2025-11-12 | Zanele Muholi: in a group exhibition at Ron Mandos, Amsterdam

Our fellow Zanele Muholi is participating in a group exhibition, Nowhere but the Night, at Ron Mandos gallery in Amsterdam. The exhibition is curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and inspired by the life and work of gallery artist Erwin Olaf (1959–2023).

Zanele's work, Being (T)here, Amsterdam IV (Revised), 2009-2023, was first made during her time at the residency at Thami Mnyele Foundation.

The artists featured in the exhibition are James Bartolacci, J. Carino, Amina Cruz, Rainer Fetting, Miles Greenberg, Erin Holly, Leasho Johnson, Isaac Julien, Vidar Logi, Zanele Muholi, Erwin Olaf, Elsa Rouy, Devan Shimoyama, and Zoe Walsh. Alongside the exhibition, a performance program will unfold in collaboration with the Foundation Erwin Olaf.

Coinciding with the Stedelijk Museum’s major retrospective of Erwin Olaf’s work, Nowhere but the Night brings together an international group of contemporary artists to explore themes central to Olaf’s practice—namely, the communities we build and the spaces we create in order to be free. Presented in dialogue with Olaf’s photographs, the works on view are both intimate and uncompromising, capturing the ecstasy and vulnerability of queer experience with tenderness and defiance. Together, they reflect themes of liberation, desire, chosen family, and the transformative potential of nightlife—affirming the cultural and political significance of visibility, pleasure, and presence.

You can see the exhibition until 11 January, 2026.

Photo. Zanele Muholi, Being (T)here, Amsterdam IV (Revised), 2009-2023, Curtesy of Southern Guild Cape Town, Los Angeles

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