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Asanda Dredunik Kupa

South African 1981- 


Asanda Dredunik Kupa lives in Johannesburg and works at the Bag Factory. He holds a National Diploma in Fine Art from Walter Sisulu University. Between 2009 and 2011, he resurrected the Molteno Museum in the Eastern Cape. He has been the recipient of the Ann Bryant Young Artist of the Year Award (2010), the Reinhold Cassirer Award (2013), and the Eastern Cape Provincial Cultural Award for Visual Art (2018). His work sits in a number of important South African collections, including The Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art and Nando’s.

Raw, incisive and urgent, Kupa’s work captures a significant period in South Africa’s political history, as he reflects on the breadth and depth of economies of hope, hopelessness, and popular protest. His work is grounded by the experiences of those forced to the periphery of ‘The New South Africa’; despite its great re-birth. Born in Molteno – a semi-rural village in South Africa’s poorest province, the Eastern Cape – Kupa’s scenes depict the chaos and energy of life for many of South Africa’s subjugated black population, a life that is defined by struggle and by lack of access to basic resources. Kupa is concerned with how the new political regime has failed its people – the very people who brought it to power through their own sacrifice – whilst also celebrating the self-determining spirit that marks a long history of civic action. Protest, spurred by grassroots community frustration, is a central theme of his work. His series of striking crowd scenes, inspired by the Marikana mineworker massacre of 2012, shows militant action not only as an expression of fury, but also a place of refuge and hope in postapartheid South Africa.


27 lots offered      62.96% sold      ZAR 189 007
 

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Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Confrontation
10 Feb 2025
Sold for ZAR 3 752
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; John D. Tractor
10 Feb 2025
Starting at ZAR 8 000
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Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Grey Figures
10 Feb 2025
Starting at ZAR 35 000
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Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Imeko Eqaqambileyo
14 Oct 2024
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
 
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Figures
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 7 035
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Grey Figures
9 Oct 2024
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
 
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Abstract Figures in a Landscape
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Imidlalo Yesini
7 Oct 2024
ZAR 18 000 - 24 000
 
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Divided People, Broken Structures II
8 Jul 2024
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
 
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Figures
10 Jun 2024
Sold for ZAR 14 657
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Landscape with Figures
13 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 4 690
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Asanda Dredunik Kupa; Figures in a Landscape
13 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.