excerpt: constellations (Black Liberation Zodiac) - 2017

Wall mural installation

Wall paper in 3 parts :
2 parts of 140,94 x 40,94 in. (358 x 105 cm)
1 part of 140,94 x 21,65 in. (358 x 55 cm)
Total weight : 1, 680 kg
+ 33 pieces (drawings, ink on paper and found footage on

No conciliation is possible I - 2016

150 x 120 cm
Ink and collage on paper

No conciliation is possible III - 2016

150 x 65 cm
Ink and collage on paper

Single event upset - 2018

46 x 61 cm
Ink and collage on paper

Nolan Oswald Dennis

Nolan Oswald Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’ : the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

2019

Options, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016

Furthermore, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

A Better Version of You, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China

African Mobilities, TUM, Munich, Germany

In the Open or in Stealth, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Tell Freedom. 15 South African artists, Kunsthalle kAde, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2017

Deep Memory, Kalmar Konsthal, Kalmar, Sweden

In No Time, MIT, Cambridge, USA

89plus: Americans 2017, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland

the silences between, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016

NTUSAVE, Berlin Biennale

In Context: Where We Are, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50 , Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50 , Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2015

Young, Gifted and Black, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Edge of Silence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Post African Futures, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Other Peoples Memories, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Poetics of Relation, LIYH, Geneva, Switzerland

Lumieres d’Afrique, Group Show, Theatre National de Chaillot, Paris, France

Activate/Captivate, museum show, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg

2014

Working Title, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

The Brother Burns the Bullion, site intervention, Johannesburg

2013

Ussher Fort_,Chale Wote, Art Fesitval, Ga-Mashie, Accra, Ghana

Transitions, mural installation, Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, SA and Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France

Memory + Speculation, Chale Wote community art festival, Accra, Ghana

LAND, Mural installation, Cape Town City Hall, GIPCA

2012

SOCIAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT: Transition and Show Us Our Land_, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesbrug, South Africa

SOCIAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT: Transition and Show Us Our Land, Les Rencontres d’Arles _,France

2011

Golden Eggs, Cape Town Spier Public Art Festival