, Transculturality and New Imagery Post-colonial-feminist Positions in: exhibition catalogue ‘31: Women‘ Exhibition Concept after Marcel Duchamps, Daimler Art Collection, pp. 36–43.

2019  Angelika Stepken ‘I am / ich bin’ in: Villa Romana Fellows 2018, Ed. Villa Romana e.V., Vice Versa Art Books, Berlin.

2018 Gentric, K. Makhubu, Seriti Se, Basupa Tsela Où nous en sommes selon Lerato Shadi (essay in French), in: Revue Proteus, no. 14, 2018, pp. 51–64.

2017 Gentric, K. Sugar & Salt, Like Licking Your Mother-Tongue, in: Desipientia Art History Journal, 1/2017, Radboud University, Nijmegen, pp. 26–30.

2016  Ed. Joan Legalamitlwa, Noka Ya Bokamoso, catalogue, Berlin and Grahamstown
https://bit.ly/noka-ya-bokamoso-catalogue

2014  Tessa Jackson, Lerato Shadi ‘Makhubu’, Performative Space—personal and public, Iniva Brochur, London: https://bit.ly/leratoshadi-iniva-brochur



— selected press

2023 Nugent, G. Soil, Land, and Abstraction in South African Contemporary Art. ASAP Journal [online] (published 25 September 2023).

2023 Upson, T. Various Others - Three Encounters. FAD Magazine [online] (published 14 September 2023).

2023 Shinners, K. Common. e-flux [online] (published 22 June 2023).

2022 Krynauw, M. Moments before meaning: A conversation with Lerato Shadi. Artthrob [online] (published 2 May 2022).

2022 Moloi, N. Critics' Picks: Lerato Shadi at blank projects. Artforum. [online] (published April 2022).

2021 Legalamitlwa, J. Lerato Shadi Q & A. Kurzfilmtage.de. [online] (published 9 December 2021). 

2021 O’Toole, S. Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days. Mail & Guardian (published 22 October 2021).

2021 Jussef, A. Power for Whom? On Hannah Arendt’s ‘What is Authority’. Frieze [online] (published 24 May 2021).

2021 Donnellan, A. ‘Are We the People?: An In­ter­view with Lerato Shadi’. Berlin Art Link [online] (published 13 April 2021).

2021 Nkomo, V. History is happening: ‘The thing itself exists everywhere’ at blank projects. Artthrob [online] (published 23 March 2021). 

2021 Sosibo. K. Lerato Shadi: The body, the land and the toll of unsung labour, Mail & Guardian Friday (published 27 February 2021).

2020 Sze, W et al. ‘Lerato Shadi: Mabogo Dinku’. Contemporary And [online] (published 26 June 2020).

2020  Pofalla, B. Body, language, identity: Lerato Shadi takes a stance at the KINDL centre. In monopol, pp 32 - 36.

2020 Pofalla. B. Lerato Shadi in Berlin: A question of attitude, Monopol [online] (published 29 September 2020).

2020 Carrington, S. Lerato Shadi: MOSI KE O NE …, Thisistomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine [online] (published 2 May 2020).

2020 Ruthe, I. Der Senat als Mäzen. Berliner Zeitung, [online](published 10 March 10 2020). 

2019 Bambalele, P. Lerato Shadi exhibits her work back home. The Sowetan [online](published 29 November 2019). 

2018 Moloi, N. Both physical presence, and authenticity. Mail & Guardian [online](published 13 July 2018)

2017  Crossroads-interview, Mats Staub and Ana López Escudero, Berlin, [online](published 7 November 2017)

2017  Ex Nunc, Interview with Lerato Shadi, Doppiozero: https://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/why-africa/interview-lerato-shadi

2016  Sosibo, K. A history of violence – Lerato Shadi’s work asks: Are we really a ‘post’ colony? Mail & Guardian [online](published 14 September 2016).

2016 Western, R. ‘The Value of Labour:’ The Grahamstown National Arts Festival. ART AFRICA magazine, edition ‘Beyond Fair‘ (published September 2016).

2016 Makgato, K.C. ‘Noka Ya Bokamoso’: Lerato Shadi at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. ART AFRICA magazine [online].

2016  The physical act of creation, Lerato Shadi, TEDxJohannesburgSalon: https://youtu.be/NzBL-exXUFI

2016  Neelika Jayawardane, M. Lerato Shadi in conversation with M. Neelika Jayawardane @ National Arts Festival 2016, Grahamstown: The Beautiful Ones Will Not Be Erased: https://vimeo.com/leratoshadi/naf16

2014 Poyurs, R. Lerato Shadi’s ‘Makhuba’ – transcending history through performance. The South African [online](published 12 December 2014).

2014  Gordan, H.M. Lerato Shadi In Conversation with Hansi Momodu Gordon, [online](published 12 December 2014) Iniva https://youtu.be/Z0pk6vfflIE