Thania Petersen
2025
We are excited to announce that Thania Petersen received the Thami Mnyele Foundation residency award and will stay in Amsterdam in October. Her residency is in collaboration with Afrovibes. During her stay, on 8 October, from 19:00, she will have a Netherlands premiere of her work Jawap (2025), a screening of Kassaram (2020), and an artist' talk at Film Academy Amsterdam.
Thania Petersen is a designer/visual artist based in South Africa. She studied at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in London, with Sylvestor Mubayi in Zimbabwe and later with Korean ceramicist Hwang Yea Sook. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions such as the Ames Yavuz in Sydney, the SMAC Gallery in Cape Town and the Ford Foundation New York. Her work is also included in collections of Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C, the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town and the National Museum of World Cultures in Rotterdam, among others. And you could admire Petersen’s work in public such as on billboards on Sunset Boulevard, buses in Brazil and train stations in Japan.
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