Spring 2020 Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series
SIMPHIWE NDZUBE: MAGIC AT WORK
Please join us for our very first Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the Spring 2020 semester, featuring an award winning Los Angeles based artist, Simphiwe Ndzube. In his lecture, Magic at Work, Ndzube will discuss his interdisciplinary artwork’s influence of adaptive strategies through the usage of bricolage and magical realism as major epistemologies for postcolonial communities, in order to create subversive stratagems for survival and renewal.
David Brower Center | 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Monday, February 3rd | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm
All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public
About the Artist
Ndzube was born in 1990 in Hofmeyr, Eastern Cape, and lives in Los Angeles. He has a BA Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Museo Kaluz (2019); CC Foundation, Shanghai (2018); Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town (2016) alongside Stevenson (2019). Group shows include People at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2019); New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2019); Hacer Noche (Crossing Night) in Oaxaca, Mexico (2018); The Eye Sees Not Itself, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest (2017); Women's Work; Our Lady; and The Art of Disruptions, Iziko South African National Gallery (2016).
This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice