Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025

Alexis Schofield was born in 1982. He grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

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‍Our Calves Demand a Wolf is his third exhibition, following Impressions (2023) and Feed (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions, including Sessions at 196 Victoria (2024) and Hot Spell (2023) at 99 Loop Gallery as well as art fairs such as RMB Latitudes (2024) and Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2022 - 2024).

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Dominic Pretorius was born in 1996 in Howick, South Africa. Currently, he lives and works in Cape Town.

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In 2023, A Room Full of Urns, his first solo exhibition, premiered at the artist’s personal studio and has since been shown at the GUS Gallery and Marvol Gallery. His second solo exhibition Urn Burial was presented at Vela Projects in 2024. His work has been shown at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2023) and RMB Latitudes Art Fair (2024), and has been included in various group exhibitions, including Persistence of Memory, Spier Wine Farm (2024), Full House, blank projects (2023), Ten of Cups, 66 Plein Street (2023), Slip Stream, Gallery De MoveOn (2022), HELLMOUTH, 51 Buitenkant Street (2022) and Bluet, KSSO (2021).

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Khanya Zibaya (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary storyteller, born in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Sikote in Mount Fletcher. He now lives and practices in Johannesburg. Zibaya works with visual performance, experimental video work, experimental painting, sculptural, installation and photography. This also includes bodies and found objects to create juxtapositions of realities.

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His previous group exhibitions include, The Portrait Show, Through The Lens Collective,Johannesburg, 2023; Got Junk GoldFingers, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; Post FairBlues, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, 2023; The Wildest Most Beautiful Ugly, Too Tired Project, Digital, 2023; Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025, Vela Projects.

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For his work, he has been recognised by the National Art Festival Student Theatre Awards for Best Actor(s) and Best Writer(s)Award, 2019; Where The Leaves Fall Magazine, London, Winner, 2023; Photo Tool 10:10, Photography Presentation Workshop, 2023 ;Lagos Photo Festival Portfolio Review, 2023; CAP Prize 2024, Shortlisted; Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize,Top 8 Finalists 2024 and Void x Futures Photography 2025 shortlist.

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Khanyi Mawhayi was born in 1998 in Kagiso, South Africa. Growing up in Johannesburg, she holds a BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand (2020). She is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa where she is a Curatorial Assistant at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

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She has held three solo shows in Cape Town, namely Midas Touch at CHURCH Projects (2023), Stage at Stevenson Gallery (2021). She has also participated in multiple group shows, including What We Know, Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg (2023); STAGE 4, Stevenson Gallery at The Vault, Cape Town (2023); Zozimo Bulbul Black Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro (2022); Afropolis, Johannesburg (2022); Repair, The Point of Order, Johannesburg (2022); Monotypes… A Monotype Babe Experience Curatorial, Bag Factory Studios, Johannesburg (2021); Watercolor… monotypes, August House, Johannesburg (2021); Bluet, KSSO Editions, Cape Town (2021); Get up! Stand up!, Kampala Biennale, Online Exhibition (2020); as well as, Institute For Creative Arts, Online Exhibition (2020).

Mnisi held his first solo exhibition in Market Theatre Gallery in 1996. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mnisi’s work was featured in major shows in the USA, including a solo exhibition at the Chashama Theatre in Times Square, a collaborative exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts (MoCADA) in Fort Greene, and the seminal group exhibition Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa at the Museum for African Art in East Harlem. Throughout this time, Mnisi presented several exhibitions in collaboration with the American artist Cannon Hersey through the CrossPathCulture initiative. He also collaborated with the Johannesburg-based artists Clifford Charles and Wayne Barker as well as the Ethiopian artist Gera Mawi Mazgabu.

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Later in life, Mnisi held various solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, including White City (University of Johannesburg) and Man of the Hour (Asisebenze Art Atelier). It was the day after the opening of the latter exhibition, in 2022, that Mnisi suffered a heart attack in his studio. He passed away at the age of 51.

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Songezo Zantsi was born in 1991 in Cape Town. He grew up with his grandparents in Alice, a historically significant town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He currently lives and works in Cape Town.

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In 2022, Zantsi presented his first solo exhibition titled IInkumbulo and in 2024 is second Iyabulela Ilali at Vela Projects, Cape Town. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town (2021) and Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (2022).

Thero Makepe was born in 1996 and raised in Gabarone, Botswana. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Art with distinction at the University of Cape Town, majoring in photography, and has since lived and worked between Gabarone, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.

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He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including presentations at Stevenson and Latitudes in Johannesburg and the Foam Museum in Amsterdam.

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In 2023, the artist was the recipient of the MEP residency – Gervanne Collection + Matthias Leridon – Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2022, Makepe was selected for the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip: Whispers of the Wilderness, which took place in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Angola and Namibia. Both trips were inspirations for the ongoing series The Powers that Be (2024). Makepe has been awarded the Prince Claus Seed Award, the Der Grief Guest Room Scholarship, and the Tierney Fellowship. He was a finalist for Blurring the Lines, awarded by the Paris College of Art, and a participant in the Foam Talent mentorship programme. In 2024 Makepe was shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography (CAP) Prize. Makepe’s work has been published in Foam Magazine, GIDA Journal and Courrier International. His works are the in collections of the University of Cape Town and Javett-UP.

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In 2019, Makepe co-founded The Botswana Pavilion, an artist collective dedicated to developing Botswana’s artistic archive. As a group, the Botswana Pavilion has exhibited in Frankfurt, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Gaborone. In 2021, Hans Ulricht Obrist and András Szántó commissioned The Botswana Pavilion as a part of the Unfinished Camp project