Opening of Simphiwe Ndzube's solo exhibition
vr 13 mrt
|Prinsengracht 371B
We are happy to invite you to a solo exhibition, Around Midnight, by our resident, Simphiwe Ndzube. It will open on 13 March, 5-7 pm, at Stevenson Gallery in Amsterdam. It marks the culmination of his two-month residency at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, in collaboration with ZAM magazine
Time & Location
13 mrt 2026, 17:00 – 19:00
Prinsengracht 371B, Prinsengracht 371B, 1016 HK Amsterdam, Netherlands
About the event
We are happy to invite you to a solo exhibition, Around Midnight, by our current resident, Simphiwe Ndzube, which will open on 13 March, 5-7 pm, at Stevenson Gallery in Amsterdam.
Around Midnight marks the culmination of his two-month residency at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam, in collaboration with ZAM Magazine.
In Around Midnight, Ndzube describes a newfound reconciliation with the act of painting, where he steers away from including objects and installation, and instead layers brushstrokes to create dimensionality and movement in the work. Following his recent Los Angeles pop-up exhibition, Sophiatown Suite, which focused on the political and musical resonance of Sophiatown, Ndzube broadens his references to figures and iconography from 1950s apartheid South Africa, exploring the role of music as a function of resistance and building community. The artist specifically muses on idols like Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, alongside the photography of Bob Gosani, who documented…