how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead
how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead

Donna Kukama

how powerful you must have been to be wanted bloody dead dead dead, 2020137.5 x 108.5cmPrice on Request
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graphite, oil pastel, 80% black anger, and acrylic on canvasblank projectsCape Town
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Donna Kukama
Artist
Donna Kukama
B.1981, South African

Donna Kukama is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages performance art as a tool for creative research. Her work presents institutions, monuments, gestures of protest, rumors, and fleeting moments that are as real as they are fictitious. Shifting between performance, video, text, sound, and multimedia installations, her practice takes on a form that is experimental, applying methods that are deliberately undisciplined. She uses performance as a strategy that allows her to invent as well as to apply methods that are outside the canon of what is predictable or expected. She questions how histories are narrated and subverts how value systems are constructed, often centering methods perspectives that originate from the Global South. Through her practice, she weaves major with minor aspects of histories, introducing fragile and brief moments of ‘strangeness’ within sociopolitical settings. Her performances are to be understood as gestures of poetry with a political intent and an urgent need to destabilize existing canons regarding the ways we look at reality. For Kukama, performance becomes a strategy for inserting foreign ‘undocumented’ voices and presences into history by occupying sites and territories that remember less-told stories. ...

Donna Kukama: Artworks
and the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed
Donna Kukamaand the same soil, this very restless soil, wishes it could spew out all the blood shed, 2019Price on Request
The rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting
Donna KukamaThe rain cloud gathered, knowing how their tears would become a violent storm in waiting, 2019Price on Request
We can't (and won't) live without our lives
Donna KukamaWe can't (and won't) live without our lives, 2019Price on Request
uhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1
Donna Kukamauhelele, uhelele (part of humming series) #1, 2019Price on Request
Black Fan
Donna KukamaBlack Fan, 2018Price on Request
364 and still counting
Donna Kukama364 and still counting, 2016Price on Request
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Donna KukamaTO BE ANNOUNCED, 2016Price on Request
Not Yet (And Nobody Knows Why Not)
Donna KukamaNot Yet (And Nobody Knows Why Not), 2008Price on Request
Sizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai
Donna KukamaSizobaloya kwa Mai-Mai, 2019Price on Request
Shadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas
Donna KukamaShadows of fallen fists fighting for fake traumas, 2020Price on Request
The soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants
Donna KukamaThe soil remembers that we are its doorless inhabitants, 2019Price on Request
364 and still counting
Donna Kukama364 and still counting, 2016Price on Request
The day vanilla decided she was a spice
Donna KukamaThe day vanilla decided she was a spice, 2020Price on Request
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Revolution
Donna KukamaRevolution, 2017Price on Request
Situation
Donna KukamaSituation, 2017Price on Request
and then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls
Donna Kukamaand then we dreamt of a million uprisings and downfalls, 2018Price on Request
Even in their kindest kindest kindness, they were violent (vol. 1)
Donna KukamaEven in their kindest kindest kindness, they were violent (vol. 1), 2023Price on Request
blank projects
Gallery
blank projects
Cape Town

Based in a 360 sqm gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, blank was founded by Jonathan Garnham as a project space in 2005 and transitioned into a commercial gallery during 2012. The gallery represents emerging and increasingly established artists from the region in a critically engaged programme that emphasises contemporaneity, with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context. With an exhibition programme that has a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South(ern) Africa, and participation in prominent local and international art fairs, we seek to place our artists' work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote the visual arts in our community through ongoing projects that support the sector. ...