Lerato Shadi
Lerato Shadi’s work challenges common assumptions to critique Western notions of history and make visible that which is invisible or overlooked. Working across video, performance and installation, and often employing repetitive processes, she argues the importance of centering – not just including – the marginalised body as a main figure of narrative experience. Her works have been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibition, i. a. at Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (2024), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2024 and 2023), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2022), Palais de la Porte Dorée and in the Musée d’art moderne both in Paris (2021); in solo shows at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin and at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2020); during the 14th Curitiba Biennial in Brasil. Shadi’s video work ‘Mabogo Dinku’ was part of the Artists’ Film International programme 2020, organized by Whitechapel Gallery London, and presented in art institutions around the globe. In spring 2022 her monograph was published with Archive Books, Berlin.
Lerato Shadi
Lerato Shadi’s work challenges common assumptions to critique Western notions of history and make visible that which is invisible or overlooked. Working across video, performance and installation, and often employing repetitive processes, she argues the importance of centering – not just including – the marginalised body as a main figure of narrative experience. Her works have been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibition, i. a. at Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (2024), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2024 and 2023), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2022), Palais de la Porte Dorée and in the Musée d’art moderne both in Paris (2021); in solo shows at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin and at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2020); during the 14th Curitiba Biennial in Brasil. Shadi’s video work ‘Mabogo Dinku’ was part of the Artists’ Film International programme 2020, organized by Whitechapel Gallery London, and presented in art institutions around the globe. In spring 2022 her monograph was published with Archive Books, Berlin.