2026-09-01 | Zanele Muholi: solo exhibition at Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam

Our fellow Zanele Muholi will have a solo exhibition Hlanganani (“Bring Together”) at Ron Mandos Gallery in Amsterdam. Presented together with the Muholi Art Institute, the exhibition marks twenty years since Muholi began Faces and Phases and brings together new self-portraits, recent work, and a new body of Faces and Phases portraits made with Amsterdam’s Black queer community. On view through Saturday, 1 November 2026.

Muholi’s relationship to Amsterdam and the Netherlands spans nearly two decades. In 2009, they undertook a three-month residency with the Thami Mnyele Foundation, living and working from the foundation’s studio in Amsterdam Oud-West between July and September of that year. They returned to the Thami Mnyele Foundation for a second residency in December 2013. The Amsterdam residency proved formative, prompting Muholi’s early experiments with performative self-portraiture in the series Being (T)here, staged as a public intervention in the city’s Red Light District, alongside new portraits for Faces and Phases made with women loving women in the Netherlands.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on 12 September, 3-6 PM.

You can see the exhibition until 1 November.

Photo: Zanele Muholi II Parktown Johannesburg, 2016

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