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Mohau Modisakeng

South African 1986- 


Born in Soweto in 1986, Mohau Modisakeng completed an undergraduate degree in 2009 and a Master’s degree in 2014 at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

Using sculpture, installation, performance and photography, his work engages with the violence of colonial and apartheid history in South Africa, and Africa more broadly, and how the ways in which ignoring or remembering that past affects the cultural and political roles that people play in contemporary society.

Modisakeng has won numerous awards, including the Sasol New Signatures Award in 2011 and the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art in 2016. He has exhibited widely internationally and his work is included in prominent public, corporate and private collections such as Zeitz MOCAA and the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town; the Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.


15 lots offered      80.00% sold      ZAR 1 878 565
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Untitled
18 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 140 700
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Untitled
19 Mar 2024
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
 
Mohau Modisakeng; Tattered (Conformitee European)
19 Sep 2023
Sold for ZAR 29 313
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Qhatha, triptych
21 Sep 2022
ZAR 250 000 - 300 000
 
Mohau Modisakeng; Ditaola V
11 Oct 2021
Sold for ZAR 170 700
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Endabeni 2
17 May 2021
Sold for ZAR 182 080
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Untitled (Metamorphosis 8)
11 Apr 2021
Sold for ZAR 70 000
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Endabeni 2
11 Apr 2021
Sold for ZAR 204 840
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Inzilo I
8 Nov 2020
Sold for ZAR 91 040
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Endabeni 8
8 Nov 2020
Sold for ZAR 204 840
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Passage 7
15 Feb 2020
Sold for ZAR 216 220
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Mohau Modisakeng; Untitled
16 Feb 2019
Sold for ZAR 204 840
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.